Taxi Driver Online

11 Mar 2008

Only two out of 30 taxis pass spot tests

ONLY two taxis out of 30 stopped at random were given a clean bill of
health in an operation to crack down on law-breaking drivers.

Police and vehicle licensing officers working on Cardiff’s crime crackdown
Operation Maximum Impact said they were “hugely disappointed” by the
results of the four-hour operation on Friday night.

Nearly all of the taxis stopped randomly were found to have bald tyres,
defective lights or other defects that it is a driver’s responsibility to correct.

Seventeen were given immediate prohibition notices which means the
drivers cannot pick up more fares and 10 were given advisory notices
warning them to correct the problems as soon as possible.

Only two of the taxis stopped on Friday night were given a clean bill of health.

Police Constable Richard Satterley, from the Cardiff Central
neighbourhood policing team, said: “Only two passed through completely
clear, which was very disappointing.

“Everyone concerned would have liked to have stopped 30 vehicles and
have every one of them pass. We will be carrying out many more of these
operations in the future.”

The operation follows revelations last year that 902 of Cardiff’s 1,607
cabbies had been warned by officials for breaches during the 2006/7 financial year.

Some 25 of those drivers lost their licences and several of the taxi drivers
stopped on Friday night for breaches will have to appear before the
council’s licensing committee to learn if they face the same fate.

Carl Tritschler, of Dragon Taxis, said that all vehicles working for his firm
went through weekly checks.

He said: “If they’re not up to scratch, they can’t work. It’s likely that the
hackney carriages pulled over as part of this operation were largely independents.”

Eight police officers working with three officers from the Vosa inspection
body and the Cardiff council licensing department took part in the
operation from 7pm to 11pm on Friday.

Source: ic Wales
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I wonder when the last council check was and when the next one will be.

I suspect if these checks were weekly the pass rate would be far higher.

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and......."Seventeen were given immediate prohibition notices which means the
drivers cannot pick up more fares and 10 were given advisory notices
warning them to correct the problems as soon as possible."


so that means these 10 passed the checks as they can continue to pick up? Or were they just 'slightly' illegal?

A car is either roadworthy or not. Sensationalist Headlines!!

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