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SUPPORT


ON GOVERNMENT HIRE TRADE


playing field, along with additional support to help drivers move to cleaner, more efficient vehicles.


“We know that drivers are facing an important choice with their next taxi: stick with a cheaper-to-buy but polluting fossil fuel, or invest in an EV. Despite being cheaper to run and emitting less carbon, there’s only a small number of electric hackney vehicles on the market and they’re expensive to buy. It’s important that JAQU understand these issues, but also recognises this is an opportunity to move to a cleaner fleet if the right policy is implemented and the right support is available. We want cleaner air, and the way forward is through investment, and we don’t want to leave drivers in a position where they pay to pollute.


“Sheffield is proud of having a 100% accessible fleet of hackney carriages. They’re key to ensuring children with special educational needs have transport to school. Because of the closed cab design, they’re much more Covid-secure than a regular car and they’ve been used to get vulnerable patients to hospitals and to vaccinations, when other transport wouldn’t be suitable.”


In many urban areas, hackneys have been licensed to a higher standard than PHVs, typically requiring them to operate wheelchair accessible, ‘London-style’ black cabs. Up until now this has given drivers and owners a predictable business model, and the general public access to a versatile and accessible fleet.


Under government CAZ vehicle guidance, hackney drivers face a big capital outlay to upgrade vehicles, while the private hire trade will also be directly competing for a similar customer market. However, it’s currently effectively impossible for local authorities to require WAVs across the local private hire fleet. Anyone who chooses not to, can simply seek a driver and vehicle licence anywhere in the country and continue to serve the local market using a standard saloon car.


The hackney trade has been seeing reduced customer demand for some time, with competition from new app- based private hire business models. Both the taxi and private hire sectors report being hugely impacted by the economic consequences of Covid-19.


Local authorities have asked for a meeting with the Secretary of State and government officials at the earliest opportunity.


MARCH 2021


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