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DIAL-A-CAB: THE BEST YEAR EVER? |
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first broken, it has generated much more
work for DaC members who can now see that we are not giving work
away as those early unfounded rumours had suggested. It is one
of the main reasons why DaC has done so well – something we hope
and believe will be confirmed by our Auditors." The DaC Chairman went on to say that whilst trip numbers are certainly up substantially, he couldn’t give numbers yet but believed that turnover would be up by over 14% on last year. "What I am also really please about," added Brian, "is that we have made a surplus every year over the past ten that I have been Chairman and after reinvesting the money into the Society, that has enabled us to buy our new premises for several million pounds, refurbish it and not need to borrow any money to do so whilst also not needing to sell Brunswick House. That’s not bad for a little old taxi company and is a tremendous achievement for everyone connected to it!" |
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January’s Call Sign reported
that November 2005 had been Dial-a-Cab’s busiest month ever.
However, word now reaches us that subject to audit, DaC’s
accounting year – which ended on 31 August – is showing
preliminary results suggesting that this has been our best-ever
year since Founder Chairman Bonnie Martyn first took us to
Pentonville Road in late 1953 and from where our first official
job was dispatched in January 1954. When Call Sign heard the rumours, we asked Chairman Brian Rice whether it was true and although he agreed that the past 12 months looked as though they would break all previous records, he was reluctant to give |
specific
figures until they had been audited in mid-October.
However, he did tell us that from the available information, DaC
would be putting more trips through the system and turning over
more money in this year than we have ever done before. Brian also said that he thought our turnover could rise by as much as £5.5million over last year and put much of the praise for that onto the DaC Job Distribution Engine (JDE) – more commonly known as Concierge. "We now hope," said Brian, "that members will see the Concierge system to be the excellent tool we always knew it would be. Unlike the rumours that were spread by some when the news of Concierge was |
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