CabNET, the world’s largest private network of licensed taxi companies, announces it is now accepting cashless payments via smartphone for taxi bookings anywhere on its growing roster of more than 600 towns and cities in 70+ countries worldwide.
Customers can pay using their smartphone, whether they are taking a short, local ride or booking a taxi at the other end of the country or on the other side of the globe.
The service works with any taxi that is a member of CabNET, which represents almost 11,000 carriers from London to Lusaka, Iceland to Auckland. Carriers range from major licensed taxi firms, with hundreds of cars and drivers, to sole licenced drivers.
To make a payment, customers simply use the CabNET app, which can be used in any country and is free to download from the App Store for iPhone and Google Play for Android.
The CabNET app will search for licensed taxi providers in a specified geographic area and manage the booking process, including payment. It can also be used when a cab has been hailed or booked without using the app – customers can pay by scanning the driver’s barcode or using their mobile phone number. The CabNET app also includes ‘taxisafe’ route tracking, for added personal security during a journey, and enables customers to review their journey and provider.
What sets CabNET apart from other international providers is that its members are all locally licensed operators who work for their local taxi companies or themselves, not for CabNET. These operators set their own fares, according to local regulations. CabNet boosts their bookings by linking them to the network ..
CabNET CEO Neil Hallett said: “CabNET is unique. There is no other service where a single app lets you book pay for, track and review licensed taxi rides – no matter where you are or plan to be – but offers the know-how and experience of long-established, properly licensed local taxi providers.
“It has all the benefits of Uber and the like but can work in so many places where those companies aren’t licensed to operate and, with the introduction of cardless payment, it enhances the established taxi experience by offering a single app that works anywhere, with no need for cash.”
To download the app and get started free of charge, customers should visit www.cabnettaxi.com .
Taxi operators and drivers that wish to join CabNET can register at
https://www.cabnettaxi.com/driverregistration
and pay a nominal setup fee to start accepting bookings and payments.
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BOLTON
TAXI drivers are being targeted with bricks in a spate of attacks by vandals, leaving one passenger needing stitches to their face.
On Thursday night, Metro Cars taxi driver Raja Talat Mahmood was driving along Winchester Way in Breightmet when his windscreen was smashed by a brick thrown at his car.
The incident occurred at around 10pm as he was travelling with a customer.
Mr Mahmood said: "It totally smashed the windscreen.
"I was thinking that some [glass] had gone in my eye."
The driver has encountered the vandals before.
He added: "It was a group of lads that are always there. They know the taxi is coming. They can see from a distance the taxi is coming because of the signs."
Mr Mahmood added: "I'm losing a lot of the work because I have to wait for the repairs. [The repairs] are going out of my pocket."
He said: "I'm so scared, anything bad could happen. We have elderly people. It could be you or it could be me in the taxi."
Metro Cars say that Mr Mahmood's case was just one of many in the Thicketford Brow and Breightmet Community Church area.
Another driver, Mahmood Khan, had his car windows shattered by bricks on two occasions in the same place. One attack cost him £230 in repairs and a full weekend out of work.
He said: "It's every night. They're by the church because it's high up and they can smash things and run away. If you stop right there, they just throw more."
A spokesperson for Metro Cars said: "In the last couple of months, we would say it's about 25 to 30 cars it's happened to. It's very constant. It's more night time.
"We had one where [a brick] hit a passenger. The passenger has had to have stitches in his face. There was another where a woman had a two month-old with her in the back."
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CARLISLE
Two men who carried out a terrifying early-morning knifepoint robbery of a taxi driver in Carlisle have been jailed for a total of almost eight years.
The city's crown court heard how their victim went to pick up a fare in darkness at Alexander Street at 5.30am on December 11.
Lexi Elliott and James Thompson - both aged 23 - got in with jacket hoods pulled tight around their faces. They asked to be taken to a B&M Bargains store, on Wigton Road, where Thompson - high on alcohol and cocaine - got out and brandished a Stanley knife with the blade concealed, forcing the frightened driver to flee.
His Skoda vehicle was driven off and found several hours later in the Dalston area, "totally destroyed" by fire.
In a deeply moving victim impact statement read to court today, the driver spoke of being "fragile" and "already at the brink" following the death of his wife two years previously. On his mobile phone - taken in the robbery but never recovered - were "the last years I had with my wife".
"Being robbed at knifepoint tipped me over the edge," stated the taxi driver.
Of the missing phone, he added: "They have taken a significant part of my life away from me."
Elliott and Thompson, both of Highfield Avenue, Carlisle, were jailed for 49 months and 41 months, respectively. They had admitted robbery and arson, with Thompson also admitting illegal knife possession.
Passing sentence, Judge James Adkin told the pair: "It just goes to show the fact that those who commit offences of knifepoint robbery can never know exactly the condition of their victims."
He added: "You both are responsible for the lingering upset and pain that the loss of that telephone has caused."
After the case, Detective Constable Andrew Metcalf said: “I am pleased that both have been brought before the courts within months of the offence.
“This was a pre-meditated attack on a person who serves the public and taken their means of income.
“Today’s sentencing shows how seriously both the police and the courts take such attacks and that they will not be tolerated.”
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