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A question regarding charging friends!
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Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:33 am ]
Post subject:  A question regarding charging friends!
As a taxi driver would I be allowed to pick up a friend and drop them off somewhere? Say if they go somewhere on a weekly basis and would prefer to use me as they know me. They would obviously pay me whatever they would have paid a taxi.

Is this acceptable?
Author:  grandad [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: A question regarding charging friends!
If you are a hackney there is no problem. If you are PH then the booking needs to be made through the booking office.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:55 am ]
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pre booking can mean 2 minutes.... :wink:
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:10 am ]
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grandad wrote:
If you are a hackney there is no problem. If you are PH then the booking needs to be made through the booking office.


Im going to be a PH. So a booking has to be made through the rank. They can ask for me everytime and as long as the rank get the cut, im not doing anything illegal right?
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:11 am ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
pre booking can mean 2 minutes.... :wink:


whats prebooking?
Author:  grandad [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:03 pm ]
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jman316 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
pre booking can mean 2 minutes.... :wink:


whats prebooking?
pre booking is what private hire work is. All private hire work has to be booked through the private hire office. There is no such thing as a rank for private hire and if you sit or wait on a rank you can expect to have your balls chewed off.
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:12 pm ]
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grandad wrote:
jman316 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
pre booking can mean 2 minutes.... :wink:


whats prebooking?
pre booking is what private hire work is. All private hire work has to be booked through the private hire office. There is no such thing as a rank for private hire and if you sit or wait on a rank you can expect to have your balls chewed off.


no of course i wouldnt sit at a rank. But for example if a friend says pick me up from x place at x time and pays me, id obv still let the office know...but that is ok is my question? As in favouritism for one driver?
Author:  grandad [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:40 pm ]
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jman316 wrote:

no of course i wouldnt sit at a rank. But for example if a friend says pick me up from x place at x time and pays me, id obv still let the office know...but that is ok is my question? As in favouritism for one driver?

Unless you have an operators license you can't accept bookings. Your friend would legally have to book through your booking office and request that you do the job.
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:42 pm ]
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grandad wrote:
jman316 wrote:

no of course i wouldnt sit at a rank. But for example if a friend says pick me up from x place at x time and pays me, id obv still let the office know...but that is ok is my question? As in favouritism for one driver?

Unless you have an operators license you can't accept bookings. Your friend would legally have to book through your booking office and request that you do the job.


yeh thats what i thought! :) that clears it up for me!
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:07 pm ]
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cant a driver call in a job, so long as its in the base bookings before passengers actually get in the car?

ive handed folks who asked my card, told em to ring the number and taken the booking

on my mobile

then told em to get in

lol
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:09 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
cant a driver call in a job, so long as its in the base bookings before passengers actually get in the car?

ive handed folks who asked my card, told em to ring the number and taken the booking

on my mobile

then told em to get in

lol


Shouldnt make a difference to the office should it? i mean your paying a set fee to them, not a per job basis!
Author:  grandad [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:37 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
cant a driver call in a job, so long as its in the base bookings before passengers actually get in the car?

ive handed folks who asked my card, told em to ring the number and taken the booking

on my mobile

then told em to get in

lol

Yes but probably have an operators license.
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A question regarding charging friends!
Way off topic....Trigger died!!!! :(
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:15 pm ]
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bases ive worked on wouldnt allow "private" bookings, and they were all hacks, which further demonstrates how bases rule the owners working/renting through the bases

i once ripped a radio out and went and sat on the rank, the base op (20yds away) ran up to see what was up, i made more without the radio than with it

the same base has won a 5 mile school run with Leics at £25 a day, id love to know what they are passing on to whoever does it
Author:  jman316 [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:19 pm ]
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As a PH driver i cant accept private bookings without the office being involved?
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