By Thomas The Taxi.
A part refund of £18 will be paid automatically to drivers within the next 6 weeks.
The question, most drivers would like to ask is;
“what’s happened to the other £18"
How can the PCO get away with keeping our money in this way, a short fall of nearly half a million pounds.
The Public Carriage Office are saying that, the balance is what it is costing to get out of the contract with SGS.
Why is the London Taxi trade being charged for the PCO’s failure to negotiate a get out clause in a contract?
It is not just the drivers who have pre-paid this money, the PCO have also decided to put up the price of the annual inspection to £160, a rise of over 10%.
How can the PCO/TFL justify this inflation busting rise?
This has happened before, in other areas around the country, where it has been ruled that Licensing authorities can only charge a fee that equates to the true cost of the license and full refunds have had to be given.
The main question that has to be asked by our trade representative bodies should be;
"Is compensating SGS for the loss of part of their contract a genuine cost of the license, that can be passed on to the drivers?"
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.In my opinion;
This is victimisation of the trade by a scorned TFL who thought they ruled the roost. They never thought they would lose the mid term as every one of the labour assembly members was adamant that our cabs would be unsafe and fall to bits if the inspections were scrapped.
When you receive the cheque from SGS, send it back and demand the full amount of £36. They can not charge you for work they have not carried out and the contract was with TFL not you personally.
We're not allowed to charge more than is on the meter so why should we have to pay them more than the price of a yearly inspection?
This cant be right.
ReplyDeleteThis is victimisation of the taxi trade from a bitter TFL, who are getting their own back at losing the mid term inspection.
TFL are not working with the Mayor they are still carrying out Kens policies and waiting his return.
A friend of mine how works in a restaurant told me that Ken and Hendy have regular launch meetings and he has seen documents changing hands.
It has been the trades belief that most of Kens team in TFL are still in their jobs.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to be working against the mayor instead of getting on with their jobs.
You only have to look at the labour contingent on the London assembly, they seem to spend all their working hours bashing Boris.
We cant go forward as a trade until these Marxists' are weeded out and removed.
ReplyDeleteYou have to carry on campaigning to the passengers, so when the next election comes we get rid of this scum for good.