Taxi Driver Online

Nah!.... just another rsole getting out of paying the congestion charge by getting a PH sticker....

can afford a car like that but not the congestion charge..........doubt it

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NO SURRENDER!

It's a well known and accepted fact (Livingstone: LBC : Nick Ferrari: 8/12/06) that people are licensing themselves and their vehicles as Minicabs, or paying a licensed operator a drink to have them 'on the books' to avoid the £8 a day charge.

That small number of pretend minicabs will pale into insignificance when it go's up to a whopping £25 a day, and hundred's, if not a few thousand more cotton on to the cheaper alternative of becoming a minicab.

All the ageing socialist could say in reply to the question, was that he would take action against those who were caught doing it!

. . . . and naturally the first choice for a minicab would be a Roll's Royce or a Bentley?

That must be a damn good account.

I'm pretty sure no-one who would buy a motor for £150/200,000 would give a flying flip about the conjestion charge.

Nor want a sticker in the front and back.

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IDFIMH

You will never get rich by giving money away.fact.

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Former taxi driver

Oh yes they would, big ego boost at the country club telling them he's had one over on Ken......

This loophole was known to the PCO before the 1998 Act came into power. I personally pointed it out to Alan Mathews (Head of Projects) at several meetings pre-legislation.

The legislators did not even have the common sense to require Hire & Reward Insurance - only SD & P - to be shown at the time of getting the vehicle licenced. The idiotic decision to allow vehicles that seated less that five passengers to be licenced was another winner.

You have little understanding of the licencing process for PHV in London if you think "paying a licensed operator a drink to have them 'on the books' to avoid the £8 a day charge" is correct. Registration for exemption from the Congestion Charge is automatically done by the Testing Centres when the vehicle is licenced and has nothing whatsoever to do with operators.

It would be easy to get rid of this loophole:-

1. Make producing H & R insurance compulsory at the time of licencing. (Hire & Reward Insurance being prohibitively expensive by comparison to SD&P)

2. Stop allowing vehicles with less than five seats including the driver being licenced.

3. Return the responsibility for registering vehicles for exemption back to the operators (how it was before the yellow stickers) i.e. if you are not currently working for a PCO Licenced Operator (touting etc) you do not qualify for exemption.

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"Where to, Guv'?. Na sorry not going my way"

So there's no drink that has to be paid?

I'll take back what I said about hundred's if not a couple of thousand will register their cars as Minicabs, and amend that to thousands and thousands!

GBC dont atart the insults again{ageing socialist]
Fact all Chaueffeur vehicles have to be LICENSED .
Im sure that when anomalies are recognised they will be dealt with.
EDUCATE AGITATE ORGANISE!!!!!!!!

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The views expressed by this contributor do not neccesarily reflect the policys of The GMB Nationally or of the GMB London Region.

The same loopholes are in the 76 act, dont worry about it, Terry is right, its a long term problem that wont be sorted overnight

CC

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

what value the ROLLER on trade in when its been a minicab

When you pass your knowledge don't the PCO forward your details to the Inland Revenue? I know I was getting letters from them when I passed and it wasn't me who told them.

Can afford it Mate just can't be bothered with the palaver every day, remembering if they were in or not. Got better things to worry about when you've got that kind of money.

Is that Livingstones motor?