wannabeeahack wrote:
United Taxis 11 wrote:
The car is a 10 plate octaiva TDI, in this area you get a general plate (taxi) which can be put on a saloon car or hackney carriage (Some plates are limited to be put on hacks) we refer to a HACK as a tx4 or euro bus which is really a purpose built vehicle. a private (PH) can be put on as a saloon car I.E Passat, octavia, Superb. or up to a 16 seater
You dont seem to know that there are only 2 plate types in normal use
1. Hackney (goes on ranks, can take a flag down) some areas demand a WAV, some dont, yours seems not to as I thought you had a "HACKNEY CARRIAGE PLATE" on your 5 door Superb hatchback
2. Private hire (none of the above, prebooked only)
Theres no such thing as a "General" other than in the army
You have 16 seater council plated taxis?...really?...something tells me not
Listen, i have a Private hire car, i previously had a general (Taxi), We dont call "
TAXIS" "Hacks", we refer to hacks as purpose built vehicles, so when someone needs a wheelchair car on the radio, the dispatcher will send out the message over the datahead E.G hack needed in Hollytown. the taxis aren't really called generals on the plate it will say E.G taxi NO.65 (my old plate number) but refer to saloon taxi as a "general" the same as you call all taxis down your way "hackney carriages". But we refer to a a PH as a private, so a taxi is a GENERAL and a PH is a PRIVATE that is how all the drivers in this area and dispatchers refer to different taxis, as for the ph having a max of 16 seater that was my mistake it is a max of 8.
here is what a PH plate looks like on my saloon 5 seater superb

Here is what a Taxi or general as we call it looks like on a 5 seater saloon
