My address and number blanked ? Really ? I used them to come home and no issues
so clearly you're talking bollocks .... as usual.
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My address and number blanked ? Really ? I used them to come home and no issues
so clearly you're talking bollocks .... as usual.
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
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Will be interesting to see how Uber does in the UK now,all very well making billions off a sweated workforce,it's another thing now they legally have to treat their drivers with dignity and respect,sick pay,holiday pay ,pensions,maternity leave,I think uber will soon start to take their seedy little business practices elsewhere.
Wellesley
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- Jul 24, 2013
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Exactly, it's amazing how many fine people on here don't mind the fact that Uber exploits it's workforce, so long as it saves them a few pence. Why should they care if a lot of cabbies lose their livelihoods. It will be easy enough for the mostly middle-aged men to find work elsewhere. F@ck'em eh, let's all use Uber.
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
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Exactly.
When a member of my family uses a cab I want them in cab with a well rested,healthy knowledgeable driver,not getting into a game Russian roulette with a knackered driver that maybe to ill to even be at work but can't afford a night off sick.
Until Brighton cabbies recognise they provide a service that is highly overpriced and comes with bugger all customer service then they deserve everything they get. For far too long the cabbies of Brighton have acted as a mafia - look what they did d to the Tuk Tuks. Nope - time to grow up and act as a CUSTOMER SERVICE business - hopefully Uber might drill that into them.
Making billions? Uber has always, and continues to, rack up significant financial losses - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...es-at-least-1-2-billion-in-first-half-of-2016
See link to london standard earlier with crimes committed by taxi drivers,all brighton cabs have cctv with sound, over double what 30k , your having a laugh you obviously do not know the overheads for running a cab, idoubt Uber will get to 100 cabs as again tonight no cars available
Wellesley
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The council set the prices. The only way you could lower the prices is if there were less cabs. That way they would get more work, but you would need to wait longer. I've never met these rip-off cab drivers that you speak of, although I only use them during the day time. I usually have a friendly chat, often about the Albion. Also, on a few occasions of extra bad traffic, they have offered to knock money off. I have no idea how many drivers there are in Brighton, but you will obviously get the odd idiot as you do in any industry of that size. I've been using Streamline for years and rarely get a miserable member of the Mafiosa. Just normal decent family chaps mostly.
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they certainly wont offer you a service in future your probably now on the other 2 companies shit list
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Wellesley
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Because it can afford to, until it gets control of the market. Why do you think that it is prepared to run at a loss? And if it does, how do you expect local cab firms to compete on price. The fact is you don't care, because it saves you a few pennies.
Except I've never found a Brighton cab willing to use the meter back to Worthing. £45-£60 every time. Uber reckon £30-50, a pre booked Worthing cab will usually be around £40
Easy tiger. I know why, and was providing no comment on that. I was merely correcting the notion that Uber was "making billions".
Wellesley
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I take it that's night-time when I don't often use them. You may be right, but if you book through the office, they will always do you a reasonable set-fare in my experience. .
Wellesley
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Don't patronise me.
kingcole
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FFS. The council don't set the prices for PH cars, which will include Uber.
They set the prices for Hackney carriages. A hack has to have a meter installed which is checked by the council. A PH can charge what they like. It just so happens that in this area (Adur / Brighton) the PH companies have decided to mirror the maximum prices set for hackneys.
In many areas it's cheaper for a PH. Locally, Worthing is usually cheaper for a PH car as is London.
Some here are trying to justify the high prices the PH companies charge by blaming it on the council and that's not how it is
They set the prices for Hackney carriages. A hack has to have a meter installed which is checked by the council. A PH can charge what they like. It just so happens that in this area (Adur / Brighton) the PH companies have decided to mirror the maximum prices set for hackneys.
In many areas it's cheaper for a PH. Locally, Worthing is usually cheaper for a PH car as is London.
Some here are trying to justify the high prices the PH companies charge by blaming it on the council and that's not how it is
I am not too sure if they offered a service in the first instance .......
kingcole
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Again, it may be a Hackney condition that they have to have cameras, but Uber will have to conform to the exact same rules that the current crop of PH companies adhere too.
Decent vehicles
Checked drivers
Correct paperwork etc.
I'm not disputing that some bad boys will get around the rules and break the law, but that law breaking is no more likely to happen with an Uber driver than it is with any of the PH companies we are all familiar with.
The cabbie I know smashes £30k. He has a school run which covers his 'dues' to the cab company, with a bit spare. He works his balls off Friday and Saturday night and for the rest of the week does an odd job to the airport if he can fit in in between the school run. He does not work Sunday or any evening during the week.
He often says lazy or less motivated drivers can struggle, but for an unqualified person he does very well indeed
Wellesley
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I think it's because there are so many overheads for running a cab, that the ph cabs can't afford to under cut the Hackneys. Unless you are happy to have the drivers earning less than minimum wage like Uber. Anyway, I've done my bit to defend the cab trade and my regular cab drivers. I shall continue to use them and they deserve to make enough to live on in my view. I shall now flounce this thread.
Up the Albion!