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Locality Tests!?! What Locality Tests??
This week a female Asian driver was let go from a North Shields Taxi company. She had been sent for a pick up to go from North Shields to South Shields but she couldn’t find the Tyne Tunnel.
Taxi Delegation Meets with City Leader
The promised meeting,with Lib.Dem. Leader of Newcastle-u-Tyne Council,took place today.
The Delegation of Taxi drivers met with Councillor John Shipley and Taxi Licensing officers……..
Mercedes M8: Far superior
Colin Munro from Edinburgh is happy man after taking receipt of his new Mercedes M8 earlier this year. The M8, the result of a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and Cab Direct, is the ultimate hackney taxi, tailor made for the professional driver.
NEWCASTLE CITY V BERWICK BOROUGH
What effect will the outcome have on the local Hackney Carriage trade?
Well, realistically, it shouldn’t have any effect either way. The only organisations it should affect are the large private hire offices and the Local Authority.
If Newcastle City Council wins, then all the “out of town” vehicles will be expelled and it will be a case of ‘as you were Ladies and Gentlemen’.
Why are there Too Many Taxis?
Can we take it that North Tyneside Council admits there are too many Taxis, when they request that we refrain from parking on Tynemouth Front Street before 9pm? Are they suggesting we work part time?
Cabbies driven out of work as rising fuel costs hit taxi trade
DOZENS of struggling cabbies are leaving the city’s taxi trade in the face of spiralling fuel costs.
NEWCASTLE PRIVATE HIRE DRIVERS ASSOCIATION