Peterborough City Council chiefs plan to slash red tape to allow a one passenger-only ‘private-hire vehicle’ to operate in the city. The move comes after bosses of Green Leaf Cars, in Lynch Wood, Peterborough, applied to have their environmentally-friendly Smart Cars – which carry only a driver and one passenger – licensed to be used [...]
Taxi drivers have won an initial victory in their fight to re-introduce strict limits on vehicle numbers. Watford Borough Council, which scrapped a limit on licence numbers back in 2006, agreed last night to re-examine its policy. When the limit was abandoned (to improve competition) just 81 Hackney Carriages operated in the town. A total [...]
TAXI drivers say they will strike if bosses at St Albans City Station do not take action on rising permit rates, and the poor location of their rank. Members of the St Albans Taxi Association claim they are being driven away from trading at the station after “improvements”, by NCP and First Capital Connect, have [...]
TAXIS in Cardiff are to be fitted with CCTV as drivers complain the public are dodging fares. The annual general meeting of the Union of Taxi Drivers (UTD) was told last night by members that passengers, mostly late-night revellers, continued to avoid paying. Passengers “doing a runner” or going into their homes promising to pay [...]
Licensing bosses in Wakefield are lining up a sweeping review of the city’s taxis. The changes will include a rise in fares, the introduction of a knowledge test for drivers and a new requirement for all operators to have held a UK licence for a minimum of two years. The measures will be debated at [...]
LICENSING chiefs are to have talks with disabled groups about whether to license a cheaper, rear-loading taxi. Most hackney carriages are side-loading and a rear-loading taxi would need at least three metres at the back to allow people in wheelchairs to get in and out, even though rank spaces are at a premium in Worcester. [...]
FEWER checks will soon be made on prospective taxi and private hire drivers in Lincolnshire. The existing policy requires all applicants for a licence to undertake a Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check to enhanced standard which details criminal convictions and lists people barred from working with children and vulnerable adults. In March this year the [...]
Pendle councillors Paul White and Joe Cooney have spoken out against the deplorable and irresponsible behaviour in Colne town centre during the early hours of Sunday morning. A late night dispute erupted at the taxi rank next to the precinct which ended with a taxi driver in hospital and an impromptu strike by Taxi firms [...]
Taxi drivers have renewed their plea for a reduction in the amount of operating licences granted by Watford Borough Council. They say they are struggling to make ends meet because of the soaring cost of fuel, insurance, and the continuing economic downturn. The Watford Hackney Carriage Drivers Association blames much of its members’ ills on [...]
ON-THE-SPOT fines are to be dished out to taxi drivers blamed for turning a key gateway to the Welsh capital into a “chaotic embarrassment”. For the past few months, drivers have endured frustrating waits as cabbies park along the road that leads from the drop-off area at the front of Cardiff Central station. Despite being [...]
