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people think we are 2nd class citizens . when we are not at all . why????????????

Well I don't believe you are mate, for what it's worth.

However the problem is that the majority have been tarred with the same brush as the minority.

You are an easy target for the scare-mongers, and those defending the price of the black cabs.

It's very easy for the black cabs to say to those who think their rates are expensive, to say 'well at least we are checked'.

Thankfully that excuse will no-longer be valid.

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IDFIMH

Get used to it mate.

Most "People" think ALL cab drivers are second class citizens.

Certainly the Police seem to think that.

Just because you are a London minicab, you are just as entitled as the rest of us to have fag burns in your upholstery, vomit down your neck on a saturday night, speed camera tickets, be kept waiting for ages, be cancelled just as you get to the door, have runners, and generally be treated like shi*t just like the rest of us.

It's called the great pecking order. I have to look up to Claude because he's done the knowledge and I am only a second rate rural Hackney, but I get to look down on you, cos you are a London booker and have only recently been required by law not to be a rapist, pillager or other form of lower being. Now that you are licensed, other PHs from all over the Country will now have to look up to you cos you are from London.

By the way, you didnt tell us whether you are day shift or night shift, Journeyman or owner-driver, drive a Fiat or a Merc, are black or white, are from East London or Sarf London, or any one of the million other things that place you in the "Great Pecking Order of Life" syndrome.

I'm being "ironic" there.

Things could be worse mate. You could be a BUS driver.

which are these awfull people who think you are second class citicens?

god forbid if you applied to join the human race surely you would be turned down?

The best thing to happen would be for the term "Mini Cab" to be dropped and banished. with the term "London PH" adopted.

London ph licensing will, we hope, bring the credibility of the genuine London ph drivers to a much hirer level then the unlicensed stereo type "mini cab" driver.

No London PH company should ever use the words "Mini Cabs" in their advertising or in signage on the offices.

I hope it works out.
Scanner

how about some advice on forming cartels with london taxi drivers?

come on Andy be helpfull

I think the new phrase should be PH-Cab, that will go down well.

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IDFIMH

Ok.. well come to to Brighton & I will buy you a coffee and show you how it works Plonker

A Peters
Brighton * Hove Hackney Carriage Proprietor

Ok.. well come to to Brighton & I will buy you a coffee and show you how it works Plonker

A Peters
Brighton & Hove Hackney Carriage Proprietor

i have heard that london ph are having trouble getting drivers.now they are becoming legal .once yuo are legal income tax ni etc .plus no more dole money housing benefits . haha tough welcome too the real world ,do the knowlege earn respect and be aproper cabbie hahaha

I think in the long term London cabbies will face stiffer legit competition from the legal PH.
We have down here. To the extent that we are all the same now.
Apart from they cant pick up from the street.
Well legally that is.