Category Archives: Taxi News
About Time
Well it looks as if at long last that new safety rules are to be brought in to govern the hundreds of pedicabs touting for hire in London. After concerns were voiced that the rapid growth of the bicycle rickshaws … Continue reading
NYC Taxi Logo
Well what do we all think of the new New York City taxi logo then? It’s the top one with the old one pictured below. I quite like it myself.
Karma Kab
Maybe I should take a leaf out of the book of Karma-Kabs from London, and import myself a nice Ambassador car from India. I can just see myself riding round in one of these silk and satin decorated, ragga music … Continue reading
Aristobum
More revelations are coming to light just days after wayward aristocrat Charles James Spencer-Churchill, known as Jamie Blandford faced Oxford Crown Court for an unprovoked road rage attack. It was on Monday that Blandford, whose ancestral home is the Blenheim … Continue reading
Drivers Nightmare?
Two women threatened to cry rape unless a Luton taxi driver handed over his takings, a court has heard. Carlie Clark, 19, and Selina Dunning were convicted of robbing taxi driver Muhummed Laqib after he picked them up in Welwyn … Continue reading
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Danger Limos
After a two year old girl was killed in a five car collision on the M25 in Essex on Saturday. Questions are being raised about the safety of the many limousine conversions on UK roads. The vehicle involved a stretch … Continue reading
Smoke Free
Leaders of England’s taxi drivers are welcoming the complete ban on smoking in taxis and private hire vehicles which comes into effect at the end of this month. “For some years we have promoted the right of drivers to ban … Continue reading
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All Greek To Me
Well I’m a bit disappointed that I never got this little job , it would have been a nice run out. “A retired teacher in her nineties took a cab to Greece to see the site where Alexander the Great … Continue reading
Pink Cab
A London cabbie who provides cabs for gay weddings told taxi manufacturers LTI Vehicles his new TX4 had to be pretty in pink. The vehicle, finished by the company’s paint shop team in eye-catching luminous pink, is among the latest … Continue reading
No Talking
A concept design for a new taxi was unveiled at the New York Motor show this week, will it or something similar hit the streets? Who knows but the designers said that they set out to solve communication problems between … Continue reading
Dangerous Job
What with the recent attacks on taxi drivers locally let’s hope things don’t get as bad as they are in Yorkshire. Father-of-five Younis Khan is the third taxi driver to be murdered in Yorkshire in the past year. Mahmood Ahmed, … Continue reading
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Peace Bonus for Cabby’s
Well we would not have believed it just a few short years ago, but now it seems that Belfast has become a tourist attraction. And Belfast cabby’s have not been slow on the uptake, it seems that a tour by … Continue reading
Thug
It seems that one of our drivers has been viciously assaulted by a thug he had driven to Ulverston on Friday night. The thug, aged around 20, asked the driver to stop at a Bank in Ulverston on the pretext … Continue reading
Uniform
I hope they don’t make this new Taxi Driver Uniform compulsory, I just don’t think that it would suit most local drivers that I know! But if you want one yourself here’s the link.
