Private hire vs hackney carriage websites
Private hire vehicles (PHV) can only accept pre-booked jobs — no street-hail, no rank pickup. The booking site has to enforce that: no 'book now for pickup in 2 minutes' language, clear pre-booking timelines, and every booking captured against an operator record. Hackney carriages can do both. Taxi Web Design's private-hire template is TfL-copy-compliant out of the box and works the same for PCO (London), private hire under other UK councils, and equivalent US/Australian regimes.