February, 2008
CAB CRAZE BEGAN 100 YEARS AGO
October 4, 2007 — OK, so taxi drivers are mumbling again. FYI: Our soon-to-reopen Plaza is the source of our modern-day yellow-cab mania. Back when skirts grazed ladies’ ankles, passengers negotiated fares with the driver. …
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‘3 times and out’ for illegal touting
MINICAB drivers who illegally tout for business on streets could lose their licences after being caught three times. The proposals by the London Assembly are being discussed to clamp down on the growing trade on South London’s kerbs. …
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Annoying Driving Habits
Annoying Driving Habits. A friend of mine recently wrote a piece about how to beat traffic. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=2243419348. This gave me an idea of writing a piece about how to do the opposite, that is cause traffic …
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Record Grammy haul for absent Amy Winehouse
Winehouse, the daughter of a north London taxi driver, was the only performer represented in the album, record, song and best new artist categories at the Grammys. Cracking the US market is notoriously difficult for British acts and the …
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WHO’S GONNA DRIVE YOU HOME TONIGHT?
Council bosses have closed licensing loopholes to stop unscrupulous criminals becoming taxi drivers.They were concerned people with convictions for violence, indecency and alcohol or drug abuse may be able to sneak through the system …
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Mini Cab Accounts
Welcome to Mini Cab Accounts a system devised by AJM Accountants for mini cab drivers to enable them to keep the records needed to complete their annual income tax return. Recording income is straight forward with a daily record …
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DNA secures indecent assault conviction
DNA taken from a man convicted of driving an unlicensed mini-cab helped solve an indecent assault in Sidcup three years earlier. Karim Merali, aged 48, was sentenced to four years in prison for an indecent assault on a woman in …
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How Mum and Dad Taxis could charge £3000 a year for chauffeuring …
Many parents have been heard to complain that their offspring treat them as a taxi service. Now they have the research to back them up. Parents drive on average 1664 miles a year chauffeuring their children – slightly longer than the …
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Safe journey
Cabwise couldn’t be simpler, delivering one licensed taxi and two licensed minicab numbers to your mobile phone when you text “HOME” to 60835. Programme that number into your phone now, before you forget, then go out and celebrate in …
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EPPING FOREST: Unlicensed mini-cab driver fined
… concerns about taxis, they should contact the licensing section at the Council who will be able to advise them.” http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.2081565.0.epping_forest_unlicensed_minicab_driver_fined.php.
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