Manchester.

Manchester council have agreed to cut some license fee's.

The driver renewal will go down from £106 to £56.

As there were over 5400 renewals for the year ended 2012. that will see £270 grand returned to the trade.

That is not enough, we are owed around £4 mill. The external Auditors agree with us.

To reach the point we are at now, took some dedicated work with both the Hackney and Private Hire working together. The first time we have really collaborated, because of the common goal...to stop getting overcharged for a poor, very poor level of service.

We must now wait until the Public Notice goes in the Local Press,this is estimated at around 8 August.

Do not give up the fight for a measly £50 a piece. 

We want the rest of the money taken unlawfully given back.
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LEEDS... Woman who's mouth is bigger than her Tits, loses free transport.

Britain’s favourite person Josie Cunningham has had council-funded taxi rides stripped from her, it has been reported.

The 23-year-old model from Leeds had boasted about getting the free trips at £150 a week because using public transport gives her anxiety attacks.

At the time she tweeted: ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but tax payers will always fund me.’
But it appears Leeds City Council has stopped the luxury.

The mum of two originally told The Sun: ‘You wouldn’t see Katie Price get a bus – and I’m much more hated than her.

‘The amount of hate I get makes it impossible to get public transport.’

But speaking to The Sun today, she is reported as saying: ‘I refused to let my kids get into a car with someone I’ve never met. I kicked off and they said the taxis would stop.’


http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/28/boob-job-mum-josie-cunningham-loses-council-funded-taxi-service-4812983/
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SUNDERLAND

A taxi driver who killed a 17-year-old girl while driving down the wrong side of the road had been given a cab licence by the council despite having been banned from driving nine times before.

David Baillie, 40, was overtaking a car in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, when he ran down Sarah Burke, 17, who was crossing the road on her way home from college.

She was hurled 65ft by the impact, suffered multiple fractures and brain trauma. After five days in hospital she died of her injuries.
After a trial Baillie was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for seven years.

But now Miss Burke's family has taken the council to task for approving his licence despite the   despite his string of previous convictions.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708763/Reckless-taxi-driver-killed-teenager-driving-wrong-road-given-council-cab-licence-despite-banned-roads-NINE-times.html
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Uber.

Taxi-hailing app Uber employs just 3 persons in each city to run operations

It takes two to tango and just three to run the city-wide operations at taxi-hailing app Uber, one of the world's fastest-growing startups. The San Francisco-based company employs just three people in every city when it launches operations — that is less than the number of people their typical taxi can accommodate.

"We treat each city as a startup entity and let the local team make most of the city-based decisions," said Pradeep Desu, who heads recruitment for Uber in India. The company typically employs a general manager who is responsible for strategy, a community marketing manager and a head of operations who manages relationships with the taxi drivers signing up.

The teams get support from the San Francisco headquarters mainly for tech operations. "We do expand the team once operations scale but at the heart of it, keep the employee count as minimal as possible," said Desu.

Uber, which has disrupted the taxi market in the US and the world over, is backed by Goldman Sachs and Google Ventures, among others, and is reported to have clocked over $1 billion (Rs 6,000 crore) in gross bookings last year, with revenue estimated to be doubling every six months.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-07-29/news/52186700_1_taxi-hailing-app-uber-operations-taxi-drivers