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Chris and Donna Kennedy with the new Wondai Taxi which will run from the Scott Street rank just down from their Wondai Hardware & Trade Centre from next Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 15, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

After an absence of three years, Wondai will have a taxi again when a new community-based service begins operating on Monday.<\/p>\n

The taxi service has been brought back to Wondai by Chris and Donna Kennedy, who are probably better known as the owners of the Wondai Hardware & Trade Centre in Scott Street.<\/p>\n

Chris and Donna decided to add a taxi to their business earlier this year when the Department of Transport put the town’s taxi licence out to tender and no one made any move to take it up.<\/p>\n

Chris said that through his involvement with the Wondai Chamber of Commerce, he knew many Wondai residents needed a taxi service in town.<\/p>\n

The previous service closed in 2010, leaving people who didn’t have a car with few options except hiring a taxi from Murgon or Kingaroy, or trying to get transport help through social service agencies.<\/p>\n

When no one seemed willing to bid for the town’s licence, Chris and Donna decided they’d do it themselves.<\/p>\n

“We just got up one morning, looked at each other and said “let’s do it”,” Donna told southburnett.com.au<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t want to go into the taxi business but we knew the town really needed it and we thought we could work it around all our other commitments somehow.”<\/p>\n

The Kennedys persuaded the Department of Transport to extend the tender period slightly so they could get all the necessary paperwork together.<\/p>\n

But Chris admits it was still a close-run thing … their tender landed in the department’s box just 15 minutes before the final deadline.<\/p>\n

If they had missed the deadline, the licence would not have been offered again until 2015.<\/p>\n

Since winning the tender, the couple has been kept busy organising drivers and securing a suitable vehicle.<\/p>\n

They have arranged a new phone number for the service \u00a0– (07) 4169-0443 –\u00a0and applied to the South Burnett Regional Council to move the old taxi rank closer to their store so they can operate more efficiently.<\/p>\n

Their new taxi is a 10-seater mini bus with Australian-standard disability access for wheelchairs.<\/p>\n

So how much has the new taxi service cost to set up?<\/p>\n

“We haven’t stopped to add up the figures,” Donna said, “but it’s been a lot.”<\/p>\n

The Kennedys don’t want to make a profit out of the town’s taxi, though.<\/p>\n

Instead, once they’ve recovered their outlays, they intend to run it as the South Burnett’s first community-based taxi service, donating any profits directly back into the town.<\/p>\n

“The taxi service has to cover all its costs like any other business,” Donna said. “That includes things like annual registration fees, repairs, depreciation and drivers’ wages.<\/p>\n

“But we never set out to be in the taxi business and our only reason for doing this is to help our community.<\/p>\n

“So we’d like everyone who uses this service to know that if it does turn a profit, that profit is going straight back to local groups like the Wondai Kindergarten or the swimming club or any of our town’s other groups that need a hand.”<\/p>\n

The new taxi rank is located at the corner of Scott Street and McLucas Lane, just next to the Wondai Hardware & Trade Centre.<\/p>\n

From Monday, November 19, you can book a Wondai Taxi by phoning (07) 4169-0443.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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