Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: taxi1990 on February 28, 2022, 09:30:08 am
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Do you need them when working? say they are in the post, can you work without them or could you get fined for not having them?
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They are required so I guess you could, at least theoretically, get fined for not having them... particularly if your standing or plying for hire... obviously they have no relevance to private hire (phone, wireless, app, etc) jobs as county restrictions don't apply to the same. Minister Kelly said we could buy them in any hardware store but my own local hardware doesn't stock them and when I enquired had no intention of stocking them going forward. If you can't find a hardware store that does stock them I'd suggest ordering them from NTA and keeping a copy of the receipt / call reference number in the car until you receive them. That combined with appropriate dashboard ID cards ought to satisfy any enforcement official. As Jill (2nd in command, CTR back then) told me years ago, they don't habitually reach for the ticket book i.e. they apply a degree of common sense.
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They are required so I guess you could, at least theoretically, get fined for not having them... particularly if your standing or plying for hire... obviously they have no relevance to private hire (phone, wireless, app, etc) jobs as county restrictions don't apply to the same. Minister Kelly said we could buy them in any hardware store but my own local hardware doesn't stock them and when I enquired had no intention of stocking them going forward. If you can't find a hardware store that does stock them I'd suggest ordering them from NTA and keeping a copy of the receipt / call reference number in the car until you receive them. That combined with appropriate dashboard ID cards ought to satisfy any enforcement official. As Jill (2nd in command, CTR back then) told me years ago, they don't habitually reach for the ticket book i.e. they apply a degree of common sense.
I remember a guy who had around 6 counties he could work in but he didn't have any silver stickers on his roof sigh, too many to fit I suppose. At least the Driver check app is handy to show anyone that you have the required county licence.
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They are required so I guess you could, at least theoretically, get fined for not having them... particularly if your standing or plying for hire... obviously they have no relevance to private hire (phone, wireless, app, etc) jobs as county restrictions don't apply to the same. Minister Kelly said we could buy them in any hardware store but my own local hardware doesn't stock them and when I enquired had no intention of stocking them going forward. If you can't find a hardware store that does stock them I'd suggest ordering them from NTA and keeping a copy of the receipt / call reference number in the car until you receive them. That combined with appropriate dashboard ID cards ought to satisfy any enforcement official. As Jill (2nd in command, CTR back then) told me years ago, they don't habitually reach for the ticket book i.e. they apply a degree of common sense.
Grace Jones up in the Kesh had the most I'd seen.
I remember a guy who had around 6 counties he could work in but he didn't have any silver stickers on his roof sigh, too many to fit I suppose. At least the Driver check app is handy to show anyone that you have the required county licence.
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They are required so I guess you could, at least theoretically, get fined for not having them... particularly if your standing or plying for hire... obviously they have no relevance to private hire (phone, wireless, app, etc) jobs as county restrictions don't apply to the same. Minister Kelly said we could buy them in any hardware store but my own local hardware doesn't stock them and when I enquired had no intention of stocking them going forward. If you can't find a hardware store that does stock them I'd suggest ordering them from NTA and keeping a copy of the receipt / call reference number in the car until you receive them. That combined with appropriate dashboard ID cards ought to satisfy any enforcement official. As Jill (2nd in command, CTR back then) told me years ago, they don't habitually reach for the ticket book i.e. they apply a degree of common sense.
How many?
Grace Jones up in the Kesh had the most I'd seen.
I remember a guy who had around 6 counties he could work in but he didn't have any silver stickers on his roof sigh, too many to fit I suppose. At least the Driver check app is handy to show anyone that you have the required county licence.