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It's a bit more like if you haven't got the right vehicle to do the job that's your fault, and also they've learnt a long time ago about people who like to pick and choose the best jobs for them selves, so if your first off you take the person in front of you, and if you can't take them you go to the back. it's the Taxi drivers' code. the same as a light vehicle never pulls out of a side road in front of a empty Taxi on a main road, it's no use swearing at our lads they will always win....

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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!

Trevor, its not the cab drivers fault that he drives a vehicle that wont accept wheelchairs. Hasn't he been licensed by the local authority? Under what law can you or anyone else tell a cab driver to go to the back of the queue?

I can quote you a law that says they can't?

Sods law is no law at all, ask Mrs Conolly.

Regards

JD

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you know Taxi drivers, they are a law unto themselves, it works for than, smart arsses never last long.

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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!

LOL....... GUESS i'M THE EXEPTION?

REGARDS

jd

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The reality of buying a taxi is to make your living, if any one is stupid enough to buy the wrong vehicle in the area he works he won't make money, and it is his own fault.

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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!

I know some Taxi drivers who thought they were a law unto themselves but they didn't last long.

I think most cab drivers realise that a saloon car can't take a a fully loaded wheelchair and under the circumstances I don't believe they would be that inconsiderate or argumentative to ask the driver to go to the back of the queue. If that is the case in Sefton, then you guys deserve each other.

Regards

JD

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It soon sorts the priick's out.

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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!

Well you talk about pricks, but if they are licensed as hackney carriages don't they have the same status as every other licensed hackney carriage?

I'm sure there will be many people on here who will question your line of thought?

Regards

JD

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Our Council wants an all WAV Hackney fleet by 2015 so all the saloon drivers are going to go PH

But anyway, back to on line petitions to TB/GB. The last time I looked, 29 people had signed this petition.

The petition against road pricing was signed by over 2 MILLION, and has been completely ignored, according to todays papers.

So even if I agreed with the sentiment of this one, (which I do not) would there be any point in signing it?

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If the Government ignore a two million signature petition then you might thing that a petition signed by just 39 people might not cut much ice?

Reading the latest European position on wheelchair access I think we already know how this wheelchair situation is going to be played out.

Regards

JD

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So you're saying that in an area where saloons predominate and WAVs are the exception then if someone walks past a WAV in pole and jumps into a saloon (happens a lot) then the WAV would have to go to the back (never happens in my experience).

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I don't really think the numbers are of much relevance.

I mean, the road pricing one "caught the public imagination" and thus lots of people were signing it.

A bit like the Maddy McCann situation perhaps - millions getting involved while the next kid that goes missing will only be missed by their family

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In St Andrews it's about two thirds saloons and the rest people carriers or bigger minubus-style vehicles.

It's quite common for people to walk past the big vehicles to get into the the saloons, and less commonly for people to walk past the saloons to get into the big vehicles.

The first vehicle remains at the top of the rank though, and I've seen the big vehicles passed by three or four parties before getting away.

Generally drivers don't like this, and it's rare for things to boil over, but I agree with the thrust of Mr T's post - vehicles should be more similar and there should be more support between drivers.

Petitions are a waste of time. However many sign them.

Road pricing will be Labours Poll Tax.

Cynicism on an epic scale, but a moot point.

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