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Taxi drivers broke pre-book pick-up rules



TWO Southampton taxi drivers have been fined after picking up passengers who had not pre-booked.

The court heard how two city council officials carrying out random checks saw a customer ask cabbie Yadgar Kurshid, who was parked in Bedford Place, to take him to the Grosvenor Casino.

Kurshid, 43, of Shirley Road, pleaded guilty before city magistrates to breaching his private hire licence and not having the appropriate insurance.

He said at the time he didn’t realise he was breaking the law.

He said: “I phoned my operator and made the booking. My job is all I have. I had no intention of breaking the law. We all make mistakes.”

He was fined £150 with a £35 surcharge fee and £200 costs.

Prosecutor Mary Kigonya said the second defendant, Davidson Tshuma, picked up two customers at Leisureworld, not realising they were city council officials making a test purchase.

Tshuma, 38, of Northbrook Road, Southampton, admitted two similar charges. He was fined £200 with a £30 surcharge fee and £200 costs.

He said he had only been in the job for four months and was using his wages to help his sick mother.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Some day in the not to distant future such crimes will be a thing of past here because there will be through increased migration a dilution and collapse of our legal system until we end up with the same level of unregulation and lawlessness as Iraq or Syria.

So if you pick up illegally in ph we could take your right hand off for first offence,and get rid of all women drivers

I was under the impression that the person wanting the journey had to be the one making the booking, not the driver - although the driver can make the booking if the job goes to someone else. However as long as the booking is made through the office and properly dispatched does it matter (legally) who makes and gets it ?

I've radioed the office and made a return booking for passengers and subsequently done the booking, have I broken the law ?

My view is it doesn't matter how the booking gets to the booking office. As long as it goes through that booking office it doesn't matter which driver gets the job back from said booking office.

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IDFIMH

That's my opinion as well.

So if I'm parked at the side of the road in a PH vehicle and an undercover licensing officer approaches and asks to get in, and I explain I can't take jobs off the street but will radio the office and order a cab for them, and then the office sends the job to me do I commit any offence ?

The bookings gone through the office but does it matter WHO makes the booking ?

In my view you don't commit an offence under PH operating regs, but maybe a touting offence could be considered.

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IDFIMH

We have a booking app that logs the job straight onto the dispatch system without being touched by human hand. I guess most firms with a dispatch system now have this.

Let's say you are car 1 in the zone. Someone approaches for a ride. You could easily book the job onto the system using the app on your own smart phone anticipating that as car one it will pop up on your datahead. Simples?

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Nobody told me to use my initiative. To err is human to arr is pirate.

But you don't have an UBER - which means you're paying a fee each week to a radio circuit

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

All Journo's are a Waste of Rations.

But what is the difference between an Uber auto dispatch job, and a circuit auto dispatch job?

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IDFIMH

the booking is received in the district with a circuit

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Pre booking is a week , a day, ahour , a minute,in time but who knows if someone asks you on the street phone your office hand them your phone and let them book it in , then let them into your car & take them .NO LAW HAS BEEN BROKEN.if you are a one man band have a booking form in you car and just get them to fill in basic details.
No council have not stated how much time is involved for a Pre booking.

What about just telling the punter,im not a "taxi" mate.Youll have to ring one or flag one down

If someone books you for a one-way job then wants a return, that is permissible under the law, as is taking another booking from one of their friends at the same pick-up point.