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Ross

These questions have all been addressed. Why don't you contact Mr G of fasties and ask him to regurgitate same. Of course, you'd have to strip out all the attacks on me which detracted from the argument. Then you'd have to strip all the invective I spewed out trying to defend myself from these inane attacks.

Anyway. Adjustments? How long? Who knows? Indeed, who cares? I do know that the council will do nothing about de-restricting - which is gonna happen - until they've got the expanded cab office in place to handle the process. To their credit, CEC will not allow the process to descend into the farce which happened in Dublin. We should be grateful.

I foresee a steady trickle of new licences until demand is met. I guess we will have time to adjust.

What price will taxi drivers have to pay? I don't really care. I tried to play fair. I warned what was going down. I was slaughtered. Now it's going to happen and we all know this to be true. You only have to look at the clamour in the press. Keep watching the Evening News. The trade may not like this newspaper, not without justification, but I suspect it will be at the forefront of what happens.

However, the whole thing truly excites me. I know my working pattern will change. But, I will be able to control my working environment like never before. I will work when my customers are there, needing my services. And, when they're not, then I've already worked out a few alternative avenues to maximise the investment I'm more than ready to make. Of course, I could divulge these matters to you. But not on a forum like this. No way, I would prime guys with little imaginaton to compete directly with me, would I?

Guarantee? There are no guarantees. Nowhere in life are we ever guaranteed anything. I suspect you are already wise enough to know this.

Forget guarantees. Cue excitement. You are gonna be given the opportunity to control your own destiny like never before. If you can think outside the box, you're gonna make the fortune you dream of. Hey, you may even one day thank the very people you currently hate for bringing this about.

Go to it. Be creatrive. Seize opportunities and be the best you can be. I know you can do it. I know we can do it. Especially when we're freed of the nonsense of the vested interests who are stifling us.

Cablag on Fasties Wrote:




Is this another worm on the turn? I remember when this guy vehemently opposed de-restriction, strange but true. Would you believe since my letter in the Evening News I’ve had drivers on the phone asking when the council were likely to de-restrict. More and more want to take their chances rather than pay rentals or plate premiums they have no control over.

What next I ask myself?

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Saul on the road to Damascus comes to mind.

CHANGE THE TAXI BUSINESS FOR THE BETTER


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A quality article Jim

It's all over bar the shouting

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Scottie on Fasties Wrote:





I think Scottie is shi**ing himself perhaps there's a little plate value hiding in the background I say little simply because its soon to be worth £700 and not £50,000. Scottie might even have to drive his taxi himself, imagine that, no little £300 rental propping up his little world.


Question- Where did Alan G dig up this Turkey he's really hit the Jackpot this time.

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You care, remember your only doing 2 jobs an hour, how long can you survive ? 14 years till you retirement.
I expected a better answer.

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You haven't answered the question.

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If you are so confident that your ideology is right, then it must be a guaranteed success ?



First of all I take it you are now up for a plate ?

Question: Do you not think that everybody else will do the same thus diluting the already excisting work ?



Question: What demand are you talking about, the demand for plates or the public demand for taxis?



Question: What box are you refering to ?

without having to pay the outrageous current £50,000 artificial "value" of the licence plate

Are plates really going for £50,000?

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Yes Sussex they really are going for £50,000 this probably equates to the public waiting for taxis or drivers being denied their own plates or a bit of both what do you think?


Maybe Ross would like to tell us where the £50,000 plate value comes from?

Lucky the politicians seem to be better informed than Ross.

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skull wrote



I think you are more informed than me, remind me where the value of the plates you sold came from.

Come on Ross I asked you first don't tell me the question is to hard?

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George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Dear oh dear Ross,

Has someone replaced your medication with a placebo?

Now, I feel silly. I though you were a rare commodity - a multi brain-celled cabbie.

Why don't you read my post again and see if you can better understand it.

Then come back to me with real questionbs and I'll see whether I have the time to answer.

(as an aside) Sorry Keith, can you hang on a wee minute till I deal with this. Shouldn't take long ...

As you can see Ross I've got something else on. Try again. It's not really that difficult. Just look at the words and concentrate.

Keep calm, and I'll speak to you in the morning.

Sleep tight.

Ross the owners ars*licker on fasties Wrote:






Ross has it not dawned on you no one wants a taxi owner to have a £50,000 plate "value" false or not?

So why in hells teeth would they want to pay a higher tariff?:roll:

The public and Politicians across all parties don't want plate "values" going any higher regardless of what they might say publicly, they just want to burn greedy taxi owners at the stake.

Taxi owners are now fare game, pardon the pun.

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First things first Garry, you and your gang are the only ones to complain about plate values. I have yet to read anything from the public or politicians about plate values.

The article I was refering to had nothing to do with plate values, it had to do about false reporting and the double standards of evening news reporters.

You always go on about the public knowing the truth, or is it double standards for you too?

I have gone on record as saying that plate values are over the top, but tell me Garry, where the values of your plates not over the top ?

Ross

Do you honestly think that the guy walking past the taxi rank cares where Edinburgh is placed on the list of fare tarrifs?

What concerns him is what it will take out of his pocket to put into yours so he can get home.

The undeniable truth is that our taxi trade hiked the tariff at precisely the time we didn't need it. Passenger numbers falling, pressure from smoking bans, tourist numbers stripped back to the bare bones of stag and hen parties - not the quality spend of North American and European tourists - and we hike our tariffs?

What a good piece of market forces that was.

And think of what the reality of high tariffs is?

Private hire can undercut us and still make real money. This encourages every man and his dog to claim a piece of the action. A piece of YOUR action.

Even the rickshaws appear a cost-effective option.

And there's every incentive for motorised tuk tuks.

We should be trying to use the price mechanism to squeeze these guys out of our market. Encourage them to take their "enterprise" elesewhere.

Rather than hike tariffs, I rather see one more bum sitting in my taxi every hour.

Hey, that bum wouldn't be you by any chance?