Liverpool City Council, you have excelled in customer service. After my last post, I received a good-length reply to my letter to Liverpool’s taxi licensing people. The chap wrote expressing their own frustration with these bandits. The practice I talked about of plucking only the expensive jobs off of busy city centre streets is known to the council as “cherry picking” and is rife. My newfound friend at Liverpool’s licensing department acknowledged the drivers are “rude and downright contemptuous” and said that the council frequently runs undercover operations with the aid of the Merseyside cops to bust wrongdoers. A recent case had an errant driver suspended for two weeks and forced to pay costs of £1250 after appealing as hard as he could up to the Crown court. A suitable punishment, and good deterrent so long as enough are prosecuted for this mess.
Our man suggested, quite rightly, that the public note down offending cabs on our mobile phones and pass the details onto them. I am kicking myself I didn’t get the numbers for some of the worst behaving of that mob on Saturday night. I shall return soon with the sole purpose of getting horribly broken on a case bulletproof off-license lager and trolling round town filling a notebook with the license plate numbers belonging to these evil buggers.
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