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Rochdale taxi firm boss in 'race choice' U-turn

The boss of a taxi firm has reversed his decision to allow customers to choose the race of their driver after 50 Asian cabbies walked out in protest.

Their strike was in response to Stephen Campbell, who runs Car 2000 in Heywood, Rochdale. saying he would accommodate requests for white drivers.

The unhappy Asian drivers gathered in Heywood on Friday night to protest.

Mr Campbell now says drivers closest to the customer will be allocated, and hopes this "puts everything to bed".
Grooming scandal

He told BBC Radio Manchester: "For a small minority of people, they're not going to get what they ask for. I just hope they're happy with what they do get."

On 22 October, he said his firm received up to 60 calls a week from customers asking for a white driver by using the euphemism "local".

"If they ring up and ask for an Asian driver, we will send them one. If they ring up and ask for a 'local' driver we will send them one," he said at the time.

"We also get people specifically ringing up by name for a driver, and we try and send them as well."

Car 2000 took over the now-defunct Eagle Taxis after the Rochdale grooming scandal.

Two of the latter's drivers were among nine men jailed in May 2012 for running the child sexual exploitation ring.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-29785062

Is it any wonder that some folk are being a tad more selective in their driver choice.

Sack them, more work for the (locals)

They probably are locals.

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We get jobs on the PDA that state .... WDO (White Driver Only), in many ways i think its sad BUT, if a woman passenger can request a woman driver, and school contracts can specify woman driver (and/or woman passenger assistant), or indeed a male driver why cant a fare paying passenger request whatever driver they want by way of race, colour, creed or gender?

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gus, if you READ what i said, (as in "its SAD") I fail to see why you resort to playing any racist card (though we know its the last resort of a failed argument)

In all things the customer is always right

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Yes, the customer is always right......even when they're being racist?
Base is only following orders. I Wonder where we heard that defence before

The pic wasn't aimed at your post BTW, but at the response to it.


Oh and whinging about the race card is the usual resort of the racist when they have no argument.

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Are they though, ive had a WDO job, the woman had experience of an asian male driver making suggestive sexual remarks so asked, quite rightly and well within HER RIGHTS to avoid the same experience again, the base said they couldnt identify the driver..... if your wife or daughter said a driver had leched/perved at her would your stance be "you cant ask for a white driver"... i think not, its whatever the customer is happy with

*not all pervs are brown, this is NOT what im saying BTW

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It may not be what you are saying, but it is what they are saying.
I also wonder what percentage of these jobs are actually from concerned females and how many are from hairy-arsed blokes who don't like brown people.

BTW Saville and Sutliffe were from Yorkshire. Would it be OK to refuse any Yorkshire driver, just in case they were also a perv?

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