Taxi Driver Online

The Times (London)

]uly 3, 2006, Monday

HEADLINE: Smoking fine

An off-duty taxi driver was fined for flouting the smoking ban in Scotland after letting his daughter light up in the car he uses for work. Robert Cowan, 61, from Tayport, Fife, was fined £ 200 and his daughter, Amanda, given a £ 50 penalty, which Dundee City Council agreed to change to a warning after an appeal.
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that case was months ago, all the cabbies are back to fag in face whilst driving etc, even the pubs say they haven,t seen the wardens for some time , maybe it was just scare tactics?

I think the case was reported again because the appeal had been decided, and the daughter was given a warning instead of a fine but the driver's fine was upheld.

Funny that it wasnt reported in the courier though because they made a big enough song and dance about it at the time.

Incidentally, it was reported at the time that it was a Dundee taxi driver, but in fact he drives in St Andrews on a Fife plate and just happened to be in Dundee when he got caught.

thanks for puting the record straight fae fife ,the posting read the daughter got fined, the first cabbie who got caught is alegedly (a word im getting used to) fighting his case with the financial backing of the daily record,
there has been loads going on in dundee with the new office opening ,203020 aleged takeover, plus tons of cab direct taxis being handed back, 6 seaters etc, id love to tell you about it but im going to my kip

tell us more mr wav, especially the bit about cabdirect

i was told by the top dog at townhouse kirkcaldy that the only way round smoking while using the taxi for private use was to remove the roofsign, the plates and the meter hardly worth the effort on the weekly shopping run

ill tell you about the cabs being returned but ill put it in a new thread