Taxi Driver Online

Hi all,

I'm about to embark on the road to become a Private Hire driver in Dorset. I'll have loads of questions before I get the licence, i'm sure, but for now, Weymouth and Portland BC say in their "booklet" that only the person registered and licensed can drive the car. That's gonna annoy the wife! Surley the wife is ok for SD+P?

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ADI turned mini cab driver.

Can I ask whats made you arrive at this decision to enter the PH trade?

Only if she gets a PH Licence as the Vehicle is Private hire first and foremost...though you can do whatever you like with it off duty providing the drivers Ph Licenced...do your wife a favour...give her a Bus Time table for Xmas or a Discount

one of the stupidest laws imaginable

shes not gonna work the vehicle, no intention to, but the councile want a badge fee to allow her to drive?

so what do you do, buy a 2nd family vehicle?

hardly a "green/emission/save the planet" concept, plus the added strain on family funds/credit crunch

we arent talking a Lti/black cab/hackney here just standard 4/5 door car or mpv....

its only backed BY the HC drivers who have to use (by dint of area/LA regs) a london cab or equally horrible (given its 2008) lumbering air-raid shelter on wheels, they seem to think if they have a 2nd family vehicle then so should all PH/HC operators whereas the majority of "normal" plated CARS dont...

Just run the car with magnetic door signage that you can take off if the missus is driving it.

Just get the wife badged up, then she can do the odd job for you whilst you have a rest.

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Grandad,

Have the same regs here and only a person with a licence and insurance to drive the PH vehicle can drive it, end of. If you have to do a knowledge there to get a badge get her to do it as well then she can go on your insurance and drive the vehicle. Alternatively buy another car or you do all the driving . Bear in mind you only get a certain amount of milage allowable for personal use on your tax. It may work out cheaper to have a 2nd car

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

I never take my sign or plates off, when I go on holiday, I have even been to the south of France with them in place, stopped at a taxi rank to ask directions swapped business cards even managed to get a cheap service as well
When I went last time i took my Superb and all the cabbys where having a good look around the car as they had only seen pics of it, as it was one of the first ones sold here
So there is nothing to stop your wife using your car to go shopping or anything else, just make sure she is on the insurance

I take it that's provided she has a licence and insurance to drive it?

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

No most policies state business and social and domestic, so she can drive domestic without a badge

If you want to stop illegal plying for hire you need to stop anyone other than licensed drivers driving a licensed vehicle.



Dear me ...................... its always the good old HC drivers fault, or that of the plateholder baron scum ............................. FFS

B. Lucky

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"Here's a simple solution. If you don't want to pay more for a premium service then wait in the queue, problem solved".
Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

My policy states that but the LA's regs say you have to have a badge so only a badged driver can drive it, I think he should clarify it with the LO first.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Its not the LO thats the sticking point..its the Insurance company, whos to say that the folk that his wife is driving about are bona fide friends getting a lift or hooky customers being driven by an unbadged PH driver...

I couldnt add anyone to my PH Insurance unless i can provide photo copies of their PH licence and Badge..admittedly they can drive it for social and domestic use afterwards but they have to be PH licensed first.

Once the car is plated it remains plated until either the plate expires or is handed back to the council. Anyone driving a plated car must have a badge.

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Grandad,

*Unless it is being driven by a garage employee/owner whilst having repairs or plating carried out*