Product could reduce Hull taxi assaults
HULL company PayGo Solutions has launched a product designed
to reduce attacks on taxi drivers.
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Taxi driver Shaun Snee, left, and Ricky Spencer, of PayGo Solutions
The business, based on Citadel Way, east Hull, has produced
a pay-as-you-go system aimed at ending confrontations over fare
prices.
The company created the system to combat attacks on taxi
drivers in Hull and across the UK.
The product works by asking customers to pay money up front
before the driver sets off.
A meter displays the amount the customer has put in to both
the customer and the driver.
Once the fare reaches the amount the customer has paid, the
driver can either stop until they put more money in or
continued to the final destination depending on how trustworthy
they think the customer is.
The unit is bolted into bulkhead of the taxi and the money
is contained in a safe in the device.
The machine can also identify and reject foreign and
counterfeit money.
The company launched the system in March this year at the
Taxi Talk Magazine trade show in Gateshead.
Taxi drivers from as far afield as Hartlepool and Dundee
have already shown interest in the product.
Hull taxi driver Shaun Snee has been trialing the unit for
the last six months.
He said it was a great security feature especially when he
was wary of a customer.
The unit retails at around £750 or is available on finance
at £39.95 per month.
2 Comments
by leslie, hull
Friday, July 11 2008, 11:01AM
“Its a shame that people trying to make a living have to turn to solutions like this?," where as good old honesty and courtesy and respect for your fellow man gone", What is civilisation coming to.”
by matthew, hull
Friday, May 23 2008, 10:17AM
“I'm a taxi driver in Hull, this sounds a good idea but. If some one puts £10 note in the box and the fare is only £4, Where does the change come from? The Driver maybe? That means that the driver still has to have money on him/her. This box will not combat attacks on drivers and could increase attacks as all the money will be stored be this box and the driver may be beaten up for the key.”