FUTURE OF UNCERTAINTY OK, SO LET’S HAVE A LOOK ATWHY THIS MIGHT BE HAPPENING


NOTE – achieving distancing in line with these standards willmean increasing the size of the vehicle, or where that is not possible, splitting the children across sep- arate runs – either by additional runs with the same vehicle (i.e. staggered times of arrival at anddeparture from schools), OR additional vehicles operating.


This is taken directly from Somerset County Council’s new guidance issued in June 2020; within the guid- ance it shows as few as nine passengers on a 56- seater coach….make sense yet?? (See schematic below.


One driver stated “Here at the moment they are using minibuses.


Have Wrexham been paying 75% of the con- tracts? At present I'm still on 75% But if job restarts I get 100%


Protocol for Primary and Secondary home to school transport wef June 2020, ambulant passengers i.e. no wheelchairs o secure.


1. Social Distancing 1.1 Seats alongside or immediately to rear of driver to be out of use.


1.2 Occupation of available seats constrained, with one passenger in each row of seats, staggered nearside/offside, except passengers from same house- hold allowed to sit together. Consequential capacity will depend on exact layout of the seats on the vehicle, but typical examples below:


Typical equivalent seating if all seats used alongside driver


4 seat car


2m social distancing seating capacity of vehicle net of seats out of use


1


But if I can't do it, and a minibus is sent. I can’t see them paying me 75% and the minibus 100% That just won't happen. I need the 75% to live.


I've not done a single job since lockdown. Com- pletely self-isolating.”


Another driver stated “Quite a few LAs around Derbyshire have done the same”


Seating plans wef June 2020 1 passenger, seated rear nearside 6 seat people carrier


2 separate household 3 same household


2 passengers from separate households, 1 seated in middle row nearside and 1 in rear offside.


3 passengers from same household, 1 seated in middle row nearside and 2 in rear


8 seat minibus


2 separate household 4 same household


2 passengers from separate households, 1 seated in middle row nearside and 1 in rear offside.


4 passengers from same household, 1 seated in middle row nearside and 3 in rear


JULY 2020


So all of thosecontracts that have been paid anything less than 100% of the contract price, (as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps instructed MUST be the case for all bus providers) now have amajor issue since not only have they failed to protect the vehicles that were already providing a service; but now they need far more vehicles or at least as quote above “additional runs with the same vehicle by utilising staggering arrival departure times.”


So once again we find the bus services funded and protected. Cyclists funded and protected, even pedestrians given wider pavements...but.... Our Taxi and private hire industry…Who are they?


#theforgottenindustry thats who we are!!


Article written by: Dave Lawrie Director NPHTA


0161 280 2800 info@nphta.co.uk www.nphta.co.uk


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