Letter To Taxi Leaks : Are The CC Machine Suppliers Using TfL's Authorisation To Rip Us All Off.

Drivers who are still in a daze about them being forced to fit card readers into Taxis without any statutory UK legal duties yet still find themselves pressured 
doing so under TFL duress no choice or consideration regarding intellectual study surrounding what is truly beneficial to a singular Taxi driver & his own personal life situations or business.

The passenger has clearly been given all the perceived advantages regardless of the law of the country contradicting any supply of goods or services in fair & balanced reasoning. TFL have simply no idea how we operate in terms of conditions hours or risk & have simply lumped us all as one business model...this is simply without doubt pure discrimination because there are so many different factors in the carriage of passengers or goods how can TFL make any fair assumption of our service with a one tier solution?

If for example You are a nervous driver who has experienced several serious issues of bilking over the years (the police call it a civil matter...remember that) & you now decide you are no longer going to accept street hirings because of the losses and safety so you opt for a radio or App base who supply entirely account work (which you are perfectly entitled to do) you will not need any card readers in your vehicle (I know several drivers who do exactly that)...... yet on the rear of the "Positioning of Signage" letters we all received from TFL states on exemptions "no such exemptions will be granted" & this has still been taken into account despite all the raised safety concerns surrounding TFL's isolated fixing demands, that is very worrying indeed as it abandons you just as the police do with bilking.

All of Londons Taxi business competitors without exception are notably are forced to accept card payments until they receive advance credential authorisation, and the same applies to the entire TFL transportation network as you simply cannot pay a fare in arrears (and will be fined if you are caught doing so)

If anybody in London... Britain..or the Planet does not consider this discriminatory against London Taxi Drivers then they can only be employees of the Undemocratic dictatorship of Transport For London Taxi section, as Private hire are not affected.

I discovered late last week Paypal are now on the list for Metrocab drivers and all will be revealed on Monday, But on closer product inspection ....particularly equipment pricing things are starting to look quite uncomfortable in a cartel sense and the pricing issues that are surfacing are not making sense?

Firstly, A singular Contactless Paypal reader can be now bought for a reduced price of £39.99 (£47.99 incl vat) and a Suitably good quality Bluetooth android printer for between £35-£50 incl Vat worse ways £100 incl for the pair, ...so that currently leaves the £298.80 paypal "bundle" costing amost whopping £200 more for supplying 2 fitting brackets and they still have to be fixed at a cost of £70 plus vat or more if you have a Metro or Vito, 
note, Izettle also use the same Muira M010 equipment as paypal and theirs is even dearer at £358.80 incl vat.


No matter how you look at this issue...it is a rip off, and the word "TFL approval" jacks the costs up, so buy you fixings separately, and as the tfl ultimate plan is to make all readers joined up with your meters why pay over the odds for equipment?

I am certain there will eventually be legal light shone on this whole enforced TFL card reading agenda which will result on final driver choice being made on appropriate needs driven by individual choices of safety and personal business need and other derivatives and not the simply dictatorial agenderist opinions of TFL employees who as we are currently seeing are making calamitous errors of judgements all over our trade without any self consequences of incompetent penalty.

Be out in force Monday to demonstrate outside the cockroach nest otherwise known as TFL, as enough is enough.

Be Lucky

greenbadgejohn (on twitter)

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Please Sign This Important Petition To Stop Cross Boarder Hiring

I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?

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My petition:

Cross border hiring is dangerous to the public. Sub-contracting is no better.

ALPHA and the GMB have UNITED to bring to the attention of the government the issues within the Taxi & Private Hire trade from the Deregulation Act.

By inserting the word Predominantly into the Laws from both the Deregulation Act 2015 and the previous out of date laws, this would close the loop holes currently being used for drivers who circumvent the licensing system and the operators who use these drivers. The changes to the Taxi & Private Hire were questioned when this Act went through Parliament, the 10 days given to debate was on reason. The whole act was not consulted correctly, we can not let the public be in danger due to this.

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Independent Taxi Alliance Demo Statement : TfL....We're Coming For You.

It's perfectly clear to us all, TFL have an agenda to destroy the London Taxi Trade. There has been widespread incompetence and alleged corruption at TFL and by taking part in demos, we are showing TFL we have had enough. 

The message behind the protest is simple:

 • NO MORE DEREGULATION 

 • NO MORE DISMANTLING OF THE TAXI TRADE

If you care about the survival of your job, please turn up and support your colleagues in the fight for the continuance of this iconic trade. 

We are now at the tipping point where doing nothing is no longer an option anymore. Groups like ITA,  DDD, MM, LCDC and the UCG, are openly working together more and more, to fight the aggressive agendas coming from TfL.

For those who promote the misnomer that demos don't work, see the LCDC's badge out on Monday and read about TfL's U Turn over the fake medicals issue, after Thursdays on foot demo on Blackfriars Road.

Please tell your friends and family to come along on Monday afternoon and support this action. 

DO NOTHING and we will be gone within a few years. 

Only you can make the difference.

Editorial Comment:

Taxi Leaks has been informed that the Independent Taxi Alliance (ITA) are calling upon the trade to assemble, on

Monday 17/10/16 at Palestra on foot or cab. 

From 3pm until 7pm. 

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Will TfL Put Stops On Uber's Recalled Prius's As They Did With TX4's....LOL.

Have you ever thought, how come so many Uber drivers are causing so much damage to themselves and other motorists on London's streets?

Apart from the fact there are 3,365 Private Hire drivers licensed by TfL who -as of September 2916- don't hold a current UK licence (probably why so many ar driving the wrong way down knew way streets)....it's now emerged that a faulty parking break could suddenly and without warning disengage and automatically lunge forward. 

Take a look at this news story posted on Apple News: 

WARNING TO PRIUS OWNERS

If you purchased a 2016 or 2017 Toyota Prius, you'll probably want to heed the company's latest announcement. 

Toyota has issued a recall for over 300,000 Prius vehicles due to faulty brakes. In total, 212,000 of the vehicles are in Japan, while 94,000 are in the United States. 

Thousands of the cars in Europe and Australia have already been recalled.

In a statement, the company said: 

A Toyota spokesman confirmed that the faulty cars were produced at the company's Tsutsumi Plant in Japan. Additionally, no other models are affected. 

The spokesman declined to discuss any accidents that were caused due to the issue, saying, "Alleged crashes, injuries, and fatalities are reported in many ways to many different organizations."

The spokesman added, with regards to any accidents caused by the issue, "Based on a diligent but not exhaustive review of available data, we are not aware of any reports of crashes, injuries or fatalities related to this condition as of October 3, 2016."  

The spokesman added that the company is still "urging customers to have this repair completed when parts become available." 

The company plans to contact all known owners of the affected cars starting in November.

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A few years ago the London Taxi trade had a problem with TX4 which were catching fire. In what seem to be no time at all, TfL stepped in and put full stop notices on a 1,100 vehicle batch, posting their chassis numbers online. 

Over the last year we have seen Prius's spontaneously combust but no such action from their regulator. 

Now we have news that over 340,000 Prius's have faulty breaks which could very well provide the reason behind the increasing amount of Prius RTAs. 

The question is will TfL step in and put stop notes of these vehicles? So far....TfL haven't said one word about this situation.  

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Taxi Drivers Protest Over Corrupt Medicals For Private Hire Driver Applicants.....by Jim Thomas.

Over 300 Taxi drivers turned out to protest over the inaction from TfL over the latest scandalous news that Uber drivers have been buying their medical passes from bent doctors. 

TfL admit there could be well over 1000 such cases.

At a meeting with the regulator yesterday, the chairman of the LCDC Grant Davis was told TfL intend to take no action over the bought medicals and will leave the public at risk to getting into a car with possible schizophrenics for epileptics. 

TfL say they will wait until the drivers licenses run out after 3 years, then ask them to take new medicals

This just isn't good enough, surely the public deserve better protection. Another sign that TfL are bending over backwards to facilitate this company. 

We need a public inquiry into TfL

And we need it now. 

Well done to all the drivers who took time off work to take part in today's protest.

   

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German Lawmakers Vote To Ban All Combustion-Engine Cars By 2030

German politicians have voted to ban combustion-engine cars by 2030 in an effort to meet emissions targets outlined in the Paris agreement.

The Bundesrat, the federal council of all 16 German states, has passed a resolution to only permit zero-emission vehicles on EU roads.

The EU will need to adopt the resolution for it to come into effect in 14 years time, but Forbes reports that German regulation traditionally shapes European law. 

Green party lawmaker Oliver Krischer told Der Spiegel: “If the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions is to be taken seriously, no new combustion engine cars should be allowed on roads after 2030.”

The weekly magazine reports that the resolution calls on the EU Commission to “review the current practices of taxation and dues with regard to a stimulation of emission-free mobility.”

The German car industry, which invented the internal combustion engine, is the fourth largest in the world and is one of the biggest contributors to the German economy.

Reuters reports that a switch to sales of zero-emission cars would put thousands of jobs at risk as electric car manufacturing requires a tenth of the staff needed to build combustion-engine cars. 

In June, Norwegian politicians paved the way for an electric-only future by voting to ban all petrol and diesel powered cars by 2025. 

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Enough Is Enough...Drivers From All Trade Orgs To Support Demo In Blackfriars.

Enough is enough! 

It's alleged that TFL still have people in place from the John Mason regime, people like Leon Daniels and Gareth Emerson. They may have been moved sideways, but you can bet your bottom dollar they are still actively involved in TfL's agenda to cause our trade as many heartaches as possible. We've heard today from the LCDC Twitter feed that they are now ready to take their evidence to the serious fraud squad and the press.

Under the Bullshit Mayor's promises, things are not improving as they should be. The new Mayoral team do not appear to understand fully how we as a trade feel right now. 

Drivers leaving on masse. 

Drivers losing their homes, 

Drivers relationships breaking down. 

Drivers suffering huge mental health problems caused by this organisation called TFL. 

Reading through the LTDA's paper Taxi, you could be forgiven for thinking that everything is rosy! 

Well it's not.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and tomorrow the trade will gather outside 230 Blackfriars Road, to stand shoulder to should in a protest against all the corrupt practices which have come to light in recent months. 

Flyers have been printed and will be distributed to the public 

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