Taxi Driver Online

Worth a read through this thread:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?sho ... ntry991612

if you read the act - a taxi can actually park un-manned on a rank

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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Isn't it strange how many times cabbies get tickets on ranks when they are a) popping off to the loo, or b) helping some blind person to the shops?

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IDFIMH

and all they need do is ask another driver to hold the reins

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

As I've said many times before, There is no law saying that you must pay a PCN. All you need to do is request a bill of exchange which you are well within your rights to do and a contract which you signed where you agreed to this. In statue it's not law. If they continue to contact you they're breaking section one of the protection from harassment act.

You can park wherever you like it's not law it's a statute, it's legislation it has the force of the law if you agree to it and sign your name on the bottom of the ticket.

I think the taxi rank parking issue is different from, say, a shopping parking issue.

The ranks are patrolled by enforcers contracted by the council, and have a law allowing them to do just that.

Shopping parking is enforced via contract law, rank paying is controlled by statute via Traffic Orders.

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62 Penalties in case of carriages being unattended at places of public resort.

If the driver of any hackney carriage leave it in any street or at any place of public resort or entertainment, whether it be hired or not, without some one proper to take care of it, any constable may drive away such hackney carriage and deposit it, and the horse or horses harnessed thereto, at some neighbouring livery stable or other place of safe custody; and such driver shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [F19level 1 on the standard scale]for such offence; and in default of payment of the said penalty upon conviction, and of the expenses of taking and keeping the said hackney carriage and horse or horses, the same, together with the harness belonging thereto, or any of them, shall be sold by order of the justice before whom such conviction is made, and after deducting from the produce of such sale the amount of the said penalty, and of all costs and expenses, as well of the proceedings before such justice as of the taking, keeping, and sale of the said hackney carriage, and of the said horse or horses and harness, the surplus (if any) of the g.,aid produce shall be paid to the proprietor of such hackney carriage.

I highlight the following;

without some one proper to take care of it

Therefore if I give the keys to the chap behind and ask him to take care of it?????

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