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DOUBLE TROUBLE: Woking taxi seized after driver found using phone and uninsured

https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/doubl ... -uninsured


...or at least that's the TaxiPoint headline, but of course a lot of people on here will be immediately aware from the photo that it very probably isn't a Woking taxi, but a Guildford-plated car stopped in Woking

(Woking is only eight miles or so from Guildford, but are separate licensing councils, and surely both don't have that particular colour code, which I'm 99.9% certain is Guildford's )

And below the photo is the Facebook post which seems to be the source of the TaxiPoint article above.

Saw this in the comments, which makes sense from the insurance angle, and I can't remember what the details of all this is in terms of badging and insurance requirements, but I'm sure someone on here will know

So if the second comment is true then the official Facebook post is a tad inaccurate, since it implies the driver was badged but off-duty, as opposed to someone without a badge at all

One less puke cpoloured horror on the road

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Which raises the question of how a HC can ever be driven by a garage during repairs or maintenance when the law states that only an HC licence holder can drive a HC.

There is an exemption for mechanics, but I suspect the fella driving this cab was a mate of the licensed driver.

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Mechanic after repairs or service can road test a HC without being a licensed HC driver.