scot wrote:
however the item about hired plates saying that if the council done there job the operators would merely run their cars themselves is
wrong i know quite a few op,s who hire out plates and none of them would be remotly interested in running a taxi for two main reasons
1 the cost most are over60 and the reason they gave up the plate was cost
2 the taxman what about all those unaccounted years?
good luck with the site
Thanks scot.
I think you are partly right, but what the quote meant I think is that if plate leasing could be eradicated overnight then those renting them out would just do the same thing but they would be renting out the plate and a car as well.
This can be done quite legally at present as far as I know, and happens in many other towns and cities in Scotland and indeed throughout the UK.
But you are correct to an extent I think, if plate renting could be eradicated overnight then many would fall by the wayside, but that would still not deal with those who actually operate a car and rent them out, or take pay drivers commission.
However, in the longer term, those drivers leaving the trade, those who never drove or those who get a plate from the waiting list and will not drive will start to run a car instead of hiring out the plate on its own.
The straight hire plates might be eradicated, but an illegal problem would just be replaced by a legal one, as far as absentee license holders are concerned, and of course this is already a significant problem in many towns and cities.
The only way to sort all this out is to get rid of numerical restrictions, as they did in Inverness, for example.
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