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i am a aylesbury hackney cab driver i have been for 15 years our hackney work is ok at the moment but 1 concern our drivers have to face is the illigal tradin when private hires take unbooked fares from our rank that is illigal but the genral public dont care so the message i want to put out is that why PH do this.

Because the LG (MP) Act 1976 made all PH licensed & respectable.

Before that when PH was unlicensed & unregulated, they were few & far between. I was about in those days on car hire as it was then & you kept your head down low.

Now that they are licensed as PH, anything goes with most of them, because they have the repectability of being licensed.

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Brummie Cabbie.

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Have you got a phone with video capture? If so use your phone to take videos of these drivers picking flaggers up and hand it into your LO.

Some PH do this because they can feel safe in the knowledge that your licensing officers are tucked up in bed.

Have proper enforcement and the number of illegal pick ups will diminish.

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IDFIMH

oh no, another "PH stole my work" thread.......

Take it you gotta a problem with members raising general concerns about their income and public safety ?

only when its urban myth/fairy tale/rabble rousing

wheres THE PROOF?

unequivacle, 100%, video, witnessed and confirmed PROOF

Tell me, what measures have you taken to drum up trade?

adverts, website, subs to online services, rent a radio/data?

You forgot to remind us on this thread that your Aylesbury Vale plates are worth a reported £80-90K.

Then you tell us on this thread that PH in your area are nicking 'Hackney work'!

Are you getting my drift??

Hackney punters standing on a cab rank will not wait all night for you & your HC mates to come back to take them home after you have done your first 47 jobs of the night.

Or worse still, to wait until you or one of your mates get up the next morning, because your pockets were full of money the previous night so you decided to call it a day & went home to bed.

If the HC plate is worth £80-90K, then there must be a reason for that.

If PH are 'stealing' street work, instead of HC picking that work up, then there must be a reason for that.

The bottom line is that the HC trade needs to provide a good public service & it would seem that they may not be providing a GOOD service to the public.

As the saying goes, 'be careful what you wish for!'

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Im still confused


Can a hack have a radio/data thing/circuit and WORK the same as a PH with the rank to fall back on?

course they can!

What caused the confusion then?

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Brummie Cabbie.

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some sobbing hack blaming the private hire trade for falling passenger figures

but im over it now

Nothing wrong with raising concerns, but it's the assumption that all PH are at it that I think you need to reassess.

The public are always covered when PH pick up illegally, but you do have a point re your income at threat.

But times have changed and people will just get into whatever is the nearest. Not excusing it, but that's the reality.

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IDFIMH

[quote="Sussex"][quote="tx_op"]
The public are always covered when PH pick up illegally, quote]


Can i hit my head against the wall now ?????

Why, because they are covered? I take it that you would prefer the public not to be covered.

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Grandad,

It may shock 1 (well 2 at least) but ive NEVER (as a PHV) stopped and picked up any unbooked passenger, i HAVE told them they need to pre-book and left em with a card.

on the other hand, i LIVE in the LA im plated by, 2 HC's living a few doors up are plated by the next LA along, if they wanna take a flag outside my house i dont give a monkeys, let em