Taxi And Private Hire Drivers Across The Country, Warned By Taxi Licensing Manchester That Gettransfers Is Operating Without A Licence And All Bookings Are Illegal.

Statement from Taxi Licensing, Manchester:

It has come to the attention of the Licensing Unit that a significant number of both Hackney Carriage and Private Hire drivers have signed up

with a company known as Gettransfer... and that this company is actively

involved in dispatching private hire work across the country directly to drivers.  

According to their website this company has its registered office in Cyprus and operates worldwide.  

A London telephone number is shown on the website but we are reliably informed that this line is answered abroad and does not relate to a physical London office.  

Gettransfer does not hold

a Private Hire Operator Licence with Manchester City Council.

This message is to remind Private Hire Drivers that in order for them to carry out a legitimate private hire booking, a Private Hire Operator, licensed by Manchester City Council, must be involved in the process.

This ensures that the legal requirement for the 'trinity' of licences all issued by the same licensing authority  i.e Operator, Vehicle and driver, is met. 

If any private hire driver is currently accepting work directly

from Gettransfer.com or any other similar organisation or thinking of signing up, then you will be acting illegally and may be prosecuted for both Licensing and no insurance offences.

Whilst a Hackney Carriage and its driver holding both licences with Manchester can legitimately accept pre-booked work from such companies (as

the requirement for a licensed Operator to be involved does not exist), we would encourage drivers to do their research on companies and exercise caution when choosing any such company to work for.

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL - THIS IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

Regards

Taxi Licensing Team

Manchester City Council

TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT: 

Must be really great to have a responsible licensing regulator, who puts public safety before revenue. 

When Gett (London) were dispatching work through their Gett Taxi app (Not their PH app) to Private Hire Porches, we complained to TfL’s Graham Robinson that Gett we’re illegally dispatching work to Private Hire Drivers and by accepting this work the PH drivers were contravening 2 licensing offences.... he never replied to our email 18/05/2018 

He also ignored 6 follow up emails from us up to the 04/07/2018

General Manager, Taxi & Private Hire, Transport for London 

We later found out through a third party contact, that all three of our email addresses had been blocked from TfL’s system. 

So again TfL were bending over backwards to protect illegal PH operations.