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next door neighbour of one of my drivers has recently put his own car on the road plated for our district (he already has a full time job but wants to do taxi work as well ) he is working for a company based in a town 14 miles away in another licensing area which if he is working on a PH basis is OK as he is plated hackney BUT he is apparently covering local work in our town taken by this office in a neighbouring district. I thought at present that you had to operate a number based in the district your calls are coming from which is why we do not have national cab firms at the moment or am I completely wrong on this ?

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nope, you need to be plated for the area/LA where the calls are ANSWERED but then a car can be sent anywhere

i.e. a Manchester city centre caller going to (say) Leeds rings a Leeds base and a Leeds plated car picks him up

assuming all are PH of course

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Yes but this opertator is using vehicles plated in our area to do jobs in our area and cars plated for His district for local jobs there

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I assume none of the vehicles or bases are hack/taxi bases?

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Assuming only PH plates are involved...



so its the question of where the phones are answered then?

how has he got a PH ops licence for 2 areas unless he has 2 bases?

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He is operating legally.

The operating sections of the 1976 act only apply to PH, not hackneys.

In other words hackneys don't need to worry about all this cross border stuff.

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Both areas are NOT restricted therefore all vehicles are plated Hackney my question was how is he allowed to trade in another area without a seperate number for that area my understand was that that is not possible under current legislation or is it ?

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a hack in any area can pass a job to a hack in any other area

yes, its legit


a hack can also work through a PH base in any area

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its a whole grey area, let me explain, yes and no if the call is answered in one area it has to be a vehicle plated in that area, unless its a hackney carriage. Way around this - easy just state/ advertise that none of the vehicles used by company x belong to company x and all work is sub contracted out.

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its not a grey area, a HC can take a job of anyone, any base, any hack any PH base anywhere

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I got a call from someone wanting a taxi from perth racecourse yesterday so if we had a member on here driving a hackney in perth I could have taken the booking and got them to do it could I ?

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yes

for a cut

hackney yes, PH no.....in theory, BUT you could legally give the punter the other number PH

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How would i know the phone numbers of taxi firms 500 miles away ?

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Don't you keep a record of other company's around the country in case of an emergency such as a break down on an airport run?

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Grandad,

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