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Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Cabbies told to clean up their act
Cabbies told to clean up their act
Inspections by licensing officers found many Cardiff taxis in "poor condition"

October 4 2011

Strict new measures could be introduced to raise the standards of Cardiff’s ageing hail-and-ride taxi fleet.

It comes after inspections by Cardiff council licensing officers found many of the city’s 950 hackney carriages were in “poor condition”.

Over the past six months, 388 warnings were issued to cabbies about the condition of their vehicle, such as damaged bodywork, missing wheel trims and defective headlights.

It compares to 295 warnings over the same period last year.

In May, a joint operation between the council and South Wales Police stopped and checked 79 vehicles.

Of these, 26% were given a verbal warning, 18% received a Stop Notice prohibiting use until the fault is fixed, 15% received a Pre-Stop Notice and 16% were referred to the council’s public protection committee.

However, the taxi trade hit back last night, saying many of the problems were only “cosmetic” damage and did not pose a danger to the public.

The rise in complaints comes after the testing regime changed last year so that hackney carriages were no longer tested only at the Cardiff Bus Testing Facility on Sloper Road.

Cardiff Hackney Carriage Association chairman Mathab Khan, who is calling for the maximum age restriction for cabs to be increased from 10 to 14 years, labelled the suggestions “nonsense”.

Mr Khan said replacing standard saloons for purpose-built, London-style black cabs would cost drivers “millions of pounds” and would be unaffordable.

Source; http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonl ... -29531620/
Author:  cabby john [ Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cabbies told to clean up their act
Once again our local rag that seems to have an agenda against us is the doing its best to denigrate Cardiff Hackneys , once again without checking the facts or contents of the report.Yes I have been to the press commission (as they deny us the right of reply) and guess what..................P.C say it is alright.


The report is the work of a child and not a very bright one at that, it is full of inaccuracies and quite frankly will be ripped apart. I will at a later time try and find the report and download it.

The report basially kicks off from around section 4.1.


http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ObjView.asp?O ... age=&xxx=0
Author:  Sussex [ Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cabbies told to clean up their act
Local trade ain't happy at all.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonl ... -29537081/
Author:  Doom [ Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cabbies told to clean up their act
Looks like a classic oversupply scenario, not enough jobs to go round, too many license's, pay the mortgage or replace that tyre, I guess the tyre won't always send the baliffs round.

Well done Cardiff Council, you really pulled one off there ruining your cab trade for basically ever, as the old saying goes, quality or quantity, can't have both, but then again folks like you are never wrong, even when you are wrong, you still aren't wrong, you said so didn't you. =D> =D> =D>

Cardiff cabbies need Cabtain Jack Hackless and TORCHCAB it's the easy way out to save your personal world. :D
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