What's the difference between handling a radio mike and a gear-stick?
The thing is when you are mobile you hardly use the bloody thing anyway.
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:49 pm ] |
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Hands-free radios call for Kirklees taxis TAXI drivers should be made to use hands-free radios in Huddersfield. That's the plea being made later today by a Kirklees Council Cabinet member in the wake of tough curbs on mobile phones in cars. Clr Martyn Bolt believes it is wrong that taxi drivers can still use hand-held radio microphones while driving when all other motorists are banned from using mobile phones while they are at the wheel. Now he is taking his case to a meeting of the full council. He hopes to get all-party backing for his appeal to make Kirklees the first area in the country to implement a full hands-free system for drivers. He wants the hands-free radio system to be fitted in all taxis and private hire cars. He also wants it to be a condition of drivers being granted a licence. A pilot scheme using the hands-free equipment was tested by Kirklees Council's licensing department several years ago, but was not taken up by taxi firms. Clr Bolt said: "It would cost about £50 to fit the equipment to a taxi. That is nothing compared to the cost of running a vehicle. "How much safer would it be for passengers if the taxi driver ferrying them home was not fiddling with a microphone and the radio controls while at the wheel? "It needs only a discreet microphone, perhaps mounted on the sunvisor, to make things far safer. "There are at least 1,000 taxis and private hire vehicles in this area which would be much safer if we insisted on a hands-free radio system." |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:24 pm ] |
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Ermmmmm and what about police ambulance staff firemen etc etc etc how can you justify banning cabbies from using them and not the emergency services and i don't suppose that the councillor stopped for one moment to thing about WHY the government left two way radio equipment OUT of the legislation ! |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:58 pm ] |
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What's the difference between handling a radio mike and a gear-stick?
The thing is when you are mobile you hardly use the bloody thing anyway.
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| Author: | jimbo [ Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:25 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: What's the difference between handling a radio mike and a gear-stick?
The thing is when you are mobile you hardly use the bloody thing anyway. I wouldn't want you driving me home, if you don't know the difference between a radio mike and a gearstick.  
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| Author: | Tom Thumb [ Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:32 pm ] |
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We have the hands free mics and they are good. Stops the knobheads grabbing your mic and shouting 'Breakker Breaker 19 over' at your controller. |
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| Author: | smiffyz (geoff) [ Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:26 am ] |
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The TIT. Hand held 2 way radio's aren't banned for anyone! So why pick on taxi drivers! It's rare to use voice anyway these days, only for a query. |
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| Author: | JD [ Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:58 pm ] |
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How do you make a hands free mike active and how do you make it inactive? I suspect if Kirklees tried to make it a condition of license someone might challenge it. Regards JD |
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| Author: | Tom Thumb [ Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:11 pm ] |
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because they arn't hands free at all JD. You still have to press a button. Ours all go on the gear stick. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:32 pm ] |
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Tom Thumb wrote: Ours all go on the gear stick.
Does that answer you question Mr Jimbo? 
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