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AGAIN....WE'VE ALL BEEN STITCHED UP : TfL's Card PaymentRecommendations.
On Friday, representatives from the Licensed Taxi trade groups plus carefully selected trade Orgs (UTG) were invited to a meeting with TfL. At the meeting they were told how TfL intended to mandate...
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Uber Scraps Flat Rate Fares To London Airports In Bid To Recruit MoreDrivers.
Minicab app Uber, has announced that it will stop offering flat rates to customers travelling to London airports.Previously, they offered a series of low cost set fares for journeys to Heathrow,...
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NYC's Yellow Cab App, Great Way To Avoid Uber's Surge Pricing
Last weekend, I found myself in a familiar situation: It was after midnight, I was far from my apartment, and I wanted to go home and go to sleep.I was in an area of Brooklyn where I couldn't just walk...
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London Taxi Trade Reps In Talks with Euro Taxi Orgs In Paris, DayBefore...
London Taxi representatives from the UCG, LTDA LCDC and Unite Cab Section , are currently in Paris to dicuss international action with Europian Taxi orgs, ahead of tomorrow's planned Taxi strike by...
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Letter to Editor : Private Hire Vehicles Licensed Without Hire AndReward...
NOTICE SOMETHING MISSING?All PH drivers should have the appropriate hire and reward insurance before their vehicle is passed by TfL inspectors and the PH prebooked sticker is issued.This TfL...
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Another Nail In Our Coffin ? Electric Cars To Be Allowed In Bus Lanes.
Taxis no longer privileged, Electric Cars are also to be allowed in bus lanesSales of alternatively fuelled vehicles rose by 40% in 2015, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers...
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Police Fire Tear Gas At French Taxi Drivers In Anti Uber Protest
Paris police fired tear gas and taxi drivers lit bonfires on a major highway Tuesday amid nationwide strikes and protests over working conditions and competition from non-traditional services such as...
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French PM bows to pressure after taxi drivers protest
Who says demos don't work! Tuesday morning saw France hit by yet another taxi strike, with drivers furious over what they claim to be unfair competition from private hire companies and web platforms...
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TREVOR MERRELLS Campaign Manager of the UCG Reply to LCDC's Chairman,Grant...
Trevor Merrells LTR Interview E40by admin | Jan 26, 2016 | LTR Interviews, Podcasts | 0 commentsCarpe Diem : In the Wake Of The EU Taxi Alliance Demo, Next Wednesday... It's Our Turn...
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Uber boss suggests drivers use ’90s kids game to distract...
Uber's Chief Security Officer has recommended drivers keep a Bop It on the back seat to entertain drunks and keep their cab safe.In the UK we get pretty chuffed if an Uber driver so much as hands over...
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LTDA Refuse Help With Crowdfunding Project And LCDC To Join WithCampaigning...
I've been told that the Action For Cabbies group, asked the LTDA to post an article in the new edition of Taxi paper. Allegedly, their request was rejected. The editor of Taxi paper obviously feels the...
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TfL : Dancing On The Head Of A Pin....by I'm Spartacus.
So here it is folks an extract from the impact assessment from tunnel engineers MottMcDonald paid by TfL about the refusal of TfL to implement the 5 minute ruleWe no longer have Plying for Hire and Pre...
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Edmonton Taxis Lose Battle To Stop Uber Becoming Legal
The bylaw includes the creating of two licences: one for ride-sharing companies like Uber, the other for taxis. Plus, Uber would pay $70,000 every year for all of their cars to operate in Edmonton, in...
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TfL's Dancing On Heads Of Pins Goes On And On....by I'm Spartacus.
So folks here we have all we need to know about TfL and its intentions from the impact report. Displaying of cars available in app:TfL recognise it's likely to be plying for hire, but have...
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Immediate Private Hire....Or Plying For Hire...Scripted Or ImprovisedBS?
TfL have also invented a completely new term "immediate Private Hire". Does this refer to a pre booked minicab that's available for immediate hire....isn't that plying for hire. What is the definition...
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PH Regs Review And The LTDA, Who's Side Are They On? ...by Gerald Coba
An email from the LTDA to its members, followed by an article in an online business blog!!!And now in the words of reggae's Johnny Nash"There are more questions than answers".Towards the end of the...
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NOW CYCLISTS ACT AS UNPAID SPEED COPS!
If you thought cyclists were just a nuisance, prepare yourself for a shock!...by Alan FisherOver the years, we've heard many true stories that at the time we found difficult to believe, but the one...
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Violent Minicab Tout Deported After Attack On Taxi Driver.
Justice finally catches up with violent minicab tout.An illegal minicab tout who dodged deportation for ten years is finally being booted out of the country for attacking a black cab driver, the Old...
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LTDA AND UNITE THE UNION, TO SUPPORT TAXI TRADE DEMONSTRATION 10/02/16.
London's largest representative group the LTDA, on their Twitter feed yesterday, agreed to email their members and ask them to support next Wednesday's protest action.Unite the union London Cab section...
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TfL Statement : Card Payments To Be Accepted By Every Black Cab.
Travelling in one of London's iconic black cabs is about to become even easier. Today (3 February) it was confirmed that every London taxi will be required to accept card payments for their fares by...
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