London News

Suspicious Minds…….TaxiApp, Introducing The A Team.

Since word of Taxiapp came out, some doomers & gloomers can't quite believe a band of committed Taxi drivers can possess the knowhow to achieve such a seemingly unreachable goal. Some have said, "we'll come aboard if it takes off". If Taxiapp is to succeed it'll...
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When The Dream Turns Into A Nightmare…Part 2, Letter To Editor

The PCO approved The Eco-Power emission reducing systems PCO notice 30/07 then withdrew approval on PCO notice 10/08. In the High Court Judicial Review that followed the Judge ruled that TFL had made 2 unlawful decisions which were quashed. Boris Johnson formally...
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What Next a For Uber, Can They Douse Their Poisonous Flames….by Perry Richardson.

"They don't like it up em Sir!" You could be forgiven if you thought you heard the immortal words from Lance Corporal Jones echoing around the Iron Lung or at any rank in London in recent days. Uber, the car service that claim to be a tech company when it suits, are...
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Letter to Taxi News From Tom Scullion

Even with the latest version of the PHV rules, TfL are allowing drivers to break the law. Private hire cars or mini cabs must display the correct Hire and Reward insurance in their cars by law, passengers should always ask to see this policy before setting off in a...
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Pearl Harboured- Never Again!

Pearl Harboured- Never Again!

Nov 1, 2016

Make no bones about it, the licensed taxi trade was hijacked, not by a cab company, but by financiers- the global kind-  of the likes we have never seen before. It mattered not that the new product didn’t meet the conditions of fitness or the driver come remotely...

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