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At the talk at Wizann the other week, Russell was very open about the private hire aspect.
They are launching hailo for business.
One account they are chasing is worth $16million.
80 percent of that is non executive work, i.e. Bread and butter that could be with black cabs but is currently with mini cabs. Now my maths makes that over 12 million dollars of trade that they are trying to bring back to the black cab trade.
He was very open about the fact that they would need to hire some private hire for the executive work, i.e. Mercedes or audi limos, but without doing that they cannot tender for the work at all. This one client likes to have a one stop shop for their transport requirements.
So ask yourselves this,
Would you rather they try to bring in some of the work already lost to the mini cab trade or would you rather they just ignore it?
To balance, this post from John on the LTDF forum
Sorry for capitals but that's how it was posted.
WE HAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE LONDON TAXI TRADE COMING UP
WE ARE ABOUT TO SAY TFL YOU ARE NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE WAY THEY HAVE ALLOWED UBER TO OPERATE
IF ANYONE USES HAILO IN ITS NEW FORM WITH PH IN TOW MEANS WE ARE SUPPORTING THEM IN WHAT WE ARE DEMONSTRATING AGAINST
INSTANT HAILING OF PH
SO INSTANT FAIL AS THIS WOULD BE RAMMED DOWN OUR THROATS AT THE FIRST CHANCE THE MEDIA GET
THIS IS FATAL AND I HOPE THAT IF THE 3 AMIGOS ARE INDEED EMBARKING DOWN THIS ROAD THEN I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW CAN THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT
I THOUGHT THEY WOULD GO THIS WAY BUT NO WAY DID I THINK THEY WOULD DO IT, UNTILL THERE WAS SOME KIND OF CLOSURE ON THE SUBJECT FROM EITHER THE COURTS OR BY TFL GROWING A PAIR (HIGHLY UNLIKELY)
LETS ALL HOPE AND PREY THAT THE WHOLE RUMOUR MILL IS WRONG BUT I HONESTLY DONT THINK IT IS.
I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO BANG ON ABOUT DAC AND RTG AND COMCAB BUT A MAJORITY OF DRIVERS KNEW THIS WHEN THEY JOINED BUT UNFORTUNATELY IN THIS CASE
100% OF DRIVERS ON HAILO DID NOT AND THATS THE DIFFERENCE IN LAYMANS TERMS WEVE BEEN SOLD A PUP NO EXCUSES
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD USE SOMEONES PHRASE BUT PEOPLE ARE COMING TO KILL US
AND THEY HAVE INFILTRATED US LIKE SOME AL QUAEDA TERRORISTS AND ARE ABOUT TO PULL THE PIN
ON THE GRENADES
SO IF ANYONE SUPPORTS THE USE OF PH TO GET HAILO BUSINESS THEN YOU NEED TO TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK IN THE MIRROR
