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Well there is a law, albeit part of the licensing laws. In short it allows councils to decide what make a taxi fit and proper.

In a perfect world all drivers and all customers would be just fine and dandy, but we don't have a perfect world, so for safety sake I believe that fully blacked out windows are no good for taxi or PH.

Of course for those death traps called stretch limos, then they are perfect.

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IDFIMH

There was a hearing at the Dundee licensing committee the other week about someone who wanted to have heavily tinted windows.

The article said something about a recent incident in Glasgow but there was no details.

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Dundee rocks. Almost.

There may be some merit in tints, but if they're as good as you make out then I can't understand why 99.9% of cars don't have them, except for the odd boy racer, of course.

Good point about the bodywraps though, but it wouldn't do to let road safety get in the way of a few quid.

As for vetting, some drivers are allowed badges even with dodgy pasts, and I'm sure quite a few clean drivers have committed offences against punters.

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on the subject of vetting as tdo says some already have dodgy pasts well why do the licensing board let them through and dont allow tints, no tints, or with tints if a driver is going to assault a passenger or vice versa i dont think tints are an issue
As for only 99% of cars not being tinted apart from boy racers i really beg to differ tell me a jeep these days you see without tints? people carriers as well and as to the body wraps the council will allow it because it creates revenue so what if tints did would they be allowed? As from next year if a new law gets passed any one who works from there car will be entitled to get security film apllied to there car so if any owners out there has drivers, driving there taxi's well if this gets passed you's will have to by LAW get the film applied and believe me this is very expensive to do
As to sussex saying limos are death traps well in glasgow some of the taxis are a joke never mind the limos
Another point is why are buses allowed full wraps all over them and they are allowed to be tinted
If tints are really that bad why do the police have them on all there people carriers, jeeps,
Everybody seems to have a negative about tints how can you judge something that you,s have never tried the benefits of in the first place
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I think that's quite easy to fathom.

Just by looking at a tint a council can decide if it's iffy or not, alas no one has come up with a way of looking at a person and deciding there and then if they are also iffy.

I suppose they could ask them if they are a member of the T&G, which should give them a good clue as to if they are a big fat or not.

They then could ask them if they are a member of the NTA, but it would take half a dozen meetings before they can give an answer.

But then again it's best if councils work it out for themselves.

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IDFIMH

Well I don't really know Mr tintb, but that's the kind of question that we ask on a regular basis on here, but never really seem to get satisfactory answers to. But with hundreds of councils and thousands of councillors (few of whom seem to know much about the trade) deciding these things, then it's not surprsing that anomalies arise. Welcome to the world of taxi licensing!



Well I was talking bout cars rather than MPVs or whatever, but even if you included the Jeeps and the minority of people carriers with them, then I still doubt if the 99% figure is innacurate.

As for the bodywraps issue, see my answer above.




I've never heard of this, do you have more details?



I don't doubt you there - that's probably why the taxi plates are worth £30k



Indeed - but again, there's one set of rules for buses, but hundreds for the cab trade, because (apparently) these things are best decided at the local level.



Well I'm not really sure if anyone on here has said they don't like tints, but instead have just tried to outline the facts about the stance that LAs are taking.

Personally, if I see tints on a standard car it either looks boy racer-ish or drug dealer-ish, so I don't really like them.

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