This is how frighteningly easy it is to become a tout, using a TfL license vehicle.
How has this man, Director of Serice Operations (surface transport) Peter Blake, still got a job.
Listening to him being taken apart, on this mornings Nick Ferrari show on LBC shows how incompetent LTPH is. This one interview shows that this licensing authority isn't fit for purpose and needs to be completely overhauled.
Listen to the Blake interview here
This comes just hours after TfL's scandalous announcement on their @TfLTPH Twitter account, that members of the public can approach a waiting PHV driver, ask if he is for hire, and after being told "Yes", can then use their smartphone app to then immediately hire that car.
And the TfL authorised operator Shen said -in her opinion- was quite legal
Well Shen, actually it's not. We have many years of case law that state it's not.
I would therefore like to draw TfL's attention to 3 cases
1) White v McKay.........1946
2) Rose v Welbeck.......1962
3) Vincent v Newman..1962
You can read all about these cases and the judgements:
Alan Flemings piece complied some years ago which still remains the best quick glance resource on "Illegal Plying":
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This is particularly true for transport, and using a steady Airport Taxi Hire Service can charge you very much when you are itinerant improvised. You might think that there is slight you can do earlier you reach in London, but you would be wrong.
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