Would You Rather Buy A Clean Diesel Taxi -As Opposed To UncertainTechnology-...
The result of a pole carried out by Taxi drivers on Twitter available.It shows a large majority of drivers would rather run their current TX and Merc Vito Taxis into the ground, rather than buy...
View ArticleIt's All About The Money : TFL's Superfluous Charges... By Jim Thomas
IT would appear that while Licensed Taxi driver have been thrown out of work, then charged unlawfully for temporary licenses, TfL have been renewing Private Hire licenses without first seeing results...
View ArticleTeen arrested after taxi driver sprayed in eyes with unknown substance
teenager has been arrested after a taxi driver had an unknown substance sprayed in his eyes, causing serious injuries.The attack happened in High Wycombe when the driver caught up with three people who...
View ArticlePolice Seize Uber Car After Crash In Brighton...No Insurance. Call...
On Friday July 14 2017 an Uber TfL minicab was involved in a collision in Brighton & Hove.This vehicle was then seized by the police for having no insuranceUber actively encourages not only TfL...
View ArticleIt's All About The Money : TFL's Instruction Necessitates...
IT would appear that while Licensed Taxi driver have been thrown out of work, then charged unlawfully for temporary licenses, TfL have been renewing Private Hire licenses without first seeing results...
View ArticleUber plans to issue its own credit card with Barclays
NEW YORK (AP) — Riding-sharing company Uber plans to launch its own credit card, partnering with the British bank Barclays.The card will be coming later this year, Barclays said last week.Uber would be...
View ArticleTfL COs Protecting Stakeholder Partner Uber From Bad Press
TfL Compliance officers are now protecting their stakeholder partner Uber from bad press. Although they do not possess the power to enter a Taxi and take anything out of the vehicle without th drivers...
View ArticleMexico Cab (Taxi) Drivers Attack Uber Drivers In Pitch Battle
A raucous crowd attacked Uber drivers and their vehicles with clubs and stones outside the Mexico City airport, according to the company, as licensed taxi drivers demonstrated to demand a “total...
View ArticleTFL's Cosy Little Arrangement... Plus, Totally Failing The Disabled.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive. Why has TfLTPH general manager taken to sending Jo Bertram letters in an attachment?Is that to stop the contents being available to...
View ArticleShowing Our Badge Is Not Enough To Use A LUL Toilet...You Now Need ASticker.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier, TfL come out with even more ludicrous regulations. If you're in need of a good laugh, have a read of this below, posted on the TfL website. 🔽Oxford...
View ArticleAddison Lee Suffers Defeat In Legal Row Over Gig Economy Rights
Addison Lee has become the latest company to face defeat in court over its treatment of workers as “independent contractors” without rights to holiday pay, sick pay or the national minimum wage.The...
View ArticleTfL Ignores Difficult Question Asked 12 times, But Defends QuestionableCO's...
TfLTPH have been refusing to answer this simple question @TfLTPH (12)Could you please tell me what legislated regulation, gives a CO powers to remove property (a news paper) from my Taxi ?I asked the...
View ArticleWestminster Council To Relocate And Implement New Taxi Ranks
CITY OF WESTMINSTER TAXI RANKS (VARIOUS LOCATIONS)1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Westminster City Council proposes to make the following Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of...
View ArticleUber Rented Hundreds of Faulty Vehicles to Drivers and at Least OneBlew Up
Let’s all say it together: Ugh, Uber, ugh! We’re like five minutes into the company’s “180 Days of Change” apology tour and more awful Uber news is already coming out. The Wall Street Journal reports...
View ArticleJohn Cox Resigns From The LTDA And Joins The LCDC.
Frontline trade activist John Cox, has decided he would rather resign, than attend (in his opinion) a disingenuous procedure with a predetermined outcome, delivered in a kangaroo court, made up from...
View ArticleFellow Cabbies, One Of Our Colleagues Needs Bit Of Help.
This is Keith Barber a London cab driver of over 20 years, Keith as been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and can't work whilst being treated. Keith is one of life's good guys anyone who knows Keith...
View ArticleLetter To Taxi Leaks : More Proof That TfL Staff Are Making Up TheRegulations...
Taxi Leaks recently posted a letter from a reader which claimed he had to attend 230 Blackfriars Road and pay a fee to get a temporary licence to be able to go to work. I asked TfLTPH why they were...
View ArticleTfLTPH Twitter Account, Alleged To Be No More Than A Benign, BiasedSham...by...
GJ62XOC, parked on a Licence Taxi Rest Rank in Conduit Street W1Putting aside the arrogance shown by the recipient of the TfL letter below, who feels he should be given the same status as a...
View ArticleSadiq Khan, Stop Telling Us What You Can't Do And Tell Us What a...
In another bizarre week for the cab trade, the launch of what I call the Lotto electric cab (over 70K to own it after 5 years on the strap) plus the increased insurance and other running costs, as the...
View ArticleTfL Have Revoked 42 Operator Licenses So Far This Year. Guess Which OneIs Not...
TfL have always come under fire over the alleged unsavoury relationship they have with the ride-share app Uber.This week has seen TfL employees, in an act of censorship, openly removing news papers...
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