Wednesday, 28 September 2016
The UTG Done Deal Credit Card Mandate Omni Shambles Rolls On....by Jim Thomas.
Last Thursday night, CMT's complete system shut down and driver's could not sign in, or clear a payment for hours.
In just over four weeks time, under the proposed Unite Taxi group(UTG) done deal regulations, this would mean many thousands of Taxi drivers having to stop work and go home... until the system's restored back up and running properly.
Currently many CMT machines have a software bug, which appears to stop the PEDs logging on for long periods of time. This could also result in many drivers having an early bath. I personally contacted CMT UK on their Twitter feed one evening when I couldn't sign in, hoping for a help line phone number and was given an email address -not quite what I was hoping for.
But CMT are not the only equipment with problems.
The iZettle Muria MO10 units are currently printing out receipts containing the drivers full name, home address and telephone number. Many drivers are giving these receipts to customers, completely unaware their personal details are emblazoned on them.
To be fair, this whole issue has been a complete shambles from the start. Badly planned, badly thought out, with almost no import sort from drivers, or driver's groups.
The start date for the Card Mandate has been put back by 4 weeks, while the requirement for rear fitting has had to be been postponed till 1st January.
Speaking to a compliance officers over the weekend, they informed me that interdepartmental memos are flying around like confetti. Apparently the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing (their words not mine).
Driver Safety:
Driver safety issues with the rear fitment of Card readers still haven't been addressed by LTPH. General Manager Helen Chapman said at the LCDC AGM, 'we have no data to show this may be a problem'.
As yet, the main body of trade drivers....the 80% not on social media, haven't received a word of notification from TfLTPH so far.
What's your experience of problems concerning these new rear PEDs?
Use the comments section below to air your fears about issues relating to the CC equipment.
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Tuesday, 27 September 2016
TfL's Ministry Of Misinformation...Keep Calm And Tell Them Nothing...by Jim Thomas.
Over the last few years, TfL have continued to drag their feet when asked to publish the Private Hire related serious sexual assault and rape statistics.
Their webpage- where these figures should be found -has been cleansed of actual numbers and replaced by manipulated percentages, giving a false perception to the travelling public, that the attacks are on the wain.
This is not the case seen in statistics released by the Met Police, acquired by freedom of information requests.
Their webpage announces that TfL publish the official Met Police statistics for sexual offences on an annual basis...BUT WHERE?
Their webpage has been systematically cleansed of actual numbers.
After an official FOI request, TfL stated they would release the figures for 2015-2016 by the 20th of September. That deadline has come and gone.
After multiple requests from multiple drivers on social media, TfL say they are still finalising the figures.
Taxi Leaks made 65 requests on Twitter before we got this non answer.
After more requests from drivers over the last week, TfLTPH have posted this announcement.
But going to the page on the TfL website shows no figures have been released. In fact, they haven't released the statistics for 2014-15.
Below, is the actual wording in respect of the rape statistics, on the webpage where this link sends you.
Sexual offences
We publish the official Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) figure of the total number of confirmed taxi and private hire related sexual offences on an annual basis. The MPS is unable to provide a definitive breakdown by type of vehicle for reporting purposes. It is not always possible to determine whether these offences were committed by unlicensed or licensed taxi and private hire drivers or any details of how the victims were approached. The specific details regarding the offender's characteristic in each case are often not clarified until the investigation of each allegation is complete, and in a significant number of offences, the profile of the suspect is never confirmed and remains unknown.
The following are official crime figures from the MPS:
2012/13 - Taxi and private hire related sexual offences were over 30% lower than in 2002/03. The number of rape offences almost halved over the same period.
WHERE ARE THE NUMBERS ?
2013/14 - Taxi and private hire related sexual offences fell by 15% compared to 2012/13, with rape offences down 30%.
AGAIN WHERE ARE THE NUMBERS ?
2014/15 - This data will be available later this year.
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Monday, 26 September 2016
One Set Of Regulations For Us....And No Regulations For A Chosen Few.
Just when you thought you'd seen it all before...
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Just when you thought they couldn't get any more biased...
A driver complains to TfL that a car, shown on the TfL licence checker page as a PHV, is working with no roundels.
Unbelievably, TfLTPH replied, they had given this vehicle special dispensation to work without roundels.
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Lee Ward Comments On The Deregulation By Stealth Article.
To not have a knowledge test because we have the use of Sat Nav's is plain stupid, would they let me go and repair their central heating boiler because I have the information on YouTube ?
Like hell they would...
So why allow a driver to drive them or their family around while concentrating on a Sat Nav instead of on the road ?
I believe that a steering committee should be made to attack this issues "Nation Wide" and get the MP's to sit up and listen to this trade, the usual Unions only dilute the issue while attempting to get the kudos for what they try to achieve.
I believe that a steering committee should be made to attack this issues "Nation Wide" and get the MP's to sit up and listen to this trade, the usual Unions only dilute the issue while attempting to get the kudos for what they try to achieve.
Editorial Comment.
There are many trade unions in the UK. What do they do when face with problems that could wipe them out....they go to the TUC, The Trade Union Congress.
That's exactly what we need now, a Nation Trade Congress.
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