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In North Tyneside the Charge for a Private Hire Operator Licence is £275 and
for that £275 you can have a Licence to accept “Hiring’s” and to operate those
“Hiring’s” you have say 400 Vehicles paying you £100 a week making the
Licence Holder £40,000 a week or around £2 Million a year for just £275.
The Private Hire [...]
More than 100 criminals given taxi licences
CABBIES with serious criminal convictions are being allowed to work across the North East.
A Chronicle probe has revealed more than 100 taxi drivers with criminal records have been granted hackney cab licences.
31Dec2008 | Site Admin. | 28 comments | Continued
Berwick:Draft Policy,Hackney Carriages
A hackney carriage is what most people would call a ‘taxi’. Its main features are: it carries passengers in return for payment; it may advertise itself to be for hire and be hailed in a street in the area of the council with which it is licensed; or it may be hired from a taxi-rank in the area of the council with which it is licensed.
29Dec2008 | Site Admin. | 4 comments | Continued
Taxi Ripoffs!
Hacks are slated for most of the year for being a rip-off but come this time of year and things are different. I should say things are different most of the time but it becomes more noticeable at this time of year.
Christmas Eve, sitting in first place on the Taxi Rank and I hear people walk [...]
Modern Taxi Enforcement?
Friday Night 19 Dec. 2008, Front Street. Tynemouth.
A Hack pulls into the Taxi Rank & picks up a Fare from the queue. The female passenger is slightly the worse for wear in drink and is feeling sick.
Taxi Marshalls
The use of Taxi Marshalls in Birmingham has been a resounding success for the Public & the Hackney trade.
Everybody knows that there are Bogus Taxis out there as previous news items have shown.There are also a minority of Private Hire drivers who openly Flimp as discovered by one prominent Taxi & Private Hire operator this [...]
Police Taxi: New york City
This article from nycphoto.com is interesting. I’ve often thought it would be a good idea for each LA Licensing dept. to have a licenced Taxi which would work the streets. This would enable the Licensing dept. to have a street level view of the trade and would be able to guage unmet demand etc. the driver [...]
14Dec2008 | Site Admin. | 2 comments | Continued
PROPOSED TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDER / PARKING ZONE
ADVISORY PANEL HEARING RE PROPOSED TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDER (PROPOSED CITY CENTRE CONTROLLED PARKING ZONE)
DATE: 11 DECEMBER 2008
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AT THE CIVIC CENTRE AT: 1.00 PM
That was the letter sent out to interested parties, Low & Behold when one interested party turned up on the aforementioned date & Time it was all [...]
Proposed City Centre Controlled Parking Zone
Proposed City Centre Controlled Parking Zone
Report by: Group Manager, Traffic & Project Management
Technical Services
Ward Implications: Westgate, Elswick, South Jesmond, Ouseburn
ADVISORY PANEL HEARING:PROPOSED TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDER
The Following Letter has been sent out to Various Members of The taxi Trade.
It might be interesting to get readers comments on this situation i.e. are you for or against this proposal and for what reasons!
ADVISORY PANEL HEARING RE PROPOSED TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDER (PROPOSED CITY CENTRE CONTROLLED PARKING ZONE)
DATE: 11 DECEMBER 2008
YOU ARE INVITED [...]
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@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.), For a start,I`m a NODA driver,as was before Mr Suleman took over,Suli does work a hack,and ...
@Paul T, Suggestion is simple - demand actions from the LA. I work for BLT, but never flimp, believe ...
@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.), Stephen!.....You have been Binned and if you need to ask why,you are a Moron. 
@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.),
so primeminister stephen, what are you going to tackle first? The crumbling NHS? The billions wasted ...
If owners of PH offices did what Mr Shanks has done and is proposing to do, instead of increasingly making ...
@Polish BLT Driver, No offence man! that's a bit of an over reaction to what I said. I didn't come ...
