Things that bug me.
I suppose most of you would say probably everything bugs me but you couldn’t be further from the truth. I feel I’m quite measured at times when writing in taxi talk. I have to be otherwise some might take offence. Do you know what, I
sick to death hearing the moaning and groaning of drivers who do nothing. I do my moaning in my articles and I know it hits the spot. It’s mid April as I write this and thank god for the cut
the private hire trade would have nothing to bash us over the heads with when they go
they should have the bus lanes. They’d have nothing to bargain with when they nick the next corporate account under your noses from your radio circuit, oh or are they all colluding with each other? I read something on the Anderson Shelter recently; I suggest you take a look. Anyway I digress, thanks chaps yet again your sartorial elegance will be noticed. It is a minority but that minority get noticed.
I had my tariff change the other week and decided to replace the fare chart when I got home because I didn’t have the correct screw
headed screw driver and set about unscrewing the tiny little screws at the four corners of the plastic cover over the chart. My modus operandi is to loosen the bottom two and take out the top
two. All goes to plan. Chart in place I tighten gingerly the two bottom ones because I don’t want to crack the plastic. All’s good. Last screw
last screw and offered it up to the hole and
my drive... nothing. The only thing left to do was move the cab off the drive because the screw
little screw on the other side of the drive. What happened? We are talking of a screw no thicker than a matchstick and no bigger that a thumb nail yet it managed to be found six feet away. Did it sprout legs and make a run for it? Could it turn into a Transformer like the cars on those adverts? For God’s sake how did it travel so far?
Filling up my cab with diesel takes very little time these days considering the price we have to pay for it. I like to put twenty pounds worth in. I don’t have a TX4 otherwise for the same
Anyway, I was concentrating on getting the exact amount in the tank. My tongue was on my top lip and just as I reached twenty pounds on the pump, it clicked over to twenty pounds and one pence. Don’t you hate that when it happens? So I thought of rounding it up to twenty pounds and ten pence. Again it clicked one pence more. Do they have a button they turn making sure you don’t achieve the correct amount, or is it just me? I always end up with
the pay booth swear to god they don’t touch any button to make me pay more. It’s bloody infuriating.
Radio drivers earn more?
God how we all laughed. Radio taxis put out a
Guaranteed
work-averaging 40% higher fares than off the street. And our work is spread throughout
the Capital. Is this 40% higher fares to the driver or the circuit when you consider the charges on top of the metered fare?
You pay less. The more work you do the less you pay on Radio Taxis. Or should that read.
The less work you do the more you will pay.
And you stay in control. Destinations given so you are in control of your working day. Yellow and Green badge drivers welcome.
Destinations given so drivers can have a competition on who can knock back the most jobs in one day. So they are right, they are in control of their working day. Yellow badge
are out of their areas with the blessings of Radio Taxis. Join radio taxis? Not likely, I’ve been chucked off for telling the truth. And yes, I could run a piss-up in a brewery. I’ve actually done it. But you can’t and haven’t.
Bye Bye Bernie May
“Cut the banks share of credit card transactions”!
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ilverPay, the UK’s longest supplier of credit and debit card payments to the taxi and private hire industry today announced that it is now able to lower the cost of credit card transactions for all Bank Merchant account holders.
Ken Hansen, SilverPay’s MD said “that it doesn’t matter how big or small
making more money by talking to the SilverPay sales team”.
Last month, the US card processing giant NXGEN International revealed plans to extend their service operation into the U.K. and across Europe.
NXGEN U.K. Ltd. has now been established to provide these services across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. SilverPay’s Ken Hansen has been appointed a Board Director of NXGEN U.K. Ltd.
Taking on the banks to drive down charges
NXGEN’s colossal global presence enables them to on the U.K’s established card processing channels and reduce costs immediately.
NXGEN’s mission is “To increase the level of professionalism in the Payment Services Industry while providing merchants with the next generation of products at the most competitive prices – Acting locally while thinking globally”.
Through NXGEN SilverPay are now in a position to offer lower card processing
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charges to all For example if we bring down every transaction cost by .5% on a £200k
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an additional £1000.00.
SilverPay will be at the Ricoh Arena Exhibition on stand 3, near the main entrance.
Fast, easy and affordable mobile card payments
Tel: 0844 322 0102 www.silverpay.co.uk
SilverPay
the most trusted card service in the industry
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