BBC Breakfast item today on illegally modded ebikes

[Psamathe]

Just station a couple of officers outside a "Just Eat" (or whatever) for an evening and all the illegal bikes would disappear. Repeat for a few nights and "Just Eat" would have piles of undelivered hot, now cold food not being delivered and no illegal riders will come near the place.

Then agreement with "Just Eat" that they will check and ban illegal bikes and if they are found not to do so then officers will return for a month and their business will collapse.

Ian

 

[markemark]

Just station a couple of officers outside a "Just Eat" (or whatever) for an evening and all the illegal bikes would disappear. Repeat for a few nights and "Just Eat" would have piles of undelivered hot, now cold food not being delivered and no illegal riders will come near the place.

Then agreement with "Just Eat" that they will check and ban illegal bikes and if they are found not to do so then officers will return for a month and their business will collapse.

Ian

“Just Eat Takeaway has 374,000 partnered restaurants across all of their platforms”
How many officers and how many places would this be? 300 officers outside 100 places would be 0.026 of their business. Nobody would even notice.

 

[Baldy]

If you watch the video in the original post that is more or less what they were doing. Once the word got out that the police/border force were about all the delivery riders disappeared. The ones that tried to do a runner were pulled off their bikes.

 

[Psamathe]

Just station a couple of officers outside a "Just Eat" (or whatever) for an evening and all the illegal bikes would disappear. Repeat for a few nights and "Just Eat" would have piles of undelivered hot, now cold food not being delivered and no illegal riders will come near the place.

Then agreement with "Just Eat" that they will check and ban illegal bikes and if they are found not to do so then officers will return for a month and their business will collapse.

Ian

“Just Eat Takeaway has 374,000 partnered restaurants across all of their platforms”
How many officers and how many places would this be? 300 officers outside 100 places would be 0.026 of their business. Nobody would even notice.

It's not about every restaurant it's about getting the company and its franchises to put in place checks and if they are caught not doing so risk action.

Also, is it becomes known across the industry that suddenly without warning officers can arrive and then they have no delivery sales for a few days they will pre-emptively put in place checks so if Police arrive their delivery cycles won't disappear because they know they are legal.

Ian

 

[classic33]

“Just Eat Takeaway has 374,000 partnered restaurants across all of their platforms”
How many officers and how many places would this be? 300 officers outside 100 places would be 0.026 of their business. Nobody would even notice.

Briggate in Leeds, over three dozen delivery riders gather there nearly every day.
The Broadway in Bradford, upwards of a dozen.
Point them out to the police and you're met with "they have pedals, they're bicycles not e-bikes".

As for the 50p delivery fee, there's some must be doing an awful lot of deliveries at that price. How many bikes can you afford to replace if seized before it becomes too much.
You're unlikely to get insurance to cover an illegal vehicle, and I'd say trying to claim for an illegal vehicle being seized would be laughed at whilst they said "No" chance" to you.

 

[Drago]

Just station a couple of officers outside a "Just Eat" (or whatever) for an evening and all the illegal bikes would disappear. Repeat for a few nights and "Just Eat" would have piles of undelivered hot, now cold food not being delivered and no illegal riders will come near the place.

Then agreement with "Just Eat" that they will check and ban illegal bikes and if they are found not to do so then officers will return for a month and their business will collapse.

Ian

Alas, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act prevents the dibble doing stuff like that. They cant even camp outside pubs looking for drink drivers any more because it counts as "directed surveillance."

 

[wiggydiggy]

As a follow up I've read this today:

Ministers refuse to share asylum hotel locations with delivery firms

"The Home Office is refusing to share information requested by food delivery companies who want to prevent small boat migrants working illegally in the gig economy.

Deliveroo asked Dame Angela Eagle, the minister for border security and asylum, and Home Office officials to provide the locations where asylum seekers are being housed in hotels.

It said that it needed this data to enable them to identify and block their courier’s accounts being used from these locations."

I think that if you are already working illegally, you are more likely to use an illegal means of transport to help with that. Its hard to criticise the delivery companies if they are being denied the means to identify the illegal workers.