Sussex wrote:
I think anyone can pass on work to HC vehicles, and from anywhere.
In short all main pre-booking rules relate to PH, the only one that doesn't is that if HCs do pre-booked work they mustn't exceed the maximum set tariff.
In respect of PH ops only able to give work to PH drivers, that is also a rule that applies only in the minds of HC drivers sitting bored stiff on a HC rank.
The act says if an operator is operating PH vehicles then the vehicle and driver must be licensed PH etc etc.
If the act intended to allow PH operators to run just PHVs, and PH drivers, then that wording would have not been required.
I think anyone can pass on work to HC vehicles, and from anywhere.
Correct, it is how the "Berwick Affair" was legal and latterly Rossendale and others.
In respect of PH ops only able to give work to PH drivers, that is also a rule that applies only in the minds of HC drivers sitting bored stiff on a HC rank.
Well in the minds of some no doubt.
The act says if an operator is operating PH vehicles then the vehicle and driver must be licensed PH etc etc.
It says all licenses in the same LA area I believe. It does not say that a HC must be from the same area - which I think may have been an oversight - though oversight or not, it is what it says.
If the act intended to allow PH operators to run just PHVs, and PH drivers, then that wording would have not been required.
But it did leave a Firm operating only HC's not requiring an Operators Licence, with hindsight, those writing the Plymouth Act and the MPA 1976 may consider this an oversight as well.
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