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Stationtone
PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:39 pm 
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Dundee taxi fares are set to rise by an average of around 7% after the city's licensing committee backed the wishes of the cab trade.


I will add full story when i get a link
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Dundee taxi fares are set to rise by an average of around 7% after the city's licensing committee backed the wishes of the cab trade.


I will add full story when i get a link


Suicide.... :sad:
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tx_op wrote:
stationtone wrote:
Dundee taxi fares are set to rise by an average of around 7% after the city's licensing committee backed the wishes of the cab trade.


I will add full story when i get a link


Suicide.... :sad:


Drivers don't have to charge the increase if they don't want to :-|

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toots wrote:
tx_op wrote:
stationtone wrote:
Dundee taxi fares are set to rise by an average of around 7% after the city's licensing committee backed the wishes of the cab trade.


I will add full story when i get a link


Suicide.... :sad:


Drivers don't have to charge the increase if they don't want to :-|


They do have to get their meters altered though.

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gusmac wrote:
toots wrote:
tx_op wrote:
stationtone wrote:
Dundee taxi fares are set to rise by an average of around 7% after the city's licensing committee backed the wishes of the cab trade.


I will add full story when i get a link


Suicide.... :sad:


Drivers don't have to charge the increase if they don't want to :-|


They do have to get their meters altered though.


That's a bummer :sad: but it's not financial suicide

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gusmac wrote:
toots wrote:
tx_op wrote:
stationtone wrote:
Dundee taxi fares are set to rise by an average of around 7% after the city's licensing committee backed the wishes of the cab trade.


I will add full story when i get a link


Suicide.... :sad:


Drivers don't have to charge the increase if they don't want to :-|


They do have to get their meters altered though.


That's a bummer :sad: but it's not financial suicide


Back to panto mode......

OH YES IT IS.....!!!!!!!
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Back to panto mode......

OH YES IT IS.....!!!!!!!


Pmsl... I'm not going down that road. How much is it to have a meter altered?

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OH YES IT IS.....!!!!!!!


Pmsl... I'm not going down that road. How much is it to have a meter altered?


Depends on which type of meter....

Cygnus at last tarriff change....£26.00. Only saving grace is hopefully DCC receive objections and the Traffic Commissioner will decide !
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Cygnus at last tarriff change....£26.00. Only saving grace is hopefully DCC receive objections and the Traffic Commissioner will decide


£26.00 is a lot of money if you don't have it and I appreciate that, but, I would hardly say it was financial suicide and I shall repeat what I said earlier that drivers don't have to charge the increase, they could use this in advertisements and maybe benefit by getting a little more work than the others who do charge the increase. It's only a suggestion so if you please I kinda like my head on my shoulders :wink:

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I shall repeat what I said earlier that drivers don't have to charge the increase, they could use this in advertisements and maybe benefit by getting a little more work than the others who do charge the increase. :


That's a war we don't need ! especially when the PH's already think they're Hacks and, Tayside's finest allow them to believe that too....
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I shall repeat what I said earlier that drivers don't have to charge the increase, they could use this in advertisements and maybe benefit by getting a little more work than the others who do charge the increase. :


That's a war we don't need ! especially when the PH's already think they're Hacks and, Tayside's finest allow them to believe that too....


What I don't understand now is if the taxi trade is so easy to enter there why do you have PH at all :?

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I shall repeat what I said earlier that drivers don't have to charge the increase, they could use this in advertisements and maybe benefit by getting a little more work than the others who do charge the increase. :


That's a war we don't need ! especially when the PH's already think they're Hacks and, Tayside's finest allow them to believe that too....


What I don't understand now is if the taxi trade is so easy to enter there why do you have PH at all :?


New hack needs to be WAV.
Don't think there's a knowledge test for PH either.
If I'm wrong, someone will tell me :lol:

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What I don't understand now is if the taxi trade is so easy to enter there why do you have PH at all :?


Cheap, side door, entry.....simple....
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What I don't understand now is if the taxi trade is so easy to enter there why do you have PH at all :?


Cheap, side door, entry.....simple....


So it's cheaper to be PH because you have to have a WAV to be a taxi but since when have you had to have a WAV?

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So it's cheaper to be PH because you have to have a WAV to be a taxi but since when have you had to have a WAV?


November 2003.
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