brodiedoe wrote:
Hi all, please could someone direct me to any court cases/legislation in regards to a hack company giving work to a licensced/op licencesed PH driver.
A PH driver approached my company in regards to working for us (we are 100%hackney only and have no need in our district to have a operators licence). I explained that we have no ops license and he explained that he did as he was owner driver. Can our company take bookings through our system (we take name no etc same as PH) and subcontract this work to him. All records are being kept and every detail is being recorded correctly.
Yesterday our LO informed me that the PH must be the only one to take his bookings. Is this correct?. It seems a bit stupid in this day and age with apps data systems etc.
I would ask your LO what law is being breached?
Or is he saying that your company isn't able to ask a licensed private hire operator to undertake work, yet a convicted killer could ask the same licensed private hire operator to undertake work?
You would be passing work to a private hire operator, entirely legal. The fact that that licensed private hire operator will pass on that work to himself, a licensed private hire driver, is irrelevant.