Taxi Driver Online

heard davie will be putting a objection in for a rise.
next it will be for a 25% decrease in fares

How can firms dictate what to charge? It's the drivers who are out there working for nothing earning the firms money via radio rents.

Agreed but anyone can object. It's up to the council how they deal with any objections.

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If I had a £ everytime I heard that

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Then you would have a lot of Pound Signs?

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Chris The Fish

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Stop being pedantic

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Toots your right i am not going to hold my breath on that one

Can people power get Council Tax reduced?


I find it incredible that Dundee City Council has agreed to the Dundee Taxi Association’s view that drivers should receive fare increases of 7% — when their own recommendation was between 3-4%, still ahead of the recognised levels of inflation.
And before the hard-done by taxi drivers jump on the bandwagon — I know of some drivers who can earn between £600-£800 for two 12-hour shifts over the weekend.

I was astonished that this figure was accepted in these hard-pressed times. Are we seriously to believe that when the council sets the next round of Council Tax levels, that we, the Dundee people, can make counter suggestions to have that rate lowered?

Why don’t we form a Dundee People’s Association and use that sway of public opinion to engineer rates of levy or charges to suit our own interests? — Vote For Change.
Letter in the local press



Is this ar$e on bubbles ????

sounds like the letter writer has had a journey in mayhems cab,i wonder how many people will read the letter and believe it and then apply for a badge

If i get a hold of the baxtard ,i will strangle him my wife's been checking my pockets ,she thinks i am stashing money and thinks i have another women hahaha.

More letters in the Evening Telegraph

Survive on less than basic wage


As a taxi driver in Dundee, I would love to know where Vote For Change got his information from with regards to taxi drivers’ earnings.
The vast majority of drivers are earning less than the national minimum hourly rate and many operators are struggling to cope with increasing running costs. — Allan, Dundee.

Takes me two weeks


Regarding Vote For Change’s letter stating he knows some taxi drivers who earn between £600 to £800 for two 12-hour shifts.
It normally takes me two weeks to earn that sum and, I’m sure I’m not alone in being in that situation. — John Reilly.

Incredible


I find it incredible Dundee City Council has agreed to award Dundee taxis a 7% fare raise, even when the recommendation was between 3-4%.
I am a council worker and when our unions said no to 1% the council came back with 0.65%.

Given the situation with the taxi fares, I do not understand why we were offered so little. — Fed-Up Council Worker.

Hit them with a breakdown of running costs like insurance, tyres, road tax, fuel, radio rent etc etc. Factor in the fact that on top of paying all that out you've get to earn a living.

Lets look at it another way,

Car finance £80 per week.
Insurance £40 per week.
Fuel £60 per week.
Radio Rent £60 per week.
Repairs £40 per week this includes tyres.
Depreciation@ £10 per week.
Total £290 per week.

You've got to take the above before you start earning anything for yourself, say to the punters that you've got to take £15,080 a year before you take anything for yourself. If you want the minimum wage for working 70 hours a week add the £15,080 and you've got a grand total of £36,374 to cover all your costs and earn the minimum wage.

I did a breakdown with a couple of the lads in our place who thought what they was earning was quite good until I spelt it out to them. It will come as no surprise to learn they went home totally depressed. It was a valuable lesson in finances imo.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Another Letter in tonights Tele


Fare rise is to cover costs


Recent letter writer Vote For Change certainly made me laugh, but unfortunately my wife did not see the funny side of his or her letter.
She has been searching my pockets for money.

She thinks I have been hiding money from her and wants to know what I have been doing on a Friday and Saturday night because I am certainly not earning £600 to £800 for my 15-hour shifts I do every weekend.

He or she should ask their friend again for the correct figures because even the very few who worked through the taxi strike two years ago did not brag about earning this amount of money.

It is not a 7% pay rise the taxi trade is after — it is a 7% increase of fares to cover the increasing cost of fuel, insurance and VAT.

The taxi trade recently informed Dundee City Council that they would not be seeking a fares increase if they were to stop issuing licences; the council have refused to do this. — Taxi Driver.