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Hail the new, Ye lads and lasses. Another year has come to an end, and we’re about to embark on a New Year to top them all. Well, we hope so for your sake! Reading through pages and pages of New Year’s resolutions and wondering what to feature here, my train of thought was: Do you know what - Blow all those ideas about losing weight, cutting down on the ol’ loopy juice, going to the gym... those types of good-intentioned endeavours are just the ones that are so easily dropped after a very short time.
How about a one-word year? Examples of what you might hope to achieve over the next 365 days could include: serenity, health, prosperity, safety, harmony, fortitude... If you condense your goals down to one word it gives you more focus, and less likelihood of “falling off the wagon” from a set of resolutions which - let’s face it - are broken by most folk by the second week!
And of course your one-word year also holds relevance to your work within this industry. We could just for fun add a few pertinent words to the list, such as: recommendations, stickers, posters, CCTV, cross-border (that’s cheating - it counts as one word as it’s hyphenated), standards, training, recompense...
Recompense?! Yes, that’s exactly what the guys in Wakefield are hoping for, as a result of their council having charged them the wrong licensing fees for some considerable time. You can read about that on this month’s front page, and as soon as the High Court transcript is avail- able we’ll summarise that for you; we’ll leave you to figure out whether there is a parallel to your own council’s fees figurework.
Liza Lipson
Graham Burns Annabel Lee
Trevor Dunkerley Hatem Obed Jamie McCoy
How about Congestion? Oh dear, that’s a one-word year the private hire trade in London would just as soon tear off the calendar, as they’re going to have to endure the lifting of their exemption from the capital’s con- gestion charge from this April. Check out the Capital pages for more de- tails on that one.
How about Lobbying? That is going be a focus (one of many actually) of the National Private Hire and Taxi Association with increased vigour; have a read of Opinion to get a refresher on exactly what we do, and what needs doing even more this next year, and why we need your sup- port more than ever.
How about Employment? Actually we’re talking about workers’ rights here, and the status of licensed drivers. Have a look at the Uber UK page to get the latest bulletin on the status of their tribunal and appeals process. How much longer can they string this business along? It’s down to the size of their coffers, of course.
How about Pollution? Over the past 12 months we’ve published many stories about yet more towns and cities where a Clean Air charge is being considered for imposition on licensed vehicles. Don’t get me started on that one: our guys are sitting targets, but why should they pick up the tab for years of town planning blunders, one-way systems, pedestri- anised zones, White Van Man, and the encouragement from successive governments to use diesel vehicles - which are now of course the Big Bad Wolf.
How about Jobsworths? You know, those lovely individuals who go around making life a misery by taking rules and regs to the Nth degree. We often bring you examples in this column, such as: an overzealous traffic warden removing the hearse for a supposed parking violation, just as the de- ceased’s coffin leaves
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funeral party watching. Or workmen painting white lines on the A338 near Downton on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border, leaving a gap for a dead bad- ger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it.
But let’s finish this intro on a more upbeat one-worder, shall we? How about Wishes: From everybody at PHTM and the National Association, may we extend our best wishes to each and every one of you for the best New Year ever.
And as always, have a good read! JANUARY 2019
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