CABBIES HIT BY FINES.FINES and penalty points have been handed out to Merseyside taxi drivers as part of a clampdown clamp·down n. An imposing of restrictions or controls: "Advertisers and broadcasters would raise howls of protest against any strong clampdown" Wall Street Journal. on law breakers. Six private hire taxi drivers operating in Sefton have racked up 34 penalty points, pounds 4,200 in fines and pounds 3,135 in court costs court costs n. fees for expenses that the courts pass on to attorneys, who then pass them on to their clients or, in some kinds of cases, to the losing party. after being caught without any insurance and illegally plying Plying, in textile manufacture, is the activity of twisting, intermingling, or otherwise intimately combining two or more fibers or yarns into a combined yarn or fiber. Plying Yarns for hire. The offences came to light following a test purchasing operation, involving officers from Sefton's Taxi Licensing Unit and Environmental Protection Department, last year. Licensed private hire drivers were approached, without prior booking, and asked to take officers to previously set destinations. Under current legislation it is illegal for licensed private hire drivers in the borough to pick up customers without booking ahead. |
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