Taxi Driver Online

anyone in the know?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Fella at Kent Schools might have an idea.

But then again............

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IDFIMH

i just wondered why drivers in Staffordshire were drafted in for 3 weeks cover at £500/week plus hotel bills....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Because the firm that got the contract didn't have sufficient vehicles and the one that didn't told the council to go **** themselves.

At a guess.

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IDFIMH

There's a lot of animosity between KCC and public transport providers across all sectors, not only cab/ph but bad/coach as well. ever since they started their own transport companies about 20 years ago there's been a running battle. When I was doing ph on the Romney Marsh I had a school contract for 5 kids in a. 7 seater. One kid lfet, so the council wanted the job done cheaper even though the line of route was the same, I refused, they gave it to a Folkestone operator (15 miles away), 60 dead miles a day, at double my price. Similarly with another contract for an 8 seater, a 20 mile round trip twice a day, no dead mileage. They got a numpty from Tunbridge Wells to do it for less than my price. TW is 45 miles each way. He lasted 10 days on the job when I mentioned TUPE As for their own bus company, that folded at a cost of untold millions to the ratepayers of Kent. One meeting I went to with KCC the council executive didn't know he was a dorector of the council's bus company. Shall I go on?

Councils up and down the uk set up companies for buses, planning consultancy, property development etc.etc. because then the councillors could be paid directors salaries as well as expenses enabling them to become full time politicians

Locally many of these businesses have been run badly and cost tax payers millions

Politicians and civil servants are NOT businessmen !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector