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Hi, recently a couple of taxis on the rank nearly got booked by parking wardens. The drivers were stood next to the cabs chatting away waiting for a job to come. The wardens said they have been told to book cabs if driver is not sat inside - as drivers must be sat inside the cab at all times?!!

Is this a case of over zealous wardens or do they have any legal standing behind them?

Any information on this is most helpful. Thanks.

We've got the same round our way for overanking which is much worse than not being inside your motor, just be right with them and they'll go away.

Ask for there names and there number if any and report them to the council, as long as your within the vicinity of your cab your free to get out at any time, take a photo of them if you have a camera or one on your phone and I bet they wont be back in a hurry

I think a ticket would be justified if the vehicle is left unattended, standing by a cab is not leaving it unattended.

You need to speak to whoever controls the wardens and see they change their stance. Else complain to the council if they control them, or the Chief Constable if he does.

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Here is your answer, again in the TPCA. You may not leave your carriage "unattended" it does not say you must be superglued to the horse. How would you feed it?

62 Penalties in case of carriages being unattended at places of public resort
If the driver of any such 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 [level 1 on the standard
scale] for such offence; and in default of payment of the said penalty upon conviction,
and of the expences 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 expences, 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
said produce shall be paid to the proprietor of such hackney carriage.
Amendment
Maximum penalty increased by the Criminal Law Act 197 7, s 31 (6), and converted to a level on
the standard scale by the Criminal Justice Act 1982, ss 37,46.