Taxi Driver Online

Usual caveat that the drink driving breath test limit south of the border is 35mg rather than the 22mg up here in Scotland.

Not that it makes a lot of difference - even by England's standards he was reading 2.5 times the limit

Not sure what the relevance of the figures at the end are - presumably these were figures taken once he'd sobered up a bit a few hours later. But I don't really understand their direct relevance to the piece

And not sure if it's literally a taxi badge either - most of the stuff by this journalist is quite specific about the code, and most of the pieces are about private hire badges anyway.

Although the applicant's name doesn't sound, er, overseas heritage, so to that extent he'd be taxi rather than private hire


Glasgow drink-driver who crashed into road sign gets taxi licence

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glas ... d-32626023

Police Scotland had objected to the application but the city's licensing committee decided to award a licence.

A drink-driver who crashed into a road sign has been given a taxi licence in Glasgow.

Police Scotland objected to Mason Mullen’s application to work as a taxi driver after he was handed a one-year driving ban in 2018.

An officer told councillors that the applicant had driven without “due care and attention or without reasonable consideration” for others using the road.

The driver had collided with a road sign on the footpath, causing his vehicle to spin onto the carriageway, the officer said.

He added Mr Mullen failed a roadside breath test, which showed he had 89mcg in 100ml breath — which is around four times higher than the legal limit.

However, Glasgow’s licensing committee decided to grant a taxi driver’s licence to the applicant. It also issued him with a warning over his conduct.

Mr Mullen described his actions as “stupid” but said he had not been in trouble since. He also submitted character references for the committee to consider.

As well as a 12-month disqualification, the applicant was fined £350. On the day of the incident, a later breath test at a police station found he had 43mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The proscribed limit is 22mcg in 100ml of breath.

hopefully his hobbies aren't watching football and drinking at home and he knows where his trousers are !

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The first number is obtained via the breath test machine, and the last number is obtained via the evidential machine at the police station.

The delay could be for a number of reasons: a faulty machine, thus having to go to another station, or maybe they had to take him to the hospital first for whatever reason, or maybe they didn't have any trained staff back at the station.

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