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PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:37 pm 
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Not so sure his insurance haven't got unlimited deep pockets sooner or later the costs he will have to bear will make the business unviable repeated attacks like this whilst totally unfair and unjust will eventually get the result these toerags are after

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:43 pm 
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He's still trading. Saw a couple of his cars out and about overnight.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:23 pm 
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the story i get is that the firm is wanting to expand into portsmouth an that will tread on toes as firm intend to launch by taking over 100 unhappy driver away from large phc in the city an have bought over 100 i40 car to make happen

interesting days ahead where the greedy kill the greedy an they all lose eventually


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:53 pm 
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as this is another race to the floor company

http://www.andicars.com/airports.html

yes thats right £50 from the south coast to either london airport #-o meter rate for job is £150 so 66% discount an £20 fuel out of the £50 d i c k h e a d s

there are 4 main suspects

1 the big phc in portsmouth

2 the baron who they got rid of

3 a combo of 1 & 2

4 disgruntled foreign drivers leaving a goodbye card


feel sorry all you like for them but they like the big phc in portsmouth are the very thing killing the cab trade

the game is employ cheap labor and bully it charge uber radio charges and make driver pay for uniforms at large profit margins while holding fares to 1990's levels

lets hope they cut the baby in half in the end an both end up with nothing


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:32 pm 
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Lovin' it!


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:45 pm 
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Not nice if you're on the receiving end of an arson attack. I lost 3 vintage buses about 12 years ago in an arson attack, pure vandalism; later we lost almost every window in every bus, vandalism again. A year later the firm went broke. Police couldn't be arsed to deal with the £350,000 of damage or the 45 people put out of work.

Luckily they've caught 3 suspects who set fire to the Western Greyhound depot the other week which destroyed 34 buses.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:52 pm 
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Sorry Roy, I was looking at the general picture of companies chasing each other into the dirt. I was not condoning the vandalism.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:43 pm 
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point taken roy but its no nice either to end up 3k in debt when you simply came for a better life an some ass lied to you about what you wood earn

what goes around comes around

when these type phc's start giving drivers a discount on the payin ill start considering them as human but never all the time they take take take from driver

fact most of their drivers are foreign an they say local firm local knowledge says it all about who they really are behind the white shirt and black tie

i watch with interest how this pan out especial when the retaliation start =D>


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:57 am 
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cabbyman wrote:
Sorry Roy, I was looking at the general picture of companies chasing each other into the dirt. I was not condoning the vandalism.

No problem, but setting fire to the rivals is a bit extreme whatever the circumstances! Quite why these minicab barons have to try to keep expanding their empires is beyond me! Maybe one way to stop it is to make all drivers employed by the operator instead of the current situation of self-employed but "working" for the barons!


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:16 pm 
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roy i also no like the thing going on but it is funny to watch two parasites tear each other apart


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