Drivers warned of £2,500 fines for giving lifts at Christmas | Nothing to do with Christmas, you will be fined if you are operating an unlicensed taxi and taking profit for lifts
Because you're operating as unlicensed taxi. You're unlikely to get fined for doing that for friends as the article is trying to suggest but if you start offering lifts to strangers you're in trouble
Why?
Because you're operating as unlicensed taxi. You're unlikely to get fined for doing that for friends as the article is trying to suggest but if you start offering lifts to strangers you're in trouble
Everybody is my friend in that case
The government hates this one trick
makes sense.