I was,nt driving an illegal cab I was driving my own licenced private hire .what I am saying is private hire should be scrapped and have only hackneys through out the whole country ,not saying it will stop the cowboys ,the only way for that to happen is to educate the public on what to check for before they get in a cab .but its very easy to forge documents these days and the penalties for getting caught is not good enough so it does not put off fraudsters.