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Health check plan for Vale's cabbies
Taxi drivers could soon be forced to undertake compulsory medical tests in order to be granted a licence.
If the plans go ahead, insulin-dependant diabetic and epileptic drivers will be told they cannot drive a public hire vehicle on the Vale's roads.
District council chiefs are mulling over plans to make every driver applying for a new licence, or renewing an existing one, have a medical report from their GP.
A report sent to members of Aylesbury Vale District Council's licensing committee said that response had been mixed.
Anonymous forms were sent out to operators asking for their opinions about the move.
One respondent dubbed it 'bureaucracy gone mad', and added: "Why not stop everybody driving in case they have a heart attack at the wheel?"
Companies also voiced fears about the cost of getting medicals for each of their drivers.
Another operator wrote: "While I agree – in principle – to health checks, it is yet more money to be found.
"A licence for drivers is already very expensive, and a lot of drivers simply will not do it."
Wycombe, South Bucks and Chiltern district councils have already introduced similar measures.
The matter will be discussed by the council's licensing committee on Monday.
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