Taxi Driver Online

why do you have to resort to swearing? or is this normal speak in Blackpool?

its not big and its not clever

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

So your a single operator and companys want to undercut you,can you take a loss ? Quoting supermarkets and their monopolys doesnt mean anything to me,thats why so many small buisneses are going under.But hey,its all healthy competition

But who Says a £4.00 fare is Undercutting anybody, Skip only mentions he's cheaper than the bus on town hops.

Bloodknock even i would credit you with more intelligence than that,all he ever goes on about is discounting.If that leaves you in any doubt try reading what his signature or whatever you call it

That's as maybe, but Skips only pointing out here that He works outer cheaper than a bus...and I think regardless of Discounting or not a lot of of us would be cheaper per Passenger mile if we had a full passenger load than a bus would be around town....unless you got a really cheap or free bus service.

you don't know much about good business practice do you

a discount means repeat business

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I dont doubt you'd rather do two four quid fares than one nine quid,wanna i look up to you and your buisness sense your like the Alan Sugar of taxis

Business

you cant even spell it......PMSL


BTW, 2 x 1 mile fares at £4 (£8 for 4 miles) as against 9 miles/£9 (18 miles with return)?....but have you ever had a 9 mile job?

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But if your PH a Discount is only the price you allow the customer believe is cheaper than original price you gave them...you have nothing set in stone for them to base their perceived Discount on.

It's not like a shown Metered price that you can guarantee you have knocked something off of.

Id rather charge £20 and get a tip than £30 and not get the job....




my customers know....

good no cheap, cheap no good and they can have the aircon on if its a hot day...

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Never under sell yourself...Charge the £30 and then work on charming a gratuity out of them as well.

Bloodknock ph have meters here,up until a few years ago we all worked from the same tarrif sheet.The two biggest companys have mixed fleets of hackney/ph.Now the company that started the undercutting/discounting is trying to grow more and more,what the drivers/owners dont see is the radio rent/subs are higher than any other firm.So who's pocketing this profit ? Shock, the man who owns the firm who doesnt even drive a taxi let alone give a feck what his drivers earn.Wanna a little different advice for you,its quality not quantity some people want.Business sense lol lol

Those figures don't make any sense. Working on those figures a 1 mile job costs £4.00 but a 9 mile job costs ££9.00.
So the last 8 miles of the 9 mile job cost only £5.00. I think you need a new calculator.

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Grandad,

What's the price of a cab fare got to do with the young being "left stranded by soaring bus fares"?

Surely there's been enough other threads on here about undercutting on fares etc.

Taxi drivers could be counted amongst the luckiest in the coutry when it comes to regulated prices. To my knowledge the hackney carriage trade is to my knowledge the ONLY trade these days that has its prices set by law. If the bus industry were to set fares the same, i.e. Stagecoach charging the same fares as Blackpool Corporation for a trip along the Golden Mile there would be a Competition Commission inquiry into the practice of fare fixing. It is illegal.

So, those firms or individuals who choose to charge less than the metered rate are doing nobody except the customer any favours, so why do it? As for the cab firm proprietor, he is the one who benefits most from the business, see the thread on the Addison Lee sell-out. HE is the one who makes the millions, the driver, who is sometimes from the lower echelons of society and has little business sense just sees what he has in his hand at the end of the week. He fails to realise the true cost of getting that money.

There's a growing number of us who do have a bit of business sense and realise it's no good chasing every fare at whatever cost just to get the cash turnover.

To get back to the OP, IF the true cost of providing bus services were passed on to the customer, by abolishing the BSOG and cutting all council subsidies on socially neccesary routes, we'd see huge chunks of rural England and many urban areas deprived of services at certain times of the day and week. Fares in rural areas would have to rise 10fold or more on some routes if you read back to my earlier post where KCC found the subsidy on one service was £46 per passenger journey! Would YOU pay £46 to do a 5 mile bus trip? No, so why should the council or the bus company.