LETTERS TO PHTM EX-PHV FINED FOR DRIVING IN BRADFORD CAZ Dear PHTM
In theory, when a licensed PHV is sold, the proprietor should tell the relevant local licensing authority that the vehicle has been sold. The local authority should then remove the vehicle from its system as a licensed vehicle, but in practice this never happens. My friend bought a used Skoda from a car trader a month ago and to date he has received twenty three CAZ fines from City of Bradford MDC for using this vehicle as his private car. He is NOT a private hire driver. The clean air zone
GOV.UK website only gives information if the vehicle needs to pay a clean air zone charge and how much the charge should be. BUT there is no procedure in place on government’s website or any other system in place to explain how to get a vehicle removed when it is sold. We don’t have any details of previous owners or which council it was registered with. In the photo in the CAZ fine notice you can clearly see that the the car is not a private hire vehicle as it has no stickers or signage, but Bradford council insists the fines must be paid.
Can anyone please advise where the new owner can get some help to get the vehicle removed from the database in order to stop receiving these fines.
UBER INSTALL GEOFENCE ON WEYBRIDGE STATION APPROACH AFTER ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN PHTM
Dear PHTM
Thank you very much for publishing our story about the Weybridge train station taxi rank in PHTM November issue. After being ignored for so long the article brought great attention from all parties involved - our licensing team at Elmbridge BC, South Western railway who we pay for our station permits, and TfL Uber. We have always had great support from the local Conservative Party but after the article we had numerous talks and meetings about our issues with all parties resulting in Uber putting a geo-fence on Station Approach at the station. Now, If any Uber vehicles are parked and plying for hire on Station Approach they will not receive new jobs from the train station. To get a new job, the Uber driver needs to be outside the train station. Another positive development is that the drop-off and pick-up zone is now outside the train station, on the
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other side of the bridge. We were extremely happy about these new restric- tions. However we have now noticed that Uber drivers are completely ignoring the drop-off and pick-up point outside the station. They are still coming to the station, blocking us, and sometimes even occupying our taxi rank. The next meeting with the licensing team, councillors, and taxi drivers is planned for January 2025. All parties will continue discussing increasing to a one-mile geo- fence around the station and how to address our continuing problems with TfL-Uber vehicles at the station. I would like to thank PHTM for your support, we will keep fighting and will let you know what happens
Kind regards, Miroslav Podlecki Elmbridge HC Driver
JANUARY 2025 PHTM
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