Category: General Taxi Issues

Here are the proposed changes:

Standard and Age of Vehicles
Phase 1
From 01 April 2020 all applications for the grant of a vehicle licence must have at least a Euro 6 diesel engine, a Euro 4 petrol engine (or a newer Euro
standard) and be no older than 10 years of age at the time of licensing.
Phase 2
From 01 January 2021 Vehicle proprietor(s), partnerships or companies who
collectively have 5 or more vehicles licensed with the Council will be required to have at least one vehicle licensed at all times that is an electric or zero emission capable (ZEC) Hybrid vehicle.
Phase 3
The Council will continue to renew existing vehicle licences until 01 July 2024. After this date all vehicles must have at least a Euro 6 diesel engine, a Euro 4 petrol engine (or a newer Euro standard) and be no older than 10 years of age at the time of licensing. The intention of this is to create a minimum standard for licensed vehicles in Cornwall. It should be noted that the Council will accept applications for a higher standard than are described above, for example, an electric or zero emission capable hybrid vehicle.
Vehicles have been required to meet the Euro 6 diesel emission standard since 1 January 2015, but have been available on the market from 2014. Euro 4 petrol vehicles have been registered since 01 January 2006. This equates to a 10 year age limit in relation to petrol vehicles and a 5 to 6 year age limit in relation to diesel vehicles based on the proposed dates as detailed above.

What do you think?

Last night a Q&A meeting was held with the Police Commissioner and senior officers.

The meeting was held at the St Columb Major Council Chamber on Thursday 16th May 2019 at 19:00. Attending for Q&A was the Police Commissioner Alison Hernandez, Chief Inspector Brent Ireland (East Cornwall) and Acting Inspector Steve Johnson (Newquay).

The Trade asked for the Police to support the ‘Zero Tolerance Campaign Against Abuse towards Taxi & PHV Drivers’, presenting…read more

 

One Tariff for Cornwall! – Half the current vehicles do not meet new conditions!

What are we going to do?? – Read more…

I can understand a fee of £150 per vehicle, but an extra £100 per each additional driver? That is way over the top for me – if the average job is 2 miles at £6.95 – 1 vehicle 2 drivers at £250 – that’s 36 jobs you need to do just to break even – so probably take you a month or two!

One of the issues raised around the unmet demand survey was an absence of Taxis from the Rail Ranks in both Newquay and St Austell, and it’s probably down to this cost. On top of that you may have to tolerate signs that could encourage your customers – that you have paid dearly for – to walk around the corner to a competitor!

Rob Ryder says “If anyone out there pays for a permit for Newquay Rail Rank and is not happy about the new A2B sign that has been fixed to the wall at the rank then please email, phone or write to Cabfind permits section. It is permit renewal time and I have asked for a 90% reduction on last years rate on the basis that the sign encourages potential passengers to walk around the corner to the A2B office and get lower prices than using rank vehicles thus we estimate that there will be a 90% reduction in business.” – So will it be People Power or Apathy? (Apathy is usually the more expensive one of the two!)