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Taxi insurance for multiple people?
In message , Roland Perry
writes In message , at 14:52:11 on Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Paul Terry remarked: Nothing to do with insurance - he was more likely referring to his private hire licence. He'd be in serious trouble if he picked-up anyone who had not been pre-booked. In the case in point, where only one passenger had been booked, it would be necessary to get back to the operator and have the booking changed to two people. I've never heard of that before. Is it a London thing? Yes - London has its own act for private hire vehicles ("The Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998"). To quote TfL's guidance for drivers and operators: "PHV drivers who pick up passengers that have not been booked through their PHV operators are plying for hire and are therefore committing the offence of touting for which they may be prosecuted and their PHV driver’s licence suspended or revoked." I think that the driver in the case concerned was applying the real letter of the law in order to extract a bit more cash for the fare, since he wasn't actually touting. But I suspect he was technically correct because the passenger who made the booking had presumably only booked for one person. -- Paul Terry |
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