In message , at 12:38:21 on Wed, 14
Sep 2011, Paul Terry remarked:
I think part of the problem is that it's not an "industry" but an
amalgam of self-employed drivers working though a brand-name booking
agency. The individual drivers not having either the status nor
inclination to become credit card merchants in their own right.

They don't need to be. A lot of owner-drivers use TaxiPay, which is
free for the driver and needs only a mobile phone.

The downside is that there is a 6.5% surcharge, which generally gets
passed on to the passenger.

So that's the tip gone to the credit card company not the driver!

Strange how Taxipay say their service is "Free, easy to set up". 6.5%
doesn't sound very "free" to me. It also seems to circumvent the usual
C&P controls.

On the other hand they have a C&P terminal which they say comes with a
5% surcharge, while recommending drives to claim the surcharge is 10%.
It gets worse and worse!
--
Roland Perry