'Rideshare’ app targets Edinburgh taxi trade

Skull · **Joined:** Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 am **Posts:** 10460

I wonder what Uber will do to plate "values" and drivers rentals? :shock:

captain cab · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:29 pm

Edinburgh gets lots of tourists - a global app will mean the end of a lot of ££££££££ fares

Skull · **Joined:** Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 am **Posts:** 10460

captain cab wrote:

Edinburgh gets lots of tourists - a global app will mean the end of a lot of ££££££££ fares

This app nonsense from the punters perspective is a great idea but it must be good for the Ph as well, you just pull your car off the radio circuit and use your phone, no plates, no cab test, no Cab Inspector, nothing. It's the way forward. =D>

captain cab · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:57 pm

Skull wrote:

[no plates, no cab test, no Cab Inspector, nothing. It's the way forward. =D>

now who told you that little fib?

Skull · **Joined:** Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 am **Posts:** 10460

captain cab wrote:

Skull wrote:

[no plates, no cab test, no Cab Inspector, nothing. It's the way forward. =D>

now who told you that little fib?[/quote

Have I got that bit wrong??

Well, you are not operating as a taxi or Ph?

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Complaints include concerns at the lack of regulation for drivers and vehicles, which allows them to offer a cheaper service than private-hire firms and black cabs.

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“They don’t train their drivers, or test their vehicles. They only provide an app. I just think, why would you?”

captain cab · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:11 pm

Skull wrote:

Well, you are not operating as a taxi or Ph?

they're licensed as PH in the rest of the UK - and the fact they've applied for planning permission for an office with CEC tends to suggest they will have licensed drivers, who are vetted and checked like all the other taxi and ph outfits - which makes the scaremongering claims in the story quite amusing :lol:

Skull · **Joined:** Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 am **Posts:** 10460

captain cab wrote:

Skull wrote:

Well, you are not operating as a taxi or Ph?

they're licensed as PH in the rest of the UK - and the fact they've applied for planning permission for an office with CEC tends to suggest they will have licensed drivers, who are vetted and checked like all the other taxi and ph outfits - which makes the scaremongering claims in the story quite amusing :lol:

Ah well, that's even better because it puts the focus directly on the Taxi and Ph company radio circuits. Why pay for a radio when you can have an app on your phone?

Edinburgh City Private Hire (ECPH), must be [edited by admin] themselves... #-o

captain cab · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:37 pm

Skull wrote:

Ah well, that's even better because it puts the focus directly on the Taxi and Ph company radio circuits. Why pay for a radio when you can have an app on your phone?

Edinburgh City Private Hire (ECPH), must be [edited by admin] themselves... #-o

oh yes

#anarchy

Skull · **Joined:** Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 am **Posts:** 10460

captain cab wrote:

Skull wrote:

Ah well, that's even better because it puts the focus directly on the Taxi and Ph company radio circuits. Why pay for a radio when you can have an app on your phone?

Edinburgh City Private Hire (ECPH), must be [edited by admin] themselves... #-o

oh yes

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#anarchy

I take it they do a big advertising splurge and then a sign up and Bob's your Uncle, they hit the ground running... =D>

captain cab · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:50 pm

Skull wrote:

I take it they do a big advertising splurge and then a sign up and Bob's your Uncle, they hit the ground running... =D>

No mate - the usual sp is for them to announce they are going somewhere, the existing trade go mental - create sensational headlines, threaten law suits - and millions in adverts is generated free

Skull · **Joined:** Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 am **Posts:** 10460

captain cab wrote:

Skull wrote:

I take it they do a big advertising splurge and then a sign up and Bob's your Uncle, they hit the ground running... =D>

No mate - the usual sp is for them to announce they are going somewhere, the existing trade go mental - create sensational headlines, threaten law suits - and millions in adverts is generated free

Well it's funny you should say that because the lack of regulation claims came directly from the Ph and Hack trade. #-o

That's a bloody good strategy. =D>

captain cab · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:02 am

Just note the quote here;

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The city is already “well-served” for taxis,

Now that wasn't made by UBER - that was the taxi trade not confusing the public that UBER isn't a taxi app - by using the word taxi.

and again;

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They don’t train their drivers, or test their vehicles. They only provide an app

hardly any PH firms train their drivers, no firm tests their own vehicles - deliberate confusion or just a f*ckwitted scare story?

and again -

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Capital Cars, raised concerns for the safety of passengers

that'll be the public who are driving around in the same vehicles they currently are where the driver isn't paying a company a weekly settle then?

toots · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:32 am

It won't make any difference to PH driver, they'll just pay Uber 20% instead of paying £100 to an operator :wink:

The best bit is when the companies decide that if they undercut Uber they'll get the custom back but Uber on the other hand charge the customer more at busy periods. Go figure :roll:

captain cab · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:35 am

toots wrote:

It won't make any difference to PH driver, they'll just pay Uber 20% instead of paying £100 to an operator :wink:

The best bit is when the companies decide that if they undercut Uber they'll get the custom back but Uber on the other hand charge the customer more at busy periods. Go figure :roll:

I just love the way we are generating millions of free publicity

maybe Edinburgh's cab trade should have a demo - that would be good - mention uber on the telly even

toots · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:36 am

captain cab wrote:

toots wrote:

It won't make any difference to PH driver, they'll just pay Uber 20% instead of paying £100 to an operator :wink:

The best bit is when the companies decide that if they undercut Uber they'll get the custom back but Uber on the other hand charge the customer more at busy periods. Go figure :roll:

I just love the way we are generating millions of free publicity

maybe Edinburgh's cab trade should have a demo - that would be good - mention uber on the telly even

Ah yes like they did in London :lol:

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