Taxi Driver Online

The work during the week here has already slowed up. so you change with the flow of the punters. It's simple supply and demand isn't it?

I really can't understand why you keep on about topics I have already answered.

Can we leave this particular bone alone and concentrate on other issues as I feel we are becoming a bit boring now?

If the local fishing community would like more restrictions as to what and how many vessels can fish in our waters. Doesn't the same apply for taxis in a small town? Unless you want to keep to friends and family. Enough cabs standing idle due to shortage of relief drivers. Why more plates?

I used to be a proponent of de-limitation, but I'm now having second thoughts.

The reason is simply that without some control you end up with an over supply which simply drives down fares and pushes up the number of hours drivers work just to earn a reasonable living.

If you work 37.5 hrs as a typical Office worker does then you'll be on the breadline. Even doing 45-50 hours as most of us at least do is no use these days.

If there was no control over the number of supermarkets you'd have Asda Tesco Sainsbury Morrisson Lidl Aldi Somerfield Waitrose etc, all in every town killing off smaller shops and reducing the town centres to banks and estate agents. And of course there would be price competition driving down prices.......sound familiar?
Every company employs the correct number of workers for it's workload. The taxi business should be no different.

I have changed my mind about the principle, however I'm not sure what the best way or the correct levels should be and I think PH should be limited as well.

Maybe 50% of a town's PH should become HC as well as the HC already in place then there should be a cap on at that level, but maybe only HC that are independent (ie NOT on a radio circuit should be allowed to pick up from ranks). Then PH should be abolished! Remaining HC drivers could work on circuits and pick up if approached on the street.

I haven't thought all this through ... I am making it up as I type but I hope it provokes a debate, but that we can avoid slagging off each other personally.

You've woken up and smelt the coffe then? Many of us have been saying it for years even before the OFT did a flawed report regarding the trade. THe best thing to do is go out and get a £30,000 motor on HP then sit on the rank and see how much you can earn in a week, we've been crucified in our town, our numbers have doubled but the trade has gone down, the major supermarket has relocated out of the town centre, that used to give us 70% of our trade on the dayshift now it's gone, drivers are walking round with their heads in their hands wonderinig what to do.

Yeh, and CC told me I was gonna get it with both barrels.

I've had a debate with JD but you can't really argue with a bigot, maybe they should have delimitation of the Wanabee Lawyer industry and then we could have an informed debate.

I've had a debate with JD but you can't really argue with a bigot, maybe they should have delimitation of the Wanabee Lawyer industry and then we could have an informed debate.

avoid slagging off each other personally

maybe they should have delimitation of the Wanabee Lawyer industry and then we could have an informed debate.

They already have.

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