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The system has been in place for some years now, depends on your interpretation of "recently". We are told that, although we may have a "Smith" on our datahead, we have to take the first person in the queue. When it is busy, although the office has taken the booking information required, the datahead info is just "office door", with the destination being "Nat". So again, the marshalls make sure we take the first person or party in the queue. There is no rank on City Road any longer.

The question of whether a PH vehicle or a taxi off its area taking a job invalidates his insurance has been done to death and the general concensus is that it doesn't. The police and licensing authorities seem to like this arguement because it makes their stance look more noble. However the insurance companies don't seem to care less and in reality wouldn't know whether a job picked up in "Market Street" was on or off a particular vehicles area or whether the job was prebooked or not. As far as I know there is nothing in my insurance small print about having to be on my area to keep my insurance valid.

What should be of more concern to the police is whether a vehicle is licensed at all and whether it has any insurance of any kind. Instead, it often appears that the police are just out to hit the soft targets instead of dealing with the more difficult touts.

Don't get me wrong about this, I am a London Taxi driver and we are fighting a war at the moment (like a lot of other places) but the truth is being distorted in this matter.

There is only going to be one way to stop this in its tracks, get rid of PH altogether
If it does not happen soon things will only get worse

As a London cab driver you should be aware of the DPP vs. ComCab?

Any PH driver knows his insurance is invalid if he illegally accepts a hire.

http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/vie ... ht=telford

Applying settled principles, an offence was committed where the policy in question did not cover the relevant risk, even if an insurer might be willing to accept that it was at risk at the material time. The footnote in the policies did not affect the extent of the cover afforded by the policy, but demonstrated the arrangements that had been put in place between insurers and the Motorists' Insurance Bureau.

CC

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That case should never have come to court and only did so because of the unholy meddling of the LTDA who wanted to make a political point.

There are many London Taxi Drivers who despise the LTDA. Me being one of them.

Yes but the case proved a point.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin