Dear Mr Ward
Thank you for your email response of 17 October 2016.
When booking a private hire vehicle, the passenger is deemed to be entering into a contact with the licensed operator who is inviting the booking and then fulfilling it with a licensed driver and vehicle. When accepting a booking, by whatever means, the operator is obliged to make a record of it at their licensed operating centre. The details of contracts between passengers and specific licensed operators are a matter for those two parties.
In accepting the booking and taking the payment, there is, in our view, what amounts to a contractual arrangement between the operator and the passenger. We will not comment on any specific contractual arrangements between the various parties.
As previously advised, Uber London Limited is registered as a private hire operator in London, having met the same pre-licensing requirements as any other applicant for an operator's licence and is subject to all legislation which applies to private hire operators in the Capital.
Yours sincerely
Chelsee Mckinlay
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As they agree and admit, the contract is between the customer and the person/company that invited the booking....INVITED the booking....
So, if Uber California or Taxify are the people that own the App which INVITES the booking to be made and then passed on, then THOSE companies require and Operators license as explained above.
The total disregard to this by TfL and any other authority is beyond any comprehension of the trade and requires immediate action.
2 comments:
The government in its wisdom contract rail operating companies to run different sections of British railway, if they don’t fulfil their obligations they are replaced by someone who can. Therefore, there is no reason why they can’t do the same with the taxi & private hire licencing departments around the country including London.
The Mayor and his cohorts don’t appear to have any clout or ideas how to deal with the problem and therefore have co control on the taxi & private hire department. The London assembly members are all talk with no substance and therefore ignored by all. So you have to ask, what’s the point in having them in the first place?
What is required is exactly the same knowledge testing for all transport providers, private hire and Uber. Just like the arrangements in many other towns and cities. Oh and a national taxi act, with standards set across the country to sing from same song.
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