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grandad
 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:00 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
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****STOP****PRESS****
This weekend a Blue Vauxhall Zafira with a "for hire" taxi topsign has appeared on our streets. It is not licensedyet although the paperwork has been submitted.
Our enforcement team say that they can't do anything unless a customer complains that they have been charged by the driver. #-o #-o #-o

They can do him for 'touting' without the need of even speaking to him.

You know that, I know that, everyone on here knows that but our Council are like Ostriches.

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 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:22 am 
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grandad wrote:
Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
****STOP****PRESS****
This weekend a Blue Vauxhall Zafira with a "for hire" taxi topsign has appeared on our streets. It is not licensedyet although the paperwork has been submitted.
Our enforcement team say that they can't do anything unless a customer complains that they have been charged by the driver. #-o #-o #-o

They can do him for 'touting' without the need of even speaking to him.

You know that, I know that, everyone on here knows that but our Council are like Ostriches.


what, big fat ugly birds?

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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:38 pm 
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grandad wrote:
Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
****STOP****PRESS****
This weekend a Blue Vauxhall Zafira with a "for hire" taxi topsign has appeared on our streets. It is not licensedyet although the paperwork has been submitted.
Our enforcement team say that they can't do anything unless a customer complains that they have been charged by the driver. #-o #-o #-o

They can do him for 'touting' without the need of even speaking to him.

You know that, I know that, everyone on here knows that but our Council are like Ostriches.

Of course you could also report any illegal happenings to the police.

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silvercab
 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2014 8:13 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
****STOP****PRESS****
This weekend a Blue Vauxhall Zafira with a "for hire" taxi topsign has appeared on our streets. It is not licensedyet although the paperwork has been submitted.
Our enforcement team say that they can't do anything unless a customer complains that they have been charged by the driver. #-o #-o #-o

They can do him for 'touting' without the need of even speaking to him.


Don't you mean plying for hire without a licence
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Cheersdrive
 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2014 5:49 pm 
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Exactly the same is happening in Bristol..........we have cars working out of private hire offices that are licensed in places as far afield as Yorkshire, Cornwall and numerous Welsh towns and cities.
Whilst I was being pulled for yet another roadside MOT by our hackney officers and VOSA I asked what they were doing about all these out of town cars and was told only the police could stop them!
These cars may work from an office during the daytime, but look around the city centre any evening and it's a complete free for all with these guys even making their own ranks in certain areas of the city. I wonder if the licensing boys will sit up and take notice when they realise their income is dropping as no one is licensing a PHV in the Bristol area?
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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2014 10:34 pm 
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silvercab wrote:
Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
****STOP****PRESS****
This weekend a Blue Vauxhall Zafira with a "for hire" taxi topsign has appeared on our streets. It is not licensedyet although the paperwork has been submitted.
Our enforcement team say that they can't do anything unless a customer complains that they have been charged by the driver. #-o #-o #-o

They can do him for 'touting' without the need of even speaking to him.


Don't you mean plying for hire without a licence

They could do both, but it's easier, IMO, to go the touting route.

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silvercab
 Post subject: Re: it's official
PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 1:35 am 
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Sussex wrote:
They can do him for 'touting' without the need of even speaking to him.


silvercab wrote:
Don't you mean plying for hire without a licence

Sussex wrote:
They could do both, but it's easier, IMO, to go the touting route.


Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)
Taxi touts
SECTION 167 Touting for hire car services.
(1) Subject to the following provisions, it is an offence, in a public place, to solicit persons to hire vehicles to carry them as passengers.


(2) Subsection (1) above does not imply that the soliciting must refer to any particular vehicle nor is the mere display of a sign on a vehicle that the vehicle is for hire, soliciting within that subsection.

Oddy v Bugbugs was a lesson on the diffetence http://www.richardbuxton.co.uk/v3.0/node/161
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