I didn't think so!
So, You apply to see if they (TFL) will accept your cab (jumping through the first hoop for delicensing).
If you feel lucky by receiving contact from them, they then entice you to jump through hoop number two...
They mention an amount you 'may' be eligible to receive (let's say £10k, but not at all guaranteed as I believe all the top amounts have now been taken).
They mention an amount you 'may' be eligible to receive (let's say £10k, but not at all guaranteed as I believe all the top amounts have now been taken).
You duly arrange a date and time for you to show your vehicle to them at a selected NSL site and you duly attend hoping that you will most probably get you cab selected for decommissioning that day all being well.
You have probably planned to purchase a newer cab and may have been making all sorts of deals to get back to work as smoothly as possible with the decommissioning payment key to pursuing that objective.
Happily, NSL/Tfl does approve your cab and removes the plates right there and then, making you unable to work but as this is expected no problems right?...... wrong!
You now find yourself unemployed without a working vehicle and more bizarrely without any contractual time obligation from TFL as to when you will receive the funds to purchase a replacement cab?
If you are an LTDA member, you may call them and ask the $64000 question as many drivers have apparently done. We also see on twitter times payment scales bandied around 28 days... 56 days... so on so on, but nowhere is there an agreed time scale, and the recipient (driver) was too scared to ask just in case he felt he was rocking the boat and was rejcted... so he didn't even ask first and now feels a twat.
I know two 'ex mushers" who are fuming because of exactly this....so, be very very careful what you want, because it is not neccessarilly what you are going to get!
You have probably planned to purchase a newer cab and may have been making all sorts of deals to get back to work as smoothly as possible with the decommissioning payment key to pursuing that objective.
Happily, NSL/Tfl does approve your cab and removes the plates right there and then, making you unable to work but as this is expected no problems right?...... wrong!
You now find yourself unemployed without a working vehicle and more bizarrely without any contractual time obligation from TFL as to when you will receive the funds to purchase a replacement cab?
If you are an LTDA member, you may call them and ask the $64000 question as many drivers have apparently done. We also see on twitter times payment scales bandied around 28 days... 56 days... so on so on, but nowhere is there an agreed time scale, and the recipient (driver) was too scared to ask just in case he felt he was rocking the boat and was rejcted... so he didn't even ask first and now feels a twat.
I know two 'ex mushers" who are fuming because of exactly this....so, be very very careful what you want, because it is not neccessarilly what you are going to get!
The one simple reason for that is because...... You will be dealing with TFL... who are one of the most duplicitious organisations on this planet.
So, be very very careful.
Be Lucky (very lucky on this matter)
greenbadgejohn
Be Lucky (very lucky on this matter)
greenbadgejohn
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
Why are TFL promoting an on demand bus service, run by a minicab company app?
Why are they allowing them to use euro 6 Vito's when they've banned the Taxi trade from using anything but electric vehicles?
Remember, there's no such thing as a free lunch....but Project a Horizon is real.
Mike Brown totally unprepared when questioned by Keith Prince at City Hall.
Also Sadiq Khan avoiding embarrassing questions
Click on link below.
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