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Mark 07
 Post subject: Wirral PHV age limit
PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:25 pm 
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In a rare moment of joined up thinking, Wirral M.B.C have finally realised that a privater hire car may not be totally shagged out on its eighth birthday and have now increased the age limit to ten years.

If I buy wisely I could get a decent car plated for about a £1000.
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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:58 am 
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Mark 07 wrote:
If I buy wisely I could get a decent car plated for about a £1000.

As could several hundred new entrants now.

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Mark 07
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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I don't think it'll make any difference to the numbers entering the job but it will mean a newbie can become an owner driver easier.
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captain cab
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:55 am 
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Mark 07 wrote:
a newbie can become an owner driver easier.


an owner driver that is 100% reliant upon a operators benevolence

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Mark 07
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captain cab wrote:
Mark 07 wrote:
a newbie can become an owner driver easier.


an owner driver that is 100% reliant upon a operators benevolence

As opposed to a badly rebuilt, Cat C settle car that has been welded together in a backstreet garage?
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 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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Mark 07 wrote:
I don't think it'll make any difference to the numbers entering the job but it will mean a newbie can become an owner driver easier.

You make a good point, I wish you well.

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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Mark 07 wrote:
In a rare moment of joined up thinking, Wirral M.B.C have finally realised that a privater hire car may not be totally shagged out on its eighth birthday and have now increased the age limit to ten years.

If I buy wisely I could get a decent car plated for about a £1000.


is that for its first plate?

I can only see that the age limit has been raised for vehicles with a plate, not new grants

so dont celebrate just yet

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roythebus
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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Most areas have an age limit of about 3-4 years for new car to "the system".
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captain cab
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Most areas have an age limit of about 3-4 years for new car to "the system".


its in place to ensure the driver is in constant debt and therefore more considerate of council policy and the whims of PH operators - it has little to do with the service the public receive or cutting emissions - its purely and simply designed to keep the driver in his rightful place.

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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Vehicles can be licensed for private hire use up to their tenth birthday.
I would recommend that you do not buy a car which is more than nine and a half years old.

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Margaret Calvert

Margaret Calvert

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tel: (0151) 691 8476

email: margaretcalvert@wirral.gov.uk

fax: (0151) 691 8215

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wannabeeahack
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captain cab wrote:
roythebus wrote:
Most areas have an age limit of about 3-4 years for new car to "the system".


its in place to ensure the driver is in constant debt and therefore more considerate of council policy and the whims of PH operators - it has little to do with the service the public receive or cutting emissions - its purely and simply designed to keep the driver in his rightful place.


just a slight whiff of bitterness and a smidgeon of sarcasm there

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grandad
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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wannabeeahack wrote:
captain cab wrote:
roythebus wrote:
Most areas have an age limit of about 3-4 years for new car to "the system".


its in place to ensure the driver is in constant debt and therefore more considerate of council policy and the whims of PH operators - it has little to do with the service the public receive or cutting emissions - its purely and simply designed to keep the driver in his rightful place.


just a slight whiff of bitterness and a smidgeon of sarcasm there

And a large helping of truth.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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LA's (and the licensing committee) of many areas have this wonderful image of their rank being populated by gleaming new identical, uniform cars, i have two LA's around me that border one that does not, so cross the border and you can run a X reg smiley swb minbus with 8+driver seats held together with duct tape...

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Nidge2
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:44 pm 
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I think you'll find you won't be able to plate it at 10 years old.
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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Wirral PHV age limit
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Nidge2 wrote:
I think you'll find you won't be able to plate it at 10 years old.


quite so it seems

hence the LA saying "dont buy a 9 1/2 year old car"

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