Taxi Driver Online

Cabby John 1,

"I do what I can to improve it."
I wrote the last three tariffs in Plymouth. Strangely I did not want any of them, but the alternates I produced which I thought better were rejected by the Trade so the Tariff they preferred was put to the Council and approved. This takes work to get it through, but we have consistently managed to achieve the aim with some very minor tweaks by the Authority.

If a passenger wishes to complain, who do you suggest they complain to? The Driver? It has to be to the Local Authority or perhaps if urgent, the Police.

I understand your angst at the status quo, so get off your behind and change the status quo.

Write a letter to the press, insist on "No Editing" and if you keep it short and pertinent they are very likely to publish it, long and rambling will be edited or ignored.

The "Lazy Sods" to which I referred were your LA Enforcement, not the Trade, I took my lead from your earlier point.

In Plymouth we have lists of fares to places outside the City, these are produced and copied, most Drivers have one, we in effect, all charge the same. If the passenger does not want to pay, they become a bus passenger.

It very much is "in your remit" to improve the trade, either actively on the Committee of an Association or Union, or passively by fully supporting those that do get off their Ar5e and take the active part.

"Do what you can to improve it."

Cabby John 1,
If you read the post properly (as you suggested others do further up the thread) you will see I put:

At 2 miles in PHTM you are worse off than us. But with our high Flag Fall and your low one it gives a false picture.

You suggest “I see that you are ranked at 175 and us (and I am not bragging) 230.......I guess PTHM and I, have both go it wrong” and at two miles you are both right, but I say again the picture is false.

Due to a typo I suggested that you get 28p per mile more than us, it should have been 38p as I am sure you realise having looked at both tariffs.

Your Tariff after midnight adds £1.00 whilst ours adds 50p at 7pm and another 50p at midnight. Both Tariffs charge the same mileage rate.

So AFTER MIDNIGHT, at 1 mile you get £4.80 whilst we get £5.00 (160 yards short) then at 2 miles you get £6.40 (105 yards short) and at 2 miles we get £6.70 (320 yards short). At 3 miles you have £8.20 and we have £8.20 (80 yards short). From this point you move ahead of us at 38p per mile.

At ten miles your meter gives £20.00 (109 yards short) and we achieve £17.50 on ours. If the PHTM table was calculated at the 10 mile point, we in Plymouth would be in the bottom 10 in the country and Cardiff would be in top 100 - so I would rather have your Tariff.

Now, this is seriously meant, do you want a copy of the Tariff calculator I made, so you can produce some suggestions for your Trade Colleagues and the LA?

If you don’t like your Tariff, get your Tariff changed.

If you don’t like your Tariff, get your Tariff changed.

OK, I give up, you can't educate Pork.