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Reply: the skilled assasin befriends his victim, gains his confidence so as to make his foul deed easier to complete. I am sure you will do you best as any boy scout would. I hope not too many find it a poison chalice.

Now where have I heard all this before, I know I've said it, T. you are spot on, only problem you cannot put a brain into a plank of wood..

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

T. do you know that you and JD have something: in common. when you click on to your profile and JDs there is no record of you?

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Err, didn't you say you got your plate for nothing?



I've had my hands on a hackney plate for years, but I've never changed my mind about restricted numbers.



So you didn't read abou the recent 'open skies' deal between the EU and the US?

In any case, all industries are regulated to a greater or lesser extent, and I'm certainly not advocating a deregulated taxi industry, just the right for drivers to operate their own vehicle, just like you took the opportunity to do.




So what's to stop Tescos et al muscling in at the moment? Answer - the rank and hail markets can't be monopolised by a single big operator because drivers can work on their own.

That leaves the pre-booked market, so why haven't they muscled in on that - you say local decision making keeps them out, but that's rubbish - what's to stop them developing a national brand operated locally? That's effectively what Tescos do in the retail sector at the moment, so if they wanted to do the same with the trade then they would have done it by now.




Wot you mean like the London black cab sector? No sign of the death of independent there, and no sign of "GBCs 'r' us" either.

Your drivers in a "deregulated" market who would be forced to work for a circuit would be doing the same for a PH circuit in a "regulated" market. The difference is that in a derestricted market the drivers would have the choice.

So you're wrong - it's you that's forcing drivers to do what you want in a restricted market, no the other way round

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what hisses me off up here in the north is the amount of drivers that got a plate for nowt,sold it later then the council deregulated and the same person got another plate for nowt again and sold that one It should have always been no value on the plate and hand it back when finished. It just makes you wonder who gets the whisper...

Everytime T's phone rings he's accepting a private hire booking, bet he'd be straight on to the LA if he saw a PH taking a flag down!

It's been called a lot worse than that.

But before you start questioning the name of this site please go and ask;

The owners of the Daily Mirror as to why they talk about issues other than mirrors.

The owners of Taxi'talk' magazine as to why they talk about PH, one or twice a year.

The owners of Boots as to why they sell everything bar.

And the admin of the cabby forum who only ever talk about the happenings on TDO.

Alex

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Badger if the council deregulated then everyone would be able to get a plate for free ...................... so how could the ficticiuos person you mention demand a premium for it?

In the same example how many people do you know who got a plate for free during the restricted period ................... because in Gateshead I know of very few.

are you coming over to sunny Gateshead on the 11th?

B. Lucky

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TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Gone quiet aint he?

reply: A telephone booking is not a PH booking just because someone books a taxi over the phone. PH can only do pre-booked work a hackney is not restricted to rank and street work, there is nothing to prevent a hack accepting pre-booked or telephone work. PH does not have exclusive rights to telephone work. That's reality whether you agree with it or not, PH cars suppliment the taxi trade, there is no PH trade it never existed in its own right. We have a 2 tier system and so far no-one has come up with a workable alternative.

So you're wrong - it's you that's forcing drivers to do what you want in a restricted market, no the other way round :D[/quote]


Reply: Why are there some many "minicabs" or PH's in delimited areas, surley every driver would be in a taxi? Why would anyone bother with PH if the advantages of a taxi were freely available ?

Answ: Because numbers are limited by other means, restricted vehicles, complex knowlege tests, etc etc. When I can walk into any Council office in any part of the country and get a Hackney Plate I will beleive what you say until then its just the haves Vs the have nots. You want dereg on plates why not on vehicle types, fares, boundaries everything ! I dont hear you calling for a freemarket.

im tryin to figure this one out methinks its a booking but what kind of bookin. luke

Luke. If you are ha-ha old enough, you might remember a film called Carry On caddy way before private hire came into existence, in the film you'll see that they are Hackney's with radios in them and a Booking Office,,,

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

is that supposed to be helpful. aint seen the film i was just wonderin what do you call a bookin that comes over the phone. luke

Depends on what you mean by PH.

If you mean private hire vehicle booking, then clearly it's not as a taxi is always a taxi, but if you mean a private hire booking, then that's what it is, a private booking for the hire of the taxi.

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