The companies which will be affectedTo share your point of view as a company, click here to contact us, We will validate your email address or contact you to ensure the comments are genuinely from your company. Please include your company’s website address in the message. You will find comments and emails from companies who will be affected from the new legislation enforced from 1st of Oct 2009. Glen Rodbourne17-Nov-2009 | 21:48I'm looking to coif my 140 extreme excursion, i have resources in a
workshop to get the work done.
all I need to find out is what actually needs to be done to get the car up
to the new specifications? Travelling in Style26-Oct-2009 | 22:04I have been in the Limousine Business now for 10 years, I repair and we hire Limousines. I have found that from the begining the rules and regulations were not fully disclosed to all persons starting this business. Slowly slowly the regulations were made more public and and limousines prioritors started to suffer. It was alright when we imported all our limos in the country, we would not of finacially burdened ourselves, our lives and most of all our families if we knew of all these rules and regulations. I have now visited this COIF company and i cannot understand the outrageous amount of money they are charging us to fully COIF our limous. Did it ever occur to VOSA that charging from £10,000 all the way upto £18,000 that this will financially close down a great percentage of companies and that will increase unemployment. Great job. We are meant to be supporting small businesses not closing them down. I agree to certain things to be altered on the limous for health and safety to both the drivers and passengers but they have gone from one extreme to the other. VOSA need to reconsider and come to some understanding and reason. MR PINK16-Oct-2009 | 16:50On Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 19:00 hours a meeting will be held
for the attendance of all interested
Limousine Owner/Operators and
the Solicitor acting on behalf of
Save UK Limos to discuss a
format for a meeting with the
representative from VOSA and
Limousine Owners.
The meeting will take place at:
Diamond Limos
185 West Emd Lane
West Hampstead
LONDON
NW6 2LJ 07503112112 Mali smith16-Oct-2009 | 16:36I am a solicitor among the areas of law I specialise in is dispute
resolution.
I am committed to saveuklimos principles and ideas. 07908 805897 Roy Bigmore01-Oct-2009 | 23:021st Oct 09 will be a day to remember for some of us, I was at drive 09 in the vosa meeting and see a lot of people with the same problems, unfortunatly only some turned out today so to those who did i say very well done and a great show, for those who didnt i guess you really dont have no problems. A couple of people need a special mention, Danny, Mr pink and the capital boys also A1s driver on westminster bridge, superb, and last to dannys driver who when i got pulled gave the police a really hard time that they left me and got him (£30 fine) well done mate. We will not go away so be ready for next month, this time more may realise they are in real trouble and pitch up. heres to a bigger show next month First Choice Limo Hire01-Oct-2009 | 22:04i have a ford excursion 200 stretch and according to vosa i cant even get it coifed as it is to long but yet again a 200 stretch hummer is perfectly ok and on top of that dcl will not even insure my limo when it expires cause it has no coif and most of the insurance companies are refusing to insure as an 8 seater because of the length now im in a no win situation with outstanding finance on the limo and i have no other limos to continue my business with so i would like to just say thank you to vosa for taking away my kids bread money and leaving me and also other operators in the same situtation in the SHIT i hope the person that enforced this law ends up losing his job and goes skint just to see how it feels as i have lost a lot of sleep over this and still stressed out . Limo Land30-Sep-2009 | 23:37when the land is in a credit crunch vosa want to kill the fun things in life birthday partys ,days out ,nights out, the look on the kids face when they see the limo that mum and dad have hired ,the safe trips around london so they can see all the sites etc without having to be on the streets well all i can say is well done vosa well done. am2pm limos30-Sep-2009 | 12:31Everyone bring as many limos as you can, LAST CHANCE this thursday 10.00Am at the parliment. Danny29-Sep-2009 | 20:16** MEETING PLACE ** THE GATEWAY SERVICES West Coast Limousines, Scotland29-Sep-2009 | 19:50We have been established 5 years now and have 3 stetch limousines that fall
into the over 8 category, 1 of which (gmc topkick) cant be coif'd, this
vehicle cost us £87,000 and is now redered useless. Vosa's actions
can only be compared with trying to bang the provebial square peg into a
round hole and will have a devastating effect on the UK stretch limousine
industry and its suppiers if proceeding as intended. minibus law was
introduced in 1963 probably before stretch limousines even entered the UK.
One thing that sticks in my throat is the fact that these vehicles were
allowed to be brought into the country, registered and mot'd by the
very forces that are now crippling our industry. Grandfather rites should
surely be granted. I asked my local vosa test station if they could do a
pre coif test on my topkick and was told "we are far too busy to spend
time doing that" so they are not even willing to work with us and offer
some help, the same vosa official also told me he did not like stretch
limousines though it never made him biased haha! Sara Diamond Limos29-Sep-2009 | 00:10honestly £18,000 do the goverment think we grow that sort of money somewhere? because its ridiculous!! if this goes through there will be more jobs lost as if 2.5 MILLION jobs taken arnt enough! benfit deminds will rise and people who do have jobs will pay more taxes once again. your only making money for yourself and the whole of the uk un happy! fix up. Danny Mathews27-Sep-2009 | 22:34Come on Boys! This is our last chance to be heard. Be there Thursday. If you can provide a nameboard to put in your window saying 'SAVE UK LIMOS.COM' What a rip off £18,000.00 to COIF your car. The Government should wake up and realise there is going to be Thousands of jobs and homes lost and they would be claiming benfits. Wild Stretch24-Sep-2009 | 08:45we have been in the business for 6 years now we have 14 cars on our fleet it is going to cost me around £120000 to coif my cars last month we was stopped in Brighton vosa spent nearly 2 hours going over my 2004 140 h2 they could find nothing wrong with the car at all they let my car go and are now threatening me with legal action for no operator’s licence i can’t get one as i have no coif so i now have to spend £18000 to put a coif on a car that vosa can’t find anything wrong with this just seems wrong this is just crazy i can legally put 16 passengers in my h2 as long as i don’t charge a penny but if i want to put paying passengers in the same h2 i need to spend £18000 for a coif on a car that vosa can’t find anything wrong with how does that make any sense the government need to look at this seriously if i lose my businesses its not just me that is in trouble what about the finance companies the insurance companies the petrol stations the garages the night clubs theatres etc and then the banks the mortgage companies when we cant pay them any more then there’s all the owners and drivers with no jobs i could go on all day so we need to act fast let’s see what happens at drive 09 at the vosa seminar good luck to you all. Simon wild stretch Kent Limos23-Sep-2009 | 18:06Where have you been for the last few years when we needed support and money to fight the cause (asleep) Goldstar Limousines Limited22-Sep-2009 | 11:33i have been hiring limos since 1999 and none of my customers have never been injured or distressed by using my limos. I am disgusted that i have a limo that i payed £65,000 for and i will no longer be able to use. Who is going to reinburst me of this money as i cannot use this limo no longer and i was allowed to import the vechile into the country and register it. I will now be out of work and out of pocket which will cause problems as i have three children to support and a morgage to pay. All of this will be at risk now and i may have to rely on government support once i loose my home. Whatlimouk.com19-Sep-2009 | 22:35Ok boys it is time to get serious, we need a show of strength, we all no we need time, we need financial help to comply with all this, So here we go, we need to show our strength and feelings on this and i propose we all decend on parliment square in london on an agreed date and time, we put our point out there as one voice, as it is no one will care only us. It is now do or die people, action and not words, i propose a date of tuesday 29th september. If you are serious about surviving you will be there with everything you have got, drivers if they want their jobs will drive for free, they will have to listen and we dont need nla for this, they will save their own skins, hummers, excursions, navigators, party buses, chryslers and town cars, we will make them listen, Call Roy on 07904056277 if interested, i'm not dieing just yet, are you, fight till the end and good luck. AbFab Limos19-Sep-2009 | 21:57ab fab limos is one of the oldest limo companys around whats here and on the road with paid dutys and taxes .be alould to carry on as the norm all new limousines coming in new law applys to them only this is right we all now were we stand then maybe we will get a refund on our duty and vat yeah right ? it looks as if the day is set close down and get shafted or spend loads of money limousines companys cant afford to do at thease hard times give the some time to make they limousines right for the uk time is what we all need however what limo uk ltd is moveing in the right way with all new fleet 13 to 16 seater coifed limos i have been told they will coif your jeep at a price Royal.T Limousines19-Sep-2009 | 21:54Have you tried to coif your limo, have you tried to obtain a restricted operators licence, all of this is done through vosa and the time delay is unbelievable to pass all these things. they need to understand how will we survive in this current climate as well as stealing our jobs too. common sense must get through, as for the nla what a load of tosh that is, where are these people now they are needed, looking after them selves i guess, good luck to all. R Bigmore What Limo UK19-Sep-2009 | 19:48What limo UK has been going now for 12 years and the last 2 years have been the hardest out of the blues we find we have no were to go but pay up or close down by the 1st oct we have 2 new 16 seater limo party buses with coif at the cost of £90,000 and two 13 seater coif excursions that just cost me £8,000 each to coif a total of £196,000 a big dent in the bank account in these hard times we also have some big 22 seater 4x4 jeeps what do we do with them now they can’t be coifed if anyone knows let me know good luck all and lets save the big ones. Mick ACE LIMOUSINE LIMITED19-Sep-2009 | 11:23We had 15 years of hard worked, day and night to establish safest motoring business in this country. Now by applying an impractical legislation all our efforts are gone. Please help us to get back on our feet. Pink Limousine19-Sep-2009 | 11:06I am deeply sad & disappointed of the new law toward the limousine businesses. I have been in this business about last 12 years and been doing nothing wrong but working, paying taxes. I don’t understand by new law, government will make us unemployed, rather than encouraging to work & pay more tax. I do not see with new law anything is going to improve toward the safety of limos, just the extra coast of £18000.00 per vehicle to put pressure on the businesses. So I am asking please let us breath and apply the right law at the right time. We are not asking a lot. Thank you, Siavash Zamani Diamond Limos18-Sep-2009 | 23:41We are in the limousine business for around 15 years and after 15 years a short notice comes out of the govermont that they want to take off all the big limousines off the road,which means we are going to be unemployed and we will have to turn down our hard working drivers and we are going to make a big loss from the limousines. and we are lost about what to do next. and in this resestion we are going to lose every penny. Mr Pink uk Ltd18-Sep-2009 | 23:21we have been in the limousine business for 12 years.and we import the limousine from america which means we pay the tax to the govermont. and when we import them to the uk they never tell us that this vichele is going to be eillage in this country.and now on a short notice they want us to pack everything up which means turning down our drivers and closing everything up and it will make us umemployed as managers of the company. we dont know what we will have to do and we will need help.with out limousines people or celebs wont be able to turn up to there partys or occasions in style or a couple wont be able to have that perfect wedding because limousines wont be around and that is wrong. this is a type of business and job like every other peoples jobs. you just carnt go round making laws up and burning up peoples successful business.its not fair. weblimo.co.uk18-Sep-2009 | 20:08Limousines are safe,and reliable transport for group party. 4x4 limousines are the best transport option for people on budget. limohireprom.co.uk18-Sep-2009 | 20:02Limousines are the safest way to take your children's to a night Clubs and return them back on early hours of morning to home .it's affordable and safe. hummerlimo-london.co.uk18-Sep-2009 | 19:57New law will put most of the limousines company in Uk out of Business.we will lose our jobs for no Reason. Anglo American Limousines18-Sep-2009 | 17:07Doomsday! has finally arrived. I do have a coif'd vehicle but find it very unfair as I personally have been in the chauffeur hire business over 25 years. VOSA should have helped us instead making things tough. We need Limo laws for 1-8 people then 9-16 people. We are not a local bus service. VOSA need to be educated on how exactly the limousine industry works. They need to be lean on the coif of these vehicles as they are not buses or minibuses, they are a luxury vehicle for hard working people to entertain and enjoy themselves. Good luck to all in our industry and hope whoever rides the storm will come out the other side! Limousinehirelondon.me.uk18-Sep-2009 | 16:54This is wrong.recession is bad enough for our Bussines and now we will loss our jobs with this law. Manhattan Limos18-Sep-2009 | 16:40i think the whole is a joke how on earth given the current recession they can come up with a proposal like that they vosa has been promoted into a sherif overnight to govern an industry they know nothing about limousines are not psv vehicles they were not built for that and you can never safely adopt them for that purpose we in limousine industery have a 100 % safety record and there are no limousines on the road with safety issues i hope common sense is applied otherwise if vosa legislation are applied they will destroy thosands of jobs and cripple hundreds of operaters overnight. Go-easycars.co.uk18-Sep-2009 | 16:26It's shame to see one of London attraction will so significantoy diminished in size. Easy Limo UK LTD18-Sep-2009 | 16:22The new law will kill the limousines industry in uk. As one of the biggest Limousine agent in uk we rackon more than 200 people will lose their jobs if the new law being enforced. LA Stretch18-Sep-2009 | 13:06Times are hard enough, we have been operating at a loss, now there is some light at the end of the tunnel, there are more & more obsitcles which we cannot get over now. It will put the final nail in, 9 jobs and all in the logistic line will suffer. Capital Transport Ltd18-Sep-2009 | 12:42Just a small example of one of the Limousine industry’s problems, is the fact that if we want to carry on trading with any vehicle which carries over 8 passengers, for instance the Hummer H2 Limousine, we will need a COIF Certificate (Certificate of Internal Fitness). At the moment there is no company providing this certificate and deadlines are coming closer. Capital Limo18-Sep-2009 | 11:30After 15 years, we will be forced to close down and over 12 people will lose their jobs as the result. Pashalex18-Sep-2009 | 11:25The new enforcement is shadowing the impartiality of the representatives of this industry. |
 
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