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New signs on Dudley cabs to help improve safety

New signs will be installed on hackney taxis transporting passengers across Dudley, prompted by safety fears by councillors.

The new rules have been brought in due to an increasing number of taxis from outside the borough travelling into Dudley.

Dudley Council logos costing £1 will be positioned on so-called black cabs under the proposals outlined by the authority’s taxi committee ahead of a meeting tonight. Councillors says signs will be placed on the front nearside and offside vehicle doors adjacent to the handles.

Shaz Saleem, chairman of Dudley Private Hire and Taxi Association, today welcomed the move to help improve safety.

He says the association will be asking for additional signs displaying the individual driver’s number so each can be easily identified.

Mr Saleem, who is managing director of Beacon Taxis, in Dudley, claimed the extra signage would help ensure customers know the driver is registered in the borough.

“We welcome the proposal and I think it is a good move,” he said. “We want to see the driver’s number because you will see what company he works for which it is good if there is an accident and you can identify them or if a driver is coming from outside of Dudley.”

Taxi committee chairman, Councillor Richard Body, had raised the matter with council officers earlier this year.

A report to the taxi committee members’ meeting said: “At a focus group meeting held on the 17th September 2013 the chair of the Taxi Licensing Committee Councillor Richard Body informed the trade that it was his intention to request the Taxi Licensing Committee to consider making it compulsory for the proprietors of hackney carriage vehicles to display the Dudley MBC Logo on their licensed vehicles.

"The signs will be locally sourced and would cost £0.50p each on an initial minimum order of 700 which would allow an initial 350 taxis to display the signage.

“By considering the use of the door signage it will give the travelling public an extra safeguard in recognising a hackney carriage vehicle that has been licensed by this authority.”

Mr Saleem said his members had received reports recently of Birmingham hackney carriage drivers accepting business in the borough.

source: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013 ... ve-safety/

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

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

Now I wonder what the council would say if the driver applied for a similar sized George cross and used the words English born / English speaking driver

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

What would they say if a driver applied for a sign that said English and urdu spoken?

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Grandad,