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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:04 pm 
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I wonder if how this thing works is that the guy from the Soprano's dies this week - its hot news - he played a mafia boss who runs protection rackets - Jasbar see's it in the paper and hey presto links the phrase to CEC and their taxi policy.

Sadly the following will be hot news next week;

http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/ma ... s-after-op

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:13 pm 
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Did you really have too Captain, I mean it's the stuff of Nightmares... :x

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:14 pm 
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ECPH are the airports preferred Taxi Company. Correct!


At last, you admit to who actually won the contract. =D> =D> =D> =D>

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Where is it you believe that City Cabs are working for them??


I don’t believe anything. It’s a fact. Without ECPH, there is no City Cabs working the airport. #-o

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I have never seen nor spoken to an ECPH driver since the contract has started.

Should have gone to Specsavers. 8)

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However if and when the time comes that our paths cross I will treat them the same way as I would treat any other taxi/PHC driver, the bottom line is they are human beings trying to make a living.

You mean, cabni****. #-o #-o

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There is plenty of work out there for all of us Skull.

In your dreams!! #-o

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I think City Cabs will go from strength to strength while CRT will become static!! The reason, to progress in business you sometimes have to work with your competitors!!! FACT.


I think City Cabs will do more to expand Ph interests in the next five years, then at any other time of their history in Edinburgh. #-o

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:16 pm 
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jasbar is that the best you can do on a sunday at 10am??
Anyone would think you did not have a life #-o #-o #-o


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:28 pm 
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City of Edinburgh Council are running a protection racket by erstricting taxi licences.

How can it be right, when we all are supposed to be equal, and we have legislation that suggests we are, for someone in east Lothian, West Lothian or London, to have access to their own taxi, when I, in Edinburgh, am denied equal status with them? Denied because of the council's protection racket.

Where is my right to equality? Sacrificed on the altar of protecting the haves in the trade, who actively deny the have nots, so that their taxi licence comes with the subjugated slave labour that allows them to bleed their drivers dry.

BTW We don't need more taxis, just a party tariff to encourage those owners who don't want the inconvenience of meeting public demand at peak periods to get off their butts and service the cash cow that is the public taxi user.

And how can it be right that a taxi company who refuses to allow their drivers to pick up the public, and drive past the hailing hands so as to serve their own pre-booked customers, is allowed to refuse drivers, who would happily pick up those members of the public, access to their own vehicle in order to do so?

The stench of wholesale corruption in all things political and taxi trade here is overwhelming.


Jasbar, you really do need to take a step back, take a deep breath and chill the [edited by admin] out!!

I'm grateful you do go on about deristriction at such a Titanic rate, but like the Titanic your hopes are well sunk!! There is a system in place that allows the sale of plates, it has been in operation for a reasonable length of time and it's purpose works well. It allows people who wish to own their taxi do just that and it allows others who just wish to rent do just that, everyone's happy!! Apart from Jasbar. So to deristriction. Would there be any more taxis on the road, possibly at first but then as the guys were not making enough money they would soon sell up again. You see Jasbar if the drivers at the moment were given a plate they would then need to purchase their Taxi. The running costs would be absorbed by the owner as their would be no drivers to employ. In time the situation would return to Status Quo!!
You Jasbar would still be getting the right of way driving your Tram on rails provided so that you couldn't veer off track!! You should try and apply the same principles to your daily life and try and stay on track!!

I'm only trying to help you Jasbar.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:47 pm 
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captain cab wrote:
I wonder if how this thing works is that the guy from the Soprano's dies this week - its hot news - he played a mafia boss who runs protection rackets - Jasbar see's it in the paper and hey presto links the phrase to CEC and their taxi policy.

Sadly the following will be hot news next week;

http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/ma ... s-after-op

:shock:


The following was posted June 12th. Well Before Gandolfini's death.

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What I can't get to grips with is how those who don't own the company vote for those who do "own" the company?

We all know that the owners who are pretendy "shareholders" will vote for the status quo, because it's not the pretendy "stakeholders" who have to pay for the consequences of the committee's actions.

That's down to the drivers. It's always the cabbniggrs who stump up. And the pretendy "shareholders" get to increase rentals and radio dues because the "happy" cabbnioggrs stump up.

And all bolstered by the council's protection racket that is restriction.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:09 pm 
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I agree with him with regards to hacks being on Radio Circuits when there's ranks heaving with people waiting to get home.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:24 pm 
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Ten years ago, if an owner lost his driver, he could just about manage to keep his taxi own the road by working it himself. Now if an owner loses his driver, he would go out of "business" in a matter of weeks, if he failed to come up with a replacement, such are the bills for keeping the taxi on the road. #-o

The business model for operating a taxi is completely fuc*ed. :-|

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:34 pm 
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Skull wrote:
Kaiser writes:
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ECPH are the airports preferred Taxi Company. Correct!


At last, you admit to who actually won the contract. =D> =D> =D> =D>

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Where is it you believe that City Cabs are working for them??


I don’t believe anything. It’s a fact. Without ECPH, there is no City Cabs working the airport. #-o

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I have never seen nor spoken to an ECPH driver since the contract has started.

Should have gone to Specsavers. 8)

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However if and when the time comes that our paths cross I will treat them the same way as I would treat any other taxi/PHC driver, the bottom line is they are human beings trying to make a living.

You mean, cabni****. #-o #-o

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There is plenty of work out there for all of us Skull.

In your dreams!! #-o

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I think City Cabs will go from strength to strength while CRT will become static!! The reason, to progress in business you sometimes have to work with your competitors!!! FACT.


I think City Cabs will do more to expand Ph interests in the next five years, then at any other time of their history in Edinburgh. #-o


Here we are at the same juncture again. The Airport Authorities always wanted a PH element in the airport. They also wanted a Hackney Taxi Company so that the passenger had the choice of what vehicle they wished to travel in! The thing is Skull they also wanted the split between PH and Hackney to be 50/50. The amount of permits for each was to be 450 each. Now Skull who do you think would be the only PHC that would be able to service that contract? Correct, ECPH. So Skull they won the PH tender because they were able to meet the Airports service requirements. And to the Public rank, City Cabs won that Tender because they were willing to open the Permits to the whole Edinburgh Taxi Trade and not [edited by admin] everyone else out. I have been working at the Airport for a number of years and over the past 5 years there has been a PHC working at the Airport, Onward Travel. So Skull you see there is no difference now as to before the contract started.

Hope that helps you out a bit you dog [edited by admin]!!

Clean the mess up now Skull! Or is there no need?? Slurp Slurp!!

:wink: :wink: :?:

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:08 pm 
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Listen, Kaiser, you dummy, that has absolutely nothing to do with City Cabs working for ECPH.

The Airport already had Forward, Onward and Upward travel working the airport along with ECPH, operating a desk from the main terminal building. This was about handing the whole shooting match over to Stephen Malcolm and putting City Cabs to work in expanding his interests. And that's exactly what is happening.

Honestly, what and er*e. #-o #-o #-o #-o

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:36 pm 
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The amount of permits for each was to be 450 each.

900 permits? :shock:

Gatwick has less than that with nearly four times the amount of passengers.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:45 pm 
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Kaiser Soze wrote:
The Airport Authorities always wanted a PH element in the airport.


Did it cross anyone's mind to tell the airport to get knotted? :?:

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:30 pm 
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The problem with both City Cabs and CRT is the disconnection between its members and their interests and that of the committee. This is about corrupt self-serving individuals using their positions on the committee to further their own interests. And if that means selling out their company and its shareholders to get into bed with the competition, then so be it. The members are all sheeple who are there to be sheered, and the sad thing is, they might actually have a point. :-|

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:43 pm 
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Skull wrote:
The problem with both City Cabs and CRT is the disconnection between its members and their interests and that of the committee. This is about corrupt self-serving individuals using their positions on the committee to further their own interests. And if that means selling out their company and its shareholders to get into bed with the opposition, then so be it. The members are all sheeple who are there to be sheered, and the sad thing is, they might actually have a point. :-|

But surely the committees have to do the best for the drivers, and in the case of the firm that got the contract surely their drivers are ok with that, else they would leave.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:59 pm 
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Skull just how boring are you!!!!!!! Get tae fek!!!!!

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