Taxi drivers are set to be charged for fobs to operate a new bollards system on a public road. Wellingborough Council plans to charge the borough’s 63 registered Hackney Carriage taxi drivers £25 each for a fob to operate the new system in Gloucester Place, which was installed during the Market Street improvement works. The [...]
The row has set T-shirt against teashop in the tourist centre of the city. Rebecca Greenfield, who owns The Mad Hatters cafe at Orange Grove, has banned taxi drivers from her premises. She said that since she had spoken out about plans to move the coach drop-off points, some drivers had been abusive towards her [...]
TAXI drivers are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the council decided to restrict the number of cabs in the town. In recent weeks drivers have told the News how they have been struggling to make ends meet due to the amount of competition for business. At a Crawley Borough Council licensing committee meeting [...]
Hundreds of taxi drivers from the Black Country and Birmingham are bombarding Shropshire Council with applications to operate in the county – with the number of drivers’ badges 400 per cent up on last year. But council chiefs today raised concerns that some applicants may not have a genuine intention to work in the county. [...]
TAXI drivers in Guildford are accusing decision makers of ignoring them after councillors again deferred a decision on its policy over the use of wheelchair accessible taxis. To the frustration of cabbies who had come to a meeting of the licensing committee at Guildford Borough Council on Wednesday (September 7), members decided they did not [...]
Cabbies allowed to pick up fares in East Herts have a catalogue of convictions between them, it has emerged. East Herts Council has granted licences to people convicted of drink-driving, driving with a mobile phone, driving without insurance, grievous bodily harm, assault, burglary, possession of an offensive weapon, threatening behaviour, criminal damage, fraud, shoplifting, obtaining [...]
A Stansted private hire driver whose private hire driver’s licence was revoked by Uttlesford District Council has lost his appeal against the decision. In April, the authority’s licensing committee decided Peter Burgon no longer met its standards after he committed four motoring offences in the space of three years: two counts of using a mobile [...]
BBC Don’t know difference between PH and Hackney Carriage shocker A private hire “taxi” with roof sign Private hire drivers say the signs make cars easier to identify at night Private hire “taxi” drivers have criticised a plan by Shropshire Council to remove roof signs from cars. The new plans come into force on 1 [...]
Ashiq Ali A Leeds taxi firm has been thrown into disarray after its chairman and management committee all resigned in the wake of a tribunal decision. The YEP reported last month that taxi driver Ashiq Ali, 49, had been awarded more than £18,000 in damages, costs and unpaid wages after he was suspended from a [...]
Taxi fares in Carlisle are likely to go up next month. Fares are set by the city council. They last increased in October 2010. Councillors are being recommended to implement an increase of just under four per cent, slightly less than inflation, when the regulatory panel meets on Wednesday. The cost of a two-mile journey [...]
