On 2015\10\04 14:56, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-10-04 10:20:19 +0000, Roland Perry said:

It's not necessarily important for every private hire vehicle to offer
disability access, because the are pre-booked. As long as each firm
has some minimum number of such vehicles available if requested, that
should be sufficient.

Indeed. The principle should be that the accessible vehicles are
available on the same terms as the non-accessible ones (e.g. they are
kept available for such bookings such that the bookings are satisfied
within the same sort of time period as for a non-accesible vehicle) not
that every vehicle has to be accessible.

.... which implies that the drivers buying and fuelling the most
expensive vehicles are deliberately given the least work so that they
will always be available. This could only be achieved if the model by
which minicab drivers are paid was changed to a normal employment
situation, and they would then acquire normal holiday / sick pay /
pregnancy leave rights, which would massively inflate the price charged
to the user, which would then destroy minicabs' number one selling point
and ultimately put all the minicab drivers back on the dole.