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Hi, I am currently attempting to pass my knowledge test in the Durham area. I have already failed the test once. The pass required being 100% regarding legislation and policy. I passed the locality tests with ease but even though I had been issued with a pack to learn for the knowledge, there were several questions in the test that weren't included in the information I had. I failed only getting 80%. Is there an online guide anywhere as to private hire vehicles/drivers and the laws they are subject to. Cheers.

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Thanks.
1. What is the law regarding carrying children in pushchairs?
2. What is the law regarding children and door child locks. I.e. what age before you don't use them?
3. Do you have to carry a copy of insurance on private hire vehicles?

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I am not sure about your answer to question 2.

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Grandad,

The "non taxi" UK DVLA website says...



Worth a read

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_matte ... ks-on-taxi

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Basically they all want escorts, they all want no kids in the front and they all want to choose the route

"Too many cooks", erc


Oh, and none want to pay for the transport

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The use of child locks in a hackney or PH could be viewed as stopping the punters from exiting the vehicle should a situation arise that puts them in danger.

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Grandad,

A bit of a contentious issue and one that I am quite prepared to be corrected on. Across the trade there is confusion as you will see it done in practically every City/Town etc.

I have always understood that it is not illegal as such, in a nutshell (I believe) what may come about is say an insurance issue in the event of an accident.

If I am wrong then I am wrong, unfortunately there is blog after blog on the net with conflicting advice and general confusion.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

Then you enter the realms of the latest child seat belt laws, as
documented from the Department for Transport. They stated: "In cases where there is no child
restraint in [licensed] vehicles:- a child under 3 years may travel
unrestrained in the rear; and a child 3 years to 135cms in height must use
an adult belt and travel in the rear. Children up to 135cms in height may
only travel in the front seat of any vehicle if they use the correct child
seat/booster. Drivers remain responsible for making sure that passengers
under 14 years use seat belts/child seats/boosters as required."

So - it's clear as mud!!! - as obviously licensed drivers are not required
to carry booster seats. So if the child in the pushchair is 3 or under,
where do you put them? They cannot be carried in the parent's lap; they
must be separate. But "unrestrained"?

There is no law that Iam aware of; it's been down to the individual
driver, and drivers have transported pushchairs with children still in them
for donkey's years. However, i agree totally that the practice is
dangerous, unsafe, not recommended under any circumstances.

The only court case that draws a parallel is concerning the Birmingham black
cab that was transporting a teenaged girl in her wheelchair, along with her
father as carer. The wheelchair was not anchored correctly, the cab driver
had to brake severely, the girl had brittle bone disease and the braking
action broke her neck and she died. The coroner said that the driver was
exonerated, because it was the father who had loaded his daughter in that
manner/position in the taxi, and it was the father who had supervised her
seat belt and chair anchorage, or lack of it.

It's as i have always said: it will take a dreadful accident involving a
child in situ in its pushchair before anything 'formal' is done about this
practice. The outcome of such accident would be determined by whether or
not the driver actually placed the child/pushchair inside the taxi
him/herself (in which case he would be deemed to be responsible), or whether
the parent placed the child/pushchair together in the taxi and insisted that
they be carried this way.

You have been warned?

strap a puschair down well and the frame will collapse, nowadays thats a £500 bill for the driver

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Thanks for the replies. My head is buzzing already!

one problem is that there is no definition of "child", seat belt law states height .....not age

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