A Private Hire driver made over 86 journeys carrying passengers whilst having no valid insurance cover.
The driver,who was licenced to drive Private Hire by North Tyneside Council, pleaded guilty to three offences. One offence of having no Private Hire drivers licence and two of driving with no insurance at North Tyneside magistrates court. The 57 year old driver was given 12 penalty points and was fined £600 with costs of £150.
North Tyneside Council discovered that from January 1st to January 14th of this year he had been driving without a current Private Hire licence after failing to renew his badge with North Tyneside Council.
Unlike the previous story on South Tyneside it appears that the operator that this driver worked for got away scot free.
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and certain private hire drivers on here are always making accusations that hack drivers are not licenced insured etc, well these couple of storys seem to tell a different story to me.
Here’s one from our neck of the woods:
Barry Jones, 49, of Arundel Drive, was found to be in breach of private hire licensing laws after investigating officers booked a taxi journey with him over the telephone.
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it might be worth the newcastle forum taking a copy of this story to licencing.
as it stands some ph companies **cough** gateshead central, believe that they are ok to ‘flimp’ by doing exactly this. one driver registration looks like ‘pasty’ had the nerve to do this in front of at least 15 hack drivers, and as we took his number he sat in his car and showed us his phone to say look its a booking now! pratt, learn your job!
and abc, they do the same, flimp a job and radio through to the office and they hoy the job in the book, both driver and deskclerk should get done here, as both know it’s not legal.
but can i just say that at the moment, there seems to be notibly less ph or out of towners parked up around the city, and if this is a result of active enforcement from newcastle then well done. but lets see who the ‘flipmers’ are and who they work for in the chronicle please!
and i’ll finsih on the ph are too busy to flimp brigarde. Once again, active enforcement equals NOTIBLY less out of towners and ph parked up in hotspots! and a couple of weeks ago on a friday night, i picked up a ph driver for a gateshead office, who said ‘it’s not worth working fridays as the office doesnt have the work for the drivers, and i cannot come to town anymore as enforcement are s**t hot!’
GOOD!
@andy warhol, 99% of the drivers at ghd central dont know there arse from there elbow ,just goes to show the whole office is bent .
@andy warhol, why do you think you get the gateshead central drivers sitting allover the travel lodge? granted they may have the contract but i bet 80% of the jobs are never ever booked .