Stand United!

Here’s the Comment of the week and it says it all:
I’m a Newcastle PH driver and the lack of rank space is also affecting me because we are all (Hack and PH) fighting for space to park so we can do our jobs. So why don’t we all fight back by parking all of our vehicle in the civic centre car park and surrounding area only leaving them 2 spaces to fight over and then we can tell them “IF YOU CAN’T FIND A SPACE GO HOME”. They don’t seem to realise that the influx of out of town plates has already made our jobs harder without now kicking us all in the nuts when were already down. So forget what colour badge you’ve got and stand united.

Too many Hacks, Too many Private Hire & Too many Out of Town plates! Where does it end? No space to Rank for the Hacks, not just in the City but in all the Boroughs, Newcastle, NorthTyneside, Gateshead etc; etc. First off why the great need for an out of town plated car? I don’t buy into the saving money crap; it’s been said before you will be lucky to save £2 per week! That does not justify the mess that out of town cars contribute to the mess we are already in. There are enough Private Hire to do the job, There are enough Hacks to do their job, none of us in the trade as a whole need any more, The public doesn’t need any more you only have to read the JMP report to see that the Taxi & Private Hire trade across Tyne & Wear have been recognised as doing an excellent job in Public Transport. We do an excellent job and we should be proud of that fact and proud of the recognition received through this report. More importantly the LA’s need to recognise and take pride in the Taxis & Private Hire that they licence. They can show this by listening to the trade, by working with the trade instead of saying “Go Home if You Can’t Get Parked”
Private Hire! Why would you or why should you work alongside someone who takes a side door into the trade when you have entered the trade in the correct manner. Even if they are mates of yours why should you let your slice of the pie get smaller because someone else is a cheapskate? Stand together! Stand up and say to your operator, your Local authority or even your mate who drives a Berwick plated car “Err we don’t actually like this!” Of course if you haven’t really thought about it you probably think you don’t care but you should care because every extra car, especially now, that comes on the street or joins your circuit is COSTING YOU MONEY! I know some of you believe this now more than you did last year. Everybody’s takings are down over the last twelve months and if they are not you’re either telling porkies or you’re working more hours.

I have read the comments that say “But you just have to adapt” or “I work a professionally run office and make £2,000 per week” well great! Keep kidding yourself because you aint kidding the rest of us! This is not about Hacks & Private Hire. It’s about keeping the standard of living you have become used to in order to keep paying the bills and feed your family. This Country used to like hard workers and everyone I know IS a hard worker but the fashion seems to be, increase the workforce, more licences more revenue! This is not a just reward for hard work and the people in power would do well to realise this and show some recognition of a job well done by thousands of Taxis & Private Hire across Tyneside each and every day of the year!
Read this twice, read it three times and start talking about it but talk to the people that matter, talk to the people who need convincing!

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