sludgeguts
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2013
- Messages
- 1,998
- Reaction score
- 1,139
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Dash Cam
- Mobius x3, G1W held as spare.
Some good news - I think.
The head honcho at taxi licensing has sent me an email, apologising most profusely for his minions giving me duff information. It seems that they take passenger safety VERY seriously.
So he's asked if I can drop all footage onto disk and leave it at reception (done a disk for him plus a copy for me - just in case...).
As it happened, I witnessed yet another incident outside another nursing home after I'd dropped off on Friday. It was only after compiling the clips that I realised, the black cab I saw was the same one as I saw in the first incident (I got them the wrong way round in my original comment, sorry) so it seems that this driver makes a habit of transporting any wheelchair passenger sideways, without a seatbelt & without securing the chair.
Now. After getting no reply to my very first complaint, I sent a complaint higher up the food chain at the council. I said that even if they weren't interested in the content, they should at least give me the courtesy of acknowledging my complaint. I heard nothing for many weeks so went to the next phase of complaint (as set out on their own website).
I can't help wondering if top brass have come down hard on the taxi licensing department & kicked a few backsides - hence the sudden interest?
Maybe if these idiots lose their taxi licence it'll send a message out to the rest that CBA to do their job properly?
There's hardly a day goes by where someone isn't complaining about dodgy taxi drivers on local facebook pages - driving fast, blasting through red lights, cutting people up, on their mobile whilst driving. We've even had one drive off with someone's kid still strapped in the back seat! I cannot believe that you, as a driver, are not aware how many passengers you are carrying at any given time!
The head honcho at taxi licensing has sent me an email, apologising most profusely for his minions giving me duff information. It seems that they take passenger safety VERY seriously.
So he's asked if I can drop all footage onto disk and leave it at reception (done a disk for him plus a copy for me - just in case...).
As it happened, I witnessed yet another incident outside another nursing home after I'd dropped off on Friday. It was only after compiling the clips that I realised, the black cab I saw was the same one as I saw in the first incident (I got them the wrong way round in my original comment, sorry) so it seems that this driver makes a habit of transporting any wheelchair passenger sideways, without a seatbelt & without securing the chair.
Now. After getting no reply to my very first complaint, I sent a complaint higher up the food chain at the council. I said that even if they weren't interested in the content, they should at least give me the courtesy of acknowledging my complaint. I heard nothing for many weeks so went to the next phase of complaint (as set out on their own website).
I can't help wondering if top brass have come down hard on the taxi licensing department & kicked a few backsides - hence the sudden interest?
Maybe if these idiots lose their taxi licence it'll send a message out to the rest that CBA to do their job properly?
There's hardly a day goes by where someone isn't complaining about dodgy taxi drivers on local facebook pages - driving fast, blasting through red lights, cutting people up, on their mobile whilst driving. We've even had one drive off with someone's kid still strapped in the back seat! I cannot believe that you, as a driver, are not aware how many passengers you are carrying at any given time!