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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Taxi firms are nothing more that agencies that run an office to pass on to the drivers, jobs as they come in. The firms collect rents for the upkeep of this service and some also rent radios from the firms.
Taxi Drivers who are self employed can work for anyone.

But those are Private Hires Royboy, not taxis. Taxis are the ones where they sit on a rank or you whistle at them in the street in London and they drive past you and don't take a blind bit of notice . Private Hires are the ones you ring up for. What we are wondering is can a driver be both at the same time. That bit of bumph I quoted seems to indicate that a PHV should not have anything on it to imply that it is a taxi.

I got it from here, page 20, section 3.31 "England and Wales Outside London" The document makes it very clear that there must be a distinction between the two and a passenger must be able to identify the vehicle as either a PHV or a taxi. So is it legal to be both?