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NO, we will not tolerate the Ph in the greenways


At last something we agree on, but are you doing anything about it ? I know I am.
How about the taxi trades own level playing field campaign ?

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How about the taxi trades own level playing field campaign ?

Not often you see those words in the same sentence in Edinburgh. Taxi trade and level playing field. :roll:

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NO, we will not tolerate the Ph in the greenways


At last something we agree on, but are you doing anything about it ? I know I am.
How about the taxi trades own level playing field campaign ?

Ross


Athough you have taken what I have said out of context again, it's a fair point.

NO YOUR ENEMY ROSS

Edinburgh Council is a bunch of dirty duplicitous bas*****. If you think these people give a sh** about you or anyone else for that matter you are dreaming.

The begging bowl mentality is just what they want to here.

Without access to equal legal representation you have no chance, and they know it.

No Democracy here Ross.

In short, the council use their unfettered access to the legal and political systems to beat you down, and keep you down.

It goes something like this Ross


Why should we do anything to help you? What's in it for us?


Let's see what you have to offer Ross?



Well then?


Not good enough Ross maybe next time.


Ah Mr. Coutts that’ll do nicely.

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Without access to equal legal representation you have no chance, and they know it.


Well its about time we dipped our hands in our pockets for our own legal representation. If th ph can do it why can't we.

Say £10 a month per driver. collected by the radio companies. And put it into a legal fund.
Now radio companies alone would collect on average £22,000 a month.
With that sort of money we could call in the proffesionals

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The begging bowl mentality is just what they want to here.


Who said anything about begging.
I take it you read the article in the evening news tonight ? If you did, does it at anytime refer to the ph as private hire taxis ?
No it doesn't, and thats not because I went to them with a begging bowl.
It has taken me several letters and a threat to take them to the press complaints to get them to call ph , Private Hire Cars.

You may see that as a minor issue. But its a start.

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Drivers and owners, equal representation, a formula for increasing plates in Edinburgh with an open waiting list for drivers, no discrimination or exploitation, period. Market forces subject to quality controls for drivers entering the trade. No prohibitive vehicle choice and no council dictatorship. Every driver represented by the trade for the trade.

If a driver speaks out, someone listens.

Nelson Mandela was once asked “why did you become a terrorist”? His answer “no one would listen”.

This is the least I would accept. On the other hand this might not be acceptable to some. I would have to ask them first.

Know this, de-restriction/deregulation is coming.

If you think I care you would be wrong.

I am only interested in one thing. :wink:

The companies will throw it back in your face Ross but at least the sentiment was honest. :wink: :wink:

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Say £10 a month per driver.




Have you tried getting getting money off taxi drivers ??, its a nightmare,
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Say £10 a month per driver.




Have you tried getting getting money off taxi drivers ??, its a nightmare,


Sh** Stinky Pete wait till you see what we are gonna take of them?


They will wish they had paid the £10, 00


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Any chance of you joinig in the call for for the two t's to reveal the truth, since you want issues discussed.

When and if they have something to say, I'm quite sure they will.

But the likes of you will ignore it anyway, cos it doesn't fit in with what the likes of you want. :wink:


Garry Thomson won't ever answer the questions cos it doesn't fit in with his warped wee vision of the the truth. He sold plates twice cos he's either incompetent or greedy or both. Then he comes on here spewing about owning a PHC - like I said rumour is he doesn't and that makes him a liar (been taking lessons of old jasbar :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: ) and if he does, why's he still driving a taxi - why wont he answer that - why he's still living the life of a servile driver of a taxi - cos he's a bawbag blawbag. He's typed a totoal of 227 words in reply to me yet funny old thing, never answered the question.

You've got to ask yourself Sussex old bean, has the man who youve so often defended here and elsewhere got any morals or principals other than screwing everyone over for his own self benefit. Claims theres nothing wrong with buying and selling plates but squeals like a stuck pig cos he's no able to do it. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Has claimed in public he just wants to put ten plates on the road and then sell them on to the stupid khants thatll buy them :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: He rants about serving the interests of the public and a free market, yet when someone on a rank undercuts him by a fiver on a 35 quid fare he commits a criminal assault, ranting about undervaluing his trade, yet what does he want to do? Aye - undervalue a trade completely by removing restrictions on PHC's - he can't make a cohesive argument without changing his opinions to suit what he wants - to quote old slapheid " I don't give a sh**" & " Ido what I want because I want to do it." Public serving :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: Nah pure simple self serving criminal blaw :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o

far be it from me to point this out mr torncasualty.......but the phc cant be restricted.
so what are you on about here ?


Yer right, i was in a hurry, :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Slapheid just want to deresteict numbers and vehicle types to make them look just like taxis. It was the recently quiet, but sadly he's back, marginalised old fool, jasbar who wants to derestrict PHC's not numberically (cos they aren't) but in every other way, and wants them to do the job of a taxi driver. Wish I could be @rsed writing anymore about him, but I'd rather leaving ranting in the corner like the raving auld eejit everyone knows him to be. Even Skulls taken to ignoring him, but then Skull will use anyone so long as it fits his own self serving aims :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
So Slapheid, still too busy ahmmering the airport, or ready to tell the truth yet :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o
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Sussex

Any chance of you joinig in the call for for the two t's to reveal the truth, since you want issues discussed.

When and if they have something to say, I'm quite sure they will.

But the likes of you will ignore it anyway, cos it doesn't fit in with what the likes of you want. :wink:


Garry Thomson won't ever answer the questions cos it doesn't fit in with his warped wee vision of the the truth. He sold plates twice cos he's either incompetent or greedy or both. Then he comes on here spewing about owning a PHC - like I said rumour is he doesn't and that makes him a liar (been taking lessons of old jasbar :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: ) and if he does, why's he still driving a taxi - why wont he answer that - why he's still living the life of a servile driver of a taxi - cos he's a bawbag blawbag. He's typed a totoal of 227 words in reply to me yet funny old thing, never answered the question.

You've got to ask yourself Sussex old bean, has the man who youve so often defended here and elsewhere got any morals or principals other than screwing everyone over for his own self benefit. Claims theres nothing wrong with buying and selling plates but squeals like a stuck pig cos he's no able to do it. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Has claimed in public he just wants to put ten plates on the road and then sell them on to the stupid khants thatll buy them :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: He rants about serving the interests of the public and a free market, yet when someone on a rank undercuts him by a fiver on a 35 quid fare he commits a criminal assault, ranting about undervaluing his trade, yet what does he want to do? Aye - undervalue a trade completely by removing restrictions on PHC's - he can't make a cohesive argument without changing his opinions to suit what he wants - to quote old slapheid " I don't give a sh**" & " Ido what I want because I want to do it." Public serving :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: Nah pure simple self serving criminal blaw :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o

far be it from me to point this out mr torncasualty.......but the phc cant be restricted.
so what are you on about here ?


Yer right, i was in a hurry, :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Slapheid just want to deresteict numbers and vehicle types to make them look just like taxis. It was the recently quiet, but sadly he's back, marginalised old fool, jasbar who wants to derestrict PHC's not numberically (cos they aren't) but in every other way, and wants them to do the job of a taxi driver. Wish I could be @rsed writing anymore about him, but I'd rather leaving ranting in the corner like the raving auld eejit everyone knows him to be. Even Skulls taken to ignoring him, but then Skull will use anyone so long as it fits his own self serving aims :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
So Slapheid, still too busy ahmmering the airport, or ready to tell the truth yet :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o


What a fecking egit!!!

Are you completely off your heed?

Have a look around you dozy f***

You are getting fu**** not by me but by all a sundry.


No wonder you want to hide behind a pseudonym.

Christ get a life you piece of shi* and wake up to the real world. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Sh** Stinky Pete wait till you see what we are gonna take of them?


They will wish they had paid the £10, 00


:badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin:



so what you going to take of the PH Skull :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
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I take it you read the article in the evening news tonight ? If you did, does it at anytime refer to the ph as private hire taxis ?
No it doesn't, and thats not because I went to them with a begging bowl.
It has taken me several letters and a threat to take them to the press complaints to get them to call ph , Private Hire Cars.

You may see that as a minor issue. But its a start.

Ross


still wont stop the PH getting in to the greenways ross its on its way trust me on that one the arguament that we sit the brief and pay 40K for a plate woooooops sorry buisness and 30kish for a black cab gives you the right to be in the greenways dont make me :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

i wonder if i go and sit my brief that will get me acess to the greenways :?: :?: :?: as thats what some TW@T said on the radio last wk.

a question for you ross if iam not a TAXI why do i have to follow the CEC
"fare table for taxis" if i have a taximeter fitted

http://manage.edinburgh.gov.uk/Licensin ... _fares.pdf

and in the have a look at section 69 here

http://manage.edinburgh.gov.uk/Licensin ... s/J037.pdf

so you better get on to CEC and tell them off a well.

wonder what the OFT would say about this issue :?: :?: :?: :?:
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Private hire cars drive to beat bus lane ban
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index ... =582032006

Council leader Donald Anderson said today "We do not relish the thought of legal action and would prefer to have a reasoned debate with these drivers and examine any potential impact of what they are asking

"We have various groups asking for access to the bus lanes - freight, motorcyclists and disabled drivers - and we have to establish if there is a special case to be made for private hire cars."

i bet Mr Anderson does not relish the thought of legal action as they are fighting the plate issue and this is the last thing they need right now i bet.

"reasoned debate with these drivers" cant wait for that

Jim Muldoon, chairman of the Scottish Taxi Federation, said: "If private hire vehicles use the bus lanes, other motorists will follow them and clog up the road. It would defeat the purpose of a bus lane. Breaking the law is indefensible in court."

lets take the issue of "other motorists will follow them and clog up the road" what if every Taxi was to use the greenways when they were active would that not cause the roads to CLOG up :?: :?: lets see 400ish buses and 1200 black cabs mmmmmmmmm i wonder.

not every PH is on the road at the same time as is the same for TAXIs so the cloging issue is a dead duck if you ask me as for Mr Coutts statement in the paper last wk yes we could cause serious problems if we all hit the road at 8am. just the same as if every Taxi was on the road at the same time so lets get real. :?: :?: :?:
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"We have various groups asking for access to the bus lanes - freight, motorcyclists and disabled drivers - and we have to establish if there is a special case to be made for private hire cars."
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Perhaps it would be easier to look at what happens in the rest of the world?

And why were taxis a special case in the first place then?

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a question for you ross if iam not a TAXI why do i have to follow the CEC
"fare table for taxis" if i have a taximeter fitted

http://manage.edinburgh.gov.uk/Licensin ... _fares.pdf

and in the have a look at section 69 here

http://manage.edinburgh.gov.uk/Licensin ... s/J037.pdf

so you better get on to CEC and tell them off a well.

wonder what the OFT would say about this issue :?: :?: :?: :?:


Chipper

You might find this surprsing but until this post I almost had a kind of respect for you. You seemed to be happy as a private hire driver with no wish to drive a taxi. Kind of looks a bit different to me now, you seem to want to claim your PHC as a taxi, which makes you a taxi driver, yet youve previously claimed to be happy driving your PHC. :? :? :? :? :? :? :? :? :? :? :? :? :?

So - here we go - the word in your quote above from the conditions that should have been highlighted was IF; as in IF a taximeter is fitted. They've found by their own incompetence before, that they cant make you have a taximeter. Get it taken out if you dont want to have it, and charge what you want, the choice is all yours. And remember the fare on your meter IF youve got one fitted is only a maximum, theres nothing to say you cant refuse to charge the full fare, and give it away at half price. Also, (not sure on this but sure TDO will wade through the regs for me if I'm wrong) theres nothing to say you have to accept the new tariff, if and when it is implemented, and you could leave your meter running on the old tariff AND give half price metered fares. :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

While your at it you can always pop round to ASDA and ask them to roll back their fuel prices to 01 July 2004 when we last had an increase, or maybe if the councillors decide against the increase why the council tax hasnt stayed the same since then too. You might also want to ask the councillors and their officials when they last had a pay increase too, and whos paying for their pensions, but thats a whole different can of worms to open. :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-|
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Skull wrote:
TornCasualty wrote:
edinburgh lad wrote:
TornCasualty wrote:
Sussex wrote:
TornCasualty wrote:
Sussex

Any chance of you joinig in the call for for the two t's to reveal the truth, since you want issues discussed.

When and if they have something to say, I'm quite sure they will.

But the likes of you will ignore it anyway, cos it doesn't fit in with what the likes of you want. :wink:


Garry Thomson won't ever answer the questions cos it doesn't fit in with his warped wee vision of the the truth. He sold plates twice cos he's either incompetent or greedy or both. Then he comes on here spewing about owning a PHC - like I said rumour is he doesn't and that makes him a liar (been taking lessons of old jasbar :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: ) and if he does, why's he still driving a taxi - why wont he answer that - why he's still living the life of a servile driver of a taxi - cos he's a bawbag blawbag. He's typed a totoal of 227 words in reply to me yet funny old thing, never answered the question.

You've got to ask yourself Sussex old bean, has the man who youve so often defended here and elsewhere got any morals or principals other than screwing everyone over for his own self benefit. Claims theres nothing wrong with buying and selling plates but squeals like a stuck pig cos he's no able to do it. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Has claimed in public he just wants to put ten plates on the road and then sell them on to the stupid khants thatll buy them :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: He rants about serving the interests of the public and a free market, yet when someone on a rank undercuts him by a fiver on a 35 quid fare he commits a criminal assault, ranting about undervaluing his trade, yet what does he want to do? Aye - undervalue a trade completely by removing restrictions on PHC's - he can't make a cohesive argument without changing his opinions to suit what he wants - to quote old slapheid " I don't give a sh**" & " Ido what I want because I want to do it." Public serving :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: Nah pure simple self serving criminal blaw :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o

far be it from me to point this out mr torncasualty.......but the phc cant be restricted.
so what are you on about here ?


Yer right, i was in a hurry, :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Slapheid just want to deresteict numbers and vehicle types to make them look just like taxis. It was the recently quiet, but sadly he's back, marginalised old fool, jasbar who wants to derestrict PHC's not numberically (cos they aren't) but in every other way, and wants them to do the job of a taxi driver. Wish I could be @rsed writing anymore about him, but I'd rather leaving ranting in the corner like the raving auld eejit everyone knows him to be. Even Skulls taken to ignoring him, but then Skull will use anyone so long as it fits his own self serving aims :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
So Slapheid, still too busy ahmmering the airport, or ready to tell the truth yet :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o


What a fecking egit!!!

Are you completely off your heed?

Have a look around you dozy f***

You are getting fu**** not by me but by all a sundry.


No wonder you want to hide behind a pseudonym.

Christ get a life you piece of shi* and wake up to the real world. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


So blawbag, you ready to tell the truth on the PHC you may or may not own, and why your still driving a taxi if PHC is the way forward. Nah you'll scream more abuse at me and anybody else that calls you on your bullsh!tting claims. As for hiding, I'm not hiding, just repecting and complying with one of the fundamental principals the owners of this site hold dear :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Any chance of the truth now :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: Garry is your PHC ownership claim - real or no real :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
More money in driving a PHC than a taxi :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: - is that claim too - real or no real :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
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