All Entries in the "Passenger Transport" Category

The Law & You: Bilking (or runners)

This one might be worth printing off and carrying in the cab with you.
We have run this particular Law & You several times, but we keep getting asked to clarify the legal position, mainly because the response of the police is patchy to say the least “Itʼs a civil matter mate take them to the small claims”. The problem is that there are varying degrees of non-payment; on one hand there is the ʻgentlemanʼ and sometimes lady that opens the door and takes off like Usian Bolt……..

Taxis at New Street station could be rationed, TooManyTaxis?

Taxi access to Birmingham’s New Street Station could be rationed in an attempt to relieve traffic chaos.

Council highways chiefs are talking to the police and Network Rail about restricting the number of black cabs able to enter the station at peak times.

London black cab market set to go green

The prospect of electric taxis appearing on the streets of London has moved closer to reality after one of the leading cab makers launched a new model.

2010 Ford Transit Connect Taxi: 2010 Chicago Auto Show

CHICAGO — Today Ford unveiled a taxi version of its 2010 Transit Connect utility van that will go on sale in late 2010. In addition to its reconfigured interior, the Transit Connect Taxi will also offer fleet operators the option of running the vehicle on compressed natural gas or propane.

Driverless Taxi?

‘Taxi on demand’
One of the highlights of the World Future Energy Summit was the ‘cyber taxi’, which will be a key feature of the zero-carbon Masdar City being built in Abu Dhabi.

Improving Access to Taxis Consultation Report

Consultation analysis report

This report provides an analysis of responses to each of the 19 questions posed in the consultation document, Improving Access to Taxis in February 2009. Key themes are identified in the report and key issues are summarised.

Who says there is not enough work?

Who says there is not enough work hack driver??? Is it not the case that the work is just not where you would like it to be!!
Maybe the public’s way of using our trade has changed and you need to change with it? There are other ways to make money than sitting on ranks and maybe its time you need to face facts??

How to Promote Drunkenness in The Population

Easy! Give everybody that gets smashed a ‘Free Taxi’ home. Only the British could come up with this one whilst all and sundry are trying to tackle the problems……..

Police ‘put half-naked rape victim in minicab and made her pay fare home’

A senior source said: ‘It should have been clear that she may have been sexually assaulted. To top it off, they put her in a cab with another strange man.’

…………………………..Police think the woman may have been raped by an unlicensed taxi driver who dumped her in the street.
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Myth and reality: By Taxi Driver Online

(Originally published March 2004)
Taxi Driver Online announces the publication of ‘Myth and Reality’, a 70-page paper examining the issue of restricted taxi numbers.

South Tyneside drivers’ “Honest Mistake”

A CABBIE banned from the roads for a year after ferrying passengers around in an uninsured car today said: “An honest mistake has ruined my life”.

Mystery Shoppers at The Coast

Two Private Hire drivers have been fined in separate hearings by North Shields Magistrates.
In February of this year North Tyneside Council carried out a series of ‘Mystery Shopper’ stings ………

Taxi and Private Hire Training Providers – A Cautionary Note

REPUBLISHED DUE TO SOME DRIVERS BEING UNSURE OF THE SITUATION.

GoSkills is aware that a small minority of training providers in England are making statements about the status of national qualifications for drivers in order to attract business. Some of the statements that are being made are inaccurate. There is, for example, no basis in the statement that NVQ qualifications are to become a legal requirement for licensing.

Manchester Private Hire protest over bus lanes

HUNDREDS of private-hire cabs formed a giant convoy in a bid to persuade the council to let them use bus lanes.

Drivers from across Greater Manchester took time out from ferrying fares around to join the protest outside the City of Manchester Stadium.

The cabbies snaked their cabs through the city streets, finishing up at outside the town hall in Albert Square – and causing traffic chaos in the process………………

Public Carriage Office revokes three private hire licences

Month long operation outside West End nightclubs cracks down on illegal taxi touts.

Touts are not insured, are not regulated and they are not a safe way to get home…….