Why I joined taxiapp We are already experiencing how de-regulation causes a  race to the bottom. History has shown that it is not always the best person, team, product, ideology, or even idea that wins, but mostly it is those that have the most money, weaponry and/or...

Did you ever stop to wonder, in the light of the hold ups we've witnessed, concerning Taxi driver licence application and renewals, how it could be possible for Uber to get over 600 of their new driver applications licensed every week, for over a year. Many of their...

TfLTPH have clearly shown today, that the Credit Card mandate and associated condition of fitness, is a product of third party interest, rather than what's best for the driver and the passenger. News was afoot early in the day when CabVision posted on their Twitter...

News broke over the weekend that the DVSA were going to scrap the Taxi driver test as from December 2016. Yes, you heard it right, after many years of calls for a more level playing field regarding the standard of driving for Taxi and private hire drivers, the DVSA,...

Offensive and Inappropriate, Night Tube Advert.   Mr Brown, I am writing to you to complain about a night tube advert run by TfL that is both misleading, offensive and wholly unbecoming of TfL as the Taxi regulator. I find it beggars believe that I should be writing...

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 a quiet, badly lit, side street. One says "can we pay by card ? "....

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 the front of the taxi, although it is wired to the taxi and gives...

One in four Londoners fear they will not make it home safely in a minicab in the early hours of the morning, new research suggests. A quarter of people living in the capital who use minicabs fear a risk to their safety when travelling in one between 12am and 4am,...

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 McNamara has to hold his hands up and publicly announced he was wrong...

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 we know and love. However, the press has rallied somewhat in the...