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blackpool
PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:58 pm 
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The tw4ts are cutting their own throats.


Are they really, if they where to charge £1.00 a head they could increase there take.

How much does it cost on a bus in your area, here its £1.40 single to the town a distance of around one and a quarter miles so thats £5.60 for 4 on the bus
A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run
Dont forget it would only be on the return run that you would normally have no one so in effect dead mileage

Thing is i know your partial to giving discounts, but its not one pound a head, its one pound for the whole cab !
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:42 pm 
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blackpool wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
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The tw4ts are cutting their own throats.


Are they really, if they where to charge £1.00 a head they could increase there take.

How much does it cost on a bus in your area, here its £1.40 single to the town a distance of around one and a quarter miles so thats £5.60 for 4 on the bus
A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run
Dont forget it would only be on the return run that you would normally have no one so in effect dead mileage

Thing is i know your partial to giving discounts, but its not one pound a head, its one pound for the whole cab !


But if I's £1.00 a whole cab and the Driver stops and picks up at 4 Different stops, the 1st punter pays, then the Last 3 punters travel for free..........That'd never happen on a bus.
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skippy41 wrote:
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The tw4ts are cutting their own throats.


Are they really, if they where to charge £1.00 a head they could increase there take.

How much does it cost on a bus in your area, here its £1.40 single to the town a distance of around one and a quarter miles so thats £5.60 for 4 on the bus
A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run
Dont forget it would only be on the return run that you would normally have no one so in effect dead mileage


And nobody actually phones for a cab into town?
They won't if some pratt is going to do the job for a quid from the side of the road.

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Idiots brain dead mugs what is it about the midlands?

No fkucimg work, BROTHER!!

Far too many bleeeeeding licensed cabs BROTHER!!

Got to earn bread somehow BROTHER!!

Personally writing of course BROTHER!!

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Nidge2
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:39 am 
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We did this once in Mansfield until one OAP pulled their buss pass out and said, "do I get it free".
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you can stay in bed and earn nothing so why get up to do it? :roll:
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Skippy wrote:
A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run


How does that work :?

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grandad
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:23 pm 
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toots wrote:
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A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run


How does that work :?

I think he is sugesting that the driver has done a £4.50 fare out and has picked up 4 passengers on the way back at £1.00 per head.

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Skippy wrote:
A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run


How does that work :?

I think he is sugesting that the driver has done a £4.50 fare out and has picked up 4 passengers on the way back at £1.00 per head.


Oh yeah, that makes sense, thanks :D

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Under charging equals bankruptcy BROTHER

It aint rocket science Brummie but then again maybe up in that karsie for your ilk maybe ???

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GBC
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It's been tried before in a few locations the trouble is the punters will soon start agueing that if they can get the ride in for a £1 why can't they go home for a £1



The same applies to people arriving at Heathrow for some below minimum wage price from invercockyleekie, then wonder why I wont drive them back to Norwich for £80. :roll:

Four train tickets to norwich from Heathrow would come to over £240 alone.


That is because customers outside of Londonopolis i.e normal Brits work to a formula which is cost of fuel +airport parking cost must be less than price of taxi so presumably you can drive from Norwich to heathrow and park for a week for about £85

I quote for about 4 times as many airport runs as we get in 60 to 70% of cases people decide to drive themselves plus we get a steady trickle of business and regular customers who will book anyway without doing the cost comparison

Just remember Neville in London you have a unique situation elsewhere we have to live in a world where price is everything a penny too dear and you don't get the work that is why out of town prices to Heathrow are very much cheaper than your metered rates





Then I guess you are welcome to the tightarse brigade ! :wink:

I still ain't taking them to Norwich for minimum wage prices
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IT IS A POUND PER PERSON NOT A POUND PER CAB
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Mkhalidwalsall
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It is a Pound per Person not per cab as reported. the meter still has to be used and we cannot charge more than the meter price. it is bringing business into the town and the independant drivers so what is everyones problem on here??
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Brummie Cabbie
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Under charging equals bankruptcy BROTHER

It aint rocket science Brummie but then again maybe up in that karsie for your ilk maybe ???

I can well understand them.

If you're coming back empty, you might as well bring something back at a pound a head.

If you go out of the centre seven times a day and come back with an average of 3 punters at a pound each on every trip back, that's an extra £21 a day; £21 you wouldn't have. That's an extra £105 a week on a five day week, or over £5,000 a year. But most of the lads round here MUST work 7 days a week to try to make ends meet, so that could potentially mean an extra £147 a week.

You lot don't know how bad things are up here!!

I'm Brum licensed but live in Rushall, one of Walsall's outer areas, so I know what these lads are up against.

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grandad
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
come back with an average of 3 punters at a pound each on every trip back,.

I would bet that none of them average 3 punters.

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