PayPal's Neat Solution To The Credit Card Mandate : Unit Fitted InTX4... By...
Last night at the KXTC Camley Street, Mike Smith showed me his newly fitted rear compartment PayPal cradle. Apparently once you have the contactless unit, the total cost of cradle, printer and all the...
View ArticleTomorrow, Friend Of The London Taxi Trade, Frances Wyhowska Skydives ToRaise...
Tomorrow, friend of the London Taxi Trade, Frances Wyhowska will be doing a skydive of 12000 feet, with the Red Devils, in aid of the The London Taxi Benevolent Association for War Disabled, to raise...
View ArticleCredit Card Mandate...And The Curious Case Of The MetroCab....Letter ToTaxi...
I have to agree with Alan Fleming comment on the previous post, relating to tfl and the safety of cab drivers, but then did they ever have a clue on that matter alone? No of course not, just turn up at...
View ArticleUber Driver Who Assaulted Taxi Driver, One Year suspended sentence,Fined...
Yesterday (August 25th) at Highbury Magistrates Court, Uber driver Mohammed Dalim was found guilty by District Judge Nicholas Rimmer of One count of assault by beating.Dalim was fined £680 Court costs...
View ArticleCredit Card Readers In Passenger Compartment. An Open Letter From AlanFisher.
Credit card readers in the passenger compartmentI wrote the following letter 7 weeks ago and emailed it to London Mayor Khan, Deputy Mayor for Transport Val Shawcross, London Assembly member Caroline...
View ArticleThe London Taxi Benevolent Association for War Disabled
The London black cab trade has experienced some very disheartening times over the last couple of years so to be able to give out positive news is a true delight for me. It seems a long time ago that I...
View ArticleEconomic Terrorism : 'To alter the order of society by non democraticmeans'
So here we have it, a non domiciled tax avoiding company using the odd bedfellows of Goldman Sachs and Saudi Arabia to fund a financial model that exploits the drivers and the benefit system this...
View ArticleMan charged with manslaughter after 23-year-old dies following incidentin...
Calls have been made to ban this ludicrously dangerous and unsafe UberPool car sharing scheme, but TfL don't appear to be interested in public safety, just the money from the licenses they dish out...
View ArticleTfL Charging Passengers For Using Free Replacement Buses....And TheyKnow...
Kingston and Richmond bus users could have payed out of hundreds of pounds unnecessarily after being charged full fare for free buses — and Transport for London knew it was happening.The 65 and 371...
View ArticleAs Evidence Stacks Up Against TfL & Uber.... Our Taxi Orgs GoSleepwalking...
Let's just recap for a moment:TfLTPH's Twitter account frequently post that Uber met all the requirements for licensing, when first licensed in 2012.And still do....REALLY?Uber have never had a...
View ArticleTaxi Charity Receives Much Deserved International Coverage.
Recently the press has not been the best friend of the cab trade. Reporting is often biased and sloppy, and journalists persist in printing outdated stereotypes of the trade, so unlike the trade that...
View ArticleWhy Did No10 Told Boris "Go Easy On Uber" : Connecting the...
Unsolicited pop up add on the Uber App. Uber doing the government a favour...but at what cost?Uber's partner in the voter mobilization initiative, Bite the Ballot, is supported by none other than...
View ArticleWhatever you do, do not get into the back of the cab with apassenger' ....by...
Those words ring in our ears as loud today as they did when the head of the PCO gave out badge over many years.So fast forward to the current passenger compartment Credit Card fiasco orchestrated by...
View ArticleLetter To Taxi Leaks : Non compliance and double standards by Tfl trueor false
Incredible though it seems, Tfl are blind to the fact that Uber and others within the PHV market appear to be above reproach....and the law. Some of these operators have even been handed awards by Tfl...
View ArticleLetter To Taxi Leaks : The Path Of Least Resistance...by Lee Ward.
How about the London PHV get the same treatment as most of the other PHV up and down the country?We are licensed to strict conditions, we have a plate in the rear and not a window sticker, we have...
View ArticleINDEPENDENT TAXI ALLIANCE (ITA) ON CREDIT CARD CHAOS.
The ITA believes that TfL's card machine fiasco is a scam.A scam backed by credit card companies and groups with vested interests in the deregulation of minicabs, and the demise of the Taxi.Steve...
View ArticleMake Your Own Arrangement For Credit Card Validation....bygreenbadgejohn
It is so clear the conclusively derived dissent which is bubbling up within this trade will eventually explode on the streets of our capital, We all knew how poor the ideology behind compulsory fitting...
View ArticleDrivers Safety Compromised With Rear Fitted CC Readers.
Imagine, you pick up two or three male passengers, it's obvious they've been drinking. They take you to a destination, 10 miles from the centre of London, it's two in the morning and they direct you to...
View ArticleDaC Chairman Brian Rice Says : TfL Have Got This Totally Wrong.
There isn't any question that having the PED in the back of the taxi could be a threat to driver safety. That is why in March 2011 we at DaC sought and obtained permission from TfL to site our PED's in...
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