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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:26 pm 
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There are at least 6 zafira's licensed as 6 passenger hackneys in our town.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:24 pm 
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We cant have zafira's, galaxy, transporter, traffics, 807, cant have tipping seats for rear access, all rear passengers must have access to a side door, a VW maxi has just been plated but ive not seen how many seats for.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:09 am 
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grandad wrote:
There are at least 6 zafira's licensed as 6 passenger hackneys in our town.


There are around 30 across the borders licenced as hack


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:14 am 
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skippy41 wrote:

There are around 30 across the borders licenced as hack



for how many passengers.....its quite pertinant to the story ffs :shock: :wink:

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:22 am 
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captain cab wrote:
skippy41 wrote:

There are around 30 across the borders licenced as hack



for how many passengers.....its quite pertinant to the story ffs :shock: :wink:


All licenced for 6


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:18 am 
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toots wrote:
You can't license them here either because of the two very back seats



Same here. A guy went out once and bought a 7 seat KIA Sedona, the Council said you can only have it licensed for four.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:14 am 
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I drive a PH Zafira on a Saturday night. It is a 54 plate. Licensed for 4. However our LA has decided that later Zafira's are OK to license for 6. I find it hard to accept the unsafe argument on a high sales volume vehicle such as this or any other MPV for that matter. Sure, some seats in some are probably too small for adults. I'll have a look on Saturday to make an informed expert judgement :wink:

I'm not sure if it is still the case but i seem to recall that at one time Fareham LA would not plate Skoda Octavia's as the seats didn't meet their size spec. Must all be bloaters there?

Is this point an argument for national standards? 2 neighbouring LA's are happy with it FFS.

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Is this point an argument for national standards?


100% .... VOSA handle everything from 9 passengers upto 70.....

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:19 pm 
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Is this point an argument for national standards? 2 neighbouring LA's are happy with it FFS.

Sort of what the Law Commission are after.

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