Nexus — Taxi / PCO Rate Check

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The Basic Hire Rate for a private-hire (PCO) vehicle, determined — with the reasoning you defend it on.

Describe the claim, the driver and the vehicle that was hired, and state the cover the claimant was given. Taxi/PCO Rate Check searches the dated ledger of every PCO hire operator's published terms for that date, applies the ruled methodology, and returns the Basic Hire Rate a court would test your charges against — with the operator it rests on, every operator inside the locality accounted for, and the words on each operator's own page that include or exclude it. Where no published offer was available to this claimant, the check says so and says why: that answer is part of the product, not an error.

Step 1 — The claimant and the driver
Your file or claim reference, exactly as it should appear on the report (up to 64 characters).
Required — letters, digits, space, “/ - _ .” only (1–64).
As it should appear on the report.
Required — letters, spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, full stops only.
Required — a valid UK postcode.
The driver — age, licence and residency
Tested against each operator's stated minimum and maximum (TX-02).
Required — 17 to 120.
Whole years held at the hire date. Enter 0 if held less than a year.
Required — whole years, 0 or more.
Required — 0 or more.
The PHV badge and the working area
The plate authority of each operator's vehicles must include the claimant's badge authority (TX-06); marketing about cross-border use is disregarded.
Name the council (2–80 characters).
Whole years held at the hire date. Enter 0 if held less than a year.
Required — whole years, 0 or more, or tick “No badge held”.
Where the claimant plies the trade; tested against a stated live-and-work area (TX-E).
Name the area (2–80 characters).
Platform and claims record
This field is optional. However, some suppliers require evidence of a minimum number of trips completed before they will hire.
If entered — a whole number, 0 or more.
This field is optional. However, some suppliers require a specific platform rating before they will hire.
If entered — 0 to 5.
This question is optional. However, some suppliers require the hirer to be registered with a London operator.
Required — a whole number, 0 or more.
This field is optional. However, some suppliers base a refusal to hire on the number of previous at-fault claims ever.
If entered — a whole number, 0 or more.
The hire
The earliest searchable date is 18 September 2026 — the day the taxi/PCO ledger begins.
Required — on or after 18 September 2026.
The per-diem is taken from the shortest published period that covers the hire and can be ended; a 7-day rate covers longer hires.
Required — a whole number of days, 1 or more.
Convictions / endorsements (DVLA codes) — enter every endorsement; operators refuse or restrict drivers on these
CodeDescriptionPointsDateDisqualificationDisq. end dateSpent?
Step 2 — The vehicle that was hired
Serving the built-in fixture subset until the live table lookup answers. Search here FIRST — the “not listed” route (last option) is only for a vehicle genuinely absent (RC-20260814-28).
Required.
Required.
Shown back from the directory; an absent token is shown as absent, never guessed.
If entered — a four-digit year.
Required — select the vehicle from the dropdown (and, where the pair spans more than one key, the variant). A vehicle absent from the directory cannot be checked.
Step 3 — Your own charges, from the hire agreement
Required — £0 or more.
Default 20. An operator is in the population only through a physical base inside the radius (TX-16); delivery never widens it.
Required — 1 to 100.
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