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Thats a bit like asking, why do Edinburgh not have to know Dalkeith intimatley in case they take a job there?

Quite simply you don't work from there, on the occasions you do go there, the suburban part of the Knowledge is deemed sufficient for you to get a customer there via a good route, but 90% of my work is still in and around 8 mioes of central London.

Thats why we have Sububan Taxi drivers to cover the work in these areas.

Some 'all London' drivers may choose to work a Suburban area that they have a good knowledge of, but thats few.

I'm not sure that's what the report or I said, but any trade that has more people over 70 working in it than people under 30, points in the dark direction.

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IDFIMH

I agree with your first sentence.

As for your second and third sentences. I think the KOL is now open to 18 year old people. I also think the older the people are in the trade, the less they respond to change. And you also end up being led by the near dead.

Which perhaps explains why everything seems to be going the way the LPH want, and not the way the London cab trade want.

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IDFIMH

Well not from me, I couldn't care less if you earn't ten grand a week.

But from afar it's seems crystal clear to me that the capital's cab trade has many hurdles ahead to keep what they have, let alone increase it.

And I'm not that sure they have anyone in a position of leadership up to the challenge.

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IDFIMH

Ditto.

As I've said before Sussex, i've heard all of the above many, many times before, by the great reformists during the early nineties, we will survive the latest attack and carry on as normal.

As for the leadership issue you mention, with the lefty 'leadership' that lives in City Hall, we will have no worries about ours.

I would suspect the last thing the PH companys would want is more of their drivers leaving, they struggle with staff retetion at the moment, never mind with another 2000 defectors.

I work in the London trade, so I have a pretty good grasp of whats happening, and I'm more than happy with what I see.

Are you happy with what you see in your town?

Oh yes. Could do with a few less vested interests in the council and a few less idiots driving cabs, but apart from that everything is just fine and dandy.

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IDFIMH

How many people under 30 anywhere want to drive a Taxi/PH?. Under 25's are penalised by the insurance companies, and lets face it, under 30's want to be out on the town on a saturday night, and not driving a taxi!
It is, de facto, an older persons game.

Why would they need to defect? The black cab circuits are giving us plenty of work.

If only the LTDA knew the whole truth about all that work we get from Com-Cab.

Still as they only own 20% of it, why should they care?

Ollie

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Happy to be legit.

Better ask your friend John Griffen, he seems to have a big problem.

As for the ComCab circuit, I guess they need someone for the local trips that does'nt involve the carriage of single females.

I guess your colleague Mr Al-Shaz-Rapeu can manage that.

I'm not so sure that's true.

In my manor the % of under 30's owning PHs is considerably higher than the % of under 30's owning taxis. Quite why I'm not sure, but maybe the idea of paying up to £50,000 for a plate is a slight turn off.

Thus maybe the youth of today are brighter than I thought.

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IDFIMH

Don't you mean can't?

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Yes, thanks for that, but my question was kind of rhetorical - ie I was alluding to the the question of disproportionality. ie is it really necessary to know central London as well as is currently required?

That's another rhetorical question, by the way, but feel free to answer it if you want.

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But you've got a vested interest, so you would say that, innit

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