Don't know whether I have the attention span to read it all (although to be fair, compared to some of these things it seems quite a short and digestible document), but just picked this out at random:
Quote:
29 A freedom of information request found that in in the 12-month period running from
08 January 2016 to 07 January 2017, 1,290 Transport for London licensed taxis were
reported for not having a second MOT test, six months from the date the taxi licence
was granted. However, it is unknown whether any of these vehicles were used for
'taxi radio circuit' work. Transport for London's data for the period April to December
2017 indicted that 27.1% of PHVs and 35.8% of taxis stopped were non-compliant.
In both cases, the total number non-compliant vehicles may be higher as these
vehicles were identified as a result of 'on-street' enforcement.
So I'm surmising from that:
- TfL HCs and PHVs have to have a six-monthly MoT
- The only way TfL have of enforcing this is an on-street check
- around a third of vehicles stopped hadn't complied with the requirement, and HCs even worse than PHVs?
So soon Uber will be suing the black cab trade because of widespread illegal operating?