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Grandad,as a private hire operator you are licensed to accept a booking and provide a suitably licensed private hire vehicle or engage (Deregulation Act) another licensed private hire operator through sub-contracting to fulfil that booking.

But at all times the private hire operator who invited and took a booking to provide a private hire vehicle is responsible for any actions taken in fulfilling that booking,this does not appear to be so in the case of UBER,the so called booking goes direct to a person who is,it would appear to be an unlicensed operator as that person can refuse to accept that call for the provision of a vehicle.Could this be the reason why UBER does not accept any of the responsibilities that every other operator does.

That is the reason why I am inclined to come to the conclusion that every driver of a vehicle on the UBER system should be the holder of a PRIVATE HIRE OPERATORS LICENSE.

Personally I think you're chatting bo***x

ok explain why he's talking b*llox

In my experience the average operator holds no more respect for the public and the responsibilities they should have than Uber does. How many times have you read an operator has said that a driver is self employed and they'll look into only to never hear another thing about action taken. Drivers are self employed, they should seek to get work from a number of operators and not just one or just one if that is their choice. Drivers are not operators they do not make provision for a booking they merely provide the service for the booking that the operator has made provision for. All Uber need to do is provide the details of the driver in question to the relevant authority and let them deal with the driver that is in breach of their licence conditions, just like every other operator has to do.

and that itself could be bollox if the act was interpreted correctly.

however, it isn't and you are maybe right, so we can have people taking on a pseudo self employed arrangement whilst they are seeking asylum.

Most likely because they don't have to provide an enhanced DBS to get a licence or get on a circuit, unless that 'circuit' is mine and then they do

In my experience the average operator holds no more respect for the public and the responsibilities they should have than Uber does.