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Has anybody got the 8 passenger seats in a Hackney, I think it's available in Mercedes M8. If you have are you licenced for the 8 passenger seats or only for 7 passenger seats. Our council will only licence them in the Hackneys for 7 seats because apparently the front passenger seat is too close to the driver for the passenger to sit in it

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Is there a set dimension for the separation?

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Grandad,

Oh dear we have never done this before!!!!!!!!
Read the west Somerset ombudsman report

B&H license them for 8.

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IDFIMH

toots if you have ever looked at one the front seat is a bench seat but because of the prop shaft there is nowhere for a passenger to put their feet . My previous vehicle was a Vito but the front wheel drive version in that there was a reasonable bit of leg room. it was very awkward though with 2 largish customers in the front it was very difficult to change gears and you were driving squashed over to your side I.E. in a very uncomfortable and compromised position. My current vehicle the VW has a little more room but there is an issue with sitting 2 in the front if they are of a larger size !

It is therefore understandable if some councils think it is a safety issue (or even a personal space issue)

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

We have the Renault/Vauxhall/Nissan trio, the M8 and now the transit all plated for eight here in Chester. None of them are fit to carry 8 in my opinion.

Is that 8 passengers or 8 total?

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8 passengers.

E7's round here are licensed for 8, 6 in the back and 2 up front.

In a speech for the National Taxi Association Conference on 27 October 2010, Norman Baker,
Minister for Local and Regional Transport said, 'And, in this regard, about licensing authorities
local policies which
require taxi owners with seven or eight seater vehicles to remove one or two of the seats.
There is no real justification for this - all it does is to restrict your ability to provide the sort of
service which you have identified and which you want to provide.'

did he mention LA's who refuse to plate certain vehicles because the rear row access is via a tipping seat?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

SCHEDULE 6 CONSTRUCTION OF MINIBUSES
Seats
9.—(1) No seat shall be fitted to any door of a minibus.
(2) Every seat and every wheelchair anchorage fitted to a minibus shall be fixed to the vehicle.
(3) No seat, other than a wheelchair, fitted to a minibus shall be less than 400 mm wide, and in ascertaining the width of a seat no account shall be taken of any arm-rests, whether or not they are folded back or otherwise put out of use.
(4) No minibus shall be fitted with an anchorage for a wheelchair in such a manner that a wheelchair secured to the anchorage would face either side of the vehicle.
(5) No minibus shall be fitted with a seat—
(a)facing either side of the vehicle and immediately forward of a rear door unless the seat is fitted with an arm-rest or similar device to guard against a passenger on that seat falling through the doorway; or
(b)so placed that a passenger on it would, without protection, be liable to be thrown through any doorway which is provided with a power-operated door or down any steps, unless the vehicle is fitted with a screen or guard which affords adequate protection against that occurrence.

had a ride in the back on an E7 today......awful - not a patch on my Transit Tourneo which had proper seating, plush covered, passengers get the full "pallet" experience in the E7

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No they haven't done that or if they have they haven't made it public. Also the same vehicle can be used for private hire with 8 seats and they haven't said which of the 8 seats isn't insured. Stupid IMO but there you go,

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Is there a link for this on here?

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!