Hi folks
I drive a saloon taxi within the city of Dundee, and I frequently get customers, elderly and infirm people, who complain that they cannot get into a WAV (Wheelchar Accessible Vehicle).

Often these customers will have been left waiting an inordinate length of time because WAV's have been mistakenly sent to them by an office. They are clearly very concerned about the matter. Often on approaching a taxi rank there is a long line of WAV's and hardly any saloon cabs.

This is clearly a violation of the rights of these people, and greatly inconsiderate of the licensing authorities.

And not only that but many abled-bodied people comment to me that they 'hate' these WAV type cabs, and will wait for a saloon to come along. I myself will never ever get into a WAV, and once suffered a painful injury in one.

Does anybody share with me the view that there needs to be far less of these horrible WAV cabs on the roads and more saloons.

Thank you.

Hi folks
I drive a saloon taxi within the city of Dundee, and I frequently get customers, elderly and infirm people, who complain that they cannot get into a WAV (Wheelchar Accessible Vehicle).

Often these customers will have been left waiting an inordinate length of time because WAV's have been mistakenly sent to them by an office. They are clearly very concerned about the matter. Often on approaching a taxi rank there is a long line of WAV's and hardly any saloon cabs.

This is clearly a violation of the rights of these people, and greatly inconsiderate of the licensing authorities.

And not only that but many abled-bodied people comment to me that they 'hate' these WAV type cabs, and will wait for a saloon to come along. I myself will never ever get into a WAV, and once suffered a painful injury in one.

Does anybody share with me the view that there needs to be far less of these horrible WAV cabs on the roads and more saloons.

Thank you.

If the People want both type of Vehicles then they should be allowed both types of vehicles.

In my experience old people do not like wavs, When they phone a private hire company, they request that one is not sent, and most of the requests for wavs are from pushchair uses.

Does anybody share with me the view that there needs to be far less of these horrible WAV cabs on the roads and more saloons.

If that decision was left to the owners or the public, there would be few if any WAVs anywhere.

One wonders how these people manage in places like London or Edinburgh which not only have a 100% WAV fleets, they have a much more limited choice of WAVs.

Getting into the front of a Peugeot Premier or similar is no harder than getting into the front of a saloon car and they are also a lot less expensive than most of their predecessors. This probably goes some way towards explaining the dislike for them by some drivers. Usually the same saloon taxi drivers who have enjoyed a privileged status for years at the expense of their WAV driving counterparts. A privileged status which has included lower operating costs and a public licence to rent out when they retire.

BTW If a punter prefers a saloon, they have the option of phoning for a PH. I didn't think you'd be objecting to that.

In my experience old people do not like wavs, When they phone a private hire company, they request that one is not sent, and most of the requests for wavs are from pushchair uses.