🟥 𝐓𝐟𝐋 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞.

TfL regularly post on Twitter, exclaiming that hand held credit card machines are not authorised and that Taxi drivers can’t use them (even as a back up system)

This is what they posted today:

“𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑎𝑥𝑖 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑 & 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑓𝐿 𝑓𝑖𝑥𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 & 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡.

𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑑ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 & 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.”

If your fitted and approved system packs up, you have to immediately stop work and can not work again until your system has been fixed. 

Most every business in the high street uses hand held machines. 

Surely this is a restricted practise from TfL. 

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓:

Amazingly, there is no such restriction for PH vehicles who can freely use hand held devises without any comment from TfL. 

Again this is wrong and should have been fought by every Org and union that represent Taxi drivers.

Let’s not forget, as the mandate for acceptance was first introduce the CEO of world pay was installed on the board of TfL.