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Smoked Glass
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Why do they need a license at all if the vehicles used to do the work are all licensed as operators and fully legal?
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What kind of answer is that :?


The correct one :wink:

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Isn't this the same kind of thing as Cabfind etc :?

If they take the bookings yes, but I think they automatically redirect any booking to a local firm.


It is my understanding that they invite bookings. When somebody enquires about a taxi/ph they source it then give the customer a price having added their own bit on top. If the customer accepts the price they then contact the 'lucky' provider. I do believe they do a lot of the BBC work

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Sussex wrote:
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Isn't this the same kind of thing as Cabfind etc :?

If they take the bookings yes, but I think they automatically redirect any booking to a local firm.


It is my understanding that they invite bookings. When somebody enquires about a taxi/ph they source it then give the customer a price having added their own bit on top. If the customer accepts the price they then contact the 'lucky' provider. I do believe they do a lot of the BBC work


And their licensed

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Very simialar to cabfind.
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If you say they need to be licensed, and they have work in 50+ areas in the country, would you then say they needed an operators license in every LA. Clearly they do not.
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captain cab wrote:
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Sussex wrote:
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Isn't this the same kind of thing as Cabfind etc :?

If they take the bookings yes, but I think they automatically redirect any booking to a local firm.


It is my understanding that they invite bookings. When somebody enquires about a taxi/ph they source it then give the customer a price having added their own bit on top. If the customer accepts the price they then contact the 'lucky' provider. I do believe they do a lot of the BBC work


And their licensed

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Are they, where :?

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I think if you had a website hosted in Malta, you cannot get an operators license in the uk.
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captain cab wrote:
toots wrote:
Sussex wrote:
toots wrote:
Isn't this the same kind of thing as Cabfind etc :?

If they take the bookings yes, but I think they automatically redirect any booking to a local firm.


It is my understanding that they invite bookings. When somebody enquires about a taxi/ph they source it then give the customer a price having added their own bit on top. If the customer accepts the price they then contact the 'lucky' provider. I do believe they do a lot of the BBC work


And their licensed

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Are they, where :?


Liverpool?

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captain cab wrote:
toots wrote:
captain cab wrote:
toots wrote:
Sussex wrote:
toots wrote:
Isn't this the same kind of thing as Cabfind etc :?

If they take the bookings yes, but I think they automatically redirect any booking to a local firm.


It is my understanding that they invite bookings. When somebody enquires about a taxi/ph they source it then give the customer a price having added their own bit on top. If the customer accepts the price they then contact the 'lucky' provider. I do believe they do a lot of the BBC work


And their licensed

CC


Are they, where :?


Liverpool?

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That would be Davy Liver that is licenced in Liverpool. Cabfind is on the Wirral

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That would be Davy Liver that is licenced in Liverpool. Cabfind is on the Wirral


I see.....make a complaint?

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That would be Davy Liver that is licenced in Liverpool. Cabfind is on the Wirral


I see.....make a complaint?

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To whom and what for. You forget I'm not as competent as you and wouldn't know where to start

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That would be Davy Liver that is licenced in Liverpool. Cabfind is on the Wirral


I see.....make a complaint?

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To whom and what for. You forget I'm not as competent as you and wouldn't know where to start


are they licensed.....and are they contacting purely HC outfits?

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are they licensed.....and are they contacting purely HC outfits?

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With regards to the licence last time I asked they weren't cos they didn't believe they had to be and no they use PH as well as HC

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Smoked Glass wrote:
I think if you had a website hosted in Malta, you cannot get an operators license in the uk.

If the booking office is outside of the country then you could operate a call centre and not be in breach of the 1976 act.

However each person that takes a job from the call centre must have an operator's license.

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