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[email protected] · October 18th 16, 08:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Robin9) wrote:

*Subject:* Is Uber Bleeding to Death?
*From:* Robin9
*Date:* Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:00:55 +0200

Roland Perry;158741 Wrote:
In message , at
16:57:38 on Mon, 17 Oct 2016, David Cantrell
remarked:
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If you think about it - if cab companies owned (or even rented a
fleet)
of cars and rented them out to drivers, those cars would have their
branding on. At least their name and phone number. That's rare in
London. Most mini-cabs have no branding on them at all.-

Addison Lee being one the few which do.

Exactly. One of the very few.

One of the few firms, sure, but what proportion of the hire cars?

With almost all minicab firms in London, the driver obtains
the car himself - by buying, by leasing, by renting on a
week-to-week basis - and the car is effectively his to work
with wherever and with whomever he wants.

How large are such fleets though?

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Colin Rosenstiel