bloodnock wrote:
Subsection 2 seems to contradict subsection 1 if the booking was made to the driver by a passenger who may have been somewhere else at the time they booked the run....how the hell does a driver know where someone with a mobile at the time physically is when they book a taxi, they could have pre booked the run a week before from anywhere in the world.
Not entirely sure what you mean, but don't think the location of the punter is at all relevant to what this section is saying - it's the location of the *driver* when "the request for its hiring was received".
So basically, as long as you're in your own area when you take the booking then the punter could be anywhere.
Or if you're on a job to another area, or returning to your own area then that's fine as well.
But, if I'm reading it correctly then a quirk is that you as a Borders-licensed cab could do a run from Edinburgh to Fife (say), but if you were on that job then you couldn't take another job, because it's not one where the hire starts or finishes in your area, but you could take a call in Fife once you've dumped the passenger because you just have to be returning to your area, and it's irrelevant where you're returning from
Another quirk I think is that I lived in Dundee for most of the time I've had a Fife plate, but couldn't take calls when at home in Dundee, because to take a call in Dundee I would have to either be on a job to there or returning to Fife from a job or with a job
So if I was going to work in Fife from home in Dundee I could take a job as long as I was half way across the Tay Bridge (a mile and a half long?), so not that easy to judge when it was legal to take a call
(I'm assuming the Dundee/Fife border is half way across the Tay Bridge, but to be honest I'm not 100% sure where it is
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By the same token, if you're in Edinburgh on a job then you can take a call, but you can't if you're in Edinburgh shopping?
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This rather Implies that booking a Pre Booked taxi or PH from anywhere to anywhere is ok and that it seems to be targeting Out of Area Hacks and Opportunist out of Area PH's as well as out of area hacks from loitering within another area in the hope of picking up work off the street.
Don't think it's so much targeting out of area cars picking up off the street as simply targeting pre-booked operations licensed in one area from working almost wholly in another area.
Say Edinburgh said that all PH had to be brand new to be plated, and off the road after three years old. So a firm licenses hundreds of PHCs in the Borders to get round this, and runs them from a base in Selkirk, but they're all actually working in and stationed in Edinburgh.
That would be OK in England (even before the Deregulation Act 2015), but not allowed in Scotland because of these rules.