UK Taxi & PHV case studies
UK Taxi & PHV · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) driver licensing in Great Britain is administered by individual licensing authorities - Transport for London for London PHVs, and unitary, district or county councils elsewhere in England and Wales, with a separate regime in Scotland. There is no single national knowledge examination that a driver sits once and holds everywhere. The UK Taxi & PHV case studies are 5 cases and about 4,239 words.
1The Forecourt Request
You drive a private hire vehicle licensed by the Borough of Ashfield, and you are on the books of an Ashfield-licensed operator. It is 23:15 on a Saturday and you are parked on the forecourt of Ashfield station between jobs, engine off, badge displayed.
840 words, about 4 min2The Low Bridge and the School Street
It is 07:40 on a Monday. You are collecting a passenger from the Riverside Hotel for an 08:15 outpatient appointment at Denholm General Hospital, 5.5 miles away.
811 words, about 4 min3The Bulge in the Nearside Front
It is 16:20 on a Friday and you are due to start a five-hour shift, including two airport runs; the first customer, a regular, is booked for 18:00. Your pre-shift walk-round finds a bulge the size of a 50p piece on the nearside front tyre sidewall, 2.8 mm of tread across the centre of that tyre but 1.4 mm on the outer shoulder, the tyre pressure warning light on, and an MOT certificate with nine days left to run.
863 words, about 4 min4The 02:10 Collection at Crowmoor Services
At 02:10 you collect an app booking from Crowmoor Motorway Services: a girl who looks about 15, and a man in his forties who says he is her uncle. The destination is a flat 40 miles away, about 50 minutes' drive.
871 words, about 4 min5The £31.40 and the £18 Receipt
It is 23:10 on a Friday and you are driving a hackney carriage licensed by Denholm Council, whose conditions require the meter to be used and a working card reader to be carried. You pick up a passenger who asks to be taken to 14 Ashcroft Road, then to wait while he collects some keys, then on to the station.
854 words, about 4 min