Taxi Driver Online

Well this is certainly worth a new thread, and not just added to the TransComm thread, in my opinion at least

So the Greater Manc authorities have written in response to the Wolverhampton top bod's oral evidence to the committee, basically saying he was talking out of his backside regarding the claim that Wolverhampton did nothing proactive in relation to building up licence numbers.

In particular, they highlight that Wolves PHVs can get an MoT anywhere in the country in lieu of a standard council 'taxi' compliance test.

And also that Wolves 'onboarded' drivers by going out and about across the country rather than requiring drivers to visit Wolverhampton

(Strange they use the term 'onboarding', which is a distinctly Uber-esque term, maybe taken on by the likes of Veezu, rather than one used by licensing authorities.)

There's a link below to a useful summary on TaxiPoint, but the source document isn't that long, and only really four pages of stuff (ignoring the preliminaries etc), so a link to that as well.

Kudos to Taxi Point as usual for keeping an eye on this stuff

But the submission is slightly odd because it's by Salford Council, but on behalf of all the Greater Manc authorities.

So there's a wee clanger in the Taxi Point summary because of that - the headline refers to councils in the plural, then to Salford Council itself, then again to councils in the plural, and then refers to all the Greater Manc authorities. So the prose is slightly illogical in that regard, and the grammar slightly misleading (I'm sure there's a technical word for that kind of thing, but can't think of it offhand).

But it's almost like one of those AI hallucinations, or at least a minor example thereof

Anyway, these are the links:


LICENSING INQUIRY: Councils accuse Wolverhampton of fuelling cross border private hire licensing by allowing out-of-area MOT and onboarding

https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/licen ... censing-by



Salford Council late submission to TransComm:

https://committees.parliament.uk/writte ... 57423/pdf/

Thank goodness it's not just the good folks on TDO that have never fallen for the little old Wolverhampton lie.

They have actively sort out drivers from throughout the UK, which has not only weakened enforcement but has also cost other councils significant loss of licensing income.

I'm delighted Manchester area councils are calling out the Wolverhampton lies.

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IDFIMH

I don't think I have ever seen a group of licensing managers rip the s*** out of one of their own.

But they are correct to do so, and well done to them.

I said at the time of the first lot of oral submissions that Wolverhampton has no friends in the national trade, and the fact and the way these managers reacted merely confirms that.

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IDFIMH

It tickles me that the basket case council can spin that they have such high standards yet allow, as no one is checking, vehicles to have taxi tests that could have three-week-old kebabs in the back, with cars that haven't been cleaned for months, with cars that could have different coloured wings, with vehicles that could have multiple rust spots, with cars that could have ripped and torn seats.

I could go on, but it's no surprise that so many drivers wish to license their vehicles with them.

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IDFIMH