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Sad because I don't like driving them, but very happy that soon all my colleagues will be sharing the same experience.

Are you sad cos you do or sad cos you don't?

I'm not saying they are the perfect cab, cos they ain't, but the E7, TW type cabs can IMO take anyone, as long as they have got a pull out ramp.

If a punter can walk up a small ramp, then they can get in. All it needs is for drivers to show them how easy it is, and for saloon drivers to stop scaremongering the grannies.

Are you sad cos you do or sad cos you don't?

Sussex is PH toots

Just because you are daft enough to try to push a 20 stone bloke in a wheelchair up a 40% incline on cold wet day, does'nt mean everyone else is!
When you are on here in 20 yrs[god willing]cribbing about how your back is all done because of all the wheelchairs you tried to get into your van, guess who's gonna say TOLD YOU SO!
Even your own LA have two ppl to do your job and a chair lift. The ambulace station ppl use the same methodology so why do you think that you know better? #
Even worse, because you feel you need to do it, you want everyone else to have to do it as well, so you dont feel left out.
In 30 years time ppl will be amazed that taxi drivers were ever asked to undertake such dangerous tasks on their own, with add-hock vans and no power lifts. I suspect that you have never worked in any other industy [sorry if iam incorrect] but if you did, you would be horrified at some of the tasks that LA require taxi drivers to do. When the same LA in-house transport staff must conform to Health & Safety criteria, you would prefer to ignore H & S and knuckle under rather than tackle your own LA. Its realy just looking at the industry from a commom sense point of view and not a taxi drivers point of view!

Just because you are daft enough to try to push a 20 stone bloke in a wheelchair up a 40% incline on cold wet day, does'nt mean everyone else is!
When you are on here in 20 yrs[god willing]cribbing about how your back is all done because of all the wheelchairs you tried to get into your van, guess who's gonna say TOLD YOU SO!
Even your own LA have two ppl to do your job and a chair lift. The ambulace station ppl use the same methodology so why do you think that you know better? #
Even worse, because you feel you need to do it, you want everyone else to have to do it as well, so you dont feel left out.
In 30 years time ppl will be amazed that taxi drivers were ever asked to undertake such dangerous tasks on their own, with add-hock vans and no power lifts. I suspect that you have never worked in any other industy [sorry if iam incorrect] but if you did, you would be horrified at some of the tasks that LA require taxi drivers to do. When the same LA in-house transport staff must conform to Health & Safety criteria, you would prefer to ignore H & S and knuckle under rather than tackle your own LA. Its realy just looking at the industry from a commom sense point of view and not a taxi drivers point of view!

As far as I know, Ms Toots is PH at the moment, but tomorrow she could be HC, because she has both Driver Licences.

Clever lady is Ms Toots.

Is that right Ms Toots?

Just because you are daft enough to try to push a 20 stone bloke in a wheelchair up a 40% incline on cold wet day, does'nt mean everyone else is!

Remind me where I said that?

There was the larger WAV audience to consider!

Indeed there is a larger WAV audience, and when the Act finally comes into being, it will get even larger.

However the point you made about the ten tonne Tessie, isn't IMO a valid one.

If a WAV punter is too big to wheel up into the motor, then you can refuse on the grounds of your health, and you would be fully justified in doing so.