The first fleet of 45 all-electric BYD e6 taxis have joined the ranks of the Hong Kong Taxi and Public Light Bus Association. Wang Chuan-fu, chairman and president of BYD Company Limited, said: “This not only asserts our green vision for promoting environmental sustainability for a better world, but is also a significant step for [...]
One day in 2011, three internet entrepreneurs set up a meeting with three cab drivers in a London cafe. Many hours later, they emerged as the six founders of Hailo, a mobile app that connects taxi drivers with passengers. One of the ‘treps, New York native Jay Bregman, harbored a near-obsession with the “fundamentally inefficient” taxi industry that stemmed from [...]
This was posted in April but we missed it then,so here it is: Newcastle City Council has successfully prosecuted a Hackney Carriage Driver for refusing a fare whilst working from the busy Collingwood Street rank in the city centre. Shaheer Shah was found guilty in his absence at Newcastle Magistrates Court and ordered to pay [...]
TAXI bosses have defended a planned rise in fares after council chiefs revealed proposals to increase prices. Hartlepool Borough Council’s licensing committee has approved a request from the town’s hackney carriage trade for an increase of 20p on all journeys. Only hackney carriages, which in Hartlepool are yellow and can be flagged down or be [...]
A Hong Kong taxi driver prosecuted for overcharging a passenger by HK$0.5 (£0.04; $0.06) has had the case against him thrown out. The lawsuit, which was withdrawn on Thursday after the prosecution offered no evidence, lasted six months. Tam Hoichi said the case had tired him out, and he wanted an explanation as to why [...]
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg got into a verbal altercation with a leader of the city’s taxi cab lobby saying that he was going to ‘f***ing destroy’ the group when he leaves office this fall. Bloomberg has championed a new model of taxi cabs for the City, but that plan recently hit a legal [...]
A HIKE in the number of Hackney carriage drivers on South Tyneside roads has been ruled out. Council bosses recently carried out a survey, questioning more than 600 drivers, customers and local firms, which revealed people in the borough believe they get a high level of service from the existing licensed taxi fleet. The vast [...]
A TAXI strike — planned for this weekend — will not go ahead after hundreds of drivers agreed higher rates with Bolton’s biggest private hire firm. Up to 500 private hire drivers had threatened to walk out on Friday and Saturday in a dispute with Metro over customer fares, drivers’ income and rising costs. They [...]
THE secretary of Guildford Hackney Association has called on the government to investigate the amounts charged for taxi licences by the borough. In a message to the House of Commons Transport Committee, Mark Rostron wrote that the council had been “illegally profiting for years” from the issuing of both driver and vehicle licences. By law, [...]