JANUARY 2009
PRIVATE HIRE AND TAXI MONTHLY
99 WELCOME TO OUR REVIEW OF THE YEAR...
Hi! to one and all, It’s the start of a new year and, as always, we look back over the year just gone and reflect on whether it was good bad or indifferent.
As usual we try to entertain our readers with topics such as “Sad B.....d of The Year” “Bureaucracy Bowl” and “Hero of the Year” and we are sure that we will stir your mem- ories and make you think of what the new year holds for us.
Violence has risen a good deal over the year but we have only had one trade relat- ed murder when Mark Fitzsimmons was stabbed chasing a runner. That is bad enough but compared with the five murders in 2007 it is a little better, and as the pages in this paper show, month in and month
out, the number of areas where CCTV in cabs and cars is growing at an enormous rate compared with previous years and is surely having an effect and Marshall schemes are also attracting generous fund- ing, especially in Scotland at the moment. It has been by far the busiest year ever in the revision of taxi fares. The highest year ever since we started the tables in 1999 was 222 changes in any year May to May but we stand at 338 so far since last May and with three months left we will never equal that amount again as long as fuel prices don’t go haywire again. Do check out opinion on page 12 on the review of what has happened with Legisla- tion over the year: it should have been a corker of a year but somehow it all fell by
the wayside. At least we start the year with a
consultation....this one on private hire bus services! But we await, with some level of impatience , the consultation on wheelchair accessibility which, we hope, will be with us in the next issue of the paper.
So happy new year to one and all and have a nice reflection on 2008 in the following pages.
INDEX
SWOOP CENTRAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 HERO OF THE YEAR . . . . . . . . 100-103 ALTERNATIVE TAXIS. . . . . . . . 104-105 BUREAUCRACY BOWL. . . . . . 106-107 SAD B*****D OF THE YEAR . 108-109 ‘N’ APART FROM THAT . . . . . . 110-113
SWOOP CENTRAL: SUMMARY OF 2008 SWOOPS
In 2008 we had three times the normal number of swoops as normal; 33 to be exact and as usual, the results range from pathetic to brilliant but this is the first year ever that we have had three perfect zero scores!! Yes, 100% pass!!!
Cardiff is top the list of wreck runners with a 93% failure rate closely fol- lowed by Warwick at 83% and Pendle with 78% …Wirral managed a 64% while Northampto did a straddle with three bad hits ~ April at 53% then August at 62% and…… improving all the way November reaching
69%....Hello, is anyone in Northampton listening???!!! Let’s go back to the good guys !! in third place we have West Oxford with 17 out of 17; they were just nudged into third place by Taunton with 18 out of 18, but by far and away the winner this year is Bath with 45 out of 45 all passing the test and setting the best target to aim for that we have had for years!! Well done the Guys and Gals from Bath, keep up the good work in 2009 and as for the wreck runners……
..come on, get it together!!!!!!
AREA
Leicester (PHV) Leicester (HC) Aberdeen Selby Wirral Bristol Cardiff
Inverclyde Pendle
Middlesbrough
Northampton (April) Hull
Taunton Lincoln
Taunton Deane Grampian Portsmouth Scarborough
South Staffordshire
West Oxford D.C. Neath & Port Talbot Northampton (August) Bath
Coventry Chiltern Newport
Northampton (November) Warwick
Hemel Hempstead Gateshead
No. Vehicles No. With Tested
Faults
60 }94 34
64 39 55 63 30 33 18 15 23 93 26 70 18 16 35 40 14
East Midlands Airport (N.W. Leics.) 121 Corby
20 17 78 13 45 36 20 13 26 24 30
152
10}26 16
24 6
35 15 28 5
14 8
13 28 2
25 0 8 7 4 2
40 4
N/A 15 8 0 2
10 5
18 20 5
58
No. Taken off Instantly
10}26 16
3 2 5 7
17 5
14 2
12 28 2
11 0 3 7 0 2 8 4 0
15 3 0 0 5 5
N/A 2 1
38
% Defective 17% }28%
47% 38% 15% 64% 24% 93% 15% 78% 53% 57% 30% 8%
36% 0%
50% 20% 10% 14% 33% 20% 0%
19% 62% 0% 6%
50% 38% 69% 83% 17% 38%
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