Taxi Driver Online

So it costs us £400 to get a drivers badge and £300 to licence a car.

If you knew that you had very little chance of being prosecuted (unless a certain vigilant operator spots you) and that, if you were caught operating unlicensed, the a magistrate would fine you between £100 and £200 would you bother to be legal?

I don't want more people sent to prison (it doesn't work and costs too much) but I do want people fined a reasonable amount, in line with what they can afford.

_________________
A member of the Hire or Reward Industry

I suspect that was a first time conviction, note I didn't say first time offence.

Should the offence be repeated, and a conviction gained, then the driver could see his car squashed.

Also that driver now has a conviction that will never come off his CRB, and it would be interesting to see how the insurance companies react to his conviction.

So to answer the question, yes it is worth getting licensed because we are better people than the scum that don't bother.

_________________
IDFIMH

Sussex is totally right,

It is totally worth being licenced, especially because there are unlicenced taxis giving a bad name to legitimate drivers and taking fares that belong to people who do it properly.

there needs to be more measures out there to stop them, I heard something the other day about a mobile website that might be of interest in this subject:

www.taxinumbers.mobi

it looks a bit odd on the internet because its for mobile phones but you get the idea anyway