Taxi Driver Online

Well I did not know there could be telephone vetting? trouble is and it should have been obvious that everybody wants it in writing to watch thier backs, but how is by telephone cheaper?

yes the government should take its own advice and judge the best element or best value of bids

So we spend millions to help them out.
The checking price nearly trebles.
The sevice we get takes forever.
But perhaps the most telling quote from the article is

In spite of the blunders, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee were told that no one had lost their job.

Yes, a lot of huffing and puffing, but where are the taxi unions?

But hang on, this doesn't have anything to do with plate values, so they don't get a dam.

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IDFIMH

of course it does, we have the cabs but not the drivers!

Another often repeated fable.

In the UK (outside of the smoke), we have nearly three drivers for each licensed vehicle. So please tell me where the shortage is there then?

I suspect the problem this trade has, is that it's not that welcoming to new entrants. In restricted areas, the choice is to drive a car, at a time someone else decides for you, and pay him half your earnings for the privilege.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

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IDFIMH

sorry Sussex
but that is bollox
there are 3 licenses issued per taxi, but when they see whats involved a good proportion leave.

Geoff

by the way I repeated the fable to wind you up,

it did that ok, printing all that crap.!

Geoff

I don't think drivers leave because of what they see once they have their license. Those already leave during the licensing process.

The licensed drivers that leave once licensed, are driven out by a number of things. High vehicle running costs, bent operators and having to give half your earnings away.

Of course un-sociable hours and dodgy punters, also play a part, but in the main it's financially not worth their while.

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IDFIMH

Innocent people dubbed criminals

Nearly 200 people have been wrongly accused by the Criminal Records Bureau of having criminal records. The names of 193 people were mistakenly linked with convictions held on the police national computer, BBC Radio Five Live has learned. In some cases the names of those being vetted by the bureau were similar or identical to those of actual criminals. In others, the criminals had given someone else's personal details to the authorities to avoid a police record.

The Home Office said the bureau processed more than 2.5m checks last year and the errors represent a small percentage of its work. The Liverpool-based agency came into operation in March 2002. It was planned as a "one-stop shop" to give employers details about an individual's convictions and cautions, as well as intelligence on them gathered by police.

But the service was beset from the start by problems and delays. For instance, hundreds of pupils had the start of their school term in September 2002 put back because it had failed to provide certificates for teachers. Earlier this month, it emerged that the cost of vetting people working with children had soared £150m over the estimate by Capita, the private firm carrying out the work.

I bet that makes those who have been branded as scum feel so much better.

yes one of those 200 worked for us!
and the difficulty he had to go through to proove his innocense!
Geoff