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http://www.guildford.gov.uk/article/370 ... fare-chart

As the customers start walking and work dries up further..........

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GuildfordPH

I think they are wrong with the out of area price.

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Grandad,

That would mean that 4 people who phoned for a cab after 23.00 and did a jouney of 1 mile would be
charged £8.40!!!!
Thats the way to kill your trade off completly

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42 years now! and still going strong!

Ten bob for every passenger over 1?????
Are they fecking mad

Talk about making the law up as you go along.

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IDFIMH

How the f**k would you know if the quoted fare is more than the meter if you dont meter it?? and since when did they start
controlling fares outside of the licensing area?

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42 years now! and still going strong!

When i started private hire 10 years ago the meter started at £2.40 at day rate 7am-11pm and £3.60 11pm-7am-people got 6/7th or 7/8th of a mile before it kicked up.On a booking of 4 people extras were £1.50 (30p per person and 30p booking fee) Obviously on a booking for one extras were just 60p.Now a booking of four is extras of £3.50!!! Plus start off of £3 or £4 depending on time of day or if on sunday all day.Extras being £1 fuel surcharge on EVERY FARE,booking charge of £1 and 50p for each person in excess of one=£3.50 max for full normal car IN EXTRAS!!!!

50p fuel surcharge has only just come in as fuel went past 140p a litre (the stipulation for the introduction of the charge) and now it has gone up another 50p to £1 eventhough fuel has only just gone to 145.9-149.9 litre diesel.The hackneys threatened to strike if the new 50p add on hadnt been voted in during the olympics.

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GuildfordPH

TFLs approved a 40p fuel surcharge if the average price of Derv reaches £1.79 !

Whoopee doo.

Far to much

It is Guilford though, isn't it one of the most affluent areas of the UK?

It is but im earning the same money as I did 10 years ago and the fuel is double the price and vat up on everything from 15 per cent to 20 per cent.too many cabs in town and town quiet now most nights,since vat rise in 2011 and petrol and gas/electricity hikes recently,night time economy fallen off a cliff

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GuildfordPH

What spaceinvader said. Plus when other businesses costs increase they vary their prices accordingly, fuel goes up so the hauliers increase the price charged to supermarkets, in turn the supermarkets increase their prices to the consumer. When the wholesale price of crude goes up the gas/electric companies put their bills up as do the petrol stations etc.

So everyone charges higher prices to maintain the same profit margin, yet any increase in costs has to be absorbed by the cabbie - they can't increase prices until allowed by the council and that might only be every 2,3 or even 4 years and then it's usually by a paltry 20p or so which often doesn't even cover the rise in fuel never mind the other expenses. In short every cost increase is a cut to your profits, everyone else raises their prices to cover this, why not cabbies ?

Cos we are slaves who know our place, now be quiet you know logical thinking isn't allowed.

Just to add to what spaceinvader said, I'm earning more than I did 10 years ago purely because of fare increases. However due to increases in all the other running costs my PROFITS are the same, if not less than they were ten years ago.

I base my figures on the average profits per hour over a whole year (total income - total expenditure / total no. of hours worked per year) which shows both income and expenditure have increased but the hourly rate remains roughly the same. What the figures do reveal are that in order to maintain a profit of £6 per hour I have to take an average 'on the meter' of £12 p/h, ten years ago it was just £9 for a £6 profit.