Taxi Driver Online

Reply: Do you think then that all those years ago when the first ever licenses were issue they just picked people at random and gave them a plate? No they licensed the people who had established a trade they regulated to bring stability and consitencey to a trade that was growing out of control. Market forces failed so regulations were introduced. The better responsible operators needed protection from the fly-by nights and unscruptulous rogues. This gave the public confidence, they used licensed taxis because they new they would not be ripped off or carried in dangerous carriages. They licensed the operators that built up a reputation for reliability and safety, the ones who had made investments in the first place. The trade is there because someone years ago offered a service the public were prepared to pay for. The Councils only regulate or license the trade they do not generate any trade or business. The business is there because someone offers a service, a license only gives the person offering that service validity and credability.

no way is jd a taxi driver, nor is tdo, susses might be though, and skull is an ex taxi baron who is now a jockey for someone!

Yes, that's the fit and proper/quality control bit, but what about restricted numbers? :lol:

Regulate all or nothing you cannot pick just the bits that suit you.

Oh dear. [-(

But we do what you say we can't with drivers, regulate but not with numbers. :wink:

Reply from T.: I have no ideal what the above line means, is it back to flowerpot men speak. ??????????

You are saying we can either regulate or not, i.e. numbers restriction or no regulation, even though it happens in 72% of areas.

But we don't restrict the numbers of drivers yet we regulate them.

Have the two Ts worked out the difference between deregulation and derestriction yet

Reply from T.:
It may happen in 72% now but there are a lot of areas reconsidering, how many of the 72% have benefitted by changing. The negative evidence is mounting, dereg has failed to deliver on every count, fares have not reduced, services have not improved and in many areas got worse. The bus and rail dereg failed and has been acknowleged by the decision takers as a failure. The whole dereg ethos has been discredited. The regulation of the London minicabs is the biggest indication of the failure of the market to find its own level.

What about the drivers issue?

Why can they be regulated and not restricted, yet in your mind it doesn't work?

the thing is de-reg is wrong, the buses have provided a case in point, examples include manchester, oxford.

as for dereg itself, what about all the places that have "re regged"

Thats what I have been saying, this all boils down to that one thing, the drivers who want something for nothing, you want a plate for nothing nomatter what.