Police ‘disappointed’ after checks find faults in five Rossendale taxis (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Under common law all citizens are allowed to TRAVEL anywhere anypoint
anytime without persecution or penalty ...THAT IS THE LAW.

The police are criminals who EXTORT money and property from people
who TRAVEL from a-b hence their actions are UNLAWFUL.

v.o.s.a. M.o.t. D.V.L.A. are PRIVATE ENTERPRISES who profit from this
unlawful scheming to defraud ...

The police and the gov are guity of treason by default, and when a gov does this, it is every citizens DUTY to let everyone know ...and also it is your duty to fight back and declare war against these tyrants and bring them to justice ... an "act" is exactely what it says, it is not a law under the EYE of wisdom, it is theft ... The C.P.S. and THE BA BA BA BA BA BA BAR are bigger criminal scum than the beings they prosecute.

or to use their terms, noble honourable godfearing men and women.

tyres !!!! again!!!1 come on guys get your act together we keep telling you!!

headlamp or any other bulbs can go at any time even during a journey as we all know, but bumper and wing mirrors!!!

As for the livery fault, that is actually a council fault, it is the councils responsibility to ensure that the stickers issued are prepared correctly and are fit for purpose, this was not damaged as stated, it was the councils stickers which had fallen off, come on council, get your act together!!

enki jr.....sorry, your point about taxis is???

the ministry of transport and the driver and vehicle licensing agency are private enterprises?

What do you think about badly made livery on taxis??

enki jr wrote:
Under common law all citizens are allowed to TRAVEL anywhere anypoint
anytime without persecution or penalty ...THAT IS THE LAW.

The police are criminals who EXTORT money and property from people
who TRAVEL from a-b hence their actions are UNLAWFUL.

v.o.s.a. M.o.t. D.V.L.A. are PRIVATE ENTERPRISES who profit from this
unlawful scheming to defraud ...

The police and the gov are guity of treason by default, and when a gov does this, it is every citizens DUTY to let everyone know ...and also it is your duty to fight back and declare war against these tyrants and bring them to justice ... an "act" is exactely what it says, it is not a law under the EYE of wisdom, it is theft ... The C.P.S. and THE BA BA BA BA BA BA BAR are bigger criminal scum than the beings they prosecute.

or to use their terms, noble honourable godfearing men and women.

Time to up the dosage on your medication you freak.

I love it when nut jobs like you start quoting laws etc when you clearly know one tenth of a quarter of a third of F all about what your spouting !!!

The tyres are a worry. Were the treads legal or not. If illegal three points and a fine are in order

this doesn't happen often, but quite right pdb, for once I agree with you

mysay.com wrote:
tyres !!!! again!!!1 come on guys get your act together we keep telling you!!

headlamp or any other bulbs can go at any time even during a journey as we all know, but bumper and wing mirrors!!!

As for the livery fault, that is actually a council fault, it is the councils responsibility to ensure that the stickers issued are prepared correctly and are fit for purpose, this was not damaged as stated, it was the councils stickers which had fallen off, come on council, get your act together!!

as a ex-cabbie in pendle our boss would keep spare bulbs in every car.he would also make us fill in a form every time we drove a taxi you had to check lights tyres etc it took 10 mins before you set off.in the end its down to lazyness and pure greed.and the check lists were provided by pendle council .wonder if they still use them.this was an idea from george the enforcer.before his forced retirement.
also you see taxi's with no smoking stickers on them but yet the drivers still smoke in them.bring the age of the cabs down .nothing older than 6 years old.

Where's rossendale taxi boss defending them again? Same old story every time, most expensive taxis in the north west yet unsafe/uncompliant vehicles, lets drop the rates they can charge and get rid of the ones who travel 30miles + to rake in the fees rossendale BC allow them to rip us off. Can't stand them

enki jr wrote:
Under common law all citizens are allowed to TRAVEL anywhere anypoint
anytime without persecution or penalty ...THAT IS THE LAW.

The police are criminals who EXTORT money and property from people
who TRAVEL from a-b hence their actions are UNLAWFUL.

v.o.s.a. M.o.t. D.V.L.A. are PRIVATE ENTERPRISES who profit from this
unlawful scheming to defraud ...

The police and the gov are guity of treason by default, and when a gov does this, it is every citizens DUTY to let everyone know ...and also it is your duty to fight back and declare war against these tyrants and bring them to justice ... an "act" is exactely what it says, it is not a law under the EYE of wisdom, it is theft ... The C.P.S. and THE BA BA BA BA BA BA BAR are bigger criminal scum than the beings they prosecute.

or to use their terms, noble honourable godfearing men and women.

Regarding Enki jr, I Really think that a secure unit is missing a patient.

Regarding tyres, I agree with pdb951, if the tyres are illegal, 3 points. The carrying a bulb set and having a check sheet are excellent suggestions and something that the numerous Taxi Associations should push their members to adopt. Don't need a council to force this.
I am still of the opinion that rather than local councils' making their own rules, National Government should lay down the laws, at the very least, County or Metropolitan Councils should set the rules, to allow for consistency in expectation and enforcement.

Just as a post script, I would think that these Taxis were targeted rather than stopped randomly given that only 13 taxis were stopped and checked.

Doug Spencer wrote:
Just as a post script, I would think that these Taxis were targeted rather than stopped randomly given that only 13 taxis were stopped and checked.

yes because they where taxi's. happens time and again this is the 2nd time in 6 months now and its always the same stuff. sure theres the odd bulb out or a bit of damage to the body which isnt that bad.

but yet again tyre's, at what point will these professional drives get the idea the taxi isnt their day to day car but is used by everyone as a form of transport which is supposed to be safe. if anyone gets caught with bad tyres they should be frog marched to a garage and made to buy new ones. sure its not fair but your charging people to ride in your supposed safe and legal taxi.

and if you get caught again within a year id seriously be looking at taking your taxi badged off you and you have to retake it and have your car fully mot'd before you get back on the road. as its a shambles and down right idiotic that some of these drivers think they can get away with driving around in cars that wouldnt pass a mot.

Here we go again. If it ain't Pendle, its Hyndburn. If it aint, Hyndburn its Blackburn with Darwen. If it ain;'t B-W-D its Rossendale. Same old, same old.
And they keep letting the taxi ownes get away with it. If any taxi firm has two strikes against them in twelve months they should lose their licence. The public cannot constantly have their lives put at risk.

Ok some good ideas, as with my own personal cab, I have what I call a power check.....Petrol (fuel) Oil, Water (all fluids including windscreen washer) electrics (bulbs etc) and finally Rubbers, tyres windscreen wiper blades, POWER....but Dougy is right, this must have been a targeted exercise, 15 out of over 400, but bear in mind, these cars DO pass 2 MOT's per year, even from brand new, not one like a standard car, but in answer to "where is the taxi boss defending them"...I am right here, but you have never and will never see me defend bad tyres or just pure laziness....there is no excuse...see my first comment....."come on lads...get it together", but we are definitely NOT by far the most expensive, far from it, oour prices have not gone up for years despite the continued increase in fuel and insurance prices.....Rochdale are far more expensive than us with a £5 call out for a vehicle which is parked in whitworth waiting for the call or illegally picking up without being pre booked.....Jo baxis and tiger are the main culpretts, this has been reported to the council for years as have the other unlicensed and illegal vehicles and drivers across Rossendale, when are the council going to take action against these people who are not licensed or insured and who the council are fully aware of and do nothing?

The police were doing their job but why were the councillors there?. Could they not find something better to do.

They are there as part of a joint enforcement exercise, along with VOSA, benefits agency, HMRC customs and excise (dipping for red diesel, It is standard practice right across the country, always has been, the results of this exercise are actually quite good in comparison to some of the exercises in other boroughs, but before you all start shouting at me.....any failure is unacceptable.

I strongly suspect that the few that were caught up in this dragnet are only the tip of the iceberg. As often happened when I drove a cab, the word would go out over the radio that checks were being made and many of the drivers just disappeared for few hours. Combine this with the thoroughness of the examination being given and it's time constraint, it gives one the impression of the general malaise that exists. Thirteen caught out from the number examined would give a truer reflection of the state of things.

wooly?...can you not read.......13 were caught out, of which only 3 had defects which were considered VOSA or police defects and 2 with "minor damage" according to the council, not the professionals, just the council employees.....a true reflection has been reported.....so if you read it .....using the words used......13 was the number examined......3 were "caught out" to use your words

still thats getting on for 25% plus of test taxi's that had defects. now if we have 400 taxis out there in rossendale as mysay claims thats 100 cars with issues driven by professional drivers. thats a very worrying number.

its obvious somethings going very wrong with the system setup to license them if so many seem to be unable to maintain their cars.

quite right GAC, although the result is actually closer to 20% (3 out ot 13) but I don't think that you can "assume" that there are over 100 vehicles with defects based on such a small sample....but the system is clearly failing...or the faults are being over exaggerated to make it "newsworthy", more likely that the system is failing, and the trade did warn them....but this is only a small part of the problem, try to get an appointment to obtain a badge or a plate, you must make the appointment within the 4 weeks prior to expiry, but cant get an appointment AT ALL, nor can you get the paperwork to apply, nor can you pay for them unless you have a cheque book and/or debit card, and the level of service provided by the council has been reduced by over 60% (even though the money we pay them (over 150000 per year) is about to increase, probably by over 300%....then you talk about fair treatment!!

The police are 'disappointed' with the wrong people. Cash strapped councils across the UK continue to issue Taxi Licences in order to raise money.
If a haulage contractor had more trucks than enough to make a profit he would either get rid of some or cut corners on repairs and maintenance.
Taxi drivers have no control over the size of their fleets.
The police should direct their disappointment at councils who issue licences or who have over issued licences despite numerous 'unmet demand surveys for taxis' across the country,the vast majority of which show significant decreases in demand for taxis.

What do you think about badly made livery on taxis?? ...

i dont give a flying crap ...its a car,paint it pink and put yellow dots all over
for all i care..its meaningless and trivial compared to the treachery the gov and councils are playing out...how about tackling the PRIMARY instead of the banal... and as for my intellect ..my turds have a higher i.q. than you... this is why you are beseiged with immigrant pondslime and lick jews arsholes. YOU are the nutjobs .. ...its retards like you who have devolved into metrosexual cretins..i value your ideology at ZERO.

your government and its agencies consists of fagotts and babyrapers and soon you will be starved and irradiated, thats if you dont die prematurely from gmos viralised food chemtrials and nhs prescriptions... and i will be looking down on this wretched hole and celebrate the thinning of the herd of turd, the last time being the accrington pals sent on a kamikazi one way mission, and all in the name of profit .... you really DO deserve whats coming.... may i be the first to say....I TOLD YOU SO. one of the requisites of wisdom is that the madmen are listened to, and not drugged into oblivion by barbaric policy, and besides, one can NEVER acheive wisdom without the experience of insanity.,something most of you fear,yet are.by definition as mad as your heros ...my zeros.
E.G.
The dala llama is not wise,hes a monkey moron, ghandi was a dirty old trog
obsessed with little girls...agnes gonxha bojaxhui (mother teresa) was an evil demented scumtard worthy of nothing, winston churchill
was a sellout son of a whore, diana spencer was an adulterous trollop,this data list is too long, the cult of personality for these degenerates doesnt reflect thier real personalities, what im saying is that most people you hold in high esteem are vile examples of people not to be respected,but condemned. The no1 rule of wisdom is ..." truth is paramount "... therefore
to rely on regular media for the truth is far from wise, creation gave you the POWER to investigate, yet most are too mentally lazy to seek it,preferring to indulge in horseshit gossip and meaningless celebs ... wisdom evades you. it saddens me that the typical trog infers someone is a loon if thier posts convey an alternative view from the mass indoctrinated mindset, maybe thats why you are morons, no-one ever asks about the content or to validate it, just right it off as the ramblings of a lunatic, smart people dont do that, only degenerate useless eaters do that, or to put in laymans terms
YOU.

your closet fascist attitude will cost you dearly ...i solomnly swear to it.

ok enki...the livery ...got it......the tyres? the bulbs? anything else actually relevant to the article? or are you just spouting rubbish because mummy let you hold the keyboard for too long?