Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 40
1 Q. You say you try to have people who were working close
2 living in roughly the same area?
3 A. Yes.
4
5 Q. Was there any way in which you were able to see where
6 people lived, or whatever, in order to achieve that?
7 A. Well, in terms of when they completed ----
8
9 Q. Were you be referred to anything?
10 A. Well, the application forms initially would have their
11 addresses on it.
12
13 Q. Did you have anything in the office, or anything like
14 that?
15 A. The sort of system, so to speak, that we set up was to
16 take a map of the town -- it sounds rather simplistic
17 nowadays -- but just take coloured dots and if someone
18 lived in a specific western part of town they were red
19 dots; if they lived in the east they were blue; and, I
20 suppose, to put it rather simplistically, you wanted to try
21 and get most of the red dots working one shift and the blue
22 dots on a particular close.
23
24 Q. That map, was its purposes for taxies alone or for some
25 other purpose?
26 A. Well, just in terms of knowing the area, the trading
27 area, of the restaurant, so to speak. It was a general
28 map, it was up there anyway, so .....
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But explain to me again about the red and
31 blue dots. Where did they appear?
32 A. If somebody was taken on and part of their availability
33 was that they could work closes, then we would look to that
34 particular area of town that they lived in, and so the way
35 we tried to ensure that we only got perhaps even one taxi
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37
38 Q. I understand that absolutely; what I do not understand is
39 where the red and blue dots appear.
40 A. Right. In order for the scheduling manager -- because
41 it was all done manually back in the mid 80s -- to have a
42 quick point of reference, so to speak, was that we could
43 have a dot with someone's initial -- I cannot remember how
44 we did it but I think it was initials on it -- in terms of
45 that is where they would live.
46
47 Q. That was on the map, you say?
48 A. Yes, I think in the office area of the store. So the
49 idea being that they could try to keep more dots -- more
50 reds working than blues, sort of thing.
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52 MR. ATKINSON: Finally, why was it of any interest to you
53 whether the crew had a taxi or they did not?
54 A. Because I would not want them walking home two or three
55 miles or being home two or three miles on their own at
56 perhaps 2 o'clock in the morning.
57
58 Q. Can I now turn to the question of hustle, you know this
59 word "hustle"?
60 A. Yes, I do.
