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Importance of rules to ease taxi tension
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Author:  captain cab [ Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:37 am ]
Post subject:  Importance of rules to ease taxi tension
Importance of rules to ease taxi tension


TENSIONS between taxi drivers and private hire operators are not unknown and to some the arguments may seem little more than an unseemly turf war.

To be clear, a taxi (or Hackney carriage) driver has a licence from the local authority to pick up anyone who hails them in the street. Private hire vehicles do not. Their licences allow them to carry only people who have booked them beforehand.

Nottingham's taxi drivers – who are easily identified by the green, London-style Hackney carriage cabs they must drive – have long complained that private hire operators poach their customers by hanging round places where people are likely to gather.

Recently, the tensions between the two types of operator boiled over into an unseemly confrontation at the Queen's Medical Centre.

Whatever the rights or wrongs, this is a step too far. For these simmering tensions to have reached the stage where police had to intervene suggests that the licensing authority, too, needs to robustly remind both sides where the limits lie.

Those rules may change in the future. The fact that the Law Commission is currently examining them reinforces the view that they may need to be modified.

But the current rules are the rules. They need to be observed and enforced.

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Post- ... story.html
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Importance of rules to ease taxi tension
captain cab wrote:
But the current rules are the rules. They need to be observed and enforced.

Observed, YES!!!

Enforced, IMPOSSIBLE, OUT OF THE QUESTION, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN, JUST A PIPE-DREAM!!!

Local councils are not fit for purpose, whether under the current legislation or the proposed new legislation.
Author:  Sussex [ Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Importance of rules to ease taxi tension
captain cab wrote:
But the current rules are the rules. They need to be observed and enforced.

I agree with that.
Author:  Doom [ Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Importance of rules to ease taxi tension
It's not the councils Brum, no matter what you do unless you do it on a daily basis and convict all caught it will carry on happening, to do the sting would cost a fortune, you'd need fresh faces on wages, you'd need all sorts of covert recording equipment and they just aren't going to or be able to fund it, as it stands the renewable source aspect is making a mockery of it all, as soon as you get one load sorted another load arrives,

Myself and a few of the other old heads are of the opinion that since the mass arrival of Baron sponsored drivers the whole trade has been thrown into disrepute, I can see a day when the public refuses to use taxis coming, which in turn will mean the return of the drink driver, happy days eh eusasmiles.zip
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