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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:27 am 
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Latest taxi checks reveal vast majority pass the test

http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/news/article ... s_the_test

Published 16th October 2018

The latest spot checks on taxis operating in Sandwell found 17 out of 20 vehicles met all legal requirements.

Among those doing the checks were Police Dog Jasper - who didn’t discover anything untoward during his work.

The council’s taxi licensing team carries out regular checks to make sure vehicles, drivers and passengers are safe.

Saturday’s operation was aimed at checking the roadworthiness of licensed Private Hire and Hackney Carriage vehicles.

Officers also talked to drivers to educate them how to look out for Child Sexual Exploitation and to be alert to the use of drugs in their vehicles.

Twenty taxis were stopped and only minor issues were found with three of the taxis stopped by the operation.

The majority of the vehicles stopped were registered in Sandwell, plus one from Birmingham, three from Dudley and two from Wolverhampton.

Minor problems were found with one Sandwell registered vehicle’s number plate, which has since been resolved, and another had a small mechanical problem. One other vehicle registered with Dudley Council had a defective tyre.

Sandwell Council’s cabinet member for public health and protection Councillor Elaine Costigan said: “This was a very successful operation.

“Our staff and colleagues from the police and DVSA found very few issues with the vehicles. These operations are key to driving up standards and making sure taxi drivers realise they have responsibilities – particularly when it comes to vehicles being safe and roadworthy.

“I would like to thank our taxi licensing team and MOT testers, as well as colleagues from West Midlands Police and the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency for their hard work keeping taxis safe for everybody.”


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:28 am 
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Among those doing the checks were Police Dog Jasper - who didn’t discover anything untoward during his work.
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Officers also talked to drivers...to be alert to the use of drugs in their vehicles.


The council's news release doesn't specifically say a sniffer dog used, but says police dog used and officers told drivers to be alert to use of drugs, so presumably the dog was used to look for drugs.

But these results make a change from other pieces on Sandwell in the last year or so:

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From the last nine operations, more than 50 vehicles out of around 250 stopped were found to have issues ranging from unlicensed or disqualified drivers to defective tyres, lights and suspension. On a recent operation, a car was also seized by the police and crushed for having no insurance and four defective tyres.


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MORE than 40 taxi drivers in Sandwell have had licenses either revoked or refused renewal for a variety of offences in the last 12 months – including one who used a coffee cup lid for a petrol cap.

In addition some 60 drivers had their licences suspended with immediate effect in the same period, a report before the borough’s licensing committee has revealed.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 7:09 pm 
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I vaguely remember a story on here once about the testing of limo's with swabs taken and 99% were found to have traces in the back bearing in mind the characters we run around I wouldn't be at all surprised if quite a few taxis would yield similar results

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