mctaxi wrote:
dinkidoo wrote:
do you not think your like its pot calling the kettle black what about 10 to 12 cars (hacks) making an illegal rank outside chicago rock thur/fri and sat. (ps there is no rank at all there) i went and looked for the little sign (still none there) . thur/fri and sat at a rank at red lion at s/heath fits 2 cars or cabs but for some reason you think you can put 15 on the otherside on a bus stop and a crossing ( both these ranks are illegal ) not to mention triple parking on b /Quay station and central (on bus stop again). and dont let me start when customers ask me why the white ones leave there meters off at the red lion in stockton heath coming in to town and charge £5.00 i say this because its only £3.00 on meter so all in all some people need to sort out there own act first and can certain members of the hackney trade get a life -p/h or hac are all out there doing the same thing (fares) putting up with the same lifestyle (earache of wife and kids included) for the same money, same abuse same threats just to earn a living.
i agree there are elements involved on both sides hac and ph that miss use the system ripping people off over ranking ilgal ranking etc and these people should be reported and lose there licence the problem in warrington is the taxi licencing office!! nothiing seems to be done around the town to improve the trade, they don't seem to care if the hacs over rank or ph form ranks the council even admit that there arn't enough rank spaces around the town to service the existing hacs but they still intend to release more hac plates making this problem worse i would like nothing better than to see the ranks enforced and the other ranks around the town used because i think there is alot of untaped work in the town the problem is most of the other ranks used as parking spaces for the gen public and no effot is made from the council to keep them clear yes and you might say they would be clear if we use them but the problem is now getting them clear in the first place not to mention the bad placement of some of them like the ones at asda 2 2 car ranks about 20 yrds apart when most towns have a good 6 car ranks outside there supermarkets in the new shopping centre and bus station there was suposed to be a 6 car rank but its now a 3 car rank because bailey complained that his drivers would have nowhere to drop off or pickup his passengers what has that got to do with the size of the propsed rank and why the drop off zone has to be right next to it is beyond me as it doesn't help us and if you guys are running late the fare may jump in one of the 3 hacs waiting there and leaving you with a no job i think our council needs to take a good hard look into its licencing department and the people running it because all they seem to care about is getting xxx many ph and hacs on the road and sod the people already working!!!
Ok, so we agree on some of the points raised by dinkidoo (
) As for the LO, he has a job to do and he does it by the book which is, at the end of the day the way it should be done and like it or loath it we all know where we stand.
The PH are'nt forming ranks with the intention of taking flags from the Hac's, they're parked up outside the Office waiting for the punters to book in so they can take them home,you know as well as i do that this is the case, you can see it every night on Rylands St.
Drivers cant seem to grasp that if a punter walks past a rank full of Hac's and goes into a PH Office to get a ride home that's their choice, it does no good puling a plod and complaining to him about it, like one of you did last week. And that's what's caused all this stupid video lark, as far as i can gather.
The bad placement of the ranks is a problem, and so is not having a shelter for the punters, but it does no good going in and shouting the odds about it. The only way to improve them is thru constructive dialogue with the people concerned, chip away at them.
Regarding the reduced rank at the new Bus Station, it sounds like it was badly designed from the outset. But to complain that Abba had it reduced at the expense of the Hac's is absurd, PH have every right to pick up and drop off near to the enterance the same as you do. The problem, as is the case with the whole town is the design of the thing.
The whole Taxi/PH community are split into little factions all fighting eachother, and until we can go into a meeting as one body (500+) rather than in dribs and drabs things wont improve for anyone.
It doesnt help when you get the pleb posting as "wire" spouting his mouth off and making threats to all and sundry and trying to goad people into an even bigger split than we have already.
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