After years of increased workloads with the same cab numbers...

In 1989, Dial-a-Cab led the world of taxi radio communications when launching it's MDI Data Dispatch terminal. Aside from a big taxi company in Texas and one in Canada, no one could hold a candle to our new system. We had shot through the field to become the UK's number one radio taxi company using a new system that suddenly allowed us to take as much work as we wanted. Previously, we had a voice system that curtailed expansion through the sheer inability of the human voice to speak any quicker and still be understood. Over the "voice" years, some dispatchers became famous for their ability to pump out work at an amazing rate of knots. Guys like DaC's Dennis Samuels and Manny Conway and possibly the king of dispatchers, Mountview's Derek Diamond.
All these and more became almost legends through their vocal ability, but none could come close to data dispatch.
Eleven years on and the same MDI terminals were still in use and working far better that anyone could possibly have dreamed would

DaC Expands The Fleet

be possible in 1989. The only problem was that the terminal ceased production many years go and the only people left who still had any sets which could have allowed us to expand using the old system, were another London taxi organisation who, seeing our success in 1989, went to the same suppliers and said: "We'll have whatever you gave them!"
They upgraded their system last year but one has to assume that they refused to allow their old sets to come to a taxi company who were in opposition the themselves. That's business...
That being the case, Dial-a-Cab had to bring in new equipment. We all know that the new equipment we now have was

designed in-house with software that was also designed in-house and for the first time in many years, we can now get as many new in-cab mobiles as we want.
   The result is that DaC are now about to advertise in the trade press for new drivers - something many long term drivers have never seen before!
   The increase will be by approximately 100 mobiles a month and priority will be given to those whose normal work patterns include the times when coverage is at its slowest.
   If you have a friend that you know would make a good DaC radio man, give Shelagh Adkins his details and he could be on Dial-a-Cab soon.