Taxi Driver Online

I know this subject has already to a degree been covered "Prams & Pushchairs".

It is not something that sits easy with me, mothers wanting to leave the baby in the pram/pushchair for a journey. I do not think that they are anchored securely, and nowhere near the level of a passenger belted up.

Also re a passenger who then offers to have the baby in their arms, again not altogether safe.

Question; How would I stand if I did refuse on the grounds of safety.

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How are you proposing to carry a baby in your cab? How are you proposing to carry a toddler in your cab?

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Grandad,

I think you would be well within your rights.

Prams and the like aren't what we have WAV vehicles for, but it seems that's what they are mainly being used for.

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IDFIMH

Prams were going into purpose built cabs long before they were WAV's

You probably are within your rights to refuse, I'm sure the cabs behind who are willing to carry them will love you.

taxis do not need to have child seats, but you must not use an adult belt for any child under 2 years old, it is OK for a parent to hold a baby in there arms as long as the parent is belted in.
If the parent wants to leave the child in the pram or pushchair it is OK to do so as they will have better protection rather than sitting unbelted on the seat, RSPA advice

Cheers guys, I have asked for your views because as ever if the stinky stuff hits the fan, it is never their fault but always yours and mine. It is easy to say get them in and take the money, but that is not for me - I know my luck on that score.

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Cheers guys, I have asked for your views because as ever if the stinky stuff hits the fan, it is never their fault but always yours and mine. It is easy to say get them in and take the money, but that is not for me - I know my luck on that score.



I accept what you are saying, but it goes against all disability wheelchair training. They cannot possibly say, it is only safe this way for a wheelchair, but that it does not matter anchoring for a pram or pushchair.

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Well that seems a very sensible comment to me

I always remember in my younger days when a passenger in an electric wheelchair was in my cab and refused to be clamped in.

I remember going around a roundabout and hearing the passenger say wooaaaahhh as he disappeared from my rear view mirror.

Anyway,all i am trying say is safety for all is paramount.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07K29Fc15U

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... 577&news=1

My TX2 has a built in child seat, in 3 years not one person has used it.

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Have you told them about it ?

Mine is used regularly.

I also advise passengers with a baby in their arms to sit in the tip up seat behind me - that way the child is protected. Two adults and a solid partition before they get near the windscreen

As for prams - I feel I've done my bit if I advise them of the available child seat and the tip up seat protection - it's there child after all. I do everything possible to protect mine - I can't be responsible for their's too.

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Under three years of age! I take it that we have now got to start asking for birth certificates - some of the parents I have met, would lie their teeth out just to get home.

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Nobody has spotted the deliberate mistake yet, in the BBC report, he was not a taxi driver, he was a PH driver

I spotted it mate , I just did not want to come across as picky, churlish, spiteful, bitchy, know wot eye meen Ummmm just thinking up some more..................

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So As he was a PH driver I think the police where correct in giving him a fine as the car is not a licenced taxi, as it does not state PH in the rules only taxis