| Comment | I've not heard of it happening in Glasgow for a while, but this sharing a single licence was a major issue a couple years ago.
There would be 2 or 3 people, usually related, such as brothers or whatever so facial features would look similar enough on a smudged photocard (The cards the council issue are absolute dog shit quality). They run the car 24 hours between them and split the costs.
Wasn't the council that caught them, it was their own base office. The controllers in the office are not dafties and could see how long a car had been out without a break.
The problem with spot checking drivers is cost and staffing. The council could never justify that on-going cost. They send out the enforcement vans often enough and do the best they can.
The best way to tackle a lot of these problems would be to target the booking firms with regular audits. All the firms are using GPS loggers these days. A simple report on vehicle driving hours would call a bogey on these kind of games. |
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