cabby john wrote:
First of all you have to take on board that most if not all private hire/taxi companies have a mix of hackney and private hire drivers. So that being the case there is no way that you are going to have two different meters running within the company with different tariffs.
What radio companies choose to do is neither here nor there. Private hire operators running radio companies don't set hackney carriage fares but they do set their own private hire fares. How the two come together is immaterial. Mr Allo Allo wants to know if private hire drivers can over-charge punters by charging them more than the legal fare that the private hire operator has registered with the council and that which is calibrated on the taxi-meter.
Every contract for the hire of a private hire vehicle licensed under the Act of 1976 shall be deemed to be made with the operator who accepted the booking for that vehicle whether or not he himself provided the vehicle. That is why operators set fares and not private hire drivers.
In case anyone hasn't realised, demanding more than the fare displayed on the meter whether or not you are hackney carriage or private hire driver is actually theft.
Before anyone mentions soiling I should point out that soiling charges have nothing whatsoever to do with taxi fares and is a separate charge altogether.
Regards
JD
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