Taxi fares comin' doon!!! Feckin' brilliant!
Read through and canny help but think the Black drivers are still at the scaremongerin' ...
But a spokesman for the black cab trade said: "This is a recipe for disaster. It sounds farcical, but you could end up with over 800 tariffs in the private hire trade. Customers will automatically assume that someone somewhere down the line is ripping them off.
Where do they get 800 from?
Is this the amount of Private cars in Edinburgh, if so, do they expect them all to be charging a different rate from one another?
I would've thought that CEC would set the bar for a cheap rate and that all Privates would have to follow suit. Or each private company would have to set its rate advertise it as such.
The Blacks have had it their way for tooooooo long, and the arrogant attitude of some drivers is fuckin' ridiculous. Some actually think they own the road.
Do they still have the monopoly at Edinburgh Airport?
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I thought this was about a private hire companies bid to be allowed to charge less.
There doesn't appear to be that much to know, you're certainly not providing much illumination.
I don't see the relevance. Why do you think taxi drivers should have a right to protected pricing when no other industry gets it?
You've lost me. Processing Aluminium, selling bootleg Stones records out the back of a Trabant, running a shitty bank or bankrupting football clubs?Clue---Mad Vlad in the same line of business.
I'm sure there's more but I notice you don't deny it.
Maybe that's the reason why they have applied to be able to charge less then?
If their overheads are less then it seems reasonable that they should be able to charge less and still match the profit levels of the black cabs?
If their are people needing cleared then why would they be bankrupt?
This isn't about black cabs reducing their fares it's about customers having a cheaper alternative, isn't it?
that would put an end to the black taxi snobbery
Why do you get Black taxis ignoring you late at night when they have there light on?? PHC should be allowed to pick up from the street
But they have "the knowledge"!!
So does the satnav.
Why do you get Black taxis ignoring you late at night when they have there light on?? PHC should be allowed to pick up from the street
Including all the road works on the way
Including all the road works on the way
I'm disappointed that a poster who i have great respect for should make such a suggestion. The implication of your post suggests to me that all taxi drivers are racist is well wide of the mark.
Funnily enough i did some night shift work during the festival in black taxi's... I stress taxi because that's what it was a taxi. Not some old banger not fit for purpose should say any disabled passenger be looking to call for transport home late in the evening...
And i was shocked at how many of the fares from all over the world (every colour and background) remarked at how helpful the drivers were in Edinburgh taxi's. And indeed at how friendly they were. So it wasn't just a comment at the service i was offering but that experienced in the entire duration of their trip.
Really? I took the opportunity to do some day shift work last week for a driver who was off on holiday. I worked a 9-5 shift (kind of traditional working day?) I was kept fairly busy but at the end of the day after paying my costs (rental & diesel) i cleared after 3 days 140. Yes one hundred and forty pounds.
I had no breaks and took no lunch for 5.83 an hour. Don't know top of my head what the minimum wage is but it must be around that?
So aye "Fine living".
I spoke to other drivers in the trade. "Ach laddie you've got to work the 12 hour shift". It was explained to me that had i done that (6am-6pm) then i'd have made myself "..around 100". So instead of 5.83 an hour that would have been 8.33 an hour. "Fine living territory!!!".
Also, what do you mean the prices are "Artifically high"? Have you actually thought through the actual costs of servicing an actual Taxi to be on the road?
If a Taxi meter in Edinburgh was put on and left for an hour the amount at the end of the hour would be 20 (25 pence for every 45 seconds).
Off that 20 an hour you have the cost of purchasing the vehicle, it's running and maintenance costs (the edinburgh taxi vehicle examination centre is very notoriously quite rightly tough on standards) then diesel at 1.08 a litre. All before a wage for the often abused (just because he or she can be and just for the sheer hell of it) driver.
It took me 7 months of study and college courses to pass the hour long city council examination in the city chambers. I wasn't able to just purchase a sat-nav and drive....
Look at the taxi ranks all week. The cabs are fighting to get on them they are so busy. What does that tell you? The industry has been hammered by the recession (no difference from others but in tougher times folk do hold back on such costs such as restaurants and taxi's)
With regards to private hire... Most of these guys are just like the rest of us all in trying to earn an honest crust. However, speak to the drivers. They are earning an absolute pittance. The council should be ashamed at themselves. They've allowed on their watch an explosion in the growth of the private hire registrations....
Just read Kenny Macaskill's comments on the proceeds of private hire...
Private Hire want to discount because they want a price war in order to force black taxi's off the roads (They already are. You'll find a lot of LRT drivers were taxi drivers but got out not being able to make a "Fine wage".).
With support from folk like yourself and Edinburgh Council we can decimate the Edinburgh Black Taxi trade and see Edinburgh crammed with Private Hire. A lot of drivers who have poor English (basing that on feedback from those that have tried private hire tempted by the 10% discount but returned to taxi's with real knowledge) but never mind for a while you'll get 10% cheaper fares (But not really as they'll have gone the long way..) then when the Black Taxi trade is dead and gone without council restrictions on cost they'll put the prices right up to real profitable levels.
The amount of views posted on this thread with no knowledge or understanding is untrue and all from folk who i'd have expected to put much more though into their opinion before just assuming that their tenner fare hame at 2am was excessive.
Oh and thank fuck i'm moving on from my short term visit into the "Fine living" Edinburgh Taxi trade.
I'm disappointed that a poster who i have great respect for should make such a suggestion. The implication of your post suggests to me that all taxi drivers are racist is well wide of the mark.
Funnily enough i did some night shift work during the festival in black taxi's... I stress taxi because that's what it was a taxi. Not some old banger not fit for purpose should say any disabled passenger be looking to call for transport home late in the evening...
And i was shocked at how many of the fares from all over the world (every colour and background) remarked at how helpful the drivers were in Edinburgh taxi's. And indeed at how friendly they were. So it wasn't just a comment at the service i was offering but that experienced in the entire duration of their trip.
Really? I took the opportunity to do some day shift work last week for a driver who was off on holiday. I worked a 9-5 shift (kind of traditional working day?) I was kept fairly busy but at the end of the day after paying my costs (rental & diesel) i cleared after 3 days 140. Yes one hundred and forty pounds.
I had no breaks and took no lunch for 5.83 an hour. Don't know top of my head what the minimum wage is but it must be around that?
So aye "Fine living".
I spoke to other drivers in the trade. "Ach laddie you've got to work the 12 hour shift". It was explained to me that had i done that (6am-6pm) then i'd have made myself "..around 100". So instead of 5.83 an hour that would have been 8.33 an hour. "Fine living territory!!!".
Also, what do you mean the prices are "Artifically high"? Have you actually thought through the actual costs of servicing an actual Taxi to be on the road?
If a Taxi meter in Edinburgh was put on and left for an hour the amount at the end of the hour would be 20 (25 pence for every 45 seconds).
Off that 20 an hour you have the cost of purchasing the vehicle, it's running and maintenance costs (the edinburgh taxi vehicle examination centre is very notoriously quite rightly tough on standards) then diesel at 1.08 a litre. All before a wage for the often abused (just because he or she can be and just for the sheer hell of it) driver.
It took me 7 months of study and college courses to pass the hour long city council examination in the city chambers. I wasn't able to just purchase a sat-nav and drive....
Look at the taxi ranks all week. The cabs are fighting to get on them they are so busy. What does that tell you? The industry has been hammered by the recession (no difference from others but in tougher times folk do hold back on such costs such as restaurants and taxi's)
With regards to private hire... Most of these guys are just like the rest of us all in trying to earn an honest crust. However, speak to the drivers. They are earning an absolute pittance. The council should be ashamed at themselves. They've allowed on their watch an explosion in the growth of the private hire registrations....
Just read Kenny Macaskill's comments on the proceeds of private hire...
Private Hire want to discount because they want a price war in order to force black taxi's off the roads (They already are. You'll find a lot of LRT drivers were taxi drivers but got out not being able to make a "Fine wage".).
With support from folk like yourself and Edinburgh Council we can decimate the Edinburgh Black Taxi trade and see Edinburgh crammed with Private Hire. A lot of drivers who have poor English (basing that on feedback from those that have tried private hire tempted by the 10% discount but returned to taxi's with real knowledge) but never mind for a while you'll get 10% cheaper fares (But not really as they'll have gone the long way..) then when the Black Taxi trade is dead and gone without council restrictions on cost they'll put the prices right up to real profitable levels.
The amount of views posted on this thread with no knowledge or understanding is untrue and all from folk who i'd have expected to put much more though into their opinion before just assuming that their tenner fare hame at 2am was excessive.
Oh and thank fuck i'm moving on from my short term visit into the "Fine living" Edinburgh Taxi trade.
isn't that bad for what's a relatively unskilled job. It's comparable with a lot of other jobs tbh. The longer you stay in it, the better your earnings get.
) but just how do you arrive at that conclusion?
Heading off out (too nice a day to get stuck behind a PC
