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Excuse my ignorance but can someboby explain what the problem is here apart from the obvious of HC yet again working PH systems

Nothing stopping HCs working PH systems.

Surely if a taxi is booked then it doesn't matter where the office is. I've been to Oxford to pick a fare up before now. Having said that if a HC is being flagged outside it's LA area then surely that is illegal as they are not licenced to work that area therefore the law should be upheld.

I am aware that Berwick enforcement officers use a van outside their LA & I believe it has some nice flashing lights too.

Stopping & checking Berwick licensed Hackneys outside their own LA sounds a bit 'iffy'.

But observing transgressions by Berwick Hackneys & then acting upon corroborated evidence (by a second enforcement officer) on the following working day, would seem OK.

The only person allowed to stop a hackney or private hire: is a police officer

In that case you better tell our enforcement officers in Brum, because they regularly do spot checks almost always without police participation or assistance.

At the moment hackney Radio Companies do not need to be licensed.. if they were licensed and all three licences had to be issued by the same council. it would stop the problem.... or so it is believed.....

I know there's nothing stopping them I share a system with 87 of them but if you want to be PH then be a PH why be both could it be 'having your cake an eatin it'

And the same could be said vica-versa. Why be PH only when HC gives better utilisation of the vehicle & therefore a better service (by that vehicle) to the public.