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tcabbie
 Post subject: 5 YEAR BAN FOR TOUTERS
PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:16 pm 
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Wycombe district council are going to bring in a 5 year ban on your taxi license for touting, not long enough it should be a life ban
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tcabbie wrote:
Wycombe district council are going to bring in a 5 year ban on your taxi license for touting, not long enough it should be a life ban

Quite interesting, and not a bad idea.

But are they authorised to write statutes? :?

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I suppose that such a punishment is not specifically stated in the statutes, but as usual it would come down to what was deemed reasonable in court.

But are we actually referring to touting here, or 'merely' plying for hire by PH vehicles?

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TDO wrote:
But are we actually referring to touting here, or 'merely' plying for hire by PH vehicles?


Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference?

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Touting is approaching someone and verbally importuning them rather than just sitting in a public place in a vehicle with a view to securing custom, ie plying for hire.

Neither taxi/HC nor PH drivers can tout, but clearly taxis/HCs can ply for hire, while PH can't.

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TDO wrote:
Touting is approaching someone and verbally importuning them rather than just sitting in a public place in a vehicle with a view to securing custom, ie plying for hire.

Neither taxi/HC nor PH drivers can tout, but clearly taxis/HCs can ply for hire, while PH can't.


Thats about the most perfect definition!

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so what about the illegal ones in their private cars who dont have a taxi/PH licence to start with?
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steveo wrote:
so what about the illegal ones in their private cars who dont have a taxi/PH licence to start with?

Well they're going to be banned for 6 years. :roll: :roll:

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In London if your caught, you get a reprimand from the PH wing of the PCO.

A huge detterent if there ever was one. :roll:
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Bart wrote:
TDO wrote:
But are we actually referring to touting here, or 'merely' plying for hire by PH vehicles?


Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference?


I think dusty did a good job of explaining the difference but it should also be known that as of 1 December 2003 Taxi touting-drivers approaching passengers directly rather than through a licensed operator, became a recordable offence.

Illegal taxi drivers caught touting for business with unlicensed vehicles risk being fingerprinted and having their DNA recorded on the national criminal database.

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If wycombe council can do it, why can't the pco in london?

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wasn't deregulation supposed to put an end to all this???
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I can't ever recall taxi touting being mentioned in the context of 'deregulation' - could you explain?

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