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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:10 am 
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Me thinks your licensing officer is advising you wrong,the courts held that where the phone rang was where the operator licence needed to be issued.so if you answer your mobile outside your area or even your operating address your committing an offence under the 1976 act.


That's interesting, so if you're a one-man operator and driver, going about your work, and it happens you're outside your operating area, or even on holiday in another country, you can't answer your mobile to respond to a prospective booking? What do you do? Don't answer it, and let it go to voicemail, and listen to it, when you're back in your area? Same with e-mails and texts? :? :p


the area the call is accepted should be the area issuing the operators license - I think it was a case from Derbyshire dales - or Staffs - somewhere ghastly anyway

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:18 am 
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christopherwk wrote:
mancityfan wrote:

Me thinks your licensing officer is advising you wrong,the courts held that where the phone rang was where the operator licence needed to be issued.so if you answer your mobile outside your area or even your operating address your committing an offence under the 1976 act.


That's interesting, so if you're a one-man operator and driver, going about your work, and it happens you're outside your operating area, or even on holiday in another country, you can't answer your mobile to respond to a prospective booking? What do you do? Don't answer it, and let it go to voicemail, and listen to it, when you're back in your area? Same with e-mails and texts? :? :p


Don't shoot the messenger,
Mr rendell wasn't very happy, he only diverted his phone next door, or Mr powers and Mrs murtargh, and Mr Wilson, when hull officers paid him a visit he'd gone, perhaps he was on the beach answering his mobile? Hmmm not sure if they had mobiles back then?


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:22 am 
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mancityfan wrote:

Don't shoot the messenger,
Mr rendell wasn't very happy, he only diverted his phone next door, or Mr powers and Mrs murtargh, and Mr Wilson, when hull officers paid him a visit he'd gone, perhaps he was on the beach answering his mobile? Hmmm not sure if they had mobiles back then?


as I said - somewhere with no sunlight :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:24 am 
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mancityfan wrote:
Don't shoot the messenger,
Mr rendell wasn't very happy, he only diverted his phone next door, or Mr powers and Mrs murtargh, and Mr Wilson, when hull officers paid him a visit he'd gone, perhaps he was on the beach answering his mobile? Hmmm not sure if they had mobiles back then?


Sure, just saying the act is a bit (39 years) out of date, now with mobile phones, and e-mails being a preferred method of communication, which can be picked up anywhere (i.e. at home, or on the road).

Back to the original point, where the driver lives in Wisbech, can easily apply for a PCO licence, using rented office space in London, as an operating centre base, and if an e-mail booking comes in, strictly speaking he should read, accept and respond to that e-mail at his office, rather than on his mobile/home PC at his house? :?


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