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THE DISEASE IS SPREADING

Britons who illegally drive taxis on the Costa Brava over the summer are facing a crackdown.

Spanish cabbies are furious about the fleet of 100 pirate cars, which mostly come from the UK and take their business over the holiday season.

Spanish drivers have to pay high fees and pass tests to insure and register cabs.



The unregistered Britons charge up to a third less to ferry holidaymakers to resorts such as Malgret de Mar - sometimes cramming people into Transit vans.

"They come, do the season then go," said Bienvenido Amate, of Malgret taxi-drivers' guild.

Undercover inspectors are to target illegal cabs and hotel staff paid by the pirates for ordering them.



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -22296233/

wanna bet the spanish take a harder line than our own UK bodies do?

almost every brit-run bar ive been in in spain has a note pined up "airport minibus" or the english hotel receptionist "knows someone"

as i said in another post though, have the ex-pats with no spanish language skills ever tried getting a taxi plate/badge in spain, unlike here where "wheerrree tooo meeeester" will suffice

It is not easy to become a taxi driver in Spain. Firstly there is the cost. It can cost anything from €75,000-€150,000 to get a plate and you must have a good command of Spanish as well.
One way that some people get around this is to become "estate agents". If you run a property finding service you are then legally allowed to pick up your "clients" from the airport to take them to view properties that they may wish to purchase.

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Grandad,

Must be all the out of work H/C, PH cabbies in England going over there to do "Pirate Hire".....

cross border hiring

it all depends where the phone was answered.....lol

Hola me duck, grassy arss, t'cabs on t'way

Their fishing boats can go to hell then. The next time I see one on Trawlermen I'll sink it.

They seem to have things slightly different in Spain. The vehicle licences are restricted, they're not all wheelchair accessible and you do have to be able to speak the lingo. Why is our country so eager to conform to EU when the rest of it continues to do as they please or at least appear to do as they please

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

finally it sinks in

WE are the only ones compling with "EU" laws....

Because we were hoodwinked into it by Heath and his cronies without a referendum. I'd hazard a guess that if we were to have one now we would be out within a year.......

The first part of that post is the London Minicab trade to a tee.

Just add the ability not to know where you're going and you have it in one.

My mind may be going with age but I seem to remember that there was a referendum about staying in the european union and the country voted in favour.

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Grandad,

It would appear that I have not gone senile yet.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/19 ... um_EEC.htm

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Grandad,

Are you suggesting that the London mini cab trade ARE restricted and DO speak the lingo. I thought it was the other way around

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Nope, and I thought you said don't.

It's the onset of old age you see, blindness.

I doubt it, too many have thier noses in the trough now