State of Play

Although I’m only working 2-3 days a week I can’t help noticing how busy it is out on the streets.
With all the “doom and gloom” being publicised each and every day it comes as quite a relief that the punters are still willing to hire our black cabs and still offer up tips.
Long may it continue.
I worked last night “Tuesday” and I must say that it was buzzing out there. This is really good news for the licensed taxi trade as I had feared the trade would be feeling the pitch by now with everyone tightening their belts.
The bad news is that the “PCO” have passed a converted Mercerces Benz van as a London Taxi. I can fully understand drivers wanting to give “Mann and Overton” and “KPM” a black eye for past rip offs which incidentally, are still going on but surely this is short sighted revenge.
If licensed taxi drivers do eventully buy these converted Mercedes Benz vans it will be another death nail in the taxi trade’s coffin. Its hard enough at the moment for punters to know the difference between black cabs and mini cabs and that’s with us driving our trade mark purpose built vehicles.
If everone drives the same vehicles no one will know the difference between us and the mini cabs, and the taxi trade will have finally died.
So lets be patient a little longer till the reported electric taxis are are sale, some time towards the end of this year. Then at last we can all buy from “Mann and Overton’s” competitor and force real changes to the value for money now being offered by “M & O”.