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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:53 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
£100 today in 6 hours just pottering around town with the worst base op on duty


but only 4 cars on then 1 went home......


Saturday night 8 hours £235.00. Today 5 hours £100.00.
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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
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Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
£100 today in 6 hours just pottering around town with the worst base op on duty


but only 4 cars on then 1 went home......


Saturday night 8 hours £235.00. Today 5 hours £100.00.

Glad they moved that rank for you.

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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 3:52 am 
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Sussex wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
£100 today in 6 hours just pottering around town with the worst base op on duty


but only 4 cars on then 1 went home......


Saturday night 8 hours £235.00. Today 5 hours £100.00.

Glad they moved that rank for you.


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grandad
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:05 am 
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edders23 wrote:
Sussex wrote:


The fairest way is the computer gives the jobs out, as soon as people get involved it's never ever fair. [-X


WRONG


That isn't true our system is a human one and so I believe is Grandads and both of us manage to distribute the jobs fairly because if your philosophy is correct and your drivers stick to it it works. technology often fails to do that which is why i won't use it other than to keep a record of account work. All of our drivers get a fair share of little, medium, large and big jobs given out manually and this occurs at many companies up and down the country but not all

Actually ours is auto dispatch. It does happen that drivers can have a bad day whilst other drivers have a good day. However we do sometimes "intervene" and allocate some jobs to certain drivers. Usually if a job is a take and return we will allocate the return job to the driver who did the take. Also we have some drivers who are not suited to doing airport work so we try not to send them airport jobs.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:55 am 
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westgatelad wrote:
Yeah. I understand what you mean sussex.

But if 2 jobs are coming out in the zone i am in at 7pm and 2 drivers are in that zone.

1 driver has made 60 quid
Another driver has made 10


And one of them 2 jobs is a 3 quid job. The other a 40 quid job.

Surely the system gives the 40 quid job to the driver having a bad day.

Autocab done this. If you had a blinder on Monday. Then Tuesday was usually betty to the dentist all day kind of work.

Welcome to the taxi/PH trade.

However I agree that long distance work that has been prebooked should be allocated via a list of cars, rather than the luck of the draw on a point.


or greedy grabbing base owners family cherry picking ONLY jobs worth +£15.....

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roythebus
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 11:32 am 
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Smaller jobs can be more profitable than big jobs, more £ per mile on small jobs.
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westgatelad
 Post subject: Re: Quick question.
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:31 pm 
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Cheers guys.

Tbh I have noticed that i live in a GOLDEN location and can sit indoors and wait until 1st car. 90% is a half decent job.
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