Taxi Driver Online

^^ I think this is the right answer ^^

Once the app goes beyond simply giving a phone number or website and starts routing customers directly to an iphone app in a drivers car then an operators license is needed.

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www.taxiroute.co.uk

now thats interesting.... so a HC might be ok to use such a system?

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www.taxiroute.co.uk

Basic taxi law fella.

Not knowing that indicates to me you don't have a f***ing clue what you are doing.

Methinks you are not going to make a bean out of this trade.

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IDFIMH

are you saying i was wrong to say you were right about the operators license? - then neither of us have a "f***ing clue" as you put it.

thanks

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www.taxiroute.co.uk

It appears you don't know the difference between vehicles licensed under the 1847 act, and vehicles licensed under the 1976 act.

You was right to say I was right, but I'm saying you need to get proper legal advice as you don't even understand the very basics of taxi/PH operating procedure.

That's your problem not mine.

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IDFIMH

Like Mr Sussex I too am having a moments reflection of this.

HC can pick up immediate hire from the street or Taxi rank. PH cannot.

I am fairly certain that a circuit containing HC only does not need any operators licence.

But then the shades of confusing grey creep in, we have a HC doing what is essentially a PH contract that has been referred to him over the radio by another HC or has been received as a re routed telephone call or perhaps a call direct to him by the punter. part of me says this may need a licensed operator administering the PH contract but another thought is that the practice is fairly accepted and wide spread (Zingo?) that it must be OK.

This grey area extends further when it is not allowed for HC to charge more than is shown on the meter and the punter has been quoted an over the meter price by 3rd party HC or operator. Can the HC say I am PH for the duration of this contract and can charge what I like so long as its agreed with the punter. And if its a PH contract is done by a HC then are the services of a licensed operator required?

A lot of our problems stem from attached local condition's seeming downright illegal sometimes but only questionable if enforcement is executed by LO and driver appeals successfully to Magistrates. This is one reason Lawyers love the Taxi trade.

I would be interested of other opinion to this.

A taxi is always a taxi, never a PH, no-matter where the job comes from.

A taxi is always a taxi, and can only charge up to (within the district) the council set tariff, no-matter where the job comes from.

A taxi is always a taxi, and never needs an operator's license, no-matter where the job comes from.

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IDFIMH

And just to complicate things, the law in Scotland isn't the same.

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Unless it's a bin..

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

How does it flow in Scotland?

Is there no requirement for names and addresses? If for example street corner to club?

You need an operators licence for where ever the call was received, Kingston upon Hull v Wilson is on here somewhere.

The authority on this matter is Brentwood - v- Gladen.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Adm ... /2500.html

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IDFIMH

Without going into it too much, both taxis and PH can take the calls themselves. Whether it's legal comes down to where they are and what they are doing when they take them.

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Random thought. The enquiry/booking from Taxiroute is sent to the PH drivers home PC which could be demonstrated as being within the LO and covered by ops lic. It is then immediately forwarded by software to the drivers smart phone by email/sms text.