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Taxi Drivers: Protect and Organise Your Fares
| Author: Taxi-Mart | Published: 25th August 2010 16:27 |
In any profession, keeping your earnings safe and secure is of paramount importance. For mini cab and taxi drivers, this can be more of an issue as all of the daily earnings are kept inside the taxi, meaning coins and notes can be lost or stolen relatively easily.
How can these fares and change be protected from acts of theft or simple misplacement?
Keep Notes Hidden
Having lots of notes lying around the taxi is not a good idea. Not only will it increase the chances of some of them being lost, in extreme circumstances they may be tempting to plucky thieves. The best idea is to keep all notes together in a safe place out of the way from preying hands. A good investment would be in a cab driver money bag. These money bags have various compartments which means they can hold a large quantity of cash securely and discreetly.
Organise your Loose Change
Most taxi drivers have a large amount of loose change. Although a money bag will of course keep coins safe, they will be all mixed up together, making it difficult to know exactly how much change there is. One way around this would be to invest in a taxi coin dispenser. These important pieces of kit will allow you to see what coins are running low, as well as making it easier and quicker to dispense the right change
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Protection from Forgeries
Unfortunately, taxi drivers are the front line when it comes to money scams and forged notes. Accepting and then realising that a note is a forgery can be extremely frustrating. One way taxi drivers can protect themselves from this threat is to buy and install a taxi forged note detector. From UV lights to magnetic inks, these detectors can instantly recognise suspect notes and could save you a great deal of money in the long run.
Remember, by investing in products that are designed specifically to help taxi drivers, the jobs that are currently difficult or annoying could be made a lot easier. Having a cash management and security system in place could result in less money being lost and will make organising cash less of a chore.
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