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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 7:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment because Liverpool council ‘does not recognise training scheme’ Cabbie and dad-of-three Chris James, 35, says situation will leave him on scrapheap after training licence expires Up to 80 trainee cab drivers working for taxi firm Delta could find themselves unemployed because Liverpool council refuses to recognise the company’s training programme. Sefton-based Delta was granted a private operator’s licence by the city council in November last year. But the firm’s driver training scheme is not acknowledged by Liverpool council – meaning Delta’s newest recruits are currently unable to earn their full private hire licence in the city. Dad-of-three Chris James, 35, from Seacombe, who began working for Delta last November, said: “This easily affects about 80 of us. Liverpool city council is basically stopping us from working. “This will leave me in a position where I can’t work after my badge expires in a couple of months time. We’re just in limbo and there’s nothing we can do. “We physically won’t be allowed to work in Liverpool and no other taxi company will take us on.” He added: “I’ve got three kids and one of them is disabled. I’ve also got my wife to look after and my house to pay for. I’m very worried.” Liverpool council says it does not currently recognise Delta’s training scheme, provided by an external agency called Antrec, although the authority is currently reviewing its list of approved taxi driver training programmes. Private hire licences in Liverpool are earned in two phases – firstly, by enrolling on a course with an approved training provider for a year; secondly, by converting this into a full permit after 12 months and passing ‘the knowledge’. According to Mr James, any Liverpool-registered Delta driver who currently only has a one-year training licence faces being thrown onto the scrapheap when this expires because the city council will not recognise the full Antrec private hire qualification. A council spokesman said: “Private hire drivers have to go through an approved training provider. Delta’s training is provided by Antrec, which is not on our list of approved providers. “At the moment we are reviewing this and other aspects of training provision.” source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/up- ... rs-9471763 |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 7:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
Wouldn't it have made sense for Delta to train those drivers on an authorised course? Or is that just too f***ing simple? 
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| Author: | blackpool [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
Probably would have cost them ! |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
blackpool wrote: Probably would have cost them ! or they wouldn't have made any money more like ffs |
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| Author: | toots [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
He could always take his knowledge test for Wirral, it's not like he'll be left unemployed 
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| Author: | grandad [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
toots wrote: He could always take his knowledge test for Wirral, it's not like he'll be left unemployed Ah, but that would kill the story. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
rats feeding on rats - wtf is skull ffs |
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
toots wrote: He could always take his knowledge test for Wirral, it's not like he'll be left unemployed You are here, the chippy is across the road around the corner, how do you get to it 
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| Author: | toots [ Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
skippy41 wrote: toots wrote: He could always take his knowledge test for Wirral, it's not like he'll be left unemployed You are here, the chippy is across the road around the corner, how do you get to it I phone you and ask for directions, it's a bit different tho I don't know your area, I don't live there. The guy in this case lives on the Wirral ffs it should be a piece of cake for him 
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
toots wrote: skippy41 wrote: toots wrote: He could always take his knowledge test for Wirral, it's not like he'll be left unemployed You are here, the chippy is across the road around the corner, how do you get to it I phone you and ask for directions, it's a bit different tho I don't know your area, I don't live there. The guy in this case lives on the Wirral ffs it should be a piece of cake for him If you drive into the river you missed he tunnel
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| Author: | toots [ Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Up to 80 trainee Delta drivers face unemployment |
If you drive into the river Skip you've missed both tunnels and a far off bridge
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