Taxi Driver Online

I agree with GBC.
To get back to the original question, the office I work for has just licensed a satalite office at a club we do, the clip board man MUST be on the premises, so, techniclly, if he is standing on the pavement he's acting illegally.
However, the clip board man from my office MUST be better than customers jumping in touts cars.
TBH the whole system in london is a farce, I have phoned the PCO at least 10 times reporting the same touts outside the kebab shop 2 doors from my office. they are overworked and under staffed.
As for crushing touts cars, very difficult, you can only crush the car if the tout owns it, it may be a hire car or on finance.
The tout needs to be banned from driving for at least a year.
I have said it many times on here, FINE THE CUSTOMERS who use the touts, imagine if the customers got a £1000 for useing a tout, problem solved overnight!.
The problem with touts in london is that when they first started the police ignored them, the problem got bigger and bigger and because it's an ethnic problem the police were then [edited by admin] scared of enforceing the law.

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stressed controller!!!

Aren't these two phrases the opposite of each other? Finding a needle in a haystack is difficult but shooting fish in a barrel is easy.

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Grandad,

Oh grandad don't you know He is never wrong, There must be another meaning to this
And to think a senior person has pulled him up, a Grandad like me, he'll be livid.
He hates anyone over 50, thinks we should be put down!

I may be a grandad but I am not yet over 50.

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Grandad,

That's good, you'll probably be ok then, he wont want to have you put done yet!

stop picking on minicabs, its christmas

So the Carriage Office are giving minicab licences to clubs and restaurants? Is that how it works?

Yeah, goodwill to all men, even illegal touting minicabs?

dont be bitter

tell me, hand on heart, that no black cab driver out of his area has never taken a flag down....

They are giving licenses to operators who are using pubs and clubs as sub offices.

As has been said, if the ops do their deeds on the street, then that's touting and they can be prosecuted, which in turn will effect their operator's license.

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IDFIMH

You're quite correct Grandad.

However the two phrases apply to differing aspects of the enforcement process.

Needle in a haystack refers to trying to find a member of the 'Tout squad' as they're spread so thinly across the metropolis, all 50 of them.

Shooting fish in a barrel refers to finding touts as they're everywhere.

Hope that clears it up.

No, just you.

Well it would leave a lot more work for the likes of me.

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IDFIMH

If that was the case, the LCDC would'nt exsist!

Mind you, neither would about 70% of the London Taxi trade?

In 8 years of driving a "black" cab in London i have NEVER touted or picked up outside my designated area unless pre-booked as a radio job.