Headline in the Mirror. TAXI! Brighton players forced to flag down cabs to QPR game as coach breaks down.
Brighton and Hove Albion players were forced to take taxis to Loftus Road for their game last night after their coach broke down en route to West London.
Goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak took to Facebook to share a picture of himself and teammates squeezed into a PRIVATE HIRE VEHICLE as they travelled to last night's 0-0 draw with Queens Park Rangers.
"On the way to yesterday's game, our coach broke down and we had to take a taxi to the stadium!" Kuszczak wrote.
Another case of lazy journalism from the mirror or is there something much deeper in the way the Private Hire trade are constantly portrayed in the media as Taxis and Cabs.
Some years ago a company invented a Hoover. It became a great success. The company name was synonymous with the product. Soon other companies were producing copy versions of this product and within a few years the the iconic name was being used by everyone and no one associated the name Hoover with the original company which eventually disappeared.
But today the name Hoover lives on, describing a variety of copied products much in the same way the Taxi trades name will out live the iconic trade it represents, as we are swallowed up post Law Commission.
3 comments:
tfL need to contact this club to investigate how they Pre booked if at all and if they did not revoke the PH licence.
As for Hoover, your quite right the agenda is to keep mixing the language until everyone call PH taxis then we wil,be left driving milk floats with seats in around the Zero Emissions Zone, that is of course unless you can wrangle a job on the TfL board or a spot of marshalling.
The Law Comm draft bill will be out before Christmas and they we will know the battles we have to fight.
Trouble is some of our 'generals' have already surrendered without firing a shot!
in the eyes of the public if you get in a car and someone drives you to your destination and you pay him hes a taxi the only people hung up on that name is taxi drivers
Anon no1
The reason Taxi drivers are hung up on the name is we've earned the right to be called Taxi drivers after many years of study
You don't call some one a doctor because they know how to stop a headache by administering aspirins.
TtT
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