secret organisation who hold meetings with no
direct mandate from the people they say they
represent. Is Riesel representing his small taxi
Watch out
interest or his larger minicab interests in our
names? Where are the offi ces of the London
Taxi Network and can we see any minutes and
Guv’nor here’s
who attended and what they actually said and
probably agreed on, on behalf of the taxi trade?
The answer is no one knows except the selected
few who represent only their self-interest. If they
that Cockney
are interested then why are we paying so much
for taxis and why do we not have the right cab for
the job? Answer: Because it suits them to keep
Rebel again! us paying through the nose thus working harder
for their nest eggs. Remember your nest egg in
Reclaim the work ACT 1994
shares is now 20 pence if you belong to RTG.
As most of you will have noticed, if you bothered The relevant parts of the section which relate
You couldnʼt make it up.
to read my articles, and if you donʼt then tough, to “TOUTING”and cab services are as follows:
but Iʼve been saying the trade has been well Section 167 (1)
Private Hire Company in £250,000 NHS
and truly down the toilet for quite a while. Long Subject to provisions in the section, it is an swindle.
periods have passed since we could be bothered
offence in a public place, to solicit persons
Yes Lewis Day have been caught billing the NHS
to pick up at restaurants, pubs and clubs but
to hire vehicles to carry them as passengers.
with a bogus driver and non-existent trips. Have
now the jobs are harder to fi nd on the streets, they lost the account? NO. Maybe Deutsche
some have turned their attentions to the work
If that is not enough then why not join the RMT
Bank ought to check the Lewis Day cars outside
previously ignored. Drivers are noticing, and
union who will give you the paperwork relating to
in London Wall who service their account; you
about time too if you ask me that good work is
the laws in which touts and the police are breaking
never know they might not be there. Talking of not
actually coming out of these venues shunned by
because they are complicit in what the touts are
being there I heard the other day that a client at
the taxi trade and stolen by the minicab fraternity.
doing in London. If you would like their e-mail
Deloitte Touche stopped payment for two jobs that
They see it as their right to plot up outside
address it is: www.rmt.org.uk to join online or call
had been done by Addison Loo or is it Lee. Have
venues such as Nobu, Smiths and Abacus to
freephone 0800 376 3706. I am not advocating
they changed their name or is that blasted rear
mention a fraction of their thievery and openly
the RMT in any way but letʼs be honest, those that
wiper hiding the real name? Anyway, this client
break the law touting anyone who wants a ride
should be on the front line are conspicuous only in
eventually left late from Stonecutter Court to an
home for usually well above the taxi rate, but
their absence… arenʼt you Bobby boy?
important meeting but the car turned up very late
the punter is still happy to pay their extortionate so he said he wouldnʼt pay. On another job the
prices. Tocu/TfL/Metropolitan and City police are driver left the same address and stopped the car
in cahoots with the touts and are doing nothing
Marshalled ranks.
at Holborn Circus to look up the address in his
except when the licensed trade get interested
A new company has taken over most of the
map book, probably couldnʼt use his Satnav. When
and are told to move on, or theyʼll get nicked.
marshalling on our ranks. I wasnʼt up for it in
the client asked what the problem was the driver
These cowardly cretins will not implement
the beginning if Iʼm honest, but if it gives other
replied: ʻI donʼt know where Ropemaker Street is.ʼ
the law of the land except onto the taxi trade.
drivers who would like to marshal a rank now
The client got out of the minicab and hailed a taxi.
However, certain radio circuits have been putting
and again and actually do a good job then I say
Why are they using these people if they cannot
out messages since one of their drivers was
good luck to them. Better them than the chosen
fi nd the address or the destination? Why are their
threatened by the touts and the hot spots around
few. When the ranks came up for tender nobody
drivers plotted up without a job asleep in their
our city are being fl ooded by cabs and the work
except the company who successfully got the
cars? Not professional you must agree and they
has fl owed much to the touts obvious annoyance
tender bothered or wanted to put in a price for the
are not cheaper than a licensed taxi I can assure
towards the taxi trade. I hope the coverage
ranks. What happened to the LTDA/COMCAB/
you of that.
continues and this is not a fl ash in the pan and
DAC/RTL Uncle Tom Cobbly and all who want a
only because the drivers are short of work and
say in our trade and actually do nothing, couldnʼt
CRB checks
are up for a testosterone macho fi lled ruck and
they have tendered? Maybe it wasnʼt big or
Part of the CRB checks private hire drivers go
venting their displeasure of the lack of work in the
lucrative enough, but only time will tell. Once the
through is called POVA (Protection of Vulnerable
wrong direction. Letʼs hope if and when the work
positioning especially of the rank in Cornhill is
Adults). It is a vital part of the enhanced CRB
comes back to the trade we will continue to cover
sorted and removed to nearer Abacus then that
check. As of April 2008 this part of the test has
the work we traditionally never wanted. I believe
rank will be busy, thatʼs if you want the drunks at
been stopped on the instructions of the CRB.
one particular radio circuit has pulled a master
1:30 onwards in the back of your cab. Richard
This check applies to all new applications and
stroke in constantly putting out messages to drive
Massett LTDA Executive Chairman, London Cab
renewals for private hire. I fi nd it disturbing that
around the Nobus and Smiths and are defl ecting
Ranks Committee said of the Cranbourn Street
the PCO knew of this situation but kept it secret.
the anger away from their incompetence in
rank: ʻthe facility has worked extremely well with
So, why did Mary Dowdye cover up the delusion
getting work for their drivers to the touts and clip
up to 600 cabs a night being despatched from
of CRB checks by private hire until about January
board operators who are clearly openly operating
the rank.ʼ Okay, letʼs work this out. 600 cabs
2009? I have heard that if a Polish national has
under the noses of those who should have
per night over a period of 5 hours, thatʼs if the
committed rape in his country did you know that
stamped on the problem years ago. The PCO/TfL
marshals are there on time and available to place
after 7 years it is taken off his records so then
and TOCU have no teeth to bare when it comes
all those fares into cabs. That works out to 120
after that time he could apply for a licence to
to the touts and fi ddle and fart around doing
per hour or 2 cabs per minute. I think like the
drive children or vulnerable adults without the
almost nothing. I hope you all reclaim the work
LTDA membership he should halve that amount
criminal act being disclosed. Add all this to the
back from the touts and the minicab trade but
and then halve it again and take off a nought at
many people applying for private hire licences
while youʼre at it maybe the board members of the end and then he will get the true amount. Me
who cannot be traced because back in their own
various radio circuits who gave them the work in thinks he needs to get out a bit more. Oh, not on
country their family could be harmed then we
the fi rst place at your corporate accounts can put the subject of ranks but on someone who should
have a recipe for disaster and the CRB checks
the champagne down and pull their thumbs out get out more, but not in the front of a cab and
are a farce and not worth the paper they are
of their arses and do the same as you, reclaim that is Geoffrey Riesel the Chairman of Londonʼs
printed on are they folks?
the work back for the taxi trade. This work is not a Taxi Network? He said in an article that the
pension for a handful of non-drivers with nothing minimum taxi fare is £2.40. I must have missed
Are you still waiting for the reimbursement of the
better to do than put out messages to their fl eets, a couple of things here. The drop of the clock
over payment of £18 to SGS on your overhaul? The
itʼs your legitimate work, no on second thoughts... minimum is actually £2.20 and not £2.40. Who
Carriage Offi ce have still to pay out about another
ITʼS YOUR LIVING. the F*** is the London Taxi Network anyway?
200 drivers but unless you tell them, you wonʼt get
Not another bogus group purporting to represent
it. Donʼt let these bandits take your money through
For those of you who are interested you could copy the taxi trade, surely not. Is this the same un-
the back door, we pay enough and have enough
the following and show it to any police offi cer who elected bogus group who were operating under
living off our backs, and itʼs time we fought back.
allows touts to carry on in their activities illegally. the guise called the London Taxi Board? Werenʼt
they the ones that fi ve and a half thousand taxi Keep fi ghting for your work, itʼs there if you want
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC ORDER drivers wanted to get rid of and duly signed a
it. When you get it, keep it. Remember those
ACT 1994 petition and handed it to the then Mayor Ken who purport to work for your interests are not the
Livingston? I know, I collected most of them solution they are the problem.
Your attention is drawn to SECTION 167 of and my wife collated them onto a computer. Are
the CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC ORDER they the very same un-elected, un-democratic, Bernie May
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