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FIVE KIRKLEES CABBIES SUSPENDED
Five Kirklees cabbies have been suspended after a swoop on PHVs trading illegally.
The joint operation, carried out by Kirklees Council licensing offi- cers, trading standards
officers and the police, took place on Kirkgate, Huddersfield, on a recent Sunday. The five drivers are now likely to be prosecuted. Cllr Christine Iredale, chairman of the
Kirklees Licensing Committee, told the Yorkshire Evening Post: “This was an example of the council achieving excellent results whilst working with other agencies.”
FIFTEEN BRISTOL CABS FAIL CHECKS
Fifteen PHVs and black cabs failed safety checks in a crackdown. A total of 57 vehicles were tested by Safer Bristol, a joint opera- tion by the city council’s licensing enforcement team, police and VOSA. The majority of faults concerned tyres below the legal depth limit.
Cllr Ron Stone, chair- man of the public safety protection com- mittee, told the Bristol Evening Post: “It is important for the pub- lic’s safety that we ensure the hackney carriages and PHVs are roadworthy.” Of the 44 vehicles checked on a recent Thursday, 36 were
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Mid Sussex District Council carried out a taxi and PHV safety check last month, along with Sussex Police, VOSA, Mid Sussex DC, MSDC Benefits and WSCC school contracts. A total of 37 licensed vehicles were checked, two hackney carriages and 14 PHVs, plus two SWCC minibuses, 33 MSDC licensed vehi- cles, one from Wealden, two from Crawley and one from Adur. Four immediate prohibition notices were issued, two of which were MSDC licensed vehicles that
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had plates removed. Two delayed prohibition notices were issued: one Crawley private hire and one MSDC hackney carriage. An endorseable fixed penalty ticket was also issued to the MSDC licensed private hire driver whose vehicle had two defective tyres. Other faults included dodgy tyres, missing tariff cards, drivers without ID badges, and obstructed footwells. The Benefits officer also detected three persons acting as escorts who appeared to be work- ing while claiming
Mmm… so, a busy day then. Where are/were the relevant enforce- ment officers? More importantly, where are the operators whose circuits these dodgy vehicles are on - if applicable. We’ve always gone on about operator responsibility - surely they should be answerable to the authorities for the state of some of these vehicles. Councils maintain that their pri- mary remit is public safety; they should come down heavily on the operators to get their act together. - Ed.
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PHVs and the rest were hackney carriages. Eleven of the vehicle licences were suspend- ed until the remedial work deemed neces- sary was carried out. Further checks were made on 13 cabs on the following Saturday night and four of the vehicles were found to be unsafe.
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More than 1,000 vehi- cles were stopped and checked across West Yorkshire as part of a weekend operation targeting people com- mitting motoring offences, police revealed last month. The days of action were run by the Spe-
cial Constabulary of West Yorkshire Police who, with regular offi- cers and VOSA, stopped more than 120 taxis, 52 of which were either suspend- ed or given prohibition notices to address any vehicle faults.
Chief Insp Jaene
Booth told the Brad- ford Telegraph and Argus: “The opera- tions carried out are extremely important and have been focused in areas where motoring offences are highlight- ed as priorities by local communities.”
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Cowboy cabbies have been driven off the roads by police and council officers in a special operation. A total of 64 taxis were stopped, with 22 driv- ers given a warning or advice about the con- dition of their vehicles. A further 15 were issued with non-com- pliance notices for vehicle defects.
CRACKDOWN IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Morpeth.
The operation was aimed at both PHVs and hackney carriages from in and out of Newcastle upon Tyne. Out of the 64 vehicles, 32 were Newcastle hackney carriages and 13 were Newcastle PHVs.
A further 19 were from other councils, includ- ing Berwick, North Tyneside and Castle
Neighbourhood Beat Manager PC Zoe Hingston told the New- castle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle: “We’ll continue to work with the city council to check both PHVs and hackney carriages, to ensure they are com- plying with safety laws and that passengers are safe.”
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