Can you be on benefits and be a "volunteer" driver.
Sounds like a plan
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| Author: | Sussex [ Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
Letter to taxi operators. You may be already aware of the growing problems with volunteer drivers who are taking away work that could, should and would be better facilitated by the local taxi companies. Well this situation is coming to a point where you may feel you need to take a more detailed notice. Now I also acknowledge that some may feel that I am a bit of a busybody but we need to unite together to fight this now intolerable situation. Should you need any further clarification I am available on the telephone number below. Facts with respect to Somerset County Council: There are 241 volunteer drivers covering 3,335,896 miles, with 127 of these drivers are doing more than 10,000 miles each. They are all paid 45p per every mile. This means that 127 of them are in excess of the HM Revenue and Customs guidelines and are therefore running as a business and not a volunteer. Therefore they are in breach of their insurance and licensing laws pertaining to the paid transport of their clients. All of the involved councils, Mendip, South Somerset, Sedgemoor, West Somerset and Taunton Deane are well aware of this situation and have been for years. Their lack of administrative action has lead to an uneven playing field with regards to pricing of contracted jobs on the @UK system. Leading to a major disadvantage to the legally licensed, insured and regulated, taxi and private hire, operators. This situation has now been brought to the attention of the Transport Minister, Norman Baker, a number of involved MPs and action has been invoked by this operator with the support of two others. Legal opinions suggest volunteer drivers are breaking the law by driving without any insurance and in many cases operating in breach of licensing laws. In addition the HMRC is involved in investigating any breaches in their previously agreed guidelines and I am sure that their finding will become evident soon. Considerable moneys have been put up by the three instigators of the action and legal advice has detailed that there is a case concerning loss of earnings due to the unfair trading situation. I suggest that this would be a good time for any other interested party to involve the concerned solicitors as to their own individual or operators' losses of earnings. Chris Wickham CJW Taxis and Private Hire Thomas Way Glastonbury Telephone 01458 833106 |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
Good call on the above. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
personal mission imo http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Volunte ... story.html I await his comments on the LC.....who are going to hurt this business a lot more than any volunteer |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
At least someone is making a stand |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:59 pm ] |
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edders23 wrote: At least someone is making a stand Like what Bryan has been making a stand about for the last 10 years? |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
Quote: "The volunteer drivers are being employed by social services taking kids to and from school from foster careers," he said. A Somerset County Council spokesman said: "All drivers are CRB checked and given training before taking on any duties. "Volunteer drivers sometimes have to deal with vulnerable people so we make sure they're fully prepared. "Vehicles are checked and must pass an MOT before going on the road. I cant believe the things get written sometimes the local volunteer bureau has a very nice shop/office, well fitted out, several PC workstations and a window full of "vacancies"....... |
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| Author: | silvercab [ Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
Can you be on benefits and be a "volunteer" driver. Sounds like a plan
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
silvercab wrote: Can you be on benefits and be a "volunteer" driver. Sounds like a plan I knew a guy who used his mobility car for ambulance service "volunteer" work.... as far as unemployed goes, dont claimants have to actively seeking work and available to work? which i suppose they could be and still volunteer |
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| Author: | trotskys twin [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
Taxi Drivers Should Unite INDEED NATIONWIDE 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
trotskys twin wrote: Taxi Drivers Should Unite INDEED NATIONWIDE and put a quid on the euro-lottery cos the odds are better |
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| Author: | trotskys twin [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:12 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: trotskys twin wrote: Taxi Drivers Should Unite INDEED NATIONWIDE and put a quid on the euro-lottery cos the odds are better Which is why their upto their necks in excretia following mugs like YOU YOU THATCHERITE PONCE 
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
wannabeeahack wrote: Quote: "The volunteer drivers are being employed by social services taking kids to and from school from foster careers," he said. A Somerset County Council spokesman said: "All drivers are CRB checked and given training before taking on any duties. "Volunteer drivers sometimes have to deal with vulnerable people so we make sure they're fully prepared. "Vehicles are checked and must pass an MOT before going on the road. I cant believe the things get written sometimes the local volunteer bureau has a very nice shop/office, well fitted out, several PC workstations and a window full of "vacancies"....... Aye, And unlike Every other High street Shop in any town In Britain these guys are on the up courtesy of their generous rates relief and the fact that they rely on Volunteers who do the job for nowt thus doing someone else out of a Job. the Only Non volunteers in the charity sector are the high heid yins who Run or Manages the shops and who often offset their chunky salaries against profits which would otherwise go to the charity. No wonder Britains going to the Dogs, they encourage so many to voluntarily work for nothing and then wonder why the countries in recession and the number of Unemployed goes upwards..thus leaving the ever fewer number of Employers and their employees to pay more in taxation to cover the cost of the jobless who then further increase the need for charity shops or transport. In Short Charity breeds the need for further charity because it's creating a generation of people who rely upon it more and more...a fools folly indeed. 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:23 pm ] |
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trotskys twin wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: trotskys twin wrote: Taxi Drivers Should Unite INDEED NATIONWIDE and put a quid on the euro-lottery cos the odds are better Which is why their upto their necks in excretia following mugs like YOU YOU THATCHERITE PONCE Did you not Know MT has been gone from No 10 quite a while now? Thankfully we will never have a commie PM |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:32 pm ] |
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Quote: :badgrin: Did you not Know MT has been gone from No 10 quite a while now? Thankfully we will never have a commie PM Of course TT does'nt know that yet, because he's secretly Imprisoned in a Siberian Gulag where he's sharing internet access for One Day in his Life with Ivan Denisovich, and he aint privvy to such information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_XFkKN2fzQ |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers should unite to tackle volunteer issue. |
Im no expert but id also guess he was beaten as a child with a rolled up copy of a Tory manifesto or any newspaper that didnt support Khrushchev whilst being forced to listen to "Oh Nikita you will never know" |
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