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when will a standard 3 year badge become the only option?

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It won't!

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Grandad,

I thought thats what you said old chap


we have a 5 year medical, the DBS is once for life and if i change to a hack plate i save £65 a year Ops licence

a 3 year badge could be down to £150 with no DBS

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If you read the clause in the deregulation bill, a license of a shorter period of time will still be available in some circumstances.

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Grandad,

from January if the reforms go through - although I don't think you should be currently paying for an annual DBS

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i suppose what they lose from one source they will gain by upping fees on another item bless em

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many LA's will simply and illegally multiply the license fee by 3

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George Carlin

they wont be able to complain when i turn up in an out-of-area hack (where fees ARE lower) and work then will they

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you grossly underestimate the greed of out of town taxis

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

If my LA outprices itself regarding plate/badge fees and a hack base can rent to a out of town hack, whose to blame?

(clue.....my LA)

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i just asked for all fees...

can you see what im battling?

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Your LA will set fees (or should set fees) according to local conditions - it is unfair to look at fees across the country - then say mine are more expensive than theirs so im going to license myself there. Perhaps you should do the same in respect of council tax?

The majority of drivers who license themselves remotely do so to avoid conditions - maybe there's no age policy, maybe they cant pass a knowledge test - maybe they cant speak English?

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

but its the very variations in regs and costs that directly CAUSE remote licencing surely? my other post on uniformity would eliminate the situation in a flash

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not imo - out of town vehicles is regulation avoidance

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

we are all out of area at some point, dropping off/picking up, so long as a vehicle is legal i cannot see the difference and think its what the LA's deserve

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