Taxi Driver Online

I am not sure if I am reading this right! Surely if a punter rings up and says I want a taxi! they (the office)will quote, and possibly send a taxi OR maybe a P.H. The point being is that this is NOT a case of a taxi/P.H out on the street over charging.............but it is a P.H office charging LEGALLY what they can/want - I do not see a problem!

ok we got so many black cab drivers here on this forum, how many sit on rank day after day and your incoming is dropping, why not get your phone out, contact every care homes and offer your services. minimum of 30 care homes in most areas.

you get 10% response and 3% user rate, that's an extra 3 jobs a week.

Contact the local deaf, blind and disability forum. most towns have one each. Again each place will give you 3 jobs a week minimum. That's an extra 12 jobs.

contact the local deaf and blind center. That's minimum 1 job a day. thats an extra 26 jobs a week. If your good at what you do you will get recommended. sooner or later you will have no need to sit on rank.

and yes this does work.

yes they can charge what they want but they have to have consistence i.e if 1 mile costs 3 pound for an able body, it should cost 3 pound for a disabled passenger. its illegal to change the standards or service/price due to an individuals disability.

Not necessarily true IMO.

A punter rings up and says.......I am moving home and I would like to load quite a few light items into one of your WAVs, it might take 5/10 minutes or so - surely you would (forget the luggage tariff) quote for the job outside of the "Standard" charge?

In the disability instance, for a P.H office it is time orientated i.e 5/10 minutes.........not because they are disabled. Put it another way - could a DRIVER afford to give for free 5/10 minutes on EVERY job? on an 8 hour day @ 2 jobs per hour, he/she could lose theoretically over 2 hours per day

ok we got so many black cab drivers here on this forum, how many sit on rank day after day and your incoming is dropping, why not get your phone out, contact every care homes and offer your services. minimum of 30 care homes in most areas.

you get 10% response and 3% user rate, that's an extra 3 jobs a week.

Contact the local deaf, blind and disability forum. most towns have one each. Again each place will give you 3 jobs a week minimum. That's an extra 12 jobs.

contact the local deaf and blind center. That's minimum 1 job a day. thats an extra 26 jobs a week. If your good at what you do you will get recommended. sooner or later you will have no need to sit on rank.

and yes this does work.

when I was sitting on the rank, I did not sit their and read the sun, I educated my self, in this day and age we have the internet. think out side the box and act upon it,

But the issue that would arise is that why is their waiting time when picking up a wheel chair passenger, the reason being is because the driver would have to assist the passenger, why would the passenger needs assistance (making an assumption here) because they have mobility issues which makes them disabled/wheel chair bound, so your charging them because of their disability. Because if they was an able body they would most likely not need assistance and not be traveling in a wheel chair. I can understand from a drivers point of view about time is money but the law clearly states this under the disability discrimination act.

Waiting for limb time?????

But seriously, we cannot charge a higher fee for wheelchair passengers, it's against the Equalities Act! I don't see a problem with charging waiting time though.