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E-DRIVERSTATEMENT: OVER 800 DRIVERS USING IT! |
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Following last month’s update on E-driverstatement, Dial-a-Cab
accountant Warren Smith has told Call Sign
that the Driver On-Line Statement facility is proving very
popular with subscribers and that over 800 drivers have signed
up with over half already making full use of the system. "As our drivers are paid at different times of the month, I expect the system to be fully utilised by the time this issue comes out," said Warren. "Subscribers also like the fact that |
they can check their credits at any time of the
day or night, whenever it is convenient instead of having to
wait for the postman to deliver their mail." |
reduced, with much less paper being used. "We are rapidly becoming an ever more environmentally Friendly Society," he said with a grin and ended by adding: "You can change or save your password, save all your statement sheets onto your PC or check out other information on the new revamped DaC website, however, I would advise subscribers to ensure they have the latest version of Internet Explorer (version 7) to ensure the best results from the system." |
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WEST END EXPLOSION CAUSES DAC SIGNALS HAVOC |
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 On
the afternoon of Thursday 7 February, reports came in of a
workman who was left fighting for his life after apparently
drilling through a high power cable on the corner of Hanover and
Regent Street. The result was a large explosion in which the
workman was badly burned. Lunchtime shoppers in the area were stunned and many feared an imminent terror attack. But it soon became obvious that the workman, who was digging up the road, had accidentally drilled through a power cable and that was what caused the explosion. The worker was treated by paramedics and then taken away by air ambulance and the immediate area was sealed off by police causing traffic chaos. A policeman at the scene told a DaC driver who then passed the story over to Call Sign: "It looks as though the workman hit the wrong line. He was very badly injued, but there was no terrorism involved." Shops in the vicinity, including some on Oxford |
Street, faced lengthy power cuts while the cable
was repaired and electricity switched off. The explosion also took out some BT lines and that had an immediate effect on Dial-a-Cab. The signals, which had been behaving pretty well for some time, gradually deteriorated to the extent where drivers were saying they couldn’t get any signal in or around the west end. That continued well into the evening with some drivers not even being able to sign on. DaC IT Director, John Bankes told Call Sign: "The explosion caused the Mayfair exchange to go down. Whether it was a power failure or a power surge that damaged the equipment I’m not sure, but when it went, it took out DaC channels three and nine. Three is our busiest channel and it happened at a time when we had around 1200 cabs working. The result was that they all had to migrate onto the rest of the network. That overloaded it. By late evening, things began to return to normal." The condition of the workman was critical but stable… |
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CCTV PARKING TICKETS: NOW ITS WITH NUMBER 10! |
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The
recent petition at Dial-a-Cab house organised by Martin Hizer
(M47) and Tony Mitchell (T88) regarding the number of
Penalty Charge Notices received by Dial-a-Cab taxi
drivers during the course of their working hours, attracted
around 1000 signatures in total – a phenomenal number. The
petition was handed over to Ilford North MP Lee Scott and will
pass on a strong message about the feelings of drivers whose
only crime is to be working.Now Call Sign has been contacted by DaC driver Craig Barker (O96), who told us: "More and more drivers are getting PCNs from Westminster Council’s stealth smart cars with their fixed cameras. My brother Tony recently introduced me to the 10 Downing |
Street website and
the section called e-petitions. We have now set up a
petition against receiving remotely issued parking tickets. All
you need is a computer, email address and two minutes of your
time." The link is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CCTVfines "The more people that sign, the more notice the powers-that-be will take. Perhaps this may seem futile, but if you don’t sign we will never know. At the very least it will again raise awareness of the problem in the corridors of Whitehall. And please pass on the message. The more signatures, the more chance of a solution…" Craig Barker (O96) |
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