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Author:  The Jester [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:41 pm ]
Post subject:  do you need a landline number
A lot of hacks, and Private Hire Vehicles in the East Riding have the name on the door and a mobile telephone number, surely this is wrong, I thought it had to be a landline office number
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
Vodafone can issue a mobile with its own landline number...

we cant use a mobile "for the purpose of soliciting a booking", but for a chat, or cancellation its fine
Author:  Sussex [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 8:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
The Jester wrote:
A lot of hacks, and Private Hire Vehicles in the East Riding have the name on the door and a mobile telephone number, surely this is wrong, I thought it had to be a landline office number

Hacks don't need (in England and Wales) anything to do with an operator's license, and any operating rules that apply to PH don't apply to hackneys.

As for PH booking numbers, is there a national law that says mobile numbers can't be advertised, cos if there is I've never seen it?

That said all this will become academic when the Law Commission publish their new act, as then all current operating procedures will be out of the window.
Author:  The Jester [ Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
Sussex wrote:
The Jester wrote:
A lot of hacks, and Private Hire Vehicles in the East Riding have the name on the door and a mobile telephone number, surely this is wrong, I thought it had to be a landline office number

Hacks don't need (in England and Wales) anything to do with an operator's license, and any operating rules that apply to PH don't apply to hackneys.

As for PH booking numbers, is there a national law that says mobile numbers can't be advertised, cos if there is I've never seen it?

That said all this will become academic when the Law Commission publish their new act, as then all current operating procedures will be out of the window.

Thank you, all I was thinking was, if a mobile number is advertised, a punter could ring the number, be talking to the driver who would take the booking then take the punter and it would be legal as the job was pre booked.
Author:  grandad [ Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
Sussex wrote:
The Jester wrote:
A lot of hacks, and Private Hire Vehicles in the East Riding have the name on the door and a mobile telephone number, surely this is wrong, I thought it had to be a landline office number

Hacks don't need (in England and Wales) anything to do with an operator's license, and any operating rules that apply to PH don't apply to hackneys.

As for PH booking numbers, is there a national law that says mobile numbers can't be advertised, cos if there is I've never seen it?

That said all this will become academic when the Law Commission publish their new act, as then all current operating procedures will be out of the window.

Drivers here had to remove mobile numbers from their Hackneys a few years ago.
Author:  Sussex [ Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
grandad wrote:
Drivers here had to remove mobile numbers from their Hackneys a few years ago.

But aren't your LOs a bunch of morons?
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sat Jan 26, 2013 11:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
Drivers here had to remove mobile numbers from their Hackneys a few years ago.

But aren't your LOs a bunch of morons?


arent they all?

BUT....here there was a line of invading hacks all with the same mobile number on them, which had to be removed....so its a rule applied to hacks and PH here
Author:  grandad [ Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
Drivers here had to remove mobile numbers from their Hackneys a few years ago.

But aren't your LOs a bunch of morons?

You may form that opinion, but I couldn't possibly comment. :wink:
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: do you need a landline number
grandad wrote:
Sussex wrote:
grandad wrote:
Drivers here had to remove mobile numbers from their Hackneys a few years ago.

But aren't your LOs a bunch of morons?

You may form that opinion, but I couldn't possibly comment. :wink:


ah, they read TDO then i take it?
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