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Listening to last nights news and reading articles in the paper it seems as though in the next 5 years we will have to face congestion charging to drive anywhere in the UK. Whilst 2p a mile does not seem a great deal, it will be to those whose calls are 30 miles apart, for those of us who do towns and cities a £1.00 plus a mile is a crippling blow.
This will easily add £5.00 to £10.00 per job for me and sadly its only the start. This or any successive government will only increase the charge (yearly) if only with inflation. As the costs will be greatest in peak hours that hits us quite hard, as these days peak hours are 9am to 8pm.
Consider all those employees who get free use of their vehicle, they will cost their empolyer everytime they use it.There must be a market for a light weight toolbox, one that we can carry as we travel by bus from one call to another.
Kevin
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kheath wrote:There must be a market for a light weight toolbox, one that we can carry as we travel by bus from one call to another.
So, how do we carry any stock?
I am watching this subject very carefully and I doubt very much that it will go through in its present form, too many privacy rights issues in it and way too “Big Brother”, but it is evident that some form of congestion charging will happen UK-wide it’s only a matter of time.
There’s just so many issues with this idea I think it’ll be another EU Constitution. 😉
K.
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well ive just worked out what it’ll cost me to get to my normal 1st call.
17 miles M1 @ 30p = 5.10
26 miles M25 @ 50p = 13.00
14 miles M11 @ 50p = 7.00
9 miles A406 @ 20p = 1.80 grand total £27.0 one wayand the return will be dearer as it’ll be a higher cost on the way back
bearing in mind that all this travelling is done before 6am an does’nt cover home to motorway and the smaller roads.
shall we start the night shift now ? might be the only way to make it pay shortly.
bryan
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IMO, there would be anarchy and blood running in the streets if any government, at any time tryed to adopt such measures.
The only way it could happen is if business’ where given some kind of allowance. Other-wise, so many business’ would go under. And customers wouldn’t be willing to pay extra for services, when they’re already paying more to pick up their kids and shop etc.
IMO though, no government has the b###s to impliment such a radical change. It would mean trackers in every car and one heck of a server.
If it ever did happen, it won’t be for a very long time. I’d expect all you old gits to be died already, and just Goatboy is left in a 30 year old Kangoo van. 😆
Well I was talking with a friend of mine last night about this very subject and he recounted some figures from one of the papaers that said, based on the information available, that one guy would save about £100 a year, but he doesn’t go anywhere. The other chap has a 40 minute commute to work and has to open a store at 9am, so no option on the times and they reckon it will cost him £15,000 a year! Yes, correct, 15 THOUSAND pounds, it really is an insane plan after all the fuel duty charges and excise on it already serve to do the same based on the amount of fuel used, albeit perhaps not as accurately.
Mike Rutherford on BBC News presented three possible motives from our beloved government for such a move….
A/ It will save teh taxpayer money
B/ It will keep the status quo, but allow more accuracy
C/ It’s going to cost us a packet
Those are, IMO as well, the only three reasons that they may have to impliment such a system, I’ll let you decide for yourself which one fits best. 😉
K.
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Couldn’t get a direct link to work. Check out the MATT cartoon here
You guys should fork out for new keyboards first
“THE” is spelt “the” not “teh”
“RECEIVED” is spelt “received” not recieved
we speak the “Proper Queens English” downunder
alexa wrote:we speak the “Proper Queens English” downunder
That should be Proper Queen’s English then 😆
Dave.
yeah yeah
just quoting an english gentleman I know whilst I check this out below
http://www.asiahotels.com/cityguides/singapore_city.asp
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Singapore has a system of automatic road charges (ERP Tolls) which vary according to location and time. These are government-controlled tolls.UNQUOTESo if its good for someone else then it must be good for you
Blair for ?
Maybe this would help
Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker’s computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word “the” with the phrase “you suck!” They will usually panic and start scanning for viruses.
Take clear tape and tape the underside of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball in place. The victim will most likely check the connections in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc. before they realize what has happened.
Another gem is to do a “Print Screen” of the user’s desktop, and then paste the image from the clipboard to a photo program, and save the image as a bitmap. Then, set the ‘snapshot’ of their desktop as the actual desktop wallpaper. (You’ll have to hide the Windows status bar, and move all their desktop icons into a folder, which you can hide conspicuously in the corner or something.) The user will see their desktop as always, but everything on it will appear to be frozen when they try to click on it…sending them into a rebooting and virus scanning fit!
This will mostly only work with people with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in their floppy drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk is out. This is fun to watch.
Try to find a very obnoxious CD laying around. Preferably a reggae or rap CD. Pop it in their CD ROM. Put up the sound full blast by double clicking on the volume control on the bottom right. On normal configurations the audio CD will auto-play when windows first starts up. The person starting up their PC in the morning will definitely be embarrassed.
This is for that special person you just cant stand in the office, the one who talks on the phone all day with their boyfriend/girlfriend and gets personal e-mail all day. Go into their e-mail and change their defaults to automatically “blind carbon copy” their boss or supervisor. Heads will roll!
Change the coffee in the office coffee maker to decafe. Wait about three weeks (or until you think everybody has gotten over their caffeine addiction)and switch to espresso!
Try “password securing” someone’s screen saver. First I suggest changing the screen saver to “scrolling marque” and inserting your own word or phrase, “Mr. Jones (president or supervisor) eats SHlT” or something to that effect.
Pop out the ‘m’ and ‘n’ key on someone’s keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.
With someone who is on the phone a lot during work – This works if you have phones that the handset comes apart. Take the handset apart and put scotch tape over the mouthpiece inside. They can still be heard, but they have to talk loud to be heard. The next day take it off, and put it in the earpiece. Usually they will be yelling to the other person on the line the next day, and won’t be able to hear them. When they complain about the phone, and get a replacement, do it on the next phone. After about a week you will notice the calls to be down considerably.
And finally…
Depending where you are at you may have a cafeteria in you place of work. Every week most of them put out a menu so you know what they are serving. Usually it is done on Word or Excel, and not extremely fancy. With a little work, matching fonts, and images you can make your own menus, and post them by your desk. We had one co-worker avoid the cafeteria for 2 weeks because of the selection “fish head stew” etc. before he caught on. Works great with picky eaters.
Alexa lots of that is just plain evil.
I tend to rattle stuff off in here quickly at times as I’m doing other things. If it’s important I’ll check it but if it’s just a quick reply I tend not to do so and I’m fully aware of what MS Word looks like believe me as it’s almost always open. 😉
K.
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