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Two Uber Executives Facing Jail In France Amid Tensions With Taxis
PARIS (AP) — Two top Uber executives appeared today in court in charges that could send them to prison and offer the ride-hailing company one of its most serious legal challenges to date in France.The...
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Be Careful What You Wish For : Trade Royally Rogered Again By TfL'sThird...
TfL have today issued a press release to the trade, announcing the intended changes to the regulation regarding the mandating of credit card payment acceptance and the conditions attached. After much...
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Repent, For the day of judgment is at hand...by I'm Spartacus.
So the absolute CoF says, and it's coming on the 17th March.That's the date of the next TfL board meeting at City Hall, when the board should reject out of hand the LTPH PH regulation amendments. I...
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Uber has agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle two lawsuits that say itmisled...
About 25 million customers filed the two class-action lawsuits regarding trips made between January 1, 2014 and January 31, 2016.They attacked Uber for charging a fee of up to $2.30 per trip for what...
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Chairman Of The United Cabbies Group (UCG) Len Martin, On The CCMandate.
Legally TfL cannot make anyone take credit without a change in the law.Ms Chapman said she will change the cab act, well good luck with that, getting a different law for Taxi drivers to every other...
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FOI Request Shows Minicab Rape And Sexual Assaults Through TheRoof....But...
Reports are coming in from drivers who have done freedom of information requests asking for the amount of serious sexual assaults (including rapes) on customers by Private Hire drivers over the year...
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Whitewash From Whitehall And BS From TfL.
So let's get this straight...David Cameron's best mate Rachel Whetstone works for Uber, her husband worked on Cameron's political campaign. George Osborn told our Tory Mayor Boris Johnson to "Leave...
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Peter Hendy's Network Rail Charging Taxi Drivers 40p To Access StationRank...
The RMT union had been campaigning against what it claims were increased costs for taxi drivers at the newly-redeveloped stationTaxi drivers are claiming a victory after charges of up to £1,000 a year...
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Uber boss denies taxi driver claims that local drivers will be out ofwork if...
THE general manager of Uber in Ireland has denied claims that local taxi drivers will be out of work if the firm brings ride-sharing to the city.Jude Williams of Xpert-Treaty Cabs based in Davis Street...
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As expected, Uber execs dodge bullet in France but criminal casereveals flaws...
PARIS–During a two-day trial last week, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and Thibaud Simphal, the Uber executives facing criminal charges here, struggled to remember internal documents and management...
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TfL warned over sexual advances among its own staff : Totally FailingLondon...
Bosses in a Transport for London department have been forced to warn their own staff not to harass colleagues.Senior management acted after revealing that employees had complained about colleagues...
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Minicab driver who raped sleeping woman is jailed for 'monstrous' crime
Minicab driver who raped sleeping woman is jailed for 'monstrous' crimeA man's been sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of raping a Cambridge woman.Siddiq Muzumder, 33, a TfL...
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The Horse Has Bolted.... Someone Now Wants To Close The Door...by I'mSpartacus.
It seems one trade org is betting the farm on limiting PH number as the answer to all our issues!!!So let's have a real look at the possibilities or more likely the impossibilities of a cap on PH...
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LTDA's Pledge of £50,000 Puts New Life Into The #ActionforCabbies Fund.
And now the games back on...We are running out of time but today's boost from the LTDA has put us back in the gameNow it's totally up to you.Approx 5,000 Taxi drivers on Twitter. £25 each would be...
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The Big Taxi Credit Card Conspiracy : Why Have TfL Made It Such A Mess
There's quite a bit of misinformation currently floating about the Taxi trade in regards to driver's future responsibilities when taking Credit and Debit card payments and also when certain...
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Private Hire With No Hire And Reward Gets Passed By NSL...by TaxiLeak's...
NSL test centre this week in Crayford. Whilst waiting I got chatting to an Uber driver who was waiting for his Prius to be licensed. Amongst other things he started chatting about all of his costs such...
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Baby Born In The Back Of A Hailo Taxi...Express Delivery
What a great story to wake up to this morning. A wonderful new life, a baby boy, bought into this world in the back of Rob Fenlon's Taxi.Driver Rob Fenlon said:No soiling charge was taken neither was...
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Letter To The Editor : THE LONDON RIDE-SHARING HOAX
"The Knowledge is irrelevant" they cry, "Black cabbies are dinosaurs that refuse to embrace new technology", yawn, yawn, yawn.As the parties with a vested interest preach to the gullible from the Uber...
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Mrs Pat Bissett's Letter To Private Eye's Ian Hislop
Dear Mr Hislop, I am the wife of a Black Taxi driver and I am writing to you because I believe that you are one of the few people left who are not afraid to question the government and opposition in...
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Spanish Taxis Block Central Madrid in Car-sharing Protest
MADRID — More than a thousand Spanish taxi drivers blocked a central Madrid boulevard on Thursday, beeping horns and setting off firecrackers, to protest plans to open the country to greater...
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