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 Post subject: Manchester PH Swoop
PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:02 pm 
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TWO PRIVATE HIRE TAXI DRIVERS have been prosecuted for illegally trying to pick up passengers in Manchester city centre.

City Council licensing officers spotted Mohammed Shafiq trying to pick up passengers outside Bluu Bar on Thomas Street in the Northern Quarter, during a routine city centre patrol in the early hours of Sunday 4 May.

Javed Elahi was spotted trying to pick up passengers outside the Printworks on March 8 and May 4 this year.

Councillor Richard Cowell said: "We are doing everything we can to crack down on unscrupulous drivers who try to make extra money with no regard for their passengers' safety.”

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This would not be the same print-works where they had there own rank would it???????? with clip board johnny's how did they only catch one driver there where loads of them


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 Post subject: Re: Manchester PH Swoop
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captain cab wrote:
TWO PRIVATE HIRE TAXI DRIVERS have been prosecuted for illegally trying to pick up passengers in Manchester city centre.




Really? :shock:

I'm shocked to say the least.

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This would not be the same print-works where they had there own rank would it???????? with clip board johnny's how did they only catch one driver there where loads of them


No doubt the council are of the opinion that if they set up the private hire taxi rank themselves then it is perfectectly legal. Xmas is fast approaching lets see what happens in the coming weeks.

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Can we get the 'interesting' guy from the MPH mob back on here as well?

That was pure entertainment. :D


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GBC wrote:
Can we get the 'interesting' guy from the MPH mob back on here as well?

That was pure entertainment. :D


I can't understand why he didn't stick around? Perhaps he knows all there is to know about taxi licensing or has other methods of keeping himself and his members up to date or it might be the case that when Manchester city council backtracked on the idea of private hire taxi ranks he was left with a position that he could no longer argue as being legal.

I hope he does come back because all opinions are welcome no matter what they might be.

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GBC wrote:
Can we get the 'interesting' guy from the MPH mob back on here as well?

That was pure entertainment. :D


Some one else you drove away then!


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GBC wrote:
Can we get the 'interesting' guy from the MPH mob back on here as well?

That was pure entertainment. :D


Some one else you drove away then!

No I think that individual went away when folks, even some PH folks, reminded him what the law of the land was. :wink:

But as JD said, it would be nice for him to come back and up-date us on the situation. :-$

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thomasthetaxi wrote:

Some one else you drove away then!


No, he's never been in my cab. :wink:

Good fare though to Manchester, I could buy a house on your dodgy estate with that sort of cash.


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