Operator Booking and Prohibited Pickups
Accept PHV work only through a licensed London operator and distinguish a valid booking from street hailing or touting.
Prepare from handbook duty to safe decision
Start with the current TfL instructions, learn each handbook responsibility in context and practise reading precise facts without inventing live assessment parameters.
Core concepts
Concept 1
licensed operator booking
Exam cue: The licensed operator accepts and records the booking before the driver performs it.
Concept 2
street hails
Exam cue: Being near a passenger, venue or airport does not turn an unbooked approach into lawful PHV work.
Concept 3
touting
Concept 4
late-night and airport controls
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Accepting a direct street request because the destination or fare is clear.
Guardrail: Check whether the fact is handbook assessment content, a current operational rule or an unpublished assessment detail before relying on it.
Treating a venue marshal or informal queue as a substitute for an operator booking.
Guardrail: Check whether the fact is handbook assessment content, a current operational rule or an unpublished assessment detail before relying on it.
Memory anchors
Operator Booking and Prohibited Pickups: scope
Accept PHV work only through a licensed London operator and distinguish a valid booking from street hailing or touting.
licensed operator booking
The licensed operator accepts and records the booking before the driver performs it.
street hails
Being near a passenger, venue or airport does not turn an unbooked approach into lawful PHV work.
touting and late-night and airport controls
Review these together when applying operator booking and prohibited pickups.
Operator Booking and Prohibited Pickups: avoid
Accepting a direct street request because the destination or fare is clear. Also avoid treating a venue marshal or informal queue as a substitute for an operator booking.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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