Virgin West Coast Trains
Due to there being no June Call Sign, I'd like to bring you all up to speed with what we in Drivers Operations have planned and are currently working on. Several meetings with Senior Staff from Virgin (WCT) have already taken place to not only discuss the recent Easter Blockade, but also to move forward on the nine continuous days during August and the weekend work which will take us into the middle of January 2004. Virgin and Silver-Link were once again extremely happy with the commitment and professionalism of everyone at DaC and it was pleasing to hear that they have extended our present contract (00750) into next year - great news for the Society and its Members.
Keith Cain and I are already starting to put things into place and hope to give all members who wish to carry out this work every opportunity to do so. It will be spread further afield and we both feel that it will be busier than Easter, so many more Members will get their chance to cover this work.
   You will all be notified individually as to the method of trip allocation, but again I must stress that it will be as fair as possible. A more detailed account appears in Keith Cain's report.

Spearmint Rhino Club
Dial-a-Cab in conjunction with the club management and on behalf of all Licensed Taxi drivers,

 now provide a Marshalled service each Tuesday 
through to Saturday between the hours of 10pm and 3am at the 
Spearmint Rhino club, 161 Tottenham Court Road. We are on site firstly to provide our Members with extra work and to successfully combat the unlicensed operators. 
   Our aim is to provide a fully operational Licensed Taxi service to clients and staff. We are also asking for all Licensed Taxi drivers to support DaC in our efforts to provide large volumes of work each night in a fair and equal manner. Our previous success at Battersea Park was due to your support and the support of the trade and without this we will fail.  Please keep up the good work and spread the word.

Roman Way
Lots of meetings and conference calls have taken place over the past few weeks with all relevant parties working together in an effort to overcome the radio signal problems that some of you are still experiencing and to re-set channel sequences. I hope this will go a long way towards improving your day-to-day working. Please be patient, because it is a series of modifications, upgrades, testing and re-testing before all bugs are roned out. When we are 

completely satisfied that changes
are working trouble-free, then we will notify you and upgrade the system. This will provide a big improvement.

Marshalling Notes...
The Marshal at Morgan Stanley is now on site one hour less a day.  The new hours are 7pm to midnight Monday to Friday and because there is just the single Marshal every night, I would ask you all to notify him in the normal way on arrival and to give him the correct details. This will help make his job a little easier.

   After a slow start to the summer, quite a number of events needing our Marshals have now taken place or are due to go ahead over the coming period.  Our service is now held in high esteem and many of these events are born out of recommendation from many of our regular clients.  Your support now is tremendous. Thank you from all the team!

   On a final note, can I remind you that if you are about to purchase a taxi which still has a while to run on the existing plate, the rules of the Society state that the taxi must be passed and plated in the owner's name before you are able to use ODRTS equipment. Can I also confirm that on a change of taxi requiring a terminal re-fit, the standard charge of £129.25 will apply. If you have any queries or require assistance please ring me on 0207 251 0581 ext 225 or email AllanE@Dialacab.co.uk

Allan Evans DaC Drivers Operations and Marshalling