I would normally say that no political issue should be addressed on this web site however for the sake of dictatorship we cant allow this to happen in Salford.
Vote “NO” in the Mayoral referendum.
At this time when the Government is inflicting severe cuts on Salford Council, now is NOT the time to be incurring extra costs which would be better spent on frontline services. We have already incurred enough costs, and if we vote yes there could be nearly £250,000 spent and then we have 4 years of this “City Boss” wages to pay. This money should be spent on the young, the elderly and other vital services.
Taxi drivers may face a person with all the power and no way to change a single policy for over 4 years, when they are next due for election. At least now you can lobby your local councillors who can influence policy. Please use your vote to say “NO” to a Salford American style city boss mayor.
Believe me when I say NO to this type of reform / decision making , its bad now as it is, if we take our scrutiny panel away and other forms of communicating with more than one person we will lose every single issue we have. Say No to this!
Tom
We ask you to sign the petition now to make Salford council make address to the financial hardship that drivers and there families are incurring through not taking notice of the governments guidelines and set the age policy to that of London’s TFLs Policy. 5 years start and 7 years end if 43,000 London drivers can use drive 10 year old private hire vehciles then so should we be able.
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The deadline for this consultation has ended, for those of you that have commented upon this consultation many thanks for saving this government money and drivers time off work. If Manchester Council had made the number of complaints 500 against the number of passengers instead of the number of drivers like other major transport providers do then they would have seen it would have been probably 1 complaints per 77,000 customers , but again they would nothing to complain about with figures that sound bad but aren’t. In my case last year zero complaints per 7500 passengers , would they suspend my license for if I had one complaint /error of judgement when 7499 passersby are happy?
lets look at the full picture or non at all, its time the private hire trade in Greater Manchester stood up to be counted, I call on all private hire associations to get in contact with us Salford and Manchester associations have already joined forces to help reform the trade , we need 10 Greater Manchester association to be United as One to discuss certain issues together before these ten councils make further rules and regulations that cost us time and money. We are self employed people working more hours and taking more time off work whilst we get no say in what we do. Its stand up time for you to be counted upon.
Private Hire Driver Training.
Are you MANCHESTER private hire drivers aware that Manchester Council are considering making you do the National Driving Skills Assessment, Do you know what this is about and what you have to achieve?
Make sure you go onto this link before January 6th and make your views /comments to this consultation don’t leave it to others to do or you might find your self having time off work and may be paying for a course that you personally don’t need.
500 complaints per 5,000 drivers that include Black Cab and Private Hire Drivers, it sounds bad but hang on how many passengers are happy with your services my passengers numbers in Salford last year 7,500 multiply that by 5,000 drivers in Manchester = 37 .5 million passengers divide that by 500 complaints means one complaint per 75,000 passengers, I would say you all need a pat on the back well done Manchester drivers! And dont forget Manchester councillors kindly give those drivers a pat on the back for very good customer service skills they have provided.
Manchester drivers go onto the councils web site before its too late
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/drivertraining.htm
This site has now been updated to include all the Local Authorities Private Hire Trade application processes in Greater Manchester. There is a mixture of standards in the the authorities websites ranging from no information, to sites which allow all the information to be downloaded. At present no site has an ‘online’ application process but Manchester are in the process saving you monies.
To apply in your area, select the Local authority link in the ‘Pages’ menu and follow the provided information.
http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/business/licensing11/taxilicensing
http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3878
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/a_to_z/service/123/licence-hackney_carriage_private_hire_and_limousine
http://www.bolton.gov.uk/website/pages/Licenceprivatehiredrivers.aspx
http://www.oldham.gov.uk/working/licensing-in-oldham/hackney-carriages-private-hire.htm
http://www.trafford.gov.uk/business/licensing/azoflicences/privatehirehackneydrivers/
Kindly follow this link to see all tram disruption