illegal taxi's no more if true

lindoc


Joined: 30/08/2007
Posts: 220

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 11:25

Just been informed or (Misinformed) from TC man, From the 1st Jan when you leave at the border in your car you can't bring any more passengers back in than you went out with, unless you are a licensed cab, CRAZZZYYY, Don't they want people to come here to visit. That would make it compulsory to add the taxi fare to the already expensive flights. I blame the RAKI if true.



Doc

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 11:26

Another nail...........

Kitty Kat Jac


Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 230

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 11:31

What so you cant even pick your family and friends up, didnt they try this about a year ago with Ercan and it failed. How do they even know how many people are travelling in one car?? I am never asked for a registration number.

lindoc


Joined: 30/08/2007
Posts: 220

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:13

KKJ



TC guy got fined leaving Ercan two weeks ago, Picked up British couple to take to his hotel, His mini bus was not T plated and they were not blood relatives. was reported in one of the news papers.



Doc

frontalman



Joined: 28/02/2008
Posts: 499

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:13

Bloody daft, all you would have to do is get out and walk through, so can't see it happening. They can't refuse you entry based on your method of arrival, surely.

lovingthesun


Joined: 13/11/2008
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:16

Lindoc, out of interest if his car was not Turkish plated then what was it??

Chrys


Joined: 23/07/2008
Posts: 51

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:19

Your car registration number is logged every time you drive over the boarder along with the names of the passengers.

lovingthesun


Joined: 13/11/2008
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:22

So when there is a line of about 20 cars and everybody runs to the passport office with a handful of passports and they do not ask for the registration number 1) how can they log the car 2) how do they know how many people are travelling in said car.

lindoc


Joined: 30/08/2007
Posts: 220

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:34

Lovingthesun



When they say T plated they mean licensed to carry passengers, you will see it on the reg number 1st letter, all the passenger carrier vehicles, Like Buses, Taxi's , Dolmus, This is the T they cover when going south. As they cant trade in south Cyprus with it but do, with private bookings.

lovingthesun


Joined: 13/11/2008
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:39

lol sorry, i was thinking no wonder they aroused suspicion if they were travelling in a foreign car.



I still cant see how they can enforce it, the whole border thing baffles me, i went over and back with an out of date passport and nobody battered an eyelid

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:41

got to be a walk through then... no harm in that.

Dixie Normus


Joined: 22/02/2008
Posts: 820

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 13:06

Sound like sheer desperation, we can only expect more of this bull**** as the place drifts down the pit of despair, if the goverment want to make themselves a laughing stock here going the right way about it. With the way the euro is to the £ a holiday in a Lira zone may look attractive next year, but once again this lot want to shoot themslves in the foot.



D.N

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 13:45

all t plated cars going to have to have g/c mot and fully cop insurance for hire or reward I was told. no longer will they be able to cover the " T " and remove the taxi sign.............



Interesting times

lindoc


Joined: 30/08/2007
Posts: 220

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 13:56

Littlenige



Loads of TC taxi owners buy a second car just to do Larnaca trips without T plates,

so the Licensed taxi with a Turkish driver can work the legal one in north, so it's all double standards to me.



Doc

Lawnmower


Joined: 25/10/2008
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 14:38

Hi B and L,



I get asked for registration number all the time and if more than 1 person who is the driver!!

Cruella


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 63

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 16:20

We go to the border and pick up English friends who are there on holiday or live in the South. Like everything else to the TRNC its going down the pan the goverment should be encouraging visitors. With the state of the pound nothing is value for money anymore.

Soothsayer


Joined: 19/11/2008
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 16:32

Double standards-> tell me where you DONT have them? you can split them up in 1000s standards - but this refers to anywhere in the world! money standards, diplomatic standards, citizen standards (even tese can be splited up into 100s) -- stop crying

lovinit


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 745

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 16:56

hey, it might be worth a number of brits going over together (2 per car) and swapping passagers over for the return- see what happens?

Might cause a stir

lindoc


Joined: 30/08/2007
Posts: 220

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 18:11

Soothsaver



Who is doing the crying! The so called legal ones, the illegal ones, or genuine people that go and pick up relatives and friends.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 09:50

they ask for the car registration to check to see if you have any outstanding speeding fines ect!