Taxi Driver Online

http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/c ... _1_3364395

So presumably if you got out of your taxi with the engine running to help a customer with shopping etc to the car you can also be fined ?

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Reading various things on Google, I would say that you presume correctly. One to watch out for.

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Grandad,

Not only is it an offence, but get your car nicked while left running with the keys left in it and guess what your insurance will say?


im surprised any here are surprised "quitting" is an offence, it used to be an offence to drive a vehicle with L plate displayed when you are a qualified driver.................(D plates in Wales)...........

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You still got the P ones on

This one comes up every now and again, particulary during winter cold snaps.

Doubt if there are actually many people actually fined for it, but the basic problem is that cars occassionally get nicked, so the intention is basically to prevent a lot of grief for all concerned.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -home.html

Round here they call it frost jacking where the car gets nicked while the owner is inside waiting for it to defrost. Some cars now have an auxilary heating system where you can time it to warm the car up before you come out of the house, there's no need to leave your car running.

They were going to book taxis in Nottingham last year for sitting on ranks doing the same.

CC

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Yes, and I think that's an anti-pollution measure, whereas the subject of the thread is more to do with anti-theft measures - the problem is not that the taxis are left unattended.

Except, that is, for the taxi drivers who use the ranks as free and convenient parking spaces while they go shopping.

Round here its cabbies wives as well who put hubbys roof sign on top of the car and hope no one notices it isn't a taxi. The pick up point at Morrisons is another with taxis parked there unattended for half an hour at a time

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Ever watched the "disabled" drivers park in disabled bays and sprint into tescos and then out an hour later with a 15cwt trolley?

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Im surprised our over stretched, over worked and undermanned British police have time to victimise the poor old motorist still futher and at every opportunity...more so when so much real crime goes unsolved and much more crime is not even investigated at all due to a shortfall in frontline police numbers.

Just shows..its the poor old driver that becomes the targets booster for every authority of Plod-dites in the UK.

Yes its Dumb to De-Frost a car Windscreen if you aint in the car...but would the government not be better reinforcing that message through educational advertising as opposed to futher state fiscal punishment? Money grabbing t-wats..

Wakey wakey, placing adverts costs money. fining motorists raises money.

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Grandad,

I realise that...what next though...Fined for Farting on Fridays or Sh*ting on Sundays ???

I will be in deep trouble if they bring this in.

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Grandad,