Taxi drivers blasted for 'putting people at risk' after nearly half of vehicles fail condition checks
here“A broken rear lamp isn’t a danger to them, although it’s not appropriate but when suspension on a vehicle is a reason for failure I think we have to look at it quite seriously.”He added that they had worked with the trade to increase the maximum age of vehicles on the basis that conditions would improve, but in fact there had been a ‘deterioration’.“We need to stop finger wagging with the trade and get firmer with them because I just think this whole situation is totally unacceptable,” Coun Shuttleworth said.“We either need to reduce the age of the vehicle, we need to deal with the drivers, or we need to get those vehicles off the road permanently.”Coun Chris Gloster added: “If we go back two years ago there was quite a hoohah about