jimbo wrote:
Why do you call me a hypocrite? I do not employ drivers, or rent out my cab. The cab I own has never been driven by anyone else but me. I would rather my cab was parked up, where it is safe and sound, than being abused by someone who has no financial interest in it's wellbeing.
The reason I call you a hypocrite has nothing to do with this, it's because you bleat about the consequences of an unlimited number of drivers, but that's exactly what happens in restricted areas, irrespective of what you do individually. And you quite obviously don't mind being afforded preferential treatement from your council, so if others have to work more hours as a consequence then this clearly makes you a hypocrite. And you shout down any measure that might boost earnings and thus mean less hours, such as the DSA test.
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If someone wants to become an owner driver, I have no problem with that at all. They could follow the same easy path to cab ownership that I have. Or, on the other hand they could offer their services to an owner. I have yet to meet a driver who is forced to drive for any owner, they do it because they choose to do it. Even little old me started out as a driver, and I was very happy to do it. In fact, I was so happy, I bought the company.
I would hardly call raising £50k an easy way into the trade. Many simply couldn't raise that sort of money, and others wouldn't risk it on a plate in any case. And whatever happens in Lincoln, in Brighton and places like it the big premiums depend on milking drives who don't have a plate, so if anyone tries to get self-rigtheous about earings and hours then that's hypocrisy.
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