Designated wheelchair accessible vehicles
In line with the Equality Act 2010, section 165, if you hire a designated hackney carriage or designated private hire vehicle as a wheelchair user, you can expect the driver:
- to carry the passenger while in the wheelchair
- not to make any additional charge for doing so
- if the passenger chooses to sit in a passenger seat to carry the wheelchair
- to take such steps as are necessary to ensure that the passenger is carried in safety and reasonable comfort and
- to give the passenger such mobility assistance as is reasonably required
The Act goes on to define mobility assistance as assistance:
- to enable the passenger to get into or out of the vehicle
- if the passenger wishes to remain in the wheelchair, to enable the passenger to get into and out of the vehicle while in the wheelchair
- to load the passenger’s luggage into or out of the vehicle and
- if the passenger does not wish to remain in the wheelchair, to load the wheelchair into or out of the vehicle
It is also worth noting that a driver of a designated hackney carriage or designated private hire vehicle commits an offence by failing to comply with a duty imposed on the driver by this section.
List of designated vehicles
Reference | Std wheel chairs |
Licence type |
Vehicle make | Vehicle model |
Trading As | Operator name |
LI17/3079/TXPHV | 1 | Private Hire Vehicle |
Peugeot | Partner Tepee | SF11 MYA | Mrs Trudi Bar Orien |
LI18/1882/TXPHV | 2 | Private Hire Vehicle | Peugeot | Independence | SF65 FYC | |
LI18/1217/TXPHV | 4 | Private Hire Vehicle | Ford | Transit | GY60 MUB | Mr Andy Rosling |
LI18/2400/TXPHV | 1 | Private Hire Vehicle | Ford | Grand C-Max Zetec | CF17 VGO | Mr Mohammed Gofur |
LI18/1149/TXPHV | 1 | Private Hire Vehicle | Peugeot | Horizon | SF62 KZT | Mr Mohammed Gofur |
LI18/3096/TXPHV | 1 | Private Hire Vehicle | Volkswagen | Caddy | YX13 UCC | Mrs Ann Chawich |
LI18/3291/TXPHV | Â 0 | Private Hire Vehicle | Ford | EN67 | Mr Askar Amb-Salam | |
LI17/3621/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Partner | SF60 BBO | Mr Jason Ridler |
LI18/0301/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Expert | SF11 GDZ | Mr Jonathan Hobday |
LI18/1073/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Horizon S | SF61 KNL | Mr Richard Worlock |
LI18/1437/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Partner | SF60 HFZ | Mr William Sanzo |
LI18/2481/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Horizon | SF12 FVO | Mr William Sanzo |
LI18/1068/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Volkswagen | Caddy | NK59 EWF | Mr John Scott |
LI18/2454/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Horizon Partner Tepee | SF12 AAZ | Mr William Sanzo |
LI18/1408/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Independence Expert | SF12 LXB | Mr Paul Haynes |
LI18/1138/TXHCV | 0 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Mercedes | E220 | HK15 TZX | Mr Sean Scarrett |
LI18/2094/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Partner | SF11 KUO | Mr William Sanzo |
LI18/2455/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Partner | SF12 HYV | Mr William Sanzo |
LI18/1415/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Renault | Trafic | CU16 PZB | Mr Paul William White |
LI18/2480/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Peugeot | Horizon | SF12 AUN | Mr William Sanzo |
LI18/1412/TXHCV | 1 | Hackney Carriage Vehicle | Nissan | NV200 | RX62 FZJ | Mr Ricky Bishop |
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