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and as for multiple drop-offs where children are concerned it would be a definite no-no, you don't cheapskate with children's lives or place the driver in such a position :wink:

So just because you don't do them, then no-one does. :?

Well I can assure you that multi-drops are the norm in many areas. The council sends out it's tender and if you want the work you quote, and if you tell them that you don't do multi-drops then they pi** themselves laughing.

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To a selfish person like you I'm sure he is a [edited by admin], mind you any one that disagrees with you is either a liar or a [edited by admin].So what's new?

If me being selfish means I'm acting in a more safer manner, then selfish it is.

You seem to be under the impression that all school work is a piece of p***, but it's not and the taxi/PH trade, in the main, do wonders for not at lot.

What would you do if you have four kids going to four different schools? Would you make them all get out each time and walk down the road? :?


I did school contracts for over twenty years without incident. Could that be because I always insisted that I used the staff car park to drop off/pick up? For safety reasons, of course.For security reasons, I also insisted on collecting/delivering children to the school secretary's office, in case of traffic delay. Parents, grandparents, etc, should park some distance away from the school and walk to and from their vehicle. There are NO, repeat NO, excuses for parking in a no parking exclusion zone outside a school. Except for the selfish, I'm allright jack types, you know who you are.

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If you let people [edited by admin] allover you shoes, that is your fault not mine,

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[Could that be because I always insisted that I used the staff car park to drop off/pick up?

Have you tried recently to get into the staff carparks?

If they are not locked they are full. :-k

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If you let people [edited by admin] allover you shoes, that is your fault not mine,

How many PH does Delta have now?

How many did they have 10 years ago?

It's your shoes that are on the wrong feet.

Still have you given your £100 yet. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Delta are a very professional private hire company, they do little or none as far as a school contracts, but if they did it would only be each job to one school, I believe they had 350 and now 1100 , their drivers on occasion say it has too many cars, but it still grows, it makes no odds to me how many they have, I have enough for myself, Oh and by the way you never congratulated me on my lottery win .

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Oh and by by the way you never congratulate me on my lottery win .

Indeed I didn't. :wink:

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[Could that be because I always insisted that I used the staff car park to drop off/pick up?

Have you tried recently to get into the staff carparks?

If they are not locked they are full. :-k


I did say used to.

I gave up on contract work a couple of years ago.

I don't buy work..

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I gave up on contract work a couple of years ago.

I don't buy work..

I can also see the benefits of that, but some drivers earn good money out of schools, so good luck to them. :wink:

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I gave up on contract work a couple of years ago.

I don't buy work..

I can also see the benefits of that, but some drivers earn good money out of schools, so good luck to them. :wink:


Good luck to them from me too.

Did I read somewhere that Sussex council are trialling an "e-bay" style tendering website, where you can underbid for school runs?

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. Did I read somewhere that Sussex council are trialling an "e-bay" style tendering website, where you can underbid for school runs?

Quite possibly, but first they would have to work out how to use a computer. :?

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. Did I read somewhere that Sussex council are trialling an "e-bay" style tendering website, where you can underbid for school runs?

Quite possibly, but first they would have to work out how to use a computer. :?


The council or the cab drivers?

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