Taxi Driver Online

You just cant help some pepole what P**s*s me off is when people ring you for information, you agree to get it, and they dont ring you back what a wast of time.

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C. Oakes


The Hackney Association Ltd
bbha@btinternet.com

That's what being a trade rep is all about.

Dealing with drivers who, in part, don't actually give a f***.

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IDFIMH

Charge them £50 for the info.

Bet they get back to you then...

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Former taxi driver

yes you both could be right

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C. Oakes


The Hackney Association Ltd
bbha@btinternet.com

I once took our council to task on fees,I told the trade I would give my time freely,but any costs incurred should not be down to me solely,they agreed,I stopped the council increasing fees,and there has not been one since,over 4yrs now,my total costs were about £220,I asked the trade to give me what they thought was reasonable £5,£10, bearing in mind I had saved them money.guess what I got?

£20

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C. Oakes


The Hackney Association Ltd
bbha@btinternet.com

£0

Would I do it again?

Probably

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

F*** all.

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IDFIMH

Following the 2003 OFT report, Gerald Grisdale spent over 300 hours writing, printing and delivering a a report to London, which I still believe went a long way in stopping the law being changed and maintaining regulation in areas particularly York, at the time there were 158 licenses and everyone agreed to pay a certain amount each, out of 158, only 61 paid him, the other miserable so and so's refused after the decision, with some of the most pathetic excuses you ever heard.

In 1994 Carlisle was on the brink of deregulation, the 33 license holders decided they wanted a barristers opinion, one was sourced via a barrister called William Waldron of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool.

The opinion came back and basically suggested whilst he appreciated our problem (especially considering it was only 10 years since the council decided all taxis must be purpose built and council was going to deregulate and permit saloons to be again licensed), the association would have a difficult and expensive fight on its hands.

The association chose not to take the legal route, but were left with a bill for around £1500.......out of the 33 only 11 license holders contributed, yours truly was left paying for the other 22.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Guess we've all been caught like this at some time when trying to do a good turn using our expertise in a field. There's a sticker in the cab's that I drive "Please don't be offended by the request for an up front deposit".

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Nobody told me to use my initiative. To err is human to arr is pirate.

We took a council to court some years ago but five fouilts and you out i ended up pay for that the drivers did not pay, never done it since money up frount thank you.

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C. Oakes


The Hackney Association Ltd
bbha@btinternet.com

it's why I packed it in your efforts are both expensive to you and the people you are fighting for would stab you in the back tommorrow if they could earn money by doing so

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector