Taxi Driver Online

Nothing particularly new here, but would be interesting to know who precisely this person is, and how all this got into the press. Doesn't really sound like you're ordinary member of the public moaning that a driver doesn't know where he's going

Slightly odd trade-speak in the headline too about a 'Wolverhampton-plated' driver. On the other hand, the whole article refers to the t-word, while it's presumably about PHVs plated in Wolverhampton.


Wolverhampton-plated taxi driver 'didn't know where he was going', Normanby man says

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... t-24844447

Shane Bowen questioned how the driver could operate in Redcar and Cleveland, but the council said out-of-area taxi drivers were not uncommon and there was no law against it

A council which received a complaint about an out-of-area taxi driver who didn’t know where he was going says no laws were broken.

Shane Bowen contacted Redcar and Cleveland Council to express concern after taking a journey in a taxi with a Wolverhampton plate. Mr Bowen said the driver “didn’t know where he was going and had very little knowledge of the area”.

The Normanby man said: “Surely this is a safety issue and could lead to all kinds of problems in an emergency situation? What if a vulnerable person was stranded somewhere remote and needed a taxi urgently, how would the taxi driver locate them?”

Mr Bowen said he assumed that taxi drivers would have an in-depth knowledge of the area they were operating in and questioned how this could be transferred elsewhere.

A spokeswoman for the council said: “It is not uncommon for taxi drivers to be operating in different areas to where they were licensed. There is no law that prevents this.

“Though it varies from council to council, all drivers licensed by Redcar and Cleveland must reach a certain standard before they are deemed fit and proper to be licensed which involves passing a medical, driving standards test, knowledge test and satisfactory police check.”

Last year the council moved to beef up licensing standards which have to be adhered to by taxi drivers registered in the borough, which resulted from new statutory guidelines aiming to weed out rogue drivers.

A relative/friend of one of the drivers, or one of the operators.

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