HELPED to her front door by taxi driver Dave Dickens-Smith, senior citizen Charmian Rowland, of The Fairway, Bexhill, said: “I have to use taxis at least once a week to get to and from town, and most of the drivers are just wonderful. “They share a chat, often help me carry my shopping to [...]
TRAFFORD Council have told taxi operators currently carrying out contracts for them that prices will need to be slashed by at least 10 per cent. A letter has been sent out to all taxi firms affected explaining they should take the cut or face losing the contract when a new tendering process allowing firms from [...]
Dundee Taxi Association is calling for the city council to take a leaf out of Perth’s book and place a cap on the number of taxi operator licences it hands out. After carrying out a consultation on deregulating the trade in the area, Perth and Kinross licensing committee last week decided not to lift the [...]
Selective Committee selective memories The Reiver Holding out for a Hero I’m going to start this month with a quote from Winston Churchill, which given my Gaelic roots, does tend to go very much against the grain. “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have [...]
A MUM from Sheffield was left “gobsmacked” when a taxi driver refused to let her travel in his black cab because she was carrying a pack of beer. Alison Dawson, aged 46, of Manor Oaks Garden, Hyde Park, attempted to board with her bags of shopping outside the Co-op on Castle Street in the [...]
MAGISTRATES in Barnsley have ordered a bogus taxi driver to pay out more than £600 after he was found carrying passengers without a valid licence. Stephen Falkingham, 51, of Post Office Cottages in Sheffield Road, Oxspring, admitted driving an unlicensed private hire vehicle, not having a private hire drivers licence, operating as a private hire [...]
Taxi drivers reacted angrily to a council decision not to force private hire vehicles to differentiate themselves from Hackney carriages with “no booking, no ride” signs. Hackney carriage drivers say the ruling will damage trade and could end in tragedy, but councillors at a heated meeting last week decided there was no reason for new [...]
Taxi-drivers in Breckland have demanded to be allowed to raise their fares so they can keep pace with huge rises in fuel and licensing costs. Maximum taxi fares in the district are set by Breckland Council and have remained unchanged for the past five years, even though the same authority has twice increased the fees [...]
CHANGES to licensing rules making it tougher to become a taxi driver have been delayed. Members of the Licensing Committee at Basildon Council took the step of deferring a move which would have meant people who had been convicted of serious offences would be barred from ever becoming a cab driver. Proposals had been drafted [...]
THREE private hire drivers have been fined after plying for trade on the streets in Stoke-on-Trent. They were arrested as part of a joint operation between Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Staffordshire Police in Hanley on the evening of July 30 last year. Prosecutor Trevor Vernon, representing the city council, yesterday told North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court [...]
