1) Most local people only go to pubs once or twice per week (that being Friday and Saturday).
2) At peak times on these days there are often not enough taxis.
3) People, like the councillor who put an item in your paper, don't think things throug
h and call for more cabs.
4) I would invite anyone to see us cabbies Sunday to Thursday, trying to scratch a living: 20-30 queue outside every club which becomes even sillier when the students go home.
What do think? Post your comments below.5) Everyone, these days gets paid monthly, so again, after two weeks, all stay in. And after the smoking ban and price of drinks, many stay home.
Now let me tell you why we can't have just extra weekend drivers: because our council insist a vehicle has to be less than three years old to be a taxi. Very few drivers can go out and pay cash for a car: usually £60 a week HP, insurance £50 a week, radio £80-plus a week and fuel £120 per week.
These fees are every week and brakes, tyres, taxes, MOT, licence fees, repairs etc and you then realise that these fees cannot be achieved by working part-time.
There are far too many legal taxis already. Add to that all the cowboys' working illegally, which we experienced drivers spot, and you realise why the taxi industry, like the pubs, is going to the wall!
Mr Graham Higgins, Standish Gardens, Sheffield S5.READ MORELIFESTYLE: Drill yourself into shape with Harvey Walden IV.LETTERS: Why part-time taxi-drivers just won't work.NOSTALGIA: Why we should mark the work of Sheffield cancer pioneer.Your Business channel video bulletins.BUSINESS: Sheffield firm rescues veteran railway machine.Back to main news index.Sport latest.The full article contains 324 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
