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Newcastle Taxi Licensing Newsletter: Dec 2009

The introduction of the conditions is to ensure that all Private Hire Operators use only Newcastle City Council
licensed vehicles and drivers. This enables the Council to carry out it’s enforcement duties effectively and
protect the travelling public. The conditions will be applied to both new and renewal applications.

North Tyneside H/C Fare Increase?

The North Tyneside Regulation and Review Committee meets at 6pm tomorrow evening, Thursday 10 Dec 09.

One of the items on the Agenda is the review of Hackney Carriage fares, after the NTHCA requested a modest increase of 10p per mile………..

Taxi Licensing Officer Wanted

Job Title
TAXI LICENSING LICENSING OFFICER LEP
KLL/8823

Location
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, TYNE AND WEAR

Name and Shame?

While I acknowledge that attacks against taxi drivers are abhorrent and racist attacks in particular are despicable. It is always entirely wrong to abuse……..

Fare Play Required in Cab Wars

Geoff Riley (Eton College) examines recent proposals to deregulate the UK taxi market

In recent weeks I have had to make more journeys than

normal using a taxi. The flexibility that a taxi service

provides is often greatly valued, particularly when you……

North Tyneside Licensing Forum 2nd Meet.

The second meeting of the North Tyneside Hackney carriage & Private Hire Licensing forum took place today. There were several items on the agenda but time and chatterboxes were against us. We managed to talk for nearly two and a half hours on the subject of enforcement, encompassing insurance checks, vehicle checks, Taxi marshalls & traffic congestion on South parade, whitley bay………

Disappointed

I am Disappointed at Ians attitude to my posting the news item entitled ‘Drunk’ driver says he only ate liqueur chocs

He is quite happy to have his Logo on this site when it’s a free driver recruitment tool, he has also had the benefit of displaying a weeks call log on a site where Taxi drivers frequent…….

Comment of The Week

It was a Toss up between Sietnav Eisnogud and Ollie Beak They both made me laugh but Ollie Beak cracked me up with this one:

@David Wilson, Eight thousand calls unanswered – we used to have that desk clerk.

The truth is that if his drivers got their ar**s out of the Big Market and the rest of the town, then all this ‘booked work’ would be covered and they could leave the Hackney Carriage jobs to the professional drivers.

You put Pinocchio to shame Mr. Wilson, you must be on a good retainer. Anyway his drivers are now going to be filmed so I am told and we will see who the liar is.

Who says there is not enough work?

Who says there is not enough work hack driver??? Is it not the case that the work is just not where you would like it to be!!
Maybe the public’s way of using our trade has changed and you need to change with it? There are other ways to make money than sitting on ranks and maybe its time you need to face facts??

No Significant Unmet Demand-NorthTyneside

The North Tyneside Regulation and Review Committee met this evening at 6.00pm. On the agenda: Limitation of Numbers of Hackney Carriage Proprietor Licences.

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North Tyneside H/C Proposed Fare Increase

There is a fare increase on the table for the next meeting of the North Tyneside Regulation and Review Committee, Thursday 8 October 2009 at 6pm………..

Myth and reality: By Taxi Driver Online

(Originally published March 2004)
Taxi Driver Online announces the publication of ‘Myth and Reality’, a 70-page paper examining the issue of restricted taxi numbers.

The Judgement: Revisited

Neutral Citation Number: [2008] EWHC 2369 (Admin)
Case No: CO/6448/2007
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
05/11/2008

Newcastle-u-Tyne: Roadworks

Newcastle City Council is resurface the Road along Mosley Street between the Swan House round-about and the junction at St Nicholas Street.

The resurfacing work will involve replacing the existing road surface with a new black tarmac surface and renewal of the road markings…………..

Taxi FAQ’S

What’s in a name?
Taxis, Cabs and Hackneys are all terms describing vehicles which are legally allowed to ply for hire – it is an offence for other types of vehicle to display the words ‘Taxi’, ‘Cab’ or ‘Hire’.