For the Attention of taxi companies. I have an idea.......
Discussion
I had a friend who ran a cab for airports and he was always taking a fare for only one way, ie pick up at Heathrow and bring home, he would go down there empty, so I built this for him and wanted to launch it upon a friendly audience to gauge feedback. www.emptycabs.com is hopefully a way of putting taxi drivers in touch with people looking to hire a cab for longer distances, airport runs etc, and for you to recoup some of your costs. You may as well take a small detour if it gets you a fare that you wouldnt have had.
It will have to attract a large critical mass in order to work but do you think it is worth registering journeys on a message board like this to see if anyone is looking for a cab around the time you are travelling? Or even just scouting it to see if you could pick up a client along route to recoup some of your diesel costs?
Its just a toy, I dont have anything to do with cab co's but am trying to learn how to build sites so please be gentle with the criticism!
HBM
It will have to attract a large critical mass in order to work but do you think it is worth registering journeys on a message board like this to see if anyone is looking for a cab around the time you are travelling? Or even just scouting it to see if you could pick up a client along route to recoup some of your diesel costs?
Its just a toy, I dont have anything to do with cab co's but am trying to learn how to build sites so please be gentle with the criticism!
HBM
Not a taxi owner or user but.....
I like the idea, I'll past the address on to someone I know who is a taxi driver and only does airport runs.
The site is IMHO very good apart from two things:
1. It's was very slow to load from the link you posted - could be a one off?
2. The Contact us 'popup' (is it really a popup?) loads in the middle of the page and the two page backgrounds merge into one. Hope that makes sense!
Good luck with it.
I like the idea, I'll past the address on to someone I know who is a taxi driver and only does airport runs.
The site is IMHO very good apart from two things:
1. It's was very slow to load from the link you posted - could be a one off?
2. The Contact us 'popup' (is it really a popup?) loads in the middle of the page and the two page backgrounds merge into one. Hope that makes sense!
Good luck with it.
humpbackmaniac said:
I had a friend who ran a cab for airports and he was always taking a fare for only one way, ie pick up at Heathrow and bring home, he would go down there empty, so I built this for him and wanted to launch it upon a friendly audience to gauge feedback. www.emptycabs.com is hopefully a way of putting taxi drivers in touch with people looking to hire a cab for longer distances, airport runs etc, and for you to recoup some of your costs. You may as well take a small detour if it gets you a fare that you wouldnt have had.
It will have to attract a large critical mass in order to work but do you think it is worth registering journeys on a message board like this to see if anyone is looking for a cab around the time you are travelling? Or even just scouting it to see if you could pick up a client along route to recoup some of your diesel costs?
Its just a toy, I dont have anything to do with cab co's but am trying to learn how to build sites so please be gentle with the criticism!
HBM
Haven't looked at the site, but that won't be any great loss to you - I know nothing about website design It will have to attract a large critical mass in order to work but do you think it is worth registering journeys on a message board like this to see if anyone is looking for a cab around the time you are travelling? Or even just scouting it to see if you could pick up a client along route to recoup some of your diesel costs?
Its just a toy, I dont have anything to do with cab co's but am trying to learn how to build sites so please be gentle with the criticism!
HBM
I do however run a cab company. It's a good idea in principle, but I wouldn't make use of it. We charge a premium for our airport service because it's guaranteed to be on time. If you double up on airport runs, it only takes one flight delay to screw you up for the rest of the day. That's not to say a typical cab company wouldn't look to use a similar service like yours.
There are several taxi booking sites that are quite large. www.taxibank.co.uk and www.where2guv.com are two big ones that spring to mind.
Maybe if you offered free membership to taxi companies, and free booking requests on your site, then just charge the taxi operator a quid a booking then the concept would work. It will take a lot of advertising and cold calling though... You should also try to make a small margin by brokering the work. ie: you punt the job out to the taxi trade for lowest bid, and the customer pays a set fare to you, you'll then make the difference.
Just a couple of ideas - work like the courier exchanges do
Hey Cabbage!KingRichard said:
humpbackmaniac said:
I had a friend who ran a cab for airports and he was always taking a fare for only one way, ie pick up at Heathrow and bring home, he would go down there empty, so I built this for him and wanted to launch it upon a friendly audience to gauge feedback. www.emptycabs.com is hopefully a way of putting taxi drivers in touch with people looking to hire a cab for longer distances, airport runs etc, and for you to recoup some of your costs. You may as well take a small detour if it gets you a fare that you wouldnt have had.
It will have to attract a large critical mass in order to work but do you think it is worth registering journeys on a message board like this to see if anyone is looking for a cab around the time you are travelling? Or even just scouting it to see if you could pick up a client along route to recoup some of your diesel costs?
Its just a toy, I dont have anything to do with cab co's but am trying to learn how to build sites so please be gentle with the criticism!
HBM
Haven't looked at the site, but that won't be any great loss to you - I know nothing about website design It will have to attract a large critical mass in order to work but do you think it is worth registering journeys on a message board like this to see if anyone is looking for a cab around the time you are travelling? Or even just scouting it to see if you could pick up a client along route to recoup some of your diesel costs?
Its just a toy, I dont have anything to do with cab co's but am trying to learn how to build sites so please be gentle with the criticism!
HBM
I do however run a cab company. It's a good idea in principle, but I wouldn't make use of it. We charge a premium for our airport service because it's guaranteed to be on time. If you double up on airport runs, it only takes one flight delay to screw you up for the rest of the day. That's not to say a typical cab company wouldn't look to use a similar service like yours.
There are several taxi booking sites that are quite large. www.taxibank.co.uk and www.where2guv.com are two big ones that spring to mind.
Maybe if you offered free membership to taxi companies, and free booking requests on your site, then just charge the taxi operator a quid a booking then the concept would work. It will take a lot of advertising and cold calling though... You should also try to make a small margin by brokering the work. ie: you punt the job out to the taxi trade for lowest bid, and the customer pays a set fare to you, you'll then make the difference.
Just a couple of ideas - work like the courier exchanges do
Edited by humpbackmaniac on Wednesday 20th August 09:47
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