Women Attacked By Muggers Inside A Black Cab On Harrods Taxi Rank
Just heard a frightening story in one of my WhatsApp groups. A driver on point of Harrods Rank, picked up an oriental lady with her two daughters.
This is what London has become under a Mayor who would rather spend money on two rappers… than on victims of crime.
Woman claims Uber driver called her a ‘slut’ and kicked her out of cab after going the wrong way
A young woman claims an Uber driver called her a "slut" and threw her out of his car after she pointed out he appeared to be driving her home in completely the wrong direction. Frances Carbines, 27, went out for dinner at Dishoom in Shoreditch with friends last...
More evidence where Uber admit they do not handle the booking
In a letter to Westminster Planning Department Uber openly admit that they do not handle any bookings and that their app just connects the passenger to the nearest driver. They further state "In this way the network can operate independently, with the clients...
THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN…..ByDads Defending Daughters.
Warning, the article below contains strong language. Normally we would remove, but in this instance we believe it would take away from the passion contained within this post. WE ARE NOW LIVING IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE TAXIS ROAST ON RANKS AND MINICABS WORK THE...
Leon Daniels, £25m Later….Chaos
Leon Daniels stated, "The return of two way traffic at Elephant and Castle, will transform it to a place people want to be". New traffic systems, plus the segregated cycle lanes have bought London to virtual gridlock. The situation has become so bad that...
Statement From Action4Cabbies Regarding Judicial Review On Credit Card Surcharges.
On January 18th 2016 Action For Cabbies embarked on a crowdfunding campaign to try and raise an initial £600,000 so as to obtain permission from the court to launch a judicial review against Transport For London for alledgedly wrongly and potentially illegally issuing...
Leon Daniels Phoned Uber’s Jo Bertram At Least 24 Times From TfL Registered Phone.
Following on from the "Ubergate incident", concerning embarrassing emails which were sent between TfL's managing Director of Surface Transport Leon Daniels and Uber's Jo Bertram, it has now been revealed in a Freedom of Information request, that Director Daniels...
Still Blue Peter? Addison Lee, No Prosecution over Rugby World Cup Liveries, Yet Taxi Drivers Reported For Unauthorised Signage.
Ex TfL commissioner Sir Peter Hendy, is still sticking it to the London Licensed Trade Trade Cabbies. Hendy, became the centre of attention in a sex scandal, when it was revealed he was paying a broke prostitute £140 an hour for sex after finding her on the adult sex...
Horrified Uber passenger ‘photographs his driver playing Pokemon Go DURING their journey across London’
A horrified chef claims his Uber driver was playing Pokémon Go behind the wheel and even swiped the screen to catch monsters during the journey through London. Paul Mohammad said he was travelling from Haringey to Bounds Green in north London when he noticed the male...
Letter To Editor : You Can Only a Kick Someone So Many Times Before They Kick You Back
Soon we'll completely ignore their rules. let's face it, WTF are they going to do to our trade after kicking it in the testes for so long, it's on it's knees. Are they going to sack us, refuse to issue a licence? They appear to live in that fantasy world, all those...
Autogas To Start Trial With Converted Diesel Taxi To New Petrol/Gas In London.
The Autogas Taxi- cleaner, cheaper solution Autogas is shortly to commence a trial in London of a traditional black London taxi running on LPG. The company, which has the largest network of automotive LPG refuelling pumps in the UK, hopes the cab will be approved by...
Google to Develop Its Own Ride Hailing App, in Competition To Uber.
Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based transportation company may be much closer to home: one of...
Ireland : 1,700 taxi drivers gave up licences in 2014
More than 1,700 taxi drivers quit their jobs last year as the number of taxi driver licences in Ireland fell below 30,000 for the first time in a decade. Data from the National Transport Authority (NTA) shows there were 1,729 fewer taxi licence holders at the end of...
Google Is Developing Its Own Uber-esque Taxi Service
Just this afternoon we heard that Uber is taking on Google by working to build driverless cars. Well, it turns out that Google is also taking on Uber—it’s working on a cab service. According to Bloomberg, the cab service probably will use the driverless cars currently...
Uber a company that doesn’t know what type of business it is
UBER SAYS THEY ARE A “TECH” COMPANY AND NOT A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, BUT FOR ALL THEIR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY CAN’T EVEN GET THE BASICS RIGHT With Licensed Transport Uncovered only being a few months old we have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to...
The scams rogue chauffeurs use to avoid licensing
Don't stand for anything but a FULLY licensed company, vehicle and driver THE TRICKS AND SCAM ILLEGAL CHAUFFEURS USE TO AVOID THE LAW The problem with illegal firms being allowed to operate on such a large scale – when you include all the small and single operators –...
Breaking News: Important Amendment To The Dereg bill, Clause 11.
We have been advised by the Nationsl Private Hire Association, that the amendment is not clear as to whether the “Operator” is a different company or the same company with more than one licence. They went on to say: "UBER with 10 Operator licences in Greater...
Internal Uber e-mails reflect company’s brash reputation
Photo: Terray Sylvester, The Chronicle A red sedan bearing the distinctive "U" logo of the Uber ride-sharing service takes the transit lane on Geary Street in San Francisco on Friday, September 19, 2014. A red sedan bearing the distinctive "U" logo of the Uber...
Exeter taxi drivers threaten to take city council to court
Hassan Al-Seaidy, who owns two Hackney carriage plates in Exeter A GROUP of Exeter taxi drivers is considering legal action against the city council over plans to remove restrictions on the number of hackney carriages. A GROUP of Exeter taxi drivers is considering...
Telford driver made to pay £1,000 after illegally collecting people posing as a taxi
A driver from Telford has been fined £1,000 and given eight points on his license after illegally plying for trade as a taxi. Minhaj Jawad, of Leegomery, Telford was sentenced at Shrewsbury Magistrates Court, after he was caught in the early hours of August 24...
Uber, Lyft Seen by Judges Bound to Pay Drivers as Employees
(Bloomberg) -- Uber Technologies Inc.’s drivers may have to be treated as employees rather than independent contractors, a federal judge said, a day after another judge in San Francisco gave the same warning to Lyft Inc.The car service companies are fighting...
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