When the IOL become a body I can trust maybe, until that time absolutely no chance.

CC

How would that make a difference and what is your mistrust of it now CC?

So how would you distinguish those you would like to ply for hire against those you wouldn't within your favoured single tier licence?

The Institute of Licensing is undertaking a survey, about the Taxi Service industry, this survey will be used as a tool to lobby the Government reform on the outdated legislation response are wanted from not only Licensing Officers, but users and also the workers within in the trade.


If you have time for the trade then take a few minutes if you can to take part in the survey
http://www.instituteoflicensing.org/taxireform.html

Me thinks some one taketh the Pith !!

On the contrary, I think if we disagree with anything then the only course of action should be to make your views known. I have no idea how influential these people are and only came across their link in another forum discussion and thought it may be useful here also. If what they propose is going to affect us then our views will only be heard if we make them known rather than talk amongst ourselves, IMO.

I know where your coming from stf but in so far as I am concerned the IOL have never been particular fans of the cab trade, they appear to support delimitation, they are continually calling for new taxi legislation without actually telling people what the new legislation should be.

Their plan for the taxi trade announced last year after another consultation was ridiculed, after they said we shoul have a single tier made up of three different tiers, it would have been unenforcable imo.

They call for new laws, as stated, but any new laws will not be that far away from what we already have, so lets keep the current legislation and modify it.

CC

They are a whoop of licensing officers who advise each other and councils on licensing laws bloodnock

CC

What I will say about the IoL is that they are a bit of a weird lot.

Despite being invited to join the Meetings of Minds group, they still seem to think they can cure all the trade's woes on their own, and that's a bit daft.

They haven't quite grasped that for anything to go forward they need the support of the other major stakeholders in the trade.

Their continual banging on about a single tier system might have some support, but it ain't going to happen.

If they can answer the question as to how they are going to get the London black cab trade and the London private hire trade all meeting the same standards and entry requirements, then maybe I would give that policy more credence.

But any of us with more than two brain cells knows that will never happen, which makes it all the more strange the IoL think it could.