Taxi Driver Online

Pulled into the local center for learning dificultys today 9am and the lads with the yellow jackets were there checking vehicles. One of our local bus companies had a bald tyre and a faulty shocker on one vehicle and no Plate on an 8 seater he uses (he has been told he needs it plated time and time again). They were sent on their way and told to get it fixed. Within 2 hours members of his (ex) staff were calling in to ask if we had any jobs going as he had told them they no longer had a job and that the Council had taken all his contracts from him. Shire Hall were later rushing their own buses in to take the clients home. Looks like they are getting on the ball.

I suppose the council's schools department, by taking away the contracts, are doing the job that the council's licensing department should be doing.

Maybe we should be paying our license fees to them.

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IDFIMH

Taximan, which centre was that? It's usually been the case that FOD have the least amount of enforcement followed closely by Gloucester and Tewkesbury.

Royal Forest Centre in Cinderford. We see them out here once every few months. Never had some one lose all his work though usually just a warning and a get it fixed instruction. Its good to see though because we have no enforcement here at all some ops just take a private car if they are short.

I know the feeling mate, whenever they we ask for enforcement to deal with all the ranked private hires, they come out and start working their way down the main taxi rank handing out points to taxi drivers for vehicles being dirty and wrong sized fire extinguishers.

Why have they got the wrong size fire extinguishers? Do they not get checked when plated?

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Grandad,

Why have the correct ones?

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IDFIMH

The old conditions book (pre 2003) just required a fire extinguisher, then in 2003, it was amended to say 1kg extinguisher, but most if not all of the drivers working from before 2003 were not given the new rules so they were not aware of the change and some others just did not read them properly.
Another point is that the local council testing station was closed down, the site sold to Morrisons and the work outsourced to about 12 independent testing stations, all with their own very different ways of conducting what should be a standard test.

Hang on a minute, are you saying that the rule was changed SEVEN YEARS AGO and you still have driver with the wrong size extinguisher? In Nottingham you would have had to change your extinguisher during that time because they are deemed to be out of date after 5 years. I can't believe that your drivers and testing staff can be that foolish that they have not noticed that they were wrong in seven years.

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Grandad,

Your right there mate our lot are keen as hell on them, they even note the pressure guage on tests and spot checks, if the pressure has fallen inside the cannister they'll fail you.

So what one of these does the TX4 have to carry????

Ouch!

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Grandad,