captain cab wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
good point..some of these things are the size of the Moon Buggy, no one vehicle will ever, ever cater for all.
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Errm thats a point I was trying to make all last night
CC
Very true to Mr Bloodnock's point & Captain, you didn't make that clear.
Bearing the above in mind & accepting it to be the case, if all WAV drivers from day one of the DDA had
DONE THE JOB PROPERLY, ..... only carried wheelchairs in the prescibed manner, properly strapped in & refused all wheelchair hirings that did not conform, used the risk assessments & a check list as above etc., etc., where would the DDA be now??
Re-written or useless IMO!!
But most drivers don't know how to lawfully refuse a wheelchair!!
The point is that every wheelchair user has to be given the opportunity to travel in a WAV,
BUT if they cannot be accommodated in the correct & prescribed manner, then the reason why the hiring is being declined must be explained to the wheelchair would be passenger.
Instead, we have WAV cabbies all over the country doing the job incorrectly & dangerously, by carrying wheelchair passengers sideways & in the vast majority of cases un-restrained.
We even have idiot drivers opening passenger compartment windows to stick the wheelchair passengers feet out of the window, just to accommodated a prone positioned wheelchair passenger.
We've shot ourselves in the foot.
And let's face it ..... the majority of WAVs are only cosmetic WAVs, as far as carrying wheelchairs is concerned. The only vehicle that remotely full complies would be something like the lwb E7 or the like, with rear seating on forward / backward runners so that the maximum space for any wheelchair can be available.