Taxi Driver Online

Its a word based on a sick individuals experiance working within an enviroment of profiteers profiting from individuals whom work within a limitless market of which the marketshare is determined by not the individual but at the individuals expense, the only trade i know where this goes on is the phc trade

Just my opinion, i may be wrong

Yes I think you are wrong Reggie, because I can't see much difference between the HC and PH trades in this regard.

It might not read obvious Binster but he is right, or to translate, lets go spend a large sum of money to go to work for someone who doesn't care unless you stop paying them for f'all.

Cab reflects the whole of the licensed car trade. And that's as it should be.

Recent experience has shown me that those who fall just short of the higher taxi standard, are no less thinking, put upon and deserving individuals.

Those who work for the companies, whether PH or taxi, are equally deserving of consideration in the great scheme of things.

And there are no doubt PH firms out there who do recognise the value of their staff, and try to look after them.

However, my recent experience is that this is not so.

There is one commonality. And that is that in a restricted taxi trade, it's the driver who does the work who gets the bad deal. And its the PH driver in the company who is the last thought by owners.

And this is what our politicians have delivered.

While the Cardownies, with their connections and alleged PH interests, influence restriction maintenance, and the council protects it own transport interests with restriction, the lowest common denominator they achieve is the subjugation of a group of working people who have employment conditions redolent of the American slaves. And that is why the term serf is so poignant. Because it describes a standard that we're all supposed to be protected from.

On a wider issue, why would anyone want to vote for independence and hand complete control to a government party that is the architect of such worker abuse?

You mean like an HC baron?

Well it depends where you are, but in my experience and in places like Liverpool, Brighton and Edinburgh it seems that the HC trade will take on as many drivers as will work for them, irrespective of how much existing drivers are earning.

So no difference between HC and PH, except perhaps that the HC barons tend not to control so many vehicles individually, but as a whole there's little difference between them and PH.

If HC rental fodder do a little better than PH rental fodder then that's probably because it's usually a bit more difficult to get an HC badge as compared to a PH badge, but not always.

But as I said, in the areas I'm talking about HC is 'flooded' already anyway. Anyone can have a badge and anyone can get a drive, it's just that access to the tools of the trade is controlled.

So, why is this serf not working then?

Because you're as popular as a fart in a spacesuit?

Ah, so it's a person's popularity which is the deciding factor when applying for a job as someone's serf. The fettering of access to your tools is merely a mechanism for denying you a political voice or opinion. It's all about forcing compliance and obedience to vested interests.

Now why didn't I, think of that?