LAW COMMISSION REPORT
http://www.deltataxis.net/driversection/newsfeed-2.phpThe Law Commission's long awaited taxi and private hire report heralds a new Age of Enlightenment for the hire and reward industry. Honouring the cultural movement of intellectuals that began in late 17th-century Europe, it's authors seek to reform our legislature using reason, to challenge ideas grounded in tradition and political affiliation, and to advance public and private hire services through an altogether more scientific method.
Free from the distortions of trade unions, taxi cartels or any other such vested interests, the Law Commission's analysts set out their stall by cutting straight to the heart of the fundamental difference between taxi and private hire services.
Whenever passengers engage directly with taxi drivers via 'rank' or 'hail' they are essentially presented with a monopoly provision ... One which accordingly demands highly regulated standards and price. When however such passengers use their landline, smartphone or computer to 'summon' a taxi or private hire vehicle, they quite literally have access to an entire world of competing suitors, where market forces will inevitably and unwaveringly drive standards and costs in the direction of consumer interest.
Competition of course must never be allowed to compromise public safety, hence the Commission's core recommendation to impose an all encompassing safety standard across both tiers of the trade.
Once you grasp the clearly stated principal of the 'there and then' hiring versus the 'shop around' hiring, all the other recommendations follow on perfectly logically. There and then requires quality control at a regulatory level... Advance bookings can be left to market forces. If there are passengers out there who genuinely want cheap, scruffy drivers with a satnav then by all means let them order one off the internet, just don't force such drivers onto unsuspecting folk who stick their hand out in the street expecting a professional Council approved cabbie.
Whatever the Neo-Luddites within Liverpool's Unite branch might have to say against cross-border hiring, it's already standard practice across the whole of the UK. Global apps regularly ship bookings offshore to be accepted in the likes of Denmark, free from the ridiculous constraints of our archaic and politically corrupt legislation, before firing them straight back to the highest bidder in any local authority in England or Wales.
Better informed and ever more demanding consumers are telling our industry exactly what they want and companies like Delta are willing and able suppliers ... Once enacted these proposals will finally, at long last, give leading service providers the legal framework to do what they do best, which is to serve our paymasters ... the passengers!
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