LICENSING bosses have backed down over plans that could have forced older taxis off the road in Cheltenham. The borough council’s licensing committee meets today to decide whether to rubber stamp a compromise designed to quell the fears of cabbies across the town. Taxi and private hire drivers feared the introduction of European restrictions on [...]
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COVENTRY council leader John Mutton has criticised his own officials over proposals to shake-up taxi licensing rules. The Labour councillor said he was outraged at proposed controversial changes which could have hit jobs at Coventry cab maker LTI. And he is angry that he knew nothing about them before they were put in a report. [...]
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ALL hail the tuk tuk, a motorised tricycle soon to be scooting through Hereford as a taxi – though it took a roundabout route to get there. Council regulators had to re-think the county’s current hackney carriage licensing, concerned that a tuk tuk might not meet conditions. But this week businessman Tony Floyd, who runs [...]
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TAXI drivers took their “fight for fairness” to Cheltenham Borough Council‘s doorstep in a go-slow protest yesterday. Twenty-five drivers, supported by scores of supporters who turned up on foot, handed over a petition urging licensing bosses not to impose new EU rules on carbon emissions. Drivers like Rob Cowie say the changes could cost him [...]
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CALLS to allow older taxis on the road in Ripon face rejection because council bosses fear it could lead to lower standards for customers. At present, private hire drivers can still renew their licences with Harrogate Council provided that their vehicles are no more than nine years old. But now Ripon City Taxi Proprietors Association [...]
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Police have said there is “cause for some concern” after five drivers were taken off the road during a crackdown on rogue minicab drivers in Bradford. A total of 68 private hire vehicles, some carrying passengers, were stopped in an operation involving special constables from West Yorkshire Police and Bradford Council enforcement officers. A police [...]
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TAXI drivers are taking Bristol City Council to court for forcing them to paint their cabs blue. The authority told the city’s 800 hackney carriage drivers they had to spray their cabs the colour of the famous “Bristol Blue” glass in early 2008. But none of the major car makers produces the shade as a standard [...]
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