Taxi Driver Online

No 1 - I take great exception to the comment about stalking. I dont have the kind of reputation like you do, and I never will have. The public has far more to fear from you ya criminal thug.

what were you doing that you managed to witness the above.
and if we are that busy how come you can spare the time to peep on the phc, going about thier business ?
oh and just becouse you repeat it all the time doesnt make it true.
me and garry arent criminals.

If PHC is so profitable, why you still "hammering the airport" and not making your fortune driving your PHC which must be so much cheaper. You got some drivers on it who can't pass there breif, and are stupid enough to pay the inflated prices you got to be charging. If they were makin so much money they wouldn't have been illegally plying for hire outside the Dome and Le Monde.

you dont know if any one was illegally plying for hire do you?
what we do know is that you were thier and unwilling to take hires, becouse you were to busy peeping on the competition.
so in effect you were not willing to do youre job and you decry someone else for having the gaul to be for hire

Numbers can say anything, youve never told us how many of these PHC's are on weekend only circuits, or how many have a radio and a meter fitted, so how many are only plated for school runs etc. Also lets see how many of them fail to have there meters ajusted to to new tariff when if goes up. You, Skull and your merry band, will all of course either turn the increase down or will give a discount to every fare. There again maybe you shouldn't do that Ali or Garry will deal out his kind of justice and give you a sore face

well you tell us how many are on
weekend circiuts (do you believe what you say, you seriously think someone runs a part time business, new car insurance and plate, to mmmm only come out now and again, a hobby in effect, utter crap.)
school runs(do you seriosly believe that school runs arent competition
why then do so many taxis do school runs then) i take it you are night shift as you seem to have the single perspective of only what effects you on youre shift.
ill ignore the rest as its just the usual crap, except in so far as telling you that skull is garry, a point you seem to be missing.


Before Ali T starts any more of his [edited by admin] I passed my test (first time!!)back in 1991. when the test didn't include Telford Colleges load of useless bollocks, but did include the two routes with no choice and automatic fail for getting either wrong

whats this all about
you past youre test ...........and
so did i and 3500 other guys it aint hard, oh and by the way i past 1st time and got 100% in 1992.
dont know if youve noticed but the knowledge has been replaced by sat nav, and the taxi driver by phc driver, and the taxi by a merc vito .
as can be seen outside 16 george street where the taxi sits idley by watching the phc pick up in his nice shiny vito, and his sat nav, while the taxi driver just sits with his jaw on the deck wondering what went wrong

Well worth remembering. We're running a book. IF Salteri or anyone else puts on a taxi with one of these ill-gotten plates, how long before it sustains serious damage?

Favorite at the moment is within 7 days. what do you think Ali?
I do not condone this sort of attack, nor do I support it, but one hears the talk and one ignores it at one's peril.

Ali - live by the sword and you will surely perish by it!!

Garry Thomson IS a criminal - he even posed in the Evening News for a photo - ARSE!

I too was trying picking up a fare at Le Monde, but couldnt get near for 14 PHC's sitting about doing nothing trying to seagull fares. If all those PHC's were legally awaiting their fares why were they still there 20 mins later when I went back to the rank - like good cab drivers should! And then when I went back again 10 mins later and a cop van was sitting there, they had all magically disappeared. You fu(king kidding yerself if you think they all got jobs

And I'll ask the question again - If the PHC business is the way forwards why you and the criminal trying to get plates? You cant have it both ways ya Niddrie thug.

i dont care what ph are doing ill leave that to you.
you certainly seem to be preocupied with them and us.
they are thier becouse we are not, its healthy competition in my opinion.
one that you and youre ilk seem to say doesnt exist.
until it siuts you that is.

you see you and guys like you just complain constantly.

so do tell what are you going to do about the ph problem ?

i for one cant afford to pay the inflated rentals.
nor the inflated plate premiums.
how you have the brass neck to say thier is no unmet demand for taxi's and drivers shouldnt get thier plates, then tell us how much the ph are allagedly stealing from you.
if thiers no demand then the problem would not exist would it.
funny how this is a problem for you but one you wont admit to if it means people get plates.
very sad

Chipper

If you'd seen the number of PHC's who on Saturday night were obviously all legitimately waiting on their pre-booked fares, whilst committing the criminal act of obstructing a taxi rank, the rank outside 16 George Street to be precise, who all magically disappearred when a police van parked itself in the middle of George Street outside The Hard Rock Cafe, was just amazing? All their fares phone and cancel at the same time?

Legal? who the fack do you think you're kiddin.

As for poor PHC drivers, why is old slapheid still driving a taxi AND trying everything he can to get his own plate IF his PHC is as lucrative as you claim, come to think of it, why aren't the whole of the licensed taxi trade, including Messrs Salteri AND Turnbull buying themselves PHC's Any chance of getting them or you to answer that one.

Also think about where the majority of the guys gettin their breifs come from - could it be the PHC trade. Keep taking the Prozac

What I really don't understand with all these threats is that the only people who have done anything wrong are the city council!!

If they had discharged their statutory obligations with due diligence then all these applicants would be getting nothing.

The truth is that CEC have been guilty of maladministration and it is they who should be the focus of anybody's anger or dissatisfaction.

Plato had a little story about this kind of mind set “The allegory of the cave” sort of sums them up.

Instead they rationalise, twisting the truth around until it suits their existing behaviour.

That does have it's plus points.

I'm sure TDO and JD know this one. Very fitting don't you think.

Here is another one for you TDO since you mention the Dissonance theory again


The Parable of the Abilene Paradox


Four adults are sitting on a porch in 104-degree heat in the small town of Coleman, Texas, some 53 miles from Abilene. They are engaging in as little motion as possible, drinking lemonade, watching the fan spin lazily, and occasionally playing the odd game of dominoes. The characters are a married couple and the wife’s parents. At some point, the wife’s father suggests they drive to Abilene to eat at a cafeteria there. The son-in-law thinks this is a crazy idea but doesn’t see any need to upset the apple cart, so he goes along with it, as do the two women. They get in their unair-conditioned Buick and drive through a dust storm to Abilene. They eat a mediocre lunch at the cafeteria and return to Coleman exhausted, hot, and generally unhappy with the experience. It is not until they return home that it is revealed that none of them really wanted to go to Abilene–they were just going along because they thought the others were eager to go. Naturally, everyone sees this miss in communication as someone else’s problem!



How Do We Know When We Are Headed for Abilene?


Harvey points to six characteristics emblematic of a group failing to manage agreement effectively:

Members individually, but privately, agree about their current situation. The group in Coleman knew individually that they were satisfied with just sitting on the porch.
Members agree, again in private, about what it would take to deal with the situation. In this case, the members privately agreed that staying on the porch was a good way to spend a hot and dusty day.
Members fail to communicate their desires and/or beliefs to one another, and, most importantly, sometimes even communicate the very opposite of their wishes based on what they assume are the desires and opinions of others. People make incorrect assumptions about consensus. In the Abilene case, one suggestion (offered on the assumption that the people wanted to do something besides sit on the porch) began a domino-like sequence of individual agreement with the concept in spite of each person’s private misgivings about the desirability and wisdom of making the trip to Abilene.
Based on inaccurate perceptions and assumptions, members make a collective decision that leads to action. It is in the action that it becomes apparent that the decision is contrary to individual desires. They thereby arrive at a destination they did not want to go to in the first place. Our protagonists in the parable do not actually discover their unanimous disagreement with the action they took until someone says, "Well, that was a nice trip." Another person is then moved by frustration and exhaustion to blurt out the truth, "It was not a good idea or a nice trip!"
Members experience frustration, anger, and dissatisfaction with the organization. Often this leads to the forming of sub-groups that take combative or blaming positions toward each other. The Abilene group begins asking themselves immediately, "Whose crazy idea was this anyway?" and thus starts the blaming cycle.
Finally, members are destined to repeat this unsatisfying and dysfunctional behavior if they do not begin to understand the genesis of mismanaged agreement


http://www.arl.org/diversity/leading/is ... ilene.html