These days a good alternative to the private car, particularly when it comes to the Airport run, is a Private Hire Taxi. The journey by Private Hire vehicle is with a fully licensed driver (in the UK these licences are issued by the local authority) in a fully licensed vehicle. Private Hire and H...

If you are travelling to Newmarket by bus or train you will very likely need a Newmarket taxi to get you from the station or drop off point to your accommodation. There is only one main rank in Newmarket which is on the High Street. If you arrive by train you might be lucky and catch a waiting cab at the sta...

There is a new auto manufacturer in town. And it aims to actually change and revolutionize one of the transportation businesses – the world of taxi cabs. The group has already been able to create its own taxi cab model and this vehicle would be shown off at the upcoming International Association of Tra...

Due to an increase in tourism and people living away from their workplace and choosing not to drive, more people using taxis to get to work (let’s face it, who can afford a car these days?), a boom in the taxi business is being seen - and with the competition level increasing day by day, companies are ...

Unlike southern California, it sometimes rains in London. Back in Queen Victoria’s day, an army captain came up with a novel solution to combat bad weather, and you can still see some of them today. The army captain in question was one Captain George Armstrong. In 1874, he had just retired from the arm...

Took a taxi ride today and learned a valuable lesson. Its amazing what people have to teach if we are just open enough to learn. I got in the cab and told the driver my destination and he started driving. Our enlightening conversation started with him commenting that he had just made an illegal u-turn in ord...

The internet has vastly changed the way that many of us make purchases. We enjoy the convenience (and sometimes cheaper prices!) when buying online. If we can use internet rationally it is a huge time saver. We can settle all our bills and payments, make weekly shopping in the food store and quickly purchase...

The city hall of Prague has published a booklet with information about City Taxi Service intended for tourists. One can find in it the answers to the questions, where and how to order a car without problem, on what one can rely and to what one should pay close attention while communicating with taxi drivers....

Many people view starting a taxi service as the ultimate business, whereby they can dictate their old hours, work in a boss-less environment, and generally go as they come and please. However, operating a taxi service can be demanding in a number of ways. It can be mentally demanding, having to concentrate w...

Since the majority of taxi drivers, but certainly not all, have little accounting or bookkeeping knowledge the lower the level of expertise required the more suitable such an accounts package will be. Data entry basically consists of just 3 records, being an excel spreadsheet for taxi receipts; another for t...