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Maybe - but maybe they looked at a place like Manchester where it takes 5 months to get a PH license - then figured if the rules are the same for PH across the country then folks wouldn't need to travel around looking for easier alternatives?

I wonder if they will attempt to put into law what the Judge in Berwick recommended - the ability to refuse a HC license if the vehicle is to be worked remotely from the district?

If you remember..... I've always said to you that that the part of numeral controls being abolished was simply there to frighten the Hackney Trade...... the real threat to everybody's income is still being recommended...... and as we all know if implemented will never ever be able to enforce..... they might as well simply exempt private hire companies from any form of licensing.

Poor little Sussex did you not get what you want ? Im as interested in your view as ......... not.Gutless ? from the man who gets a plate for free to sell straight away W anke r

But they're already flooding the streets of Manchester - its just Manchester cannot do proper enforcement.

From an operators point of view there has never been any limits - and if councils only have knowledge tests in place to limit then the councils are wrong.

Most of this mess has been created by councils brining in over burdensome regulations on PH - and that was never the intent of what is PH - most regulations on PH are at the behest of thicko taxi trade reps, who want all the same barriers for PH as HC - but not with the privilege of plying for hire.

If PH want standards they should be customer driven and operator driven - not regulated by a daft local authority who should only be responsible for the fitness and propriety of the person licensed.

Of course once the LC have done their business, there is still the matter of implementing the taxi/PH provisions in the 2010 Equalities Act.

Unless they are thinking of changing that.

Weren't ph excluded

There will always be those among us who do not like it up em!

Vehicles yes, drivers no.

So 100% of all drivers will have to abide by the law and it's not relevant to the vehicles of the phv which incidently are likely to be the largest group of providers, rather strange imo

Another intelligent contribution from someone who thinks it's one big game.

Sadly the trade is full of such people who cannot see the bigger picture.

One conclusion that will be of particular interest to many readers of TDO is that we have changed our minds on quantity restrictions. We will be recommending that licensing authorities should continue to have the right to limit numbers of taxis (hackneys).