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Yes Graham, and join the rush to the bottom of the pond.

A PHC company wins a few contracts by lowering the price, or increasing the bribe, and the competition do the same. A certain spiral where its once again the drivers who pay for it all while companies maintain high rentals and even increase charges to the drivers whenever is suits them. Companies, who hold the whip, are fireproof in our recession.

Here's an example.

Job from Upper Gilmore Place to Carmondean Centre in Livi.

Cheapest Edinburgh to Livi price is around 35 bucks. Which is a lot less than the taxi tariff.

Except the job is priced at West Lothian rates. So it's not £35. It 's £25. And if you don't accept this, I heard you're put off the air for 4 hours (That's what I was told.)

Of course with things so bad there will be some mug cabni**** who will do the job.

With business practice like this, it just means that drivers are having to weld themselves to the saddle 12/7 to try to make a living, reluctant to ever take a day off.

Which means that it is the safety of the public which is compromised. And we're all driving on the same roads as these tired drivers. Tachos must be just around the corner.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

thats a class response Jasbar......and sadly a correct one.

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

I like this "cabni****" word. It has a certain ring to it that doesn't leave you guessing what it means to be one.

Yeah, I thought it was racist.

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

Nah, it's a social status thing. I'm white but when driving a taxi, I had fewer rights than a Blackman, so in GB. My skin was Blacker than his. I couldn't pull the race card in my defense or claim I was being discriminated against because of the colour of my skin. White is the new black.

Having black or tanned skin in this country is like having diplomatic immunity.

Seen through that shining example of corruption called PH then Jas? told you they was a shower of self serving shect long ago didn't I, stlll their days are numbered wait til cabcall gets up and on it's feet, it will be Hacks and solo PHC's only, no more £130pw radio, so much per job and thats that, busy week you pays more, quiet week you pays not much, I can't wait, the bully is about to get smashed in the ass like a cheap hoe in a football stadium on matchday in a 90k capaity stadium.

Aye you're right on that score Doom, there's only one little problem. The PH, are growing in number and taking work away from the hack feet, especially now, in the middle of a recession. It makes you wonder why the TAXI trade would want to deny a qualified driver unfettered access to the tools of his trade, and even make him unemployed.

Remind me again, what is it you are protecting exactly?

Doesn't really matter, the hack will simply join the cabring centre also, it will just retain the right to rank over PH, plus I'm re-working myself right now, I'm sourcing a vehicle that will appeal to many markets and will be offering the public something they really want, on old fashioned cabby who chats and doesn't tear the arse out of them, the robbers have cleared the ranks already so no real point forging on there, my next move is to offer and select a service to only those who I consider worth having in the car with me, bye bye spewy drunks, bye bye coke sniffers, bye bye bus fare riders who want to contest the meter, I reckon it will take me 2 years to build my goodwill, and once I have it won't matter what they do, I'm in short supply and I'm what the customer really want, British,honest,chatty and fair, I just have to let them know I'm available.

Yeah, I've seen these kind of contract middlemen before.

End result is the same. Middleman muscles in, the customer gets charged the same, and its the driver who takes the hit.

And that's what a cabni**** is.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Oh trust me Doom. It will matter. If Ph and Hack merge into one, in the public psyche, they will find it very difficult to tell the difference, and you will have lost not only your identity but your numerical presence in the customer transport market. You might well have a shinny new vehicle but so will the Ph.

I wish you well with your mythical big-money customers, but I don't really think. You'll be better off.

Me thinks you are dreaming.............................

Using a term like "nigger" in the context as a derogatory term about an individual, may well be deemed racist, if applied in the original context of the word and against an individual who takes offence. pwersonally I wouldn't wish to do this.

But here it is appended to another term "cab" and its use is to recognise the low status of those whom it used to describe. And you can't airbrush the discrimination out of history by seeking to sideline the word. It still exists, and it is still horrible. And anyone who feels strongly about being described as a cabni**** can take the matter into court. Given that I would happily describe myself as a cabni**** as recognition of how far down the food chain I feel I am in our modern 21st alleged democracy, I'd happily defend use of the word.

You can't sink lower in status than the slaves of America in the confederate states. Drivers in our PHC and taxi trades have acquired the same lowly status, gifted to them by odious individuals like Dougie.

Like the lowly status where those who are already working 12 hours a day, or more, seven days a week, struggling to survive in the worst recession in modern history, and paying untenably high rentals for the reducing amount of work available to them, and in a system where they are not accorded work on a strictly first come first served basis, have a company's charge on contracts arbitrarily increased from 7 to 10 per cent, and where the legitimate running costs of the company's ownership are thrust upon them at every opportunity.

The company doesn't have to be efficient, cut its cloth according to new economic means, it just hikes its take, knowing full well that the cabni**** have nowhere else to go and will put up with it. And work harder and longer for less, and put public safety in increased danger as a result.

This is the harsh reality of restricting hackneys. The council's policy has allowed the lowest common denominator to rear its ugly head.

And we don't know what the real effect of the policy is, because the question isn't even asked. No records are kept of driver fatigue incidents.

No records, the problem doesn't exist. Like the other incidents which occur because the public have real difficulty hailing a real cab.

Convenient or what?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

It won't tbh Gary, I'm sick to the stomach of the whole thing and basically I could quite happily walk away right now, such is the level of deception in the trade now, I took the job to get away from these types originally, I didn't want hours,clock cards,managers, and for a long time that's how it was, now the officious have found the trade it's all gone and it's just another slave ship which is man's way about things, man hates the free, the free are an open sore to man and the man knows it.

Good post.

i agree with your points.....but despise the phrase you used, thats how i feel.

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