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Is it normal practice in mini cab offices to have underhand practices, such as operators cherry picking jobs for their b/f's, husbands etc. Having an exclusive book of lucrative jobs that only a few can pick from, a register of customers that call the driver privately to offer work. It appears that we must all pay the same subs but some of us just get enough work to cover expenses whilst others are raking in £k's a week.

It is normal for badly run companies.

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Grandad,

You'll find it happens in most offices.

yes

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i started out with nothing and ive still got most of it left

This dont happen at Delta............This was taken from the Delta website....as a driver i would say it is true with Delta.

Delta operates zero tolerance towards cuffing, feeding or any other manipulation of our dispatch algorithms.

Bookings are automatically assigned to the driver within the dispatch ring WHO HAS BEEN EMPTY FOR THE LONGEST AMOUNT OF TIME.

We don't care who you know or how long you've been here… drivers are all treated the same and share equal earning potential.

Your wage therefore depends on WHEN and WHERE you work, not who you're mates with!

Yeah, ok.

On my firm the bosses cream off the £100+ a day school runs for themselves and then whatevers left over everyone else has to bid for (lowest price gets).

We also have a regular £400 out of town job that the same driver always does (just happens to be one of the bosses drivers) because 'the address is difficult to find'
Out of town jobs are done off a list, whoevers top gets offered the job and then goes to the bottom of the list.

It can be swings and roundabouts we have recently acquired a customer from another firm where all the drivers got to run the customer about town but only the boss got to run her up to grotsville to visit her daughter at £35 a time the drivers asked her why they never got a turn which made her feel awkard so she moved to using us. All drivers get an equal share with us so there is no issue BUT the reverse can be true we lost a customer to a firm who do not share work fairly because not all of our cars are of the same standard some owner drivers keep their cars immaculate some don't. The customer dropped us because they wanted guaranteed high quality cars and the other company only supplied the boss and his best mates on the job who all drove Audis and Mercs the drivers in the less salubrious motors were not given the work which could amount to 20 or more Heathrows some months. So it doesn't always pay to run things fair and square it can make very bad business sense what is good for the drivers is not always good for the customers. On the other hand we are the firm many drivers would work for if they could

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

In many cases it is the norm, and nothing will stop it.

Sadly.

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IDFIMH

In all offices not just badly run ones.

After being on 4 bases I can say......its the norm

Pecking order:-

1. Boss
2. Bosses family (3 of them)
3. Bosses special cars
4. Base own PAYE driver
5. The "Inner circle"
6. Car renters (full timers) (£300 rent)
7. Car renters (part timers) (£60/day)
9. PDA renters (full timers) (£150/week)
10. Me .......Saturday, (£20)


Equality only sets in when its super busy and the base op cant choose who to pick and just sends jobs out as they come on to clear her screen

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most