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Just before last year's festivities the tariff was increased and meters changed. The taxi tariff is the maximum fare to be levied for hires within the licensing area.

The trade worked a flanker and changed the time of reversion to normal tariff from 0800 hrs on the 2nd to the previous midnight. This left a local private hire company out of step and a panic ensued. Drivers were called into the office and ordered to provide a hefty discount from the metered fare in order to comply with regulations. There was no way to ensure whether drivers would do this, and I have to admit to not knowing if any complaints were made.

But there again, would the public be aware of this breach of regulations in any case (I believe that where meters are fitted they must be used within the licensing area. Or perhaps this only applies to taxis and, if so, it would beg the question why? And remember, it would be illegal under commercial legislation to charge more thn an advertised price anyway.).

Now, I'm not aware that the meters in the fleet have been altered to take account of this anomaly. If this is the case, and they haven't, then the public is once again at risk of being ripped off by unscrupulous drivers.

Now the protest may be made that this is outrageous, and I'm besmirching the company concerned. But this company is the same company which allowed a driver to driver for 21 and a half hours, returning at the end of his shift down the dangerous A9 and placing other road users at risk; it being only luck that an accident didn't happen and an innocent member of the public injured or even killed. So, let's dismiss such protest.

So the question is, have the meters been changed?

If not, why has the council, who is aware of the tariff anomaly, not insisted that they be changed?

And if they haven't been changed, the question also remains: Given the harsh economic circumstances, and the squeeze on all our trade, can these particular private hire drivers, and we are just talking about these specific drivers from this one company here, possibly be trusted not to rip off an unsuspecting public?

So, have the meters been changed?

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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 wasn't 0800 previously, it was 0600
And the tariff reverted at 0600 on the morning of the 3rd and now it's midnight (you got that part correct at least)

Thanx. I realised it after I'd gone to work.

But it doesn't alter the basic premise.

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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?"

Your right jasbar it doesn't alter the premise and the council should be round at the PH telling them to getters altered

Yeah, amazing how quiet its gone. But then the bold boy doesn't have me now to post his tripe for him, does he?

The laugh is he obviously didn't understand that I knew what he was doing. And while he was playing me, I was playing him. Larfing my cork off at all the childish and puerile rubbish that was being fed to me.

If 2012 proved anything to me, it is just how truly stupid some folks are.

But then, the real difference between PH and the taxi trade is that the pseudo-taxis-by-the-back-door PH are marginally more stupid.


Can't wait for Macleod to answer the question after the year about the council's role here

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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?"

PH pound for pound are no more stupid than a Hack , but by the look of it PH are certainly a damned sight less arrogant and whole lot more tolerant than certain Hack Legends.

As someone who seems to regard himself as so clever and so much better than us cabbies and towering above us in intellect, one would have thought that jasbar would,at the very least, have checked the facts before spouting such verbal rubbish as he has above.

True to form, he believes his own pash but never lets fact get in the way of his fiction. How many times do we have to endure the ramblings of this petty little fat battarde!!

As with most of his other claims and statements, he is wrong. Whether deliberately telling lies or just his usual deluded self, we can but wonder.

The meter rates he refers to above were corrected many months ago and indeed now the companies concerned have their meters set at the CEC tariff, just as the taxi trade has, and offer a 20% discount based on that tariff. My god he doesn't even know the times let alone the dates the tariffs operate!

So, as with most things of any import he is proved once again wrong.

Maybe one day the administrators of this site will stop him from posting his often obscene and insulting remarks which do the trade in general and him in particular no favours.

We know who the fools are and they are not in the majority but contained within the duo known as jasbar and skull - by a GREAT BIG margin!!

btw we know who used who when you worked FOR ecph and you were not the employer!!

Swannee you are an ignoramus who clearly can't read. And if anything does tinkle over you're brain you clearly are incapable of understanding it.

In the original post I asked three times, yes three times, whether the meters had been changed.

yet NO ONE, apart from you now, could be bothered to set the record straight, despite my asking THREE TIMES whether someone could.

It is precisely such stupidity as yours which proves the adage that you don't have to be bright to be a cabbie. And you clearly aren't.

Thank you for your rant. May I suggest you allow the red mist to clear before your next rant.

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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?"

BTW Only today I got a text through my phone advising me of ECPH's tariff change and their 20% discount, and directing me to an app I can download to my fone.

Now, why would I want to hire a company whose drivers potentially sit in the saddle for 21 and half hours?

Isn't this such an interesting example we should all be discussing it with our customers?

In the interests of public safety of course.

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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?"

BTW2 And unlike you Swannee, I'm happy to be proved wrong. Like when I failed to realise that restricting the number of taxi licences, which doesn't happen in 75% of UK local authoritys is morally bankrupt and imposes a pernicious inequality on cab drivers in Edinburgh who are consequently exploited by the majority of privileged owners.

So, if there is any other matter in which you think I'm wrong, then feel free to make reasoned argument. Which you have failed to do in the past, resorting to "Fat bast*rd" name calling, because you can't get past your institutional hatred of anyone who has the temerity to have a zero tolerance to being abused.

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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?"