Wheelchair Accessible Transport and Adventure

Hello all I bought this Ford Tourneo Grand Connect for a contract but it turned out the wheelchair I needed to transport was to big for it 🙉

The vehicle is in great condition, direct from motability with one owner, and I spent nearly £500 on a full service just last month at a Ford Specialist

If anyone knows anyone who might be interested in it please give me a shout

It’s currently listed on Facebook marketplace at £9000 Ono

Many thanks and as always if I can help you with transport please drop me a message 👍

Just an update one my earlier post about a minimum charge I’d just like to add this will not be applied to a single person who has booked me since the vehicle was licensed 7 months ago.

Also if demand were to rise the minimum charge will also be scrapped as soon as possible.

To give you an idea of current demand I’m seeing on average 2-3 enquiries a week and mostly for very small journeys.

As the weather improves I’m offering full day trips to anywhere within the Lake District national park at a fixed rate of £200 a day for a door to door service

Special rates also available for return trips to places like South Shields and Tynemouth for those who’d like a day at the coast

Depending on the size of your wheelchair I can carry between 1-3 passengers as well as a seated wheelchair user

Many thanks for your support, I am trying my best to help with this service

Stuart

Unfortunately I’m going to have to make some changes 😞

I’ve been in the taxi / private hire trade for many years and it’s getting harder and harder with uber ( who I don’t think have any wheelchair accessible vehicles) now taking the biggest share of the market and little company’s like mine are folding week on week.

With the price of diesel currently being so high I spend most of my days driving an electric vehicle, which is so much cheaper to run.

When wheelchair jobs have been coming in I’ve been trying to except as many as possible then I have to switch over vehicles into the wheelchair accessible, which is diesel to complete the job.

When I take the wheelchair accessible vehicle it means another driver can’t take any more jobs ( he has not completed the wheelchair training run by the council yet) and the electric car insurance is to expensive for him to drive my electric car.

If I do a long distance job this is fine but if it’s a £5 -£10 job it’s just not economically viable.

A few firms who do have wheelchair accessible vehicles have a high minimum fare, I don’t want to do that but I can’t keep going how I am.

I pay my drivers £15/h so unfortunately I’ve had to make the decision to set this as a minimum fare as I feel it’s only fare I earn at least living wage for trying to provide this service.

All longer jobs will be unaffected and will stay at the taxi meter price as set by the council.

Please also remember my wheelchair accessible vehicle is a private hire vehicle and not a taxi so I can legally charge any price as long as I make customers aware of this before collection

I hope all this makes sense and people understand

If anyone has any questions please don’t hesitate and as always please book as early as possible and I will try my best.

Unfortunately if this doesn’t work the vehicle will be for sale

Thanks for taking the time to read this

Stuart