Taxi of Mum and Dad According to research conducted by Sainsbury’s car insurance, there is an estimated £32bn of unpaid taxi fares accrued by parents driving their kids around each year. The school run; ferrying the kids around to friends o...
The Transport for London has issued the latest list of drivers convicted of touting and who have lost their licenses. Touting is when a Private Hire Cab (PHC) or Minicab as they are also known, stops to pick up passengers on the streets. These taxi r...
Mr Robinson, a physiotherapist won a case against a false whiplash claim Nazir Hussain, a taxi driver from Dewsbury is the centre of a landmark court case concerning a whiplash claim. Physiotherapist Lee Robinson was at traffic lights with Mr Hussain...
The Transport for London (TfL) Board have rejected calls for a 22% fare hike for the London black cabs of the capital during the months of July and August while the Olympics are on. The change was rejected on account of the majority of drivers not wa...
A study has revealed that 70% of Edinburgh’s taxi drivers feel unsafe at work. Drivers reported fare-dodging and abusive passengers as the main reasons for their concern, with 94% of cabbies in the capital claiming to have been either verbally...
It is official that Taxi Cab owners earn more driving the Peugeot E7 taxi. Cabbies across the country are full of praise for this vehicle. Even drivers that have only been in the trade for just a few years have already discovered how to maximise...
A taxi marshal’s service credited with cutting city centre night time violence could end unless emergency funding can be found. The marshals, who patrol two ranks on weekend nights, have only been in place a year. Taxi marshalls bring orde...
Many taxi drivers in Merseyside have recently gained the new Road Passenger Vehicle Driving (taxi) NVQ in order to increase their skills and improve their knowledge. This is especially important since many employers in the Merseyside area now insist...
You maximize the potential of your taxi you may wish to insure extra drivers onto your policy. As with other types of vehicle insurance, this is no problem but you will see an increase in the premium with each named driver added, and restrictions wil...
Changes to legislation around child minding and the type of insurance that must be organized to ferry kids around has made a lot of child minders, support and care workers very happy. Since policy changes to minicab licensing laws in 2006, child mind...
