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That was LTI scaremongering



That's what they said, i don't see any other European country jumping on the wav bandwagon do you

No Skippy it wasn't LTI scaremongering, it was an independent report for the government by Ricability.

No I don't see many European countries following the UK.......but that doesn't matter now because you got a result in Liverpool

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And Manchester London Blackburn Chichester, Coventry, Norwich Harlow, Reading, Tamside Telfordand and Traford, and especially Peterbourgh where the taxi inspector is a jobsworth
And no I dont need one and never will as I will go PH

Emails have already been sent along with the judgment

I see.....so basically you dont give a sh*t about anyone else having to get one, but you wont.

Shame that damned DDA is going to affect the PH trade too aint it

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So what do you do when someone phones for your services, you turn up to pick them up & low & behold, they are in a wheelchair & so disabled that they cannot get out of the wheelchair nor be lifted out of the wheelchair?

What do you do in those circumstances & has this ever occured??

What would you do Mr Skippy41???

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No its never occurred, but folk will tell you so you ask if they can transfer if yes no problem if no I get them a wav simple really

How many buses are WAV's is that transport 100% or is it just when it's feasible

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

Or aeroplanes....or trains.

facing facts we can get the wheelchair bound to all of these transport terminals....then basically they're screwed.

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CC... I don't think Skippy will really have a problem... he should be able to apply for a medical exemption..... and therefore not need to have a WAV.... can you imagine what the exemption would say...

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Wow!! they have a mental exemption....those guys thought of everything

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wheelchair phobia

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

You ain't seen the wheelchairs our customers expect us to carry & a great number of idiots in Brum do!

One driver was telling me only yesterday that he carried a prone wheelchair passenger that JUST got into his TXII ..... his feet were touching the off-side door & his head was banging on the near-side door as he was being driven home!!

Don't laugh it gets better!!

When he got home the passenger gave him a b*ll*cking, because the driver that took him on the outward journey had the 'foresight' to open the off-side window & stick the passenger's feet out so that his head would not bang on the nearside door as they went along.

Now do you understand why the LTI & all other WAVs are not built to carry ALL wheelchair bound passengers?

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I always understood it.......I took part in the ricability study.....the same study found that out of so many hundred wheelchairs only a tiny percentage should actually be used in taxis because they were not built for it, thus the manufacturers dont recommend it.

The point surely is you are not going to get any taxi that can cover every possible passenger with every possible ailment.

The further point going on from the judgement possibly suggests if a person with another ailment goes before the same judge with a saloon car argument then you could perhaps see saloon cars in these areas licensed as taxis?

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Perhaps they should reverse this type of thinking and make it about the manufacturers of wheelchairs being forced to make them so they fit into taxi

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So just because the law will soon say WAVs for all, you're going to 'jump ship' are you Mr Skippy41!!

Always said that any Hack not driving a WAV is really a PH in disguise ..... & now you've proved it for me Mr Skippy41!!

How much is a PH operator license PER YEAR in your parts?

Do the arithmetic ..... it may be cheaper to go WAV, become a proper hack, than pay out HUNDREDS OF POUNDS A YEAR for a PH operator license.

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