FLIPPIN MARVELLOUS!! Just what I wanted....

[Wingz123]

Just what I wanted on a Friday morning isn’t it.....to be told you now have an additional £220 a month to go to lovely TFL... as if this work isn’t hard enough! Overheads are already such that you have to do silly hours to stand a chance of earning anything respectable....

 

At least the Prius is ULEZ compliant which if it wasn’t would mean I’d have to pay the congestion charge (£11.50 per day) and the ULEZ charge (£12.50 per day)

 

But as it stands the £11.50 per day is what I’ll have to pay....

[Wingz123]

Can’t rotate this bloody picture...

[aldo135]

Imagine wanting to make a wage?! That's taking the piss must be a nightmare for you mate. Will you have to think about changing vehicles?

[Wingz123]

Imagine wanting to make a wage?! That's taking the piss must be a nightmare for you mate. Will you have to think about changing vehicles?

Nah because the Prius is exempt from the ULEZ being that it meets the emissions standards at current because hybrid so have to pay the congestion charge only.

 

I say only....

 

If i was still running that 58’ avensis which had a 2.2 d4-d engine (euro 5) then I’d have to pay both cc and ulez. (£24 per day)

 

It aint going to ease traffic I tell you that for free....its a bunsen burner for them and thats all there is about it...

[UltraWomble]

Options:

 

Sell minicab and buy a moped - become a Deliveroo driver.

 

Sell minicab and buy a minibus with wheelchair access and pick up at least one person in a wheelchair a day. Alternatively replace one of the seats with a wheelchair and get passengers to sit in it.

 

Sell Minicab and buy a Nissan e-NV200 but drive no more than 80 miles a day ( less in rain and cold weather)

 

Sell minicab, sell house, sell all belongings - move North, live in a cave and shun society.

Eat home grown radishes using fertiliser from a composting toilet, grow a beard and walk everywhere.

 

Or be like Kermit and STFU

 

[UltraWomble]

corrected pic

[sutty2006]

What’s a PHV?

[davehedgehog31]

What’s a PHV?

Private Hire Vehicle

[UltraWomble]

What’s a PHV?

 

 

Private Hire Vehicle

[myglaren]

Can’t rotate this bloody picture...

Download, open it and rotate it.

[Wingz123]

Page 1...

[UltraWomble]

And for the benefit of those of us without our heads on sideways...

 

[Wingz123]

Blame the forum, I take it the correct way up and I have it on my phone the correct way up but it seems to want to spin it for some unknown reason when i go to upload

[sutty2006]

Ahhh I see. V

[Wingz123]

Options:

 

Sell minicab and buy a moped - become a Deliveroo driver.

 

Sell minicab and buy a minibus with wheelchair access and pick up at least one person in a wheelchair a day. Alternatively replace one of the seats with a wheelchair and get passengers to sit in it.

 

Sell Minicab and buy a Nissan e-NV200 but drive no more than 80 miles a day ( less in rain and cold weather)

 

Sell minicab, sell house, sell all belongings - move North, live in a cave and shun society.

Eat home grown radishes using fertiliser from a composting toilet, grow a beard and walk everywhere.

 

Or be like Kermit and STFU

What a bizarre response. Not after options, I made the move to flog the Avensis, get back my Prius which was being rented to a friend of whom was using it and thus use myself. The withdrawal of the CC exemption for PHV’s is not something I was aware of nor had there been much about this up until now. As I say, another £220 expense every month

[myglaren]

Blame the forum, I take it the correct way up and I have it on my phone the correct way up but it seems to want to spin it for some unknown reason when i go to upload

Same thing happens a lot on the FCF.

Tentatively diagnosed as relating to file size or resolution of image.  IIRC the board software rotates it to fit in with some embedded algorithm.

[angle]

Who do you drive for, Uber or a local company? Given it'll be the same for everyone, is there any scope to put fares up a bit to compensate?

[UltraWomble]

Just what I wanted on a Friday morning isn’t it.....to be told you now have an additional £220 a month to go to lovely TFL... as if this work isn’t hard enough! Overheads are already such that you have to do silly hours to stand a chance of earning anything respectable....

Sorry - just sounds like you want a career change with that comment hence....

 

Options:

 

Sell minicab and buy a moped - become a Deliveroo driver.

 

Sell minicab and buy a minibus with wheelchair access and pick up at least one person in a wheelchair a day. Alternatively replace one of the seats with a wheelchair and get passengers to sit in it.

 

Sell Minicab and buy a Nissan e-NV200 but drive no more than 80 miles a day ( less in rain and cold weather)

 

Sell minicab, sell house, sell all belongings - move North, live in a cave and shun society.

Eat home grown radishes using fertiliser from a composting toilet, grow a beard and walk everywhere.

 

Or be like Kermit and STFU

 

So its a career change, move of location or suck it up and pay.....Or if its just a whinge pop it in the grumpy thread.

 

 The withdrawal of the CC exemption for PHV’s is not something I was aware of nor had there been much about this up until now. As I say, another £220 expense every month

https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/policy/private-hire-charge-exemption/

 

Public consultation I believe publicised in the London press, TFL interweb and the LPHCA who campaigned ( unsuccessfully) to have this stopped. I live in the North and I knew about it and I dont drive a cab.

[Sheefag]

I pay £25 a day for congestion charge and the T-Charge which will become the ULEZ. Then it's between £4 and £5 an hour to park in the West End and City unless I go into Islington where there is a £10 parking surcharge on top of the cost of parking, for driving a diesel.

I add these costs to every invoice thus if I see more than one customer a day, I 'm into profit.

If Londoners want everything that comes with Sadiq Khan, they can pay for it.

[angle]

I pay £25 a day for congestion charge and the T-Charge which will become the ULEZ. Then it's between £4 and £5 an hour to park in the West End and City unless I go into Islington where there is a £10 parking surcharge on top of the cost of parking, for driving a diesel.

I add these costs to every invoice thus if I see more than one customer a day, I 'm into profit.

If Londoners want everything that comes with Sadiq Khan, they can pay for it.

Politics and all that, but none of those things are down to Khan - it's Livingstone / Johnson / councils respectively. Or to put it another way its London, regardless of who's in charge.

[Sheefag]

Here's the thing though, I have a business in London, pay taxes, rates, provide employment and am affected by anything that comes out of the Mayors office.... but I don't get a vote.

[Jim Bell]

They're talking up here about introducing a toll charge for crossing any of the bridges over the Tyne. Between £1.70 and £10 a crossing is proposed. I guess that would be the death of the city centre.

[UltraWomble]

Preston Council are also talking about having a ULEZ and banning all minicabs over 5 years old.

 

You can imagine that the taxi drivers are about as joyful as a no armed bloke with a dose of uBercrabs at the prospect of that.

[MikeR]

and in umpteen years time they will still point out the air quality is still low .... and the ULEZ rates have to go up !!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

As a PH driver not licensed in London , I've always had to pay the con. Charge. Not the end of the World for me as its only half a dozen times a month and I just add it to my price for a job.

But the ULEZ charge will be a pain in the arse because it's 7 days a week 24 hours a day and I'm more likely to be in town in the evenings and weekend, I foolishly believed that because it's only £30 a year to tax, my Passat would be compliant- nope! Again I'll put the charge on top but that means I can't really increase my prices for London Jobs this year, so it will cost me.

[Wingz123]

Sorry - just sounds like you want a career change with that comment hence....

 

 

So its a career change, move of location or suck it up and pay.....Or if its just a whinge pop it in the grumpy thread.

 

https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/policy/private-hire-charge-exemption/

 

Public consultation I believe publicised in the London press, TFL interweb and the LPHCA who campaigned ( unsuccessfully) to have this stopped. I live in the North and I knew about it and I dont drive a cab.

 

To the grumpy thread indeed it should have gone!

 

I know it won't be changed. Just frustrating when you are already having to cover a bloody large amount before you start making a wage each day. Fuel, Insurance, Wear and Tear etc.etc.etc. 

 

Thankfully this isn't forever and is just a means to an end, I will just have to suck it up and see. Insurance is the killer in this game as there is one company that tends to have the monopoly. Mentioned in another thread recently, I spoke about how insuring this Prius for private hire initially cost me approx £4,200 per year which has gradually come down over time. 

 

And then again as have also said previously, the congestion charge in some shape or form will eventually break out to other cities in the UK. 

 

Now trying to think as to why they have removed the exemption for cabs....to reduce congestion?? I can't see it easing congestion....there seems to be a bus for every person in London on the road! Take a drive down Park Lane right by the park there and you will 20-30 of them lined up normally at any one time!...but alas I digress. I could mention the roadworks they are doing along the Marylebone Road at the moment and the mayhem that is causing dropping three lanes down to one but I shan't! LOL!

[loserone]

They're talking up here about introducing a toll charge for crossing any of the bridges over the Tyne. Between £1.70 and £10 a crossing is proposed. I guess that would be the death of the city centre.

Interesting. I hadn't heard of that, but the result would be the Blaydon bridge being busier, and as such I would /always/ take the long way in and go over the Newburn bridge. I.e., add 10 miles each way, have more fun, and take no more time than queueing down Swallwell bank. The new 40 limit on the Fellside Road has nearly convinced me to do this most of the time anyway, unless I've left the house by 7 there's no point going the short way anymore.

 

Probably also means most of Weardale and Allendale will be perfectly acceptable commuting areas, because they also won't take any longer because you just take the 68/69 in.

 

Mental.

[Jim Bell]

Interesting. I hadn't heard of that, but the result would be the Blaydon bridge being busier, and as such I would /always/ take the long way in and go over the Newburn bridge. I.e., add 10 miles each way, have more fun, and take no more time than queueing down Swallwell bank. The new 40 limit on the Fellside Road has nearly convinced me to do this most of the time anyway, unless I've left the house by 7 there's no point going the short way anymore.

 

Probably also means most of Weardale and Allendale will be perfectly acceptable commuting areas, because they also won't take any longer because you just take the 68/69 in.

 

Mental.

 

 

Yup. Drive further, faster for the sake of the environment.  None of this shit is environmentally motivated, its just an extra tax.  Like plastic bags.  They kill the world. Oh really? shall we ban them? nah, just charge money for them. 

[Jerzy Woking]

My office is just 400 yards into the CC and ULEZ zone. I know where the ONE camera is but it cannot be avoided. No problem when I'm using a work car (they pay the CC).

 

Most of the time I use either my motorbike or scooter. Come 24th April my motorbike will.be liable to ULEZ because it is old. Thank fuck I'm quitting in March.

 

What does really piss me off is that to instal the rear facing cameras (presumably so the tfl can check bikes that enter the ULEZ) is/has cost £800 million. Plus all the costs to administer it. Fucking mental

[Schaefft]

They're talking up here about introducing a toll charge for crossing any of the bridges over the Tyne. Between £1.70 and £10 a crossing is proposed. I guess that would be the death of the city centre.

That would be nuts. How are they gonna implement that for the A1?

 

Its just another stepping stone towards the death of the diesel and petrol engine shortly after. Personally I don't mind the continuous electrification of the automotive industry as long as I can keep and drive my old shite as a hobby, but the speed the government is enforcing the switch with (in Germany more than in most other countries now) is really picking up now.