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 .....
    29
    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
    36         ------
    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. 
    51 
    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.

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