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No 5,000 since I started with the first organisation back in august last year.

Clearly I forgot what you said.

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Grandad,

Oh I have been paying attention all right. I bet the "organisations" that you volunteer for are charging a good deal more than you are getting. Do they charge just 45 pence per mile regardless of how many passengers are in the car? At what point do the "organisations" that you volunteer for reduce the amount that the customer pays from 45 pence per mile to 25 pence per mile?

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Grandad,

You are not licensed as a hackney driver or a private hire driver are you. Our licenses are issued by the licensing department at our local councils. Who the f**k are Transport Services Department of the Highways Alliance? If you class it as working, are you being paid the minimum wage?

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Grandad,

The transport services department are the licensing body that issues Lincolnshire's green badges etc they are the ones that give us what we call our licenses which are exactly the same as what a taxi driver would carry except ours are red and say volunteer no we are not licensed as a private hire driver or a hack driver. The point at which we have to reduce the price is when we reach 10,000 miles or you can carry on charging that price but you will then have to pay tax on every £1 earned. The organisations i work for I do not know if they charge the NHS/Social services/County Council or anybody else anything all I know is what I get is 45p per mile which goes to fund the general wear and tear on my vehicle one of which [edited by admin] up on me in May.

Well I hope it was bloody expensive.

t***s like you are screwing proper drivers out of work.

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How is it t***s like me that are pushing other drivers out of work?

The simple fact of the matter is I provide a [edited by admin] community service to elderly people and occasional contract work for social services have you never heard of community spirit and as it goes the taxi drivers in Skegness will not touch social services with a [edited by admin] barge pole so therefore it's t***s like me that have to pick up the [edited by admin] slack so until you actually know the whole [edited by admin] story and until you have lived in this area and tried to get yourself a job here keep your gob shut and stop judging people based on face value gobshite.

I will make one observation, from the last few responses from you (justified or not) you don't sound like you're cut out for this job, you need to be able to keep cool about things and I'm not reading much in the way of cool head about you right now, the days of getting out of the car to have a ruck on demand are long gone, a good cabby these days has to know when to hold and fold and where the best table is before he starts raising people.

I can keep my cool and am probably the most laid back person there is but he was bang out of order claiming that it's t***s like me that are effectively stealing work!

Why won't the local taxi drivers touch social services work? Doing contract work is not community spirit. It is hire or reward work and as such it should be done by drivers who have hire or reward insurance. What insurance do you have that enables you to carry fare paying passengers?

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Grandad,

Fair dues, he did launch into you as bit hard back there, I'll have a word for you.


Oi POPS! cut it out or I'll have your walking stick knee capped alright!

Think you'll find it's my opinion he has a problem with.
And that's just fine with me.

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Oh yeah Gus lol, best I edit I suppose before he comes after me with a pint of Guinness in one hand and a copy of the Independent in the other swatting me,

Na flock it, he'll enjoy the read anyway

gobshite? moi?

If you want to provide free/cheap lifts to the needy, go ahead and do so. I have no problem with that.
Contract work is something else. That is professional work and you are just a scab exploiting a loophole and using the benefit system to top up your income. This benefits the council and the NHS, not the old folks or the disabled.
It also removes a valuable income stream from licensed drivers, in some cases making the difference between profitability and bankruptcy.

Don't come on here and pretend there is nothing wrong with circumventing the licensing process and undercutting professional drivers who do this for a living and pay far more than you for the privelige of doing so. Gobshite.

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Rock & Roll, gluvs is off now,

Gus is correct though, even if that isn't your intent, there are many good guys institutions effectively robbing work that was cab work before, that ranges from charity to sub'd buses, dress it any way you like thems is the facts.