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PH operators given six months to comply with new Bradford Council rules

LICENSED operators of private hire and hackney carriage vehicles operating across the Bradford district have six months to comply with new rules being enforced by the Council.

The authority's Regulatory and Appeals Committee yesterday unanimously approved plans by Bradford Licensing Service designed to create a uniform approach for standards across West Yorkshire.

The committee was told that at present, a hackney carriage can lawfully be used for pre-booked work outside its district, with around 200 out-of-area drivers currently operating across Bradford, many from the Lancashire borough of Rossendale.

Under the new rules, advance bookings taken for hackney carriage vehicles licensed by another authority must be maintained in a completely separate register of bookings, available for inspection by the Council.

A separate telephone line and number must also be used, with a pre-recorded intercept message on the unique booking line stating that the driver and vehicle is not licensed by Bradford Council, with customers having to deal with the relevant licensing authority in the event of any complaint.

Chairman of the committee, Councillor David Warburton (Lab, Wyke), said: "Safeguarding the public is our top priority, and this will help in bringing all West Yorkshire authorities together."

Operators must officially adhere to the new guidelines by August 17.

source: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... s/?ref=rss

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

All well and good if Enforcement Officers do the job they are paid for ie. enforce the rules in the spirit of the Law.

thats a lot of extra work as most booking and dispatch software isn't designed to differentiate

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

and just how that fits in to the spirit of the deregulation act is?

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

Hackney's aren't part of the booking process sections of the dereg act.

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IDFIMH

which makes this all about as much use as?

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

It's quite simple for the operator to differentiate and put the driver on the appropriate telephone system if they want that driver to work for them so much I think there may well be more applications for Bradford licences in the next 6 months

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

[quote I think there may well be more applications for Bradford licences in the next 6 months[/quote]

Or they will move on like a plaque of locusts to another borough.

But these are working as PH on a PH board so I would have thought that the "spirit" of the law implied records should be kept

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector