Sussex wrote:
captain cab wrote:
but I also wish the entire trade would wake up to what is happening.
But some of the trade will be in favour of what may be suggested.
And if large chunks of the hackney trade didn't view the PH trade as utter scum, then a unified response may have been a bit more likely.
Well what way would you see someone who thieves your work off the road and undercuts you, doesn't observe road traffic rules such as bus lanes and red lights and touts the work they can't blatantly steal?
I was PH for 11 years and afaic it's a bent and abusive excuse to be self employed, and you can't stop it either, all the issues you mention regularly are caused by PH, if PH didn't pirate then the public wouldn't be in any danger of getting in the wrong car would they, if PH was regul;ated owner barons would be non existant as they would have to come behind the single guy when it comes to getting an available license if the baron already holds one, PH has turned PH into the same as those jobs where they want a man and van and say they pay £140 per day, only they neglect to say you will use a tank of fuel a day and end up with £20 clear per day, blatant mugging, regulation is the way forward it makes it not worth the hassle to the wrong sorts.
The thing that gets me more than anything is the likes of you bang on about quality of driver and service, if you really want that you data crunch, you use a SUD to determine the % of citizens who use a cab, you should then look at the area population and say possibly a 0.5% ratio to set your car limits, so in a city of 20k you could have no more than 100 cars, ample to serve the % of people who actually use a cab rather than walk,bus or drive, or should we have 50 cabs chasing each fare all the time and have a banger cab with a driver who doesn't care a fig, my 0.5% ratio is actually too high, locally it's that and we cannot earn a living anymore, last time we could there were 400 less cars licensed dropping it to about 0.2-3%.
You can't have over supply and service, the two don't go together, as the public seems more concerned right now about being taken the wrong way and overcharged I think it's time we had a good over haul of what a cabbie should look like, starting with a commitment to a good quality low mileage newish car that is maintained well, this can only happen if cabby earns enough money, your way he doesn't stand a chance and hello 200k Pug 406 complete with ripped interior and dented bodywork.