Bradford taxi firm boss speaks out over rise in insurance costs (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

A Casual Observer wrote:
Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote:
Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

If you check befor egetting on your high horse you will see these "greed-driven" companies actually make a loss on car insurance...they have done for years

More Ham wrote:

Andy2010 wrote: Last year I was in a friends car that literally clipped the back of a Manchester Road taxi causing no damage whatsoever as the speed was literally less than 5 mph. The only occupant of the taxi was the driver. Strangely the insurance company then got in touch with my friend stating the driver and three passengers all had been injured, needed Physio and claimed for expenses. The guy in this article needs to look at his own profession as it is mainly them that are pushing up premiums with their insurance fraud and driving literally like lunatics

Says it all, innit, hope your friends insurer did not pay out. Ed.

Bacon Bantam wrote:
Bradford's finest driving. http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=Bys7uEL-z i0

A Casual Observer wrote:
Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

Albion. wrote:
“It has come to a stage now where drivers are registering in other boroughs, which is giving them an average saving of 60 per cent on insurance costs.”

Problem solved?

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote:
Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

If you check befor egetting on your high horse you will see these "greed-driven" companies actually make a loss on car insurance...they have done for years

Steve30d wrote:

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote:
Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

If you check befor egetting on your high horse you will see these "greed-driven" companies actually make a loss on car insurance...they have done for years

Strange business this insurance then! Yeah business can usually take a few years of loss, but year on year losses and they'll be going bust, unless they're cooking the books for tax avoidance purposes.

mohfiaz wrote:
Working 24 hours a day, multi skilled taxi drivers in Bradford are able to drive whilest taking a nap. They are able to expertly push in onto the road at junctions to rush to their jobs and boast about being able to do 6-7 jobs in an hour!! Also they only declare 16 hours and claim the full wack on benefits. If you look around, the big houses around Bradford will have a battered taxi on the drive! They can afford the increase, its the customers best interests that should be at heart, not the drivers.

Get back to work wrote:
i bet he has friendz , brotherz or couzenz that own claimz shopz trading as solicitorz that beg for you clientele , which in return causes the premiums to be raised ( raized ) ....

anyone else sick of these shops treating the english language disrespectful.

tyrez
chicken and chipz
hair cutz
kebabz
claimz
home rentz
accidentz
pizzaz
letz move
hire carz

Arghhhhhhhhh

octyvrs wrote:

mohfiaz wrote:
Working 24 hours a day, multi skilled taxi drivers in Bradford are able to drive whilest taking a nap. They are able to expertly push in onto the road at junctions to rush to their jobs and boast about being able to do 6-7 jobs in an hour!! Also they only declare 16 hours and claim the full wack on benefits. If you look around, the big houses around Bradford will have a battered taxi on the drive! They can afford the increase, its the customers best interests that should be at heart, not the drivers.

I absolutely agree with you. Spot on my friend.

bcfc1903 wrote:
Surely there are decent taxi drivers who are excellent and courteous, who don't own the road. Fellas you go way over the top and paint a black picture...am i allowed to say that, i wouldn't want the thread to disappear. Lets face it and all joking apart, this sort of thing happens all over the country not just in West Yorkshire.

**

One last thing, some joker above was making out Huddersfield was a garden city, it's actually a sh*thole of a town. Their football fans are dogbotherers, i fancy their driving sh*t as well.

octyvrs wrote:

Get back to work wrote:
i bet he has friendz , brotherz or couzenz that own claimz shopz trading as solicitorz that beg for you clientele , which in return causes the premiums to be raised ( raized ) ....

anyone else sick of these shops treating the english language disrespectful.

tyrez
chicken and chipz
hair cutz
kebabz
claimz
home rentz
accidentz
pizzaz
letz move
hire carz

Arghhhhhhhhh

Yes I iz tinkin it iz well disrespectful innit.

manumish wrote:

octyvrs wrote:

mohfiaz wrote: Working 24 hours a day, multi skilled taxi drivers in Bradford are able to drive whilest taking a nap. They are able to expertly push in onto the road at junctions to rush to their jobs and boast about being able to do 6-7 jobs in an hour!! Also they only declare 16 hours and claim the full wack on benefits. If you look around, the big houses around Bradford will have a battered taxi on the drive! They can afford the increase, its the customers best interests that should be at heart, not the drivers.

I absolutely agree with you. Spot on my friend.

On the money with this!

THEsourTRUTH wrote:
The fact is:

1 - Taxi drivers drive like they own the road.

2 - They all show that their income is only 8k therefore only pay £100 tax per year.

3 - They then can also claim income support and lots of other benefits.

4 - They infact earn more than the average person thats works and pays 3 - 4k tax a year. They hardly pay any tax, lie about how much they make to obtain further benefits and have the guts to come out and say that insurance is too high!!!!

Taxi drivers you dont pay anything into government tax pot and steal from that pot by lying about income and then moan at the government to reduce your insurance!!

I feel sooo sorry for you.

ps anyone that gets into a taxi - just say to the driver `im a tax inspector and i suspect that your lying about your income.` Watch them panick!

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote:
Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

If you check befor egetting on your high horse you will see these "greed-driven" companies actually make a loss on car insurance...they have done for years

A Casual Observer wrote:

THEsourTRUTH wrote: The fact is: 1 - Taxi drivers drive like they own the road. 2 - They all show that their income is only 8k therefore only pay £100 tax per year. 3 - They then can also claim income support and lots of other benefits. 4 - They infact earn more than the average person thats works and pays 3 - 4k tax a year. They hardly pay any tax, lie about how much they make to obtain further benefits and have the guts to come out and say that insurance is too high!!!! Taxi drivers you dont pay anything into government tax pot and steal from that pot by lying about income and then moan at the government to reduce your insurance!! I feel sooo sorry for you. ps anyone that gets into a taxi - just say to the driver `im a tax inspector and i suspect that your lying about your income.` Watch them panick!

So all our woes are to be blamed on dishonest taxi drivers? Ask the tax inspector to question the likes of Lord Ashcroft then! There are millionaires and billionaires, the captains of industry held up as pillars of society, that pay no tax. Get your priorities right or stfu.

A Casual Observer wrote:

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote: Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

If you check befor egetting on your high horse you will see these "greed-driven" companies actually make a loss on car insurance...they have done for years

Rubbish. Like all greed-driven Capitalists and large multi-nationals they employ lots of clever people to make it look like they've made a loss. In this case the only ones losing out are the ordinary motorists.

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote:

Andy2010 wrote:

A Casual Observer wrote: Motor Insurance is a complete rip-off. The Government should set up a State-run insurance scheme that is not-for-profit, and take the business out of the hands of the greed-driven companies that currently profit from something that is a legal requirement.

If you check befor egetting on your high horse you will see these "greed-driven" companies actually make a loss on car insurance...they have done for years

Rubbish. Like all greed-driven Capitalists and large multi-nationals they employ lots of clever people to make it look like they've made a loss. In this case the only ones losing out are the ordinary motorists.

As a credit risk analyst I can assure you they make a loss on car insurance divisions. They losses are offset by other more profitable arms of the groups

SinnerSaint wrote:
How amusing that a problem perpetuated by a certain community is being complained about by a member of that community!

Go speak to your mates at one of the 150 or so "Claims Management" companies in Bradford and ask them to shut up shop.

Then, go to your place of worship and ask the religious leaders to plead with the worshippers to get their cars insured.

manumish wrote:

bcfc1903 wrote:
Surely there are decent taxi drivers who are excellent and courteous, who don't own the road. Fellas you go way over the top and paint a black picture...am i allowed to say that, i wouldn't want the thread to disappear. Lets face it and all joking apart, this sort of thing happens all over the country not just in West Yorkshire.

**

One last thing, some joker above was making out Huddersfield was a garden city, it's actually a sh*thole of a town. Their football fans are dogbotherers, i fancy their driving sh*t as well.

Tis not about the football fans but about the taxi drivers in Bradford town moaning about insurance, and if i remember rightly there is one decent taxi company in Bradford 'Colins taxi's!' Huddersfield may not be a garden city but its miles away from Bradford and its Council listen to the residents and there are plenty of thriving business's and many more opportunity's.....al

so as you mention it a cracking football team as well!

octyvrs wrote:

SinnerSaint wrote:
How amusing that a problem perpetuated by a certain community is being complained about by a member of that community!

Go speak to your mates at one of the 150 or so "Claims Management" companies in Bradford and ask them to shut up shop.

Then, go to your place of worship and ask the religious leaders to plead with the worshippers to get their cars insured.

And to actually start wearing their seatbelts. Oh, and to utilise their indicators too.

sam in west wrote:

octyvrs wrote:

SinnerSaint wrote:
How amusing that a problem perpetuated by a certain community is being complained about by a member of that community!

Go speak to your mates at one of the 150 or so "Claims Management" companies in Bradford and ask them to shut up shop.

Then, go to your place of worship and ask the religious leaders to plead with the worshippers to get their cars insured.

And to actually start wearing their seatbelts. Oh, and to utilise their indicators too.

They've never passed there driving test's. I stopped at traffic lights today and left a space in front for cars to enter/exit a side road, but a small Toyota with 3 young lads went round my car and stopped in front of me. Due to terms and conditions on this newspaper which my family have been reading for 100 years I can not say what I said.

Fingloli wrote:
My son was waitng at a roundabout when he was driven into from behind by a taxi. On inspection there looked to be no damage to either car but details were exchanged. Three years later - yes THREE YEARS later a claim was made by the taxi driver against my son's insurers for injuries to him and has passengers (of which there were none). My son contested it. It went to court but was postponed numerous times for whatever reason. Eventually the claim was dropped after much wasing of time and form filling. I think there many incidents like this from the taxi driving fraternity. They do themselves no favours at all.

Andy2010 wrote:

manumish wrote:

octyvrs wrote:

mohfiaz wrote: Working 24 hours a day, multi skilled taxi drivers in Bradford are able to drive whilest taking a nap. They are able to expertly push in onto the road at junctions to rush to their jobs and boast about being able to do 6-7 jobs in an hour!! Also they only declare 16 hours and claim the full wack on benefits. If you look around, the big houses around Bradford will have a battered taxi on the drive! They can afford the increase, its the customers best interests that should be at heart, not the drivers.

I absolutely agree with you. Spot on my friend.

On the money with this!

This about sums it up

Around where I live BD18 the "bigger" houses often worth around the £180k mark and nicely done out have taxi's in their drives. Speaking to any taxi driver they always seem to tell you that there is no money on it nowadays yet judging by their houses and other cars not to mention size of their families I would hazard a guess they are lying

Huneybunch wrote:
You can't blame people for trying to get cheaper insurance buy using someone else's address as its not only the Taxi drivers that pay high rates of insurance but joe soap, but is it legal as I don't think it is, also I was under the impression that taxi drivers pay their own insurance and not the company that they work for, as its not just the cars that are insured but the driver! and the driver of the taxi pay a sum to use the base for radio purposes and company slogan.