herfordian wrote:
That sort of conflicts with their section 7.2
7.2 Taxis can take passengers from within their licensed area to other LAs
but cannot accept bookings for passengers or ply for hire outside the
area in which they are licensed. PHVs can take passengers from any
point to any other providing the PHV driver, vehicle and operator are
licensed in the same area. We believe that the current position on cross
border hiring adversely affects consumers and drivers to a limited extent
but accept that local licensing and enforcement procedures make cross
border hiring difficult to implement.
with regard to section 1.9
7.19 A taxi is permitted to take passengers from within the area in which it is licensed to anywhere in the country. Taxis can also, theoretically at least, be hired in the area in which they are licensed to go from anywhere to anywhere in the country.
The section you quote 7.2 is only a brief introduction the summary is clearly stated in 7.19.
You only have to scroll down to the Glossary of the OFT definitions to see the meaning of the three elements which apply in this report.
Cross border hiring
The act of booking a taxi outside of its licensed area of operation.
Phone booked sector/ pre-booked sector
A market sector in which vehicles are pre-booked over the phone. This sector includes "both private hire vehicles and taxis".
Private hire vehicle (PHV)
A vehicle which is licensed to carry up to eight passengers who have "prebooked but which is not licensed to ply for hire".
Taxi
A licensed vehicle which can "ply for hire and take pre booked fares".
When you read the whole section it lessens the ambiguity but it doesn't alter the fact that the author doesn't seem to explain very well the way a hackney carriage performs under a contract of Private hire.
7.19 A taxi is permitted to take passengers from within the area in which it is licensed to anywhere in the country.
The above passage is self-explanatory.
Taxis can also, theoretically at least, be hired in the area in which they are licensed to go from anywhere to anywhere in the country.
Again the above passage is self-explanatory.
However, the taxi vehicles cannot ply for hire at a rank or in the street outside their own licensing areas.
That is also self-explanatory.
The person who wrote this part of the report or perhaps copied it from information given by a supposed expert or experts, obviously didn't do a very good job of explaining the facts. For instance he states....
However, the taxi vehicles cannot ply for hire at a rank or in the street outside their own licensing areas. "For PHVs the rules are less strict".
It is obvious this person doesn't understand that rules are stricter for private hire drivers than they are for hackney carriages. It wouldn't surprise me if this information had been copied from a NAPHLEO report because it has all the hallmarks of something Peter Perkins might say.
Reports are reports and nothing else, we see the same inaccuracies in some survey reports conducted by so called experts. The only place were you can be assured of reliable information, is TDO.
Regards
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