perry wrote:
I drive a ford procab. Customers sit 2 meters away keeping social distancing rules and also behind a fully fitted screen.
Will i need to wear a mask??
Suspect rules broadly similar to here in Scotland, where face coverings compulsory since June:
StuartW wrote:
For what it's worth, the regulations don't seem to actually mention taxis and private hire vehicles. They relate to using a 'passenger transport service' (and 'passenger transport services premises')
A 'passenger transport service' is defined as 'a service provided for the carriage of passengers by road, railway, tramway, air or sea'.
Interestingly, the face covering requirement doesn't apply to a 'school transport service', so that presumably means both driver and pupils exempt during a school run.
The screen exemption is as follows: '...a person providing a passenger transport service, or an employee of that person, where there is a partition between the person or employee and members of the public'.
So what would amount to a 'partition' is anyone's guess - a partition in a TX, presumably OK, but some kind of retro-fitted screen in a PHV? Who knows, and I suspect they wouldn't know themselves if asked. Suspect it would depend on what coverage the screen gives in %age terms, and how solid it is - doubt if the flimsy plastic screens would be adequate. But if in doubt, just use a face covering anyway.
Don't know if 'partition' has ever been clarified, but I've just stopped looking too closely at all these detailed rules and micromanagement