There are some things that only your besties will tell you, there are some things only your children will ever tell you and there are certainly somethings only your spouse would say to you… but there’s a lot of things only a taxi driver could tell you.!
Taxi Drivers & Private Hire drivers cover the last and the first mile of most peoples travel connections, estimating hundreds of millions of journeys a year by nearly 400,000 licensed drivers across the UK, all of whom up until recently were locally licensed by the Local Authority in which they operate.
This blog site is a mixture of musings, experiences and articles from people within the driving community and was born out of the industry being put under pressure by drivers being licensed and regulated from outside of their local boroughs undermining the industry putting pressure on the long established working practices where each Local Authority had control of and could mange the volume of licensed drivers working in a Local Authority region.
The industry is quite under-represented, your local cabbies are usually sole-traders working independently or through an operator on a very local level and serve and work in the community where they live covering local bookings for appointments, leisure, business trips, health car, taking children with special education and disability needs to school, providing mobility transport and usually enjoying airport transfers for out of area type bookings.
The industry has never needed to be represented because it has always been locally managed by each local authority, however more recently towns and cities up and down the breadth of the country have had an influx of drivers “predominantly” working “cross border” where they are licensed and regulated by an out-of-town authority causing no end of headaches leaving professional drivers, y’know the ones who take vulnerable children to school, who also get you backward and forward from the train stations and to work, feel like throwing the towel in because of multiple on-going pressures. The drivers are slowly being replaced by out of town licensed drivers doubling up on saloon cars licensed out of area, who are newbies cashing in on the bread and butter work with only their sat navs as acting as local knowledge, leaving the long standing professional drivers that rely on bread and butter as part of their income at a loss, so the trip to get nan to get to hospital in her wheel chair could be undermined if this trend continues as the drivers who own the wheelchair accessible vehicles feel like throwing the towel in.
The site has been born out of the Private Hire & Taxi sector but is not restricted to Private Hire and Taxi workers and welcomes bloggers far and wide who or have worked within the arena of professional drivers. As someone working in transport you may wish to blog. All bloggers will get a profile and a backlink to the website of their choice, to help raise their profile too. These website links often give local operators and businesses a much needed boost when competing against national and regional operators.
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