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Tommy's bogus taxi campaign 2007-01-17 21:27:42 A NORTHSIDE cabbie is doing his bit to keep the public safe with a new awareness campaign. The Dublin 15 local is distributing flyers to passengers telling them to beware of attackers posing as taxi drivers.
Tommy
Valentine is a familiar face to many Dubliners with his impersonation of Frank Sinatra..
The taxi man has now taken [...]
The WorldwideTaxi 2007-01-17 21:03:56 London, U. K.
The drivers of Londons black cabs learn their trade the hard way. In order to get their famous recent badge, the drivers have to entire The Knowledge. Getting this qualification involves getting on a moped and memorizing every street within six miles of Charing Cross. Taxi drivers are regulated by the Metropolitan Police, [...]
Spitting image: Cabbies on notice 2007-01-17 21:02:14 By Dong Zhen
THE city’s push to stamp out spitting in public is having mixed success.
While Shanghai residents have generally heeded the no-spitting plea in the interests of health and manners, many taxi drivers seem to have missed the message, and are continuing to spit out their windows.
A survey, conducted last year by Health Promotion Campaign [...] Read more:Spitting
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Fraud suspects 2007-01-17 21:00:19 POLICE said yesterday they caught six members of an alleged fraud ring that targeted middle-aged taxi drivers. Suspects usually disguised themselves as passengers and tricked cabbies into joining gambling parties when they reached the destination.
Victims who lost lot of money were forced to write IOUs and give their ID cards to the suspects
until they [...]
Black Cab Advertising 2007-01-17 20:55:42 The black taxi, one of the landmarks of London was traditionally to be found only in the capital. Over the last few years, this has changed, and today all major towns and cities in the UK have introduced black taxis into their fleet.Consequently, the unique advertising and PR opportunities that only a black taxi can [...] Read more:Black
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Taxi driver tells Freehold council that many cabbies lack permits 2007-01-18 10:29:38 Â
BY NICK PETRUNCIO
FREEHOLD — A taxicab driver told the Borough Council Tuesday night that he knows of other drivers who operate cabs here without the required taxi licenses.
The driver, Keith Berman of Manalapan, came to a public workshop meeting and asked how licenses are issued, and said it appears that drivers who have been issued [...] Read more:tells
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Cabby beaten in robbery 2007-01-18 10:24:03 Detectives are waiting to see if a taxi surveillance camera captured the faces of two men who robbed and beat a Brampton cabby.
The 31-year-old cabby was beaten about the head with what appeared to be a piece of metal in the 8 p.m. Tuesday heist on Folkstone Cr.
Peel Regional Police said the two suspects had [...]
Taxi enforcement team to raise industry standards 2007-01-18 10:22:30 Land Transport NZ is looking for more than a few good men and women to help improve standards in the taxi industry
.
Recruitment will begin this Saturday (20 January) for ten full-time enforcement
officers, solely dedicated to the taxi industry. The officers will be part of a new Taxi Enforcement Team working to improve standards in [...] Read more:raise
Attacked cabbie unhappy with police response 2007-01-18 10:21:20 A Maitland taxi driver says local police failed to respond to his calls for help after he was attacked by a passenger with an iron bar.
John Magin says the incident happened on New Year’s Eve after a dispute with three passengers over the non-payment of a fare.
He says one of them swung the bar at [...] Read more:Attacked
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Taxi driver gets 20 years' jail and rotan for rape 2007-01-18 10:19:11 A. Hafiz Yatim
KUALA LUMPUR: “He should have been doing his job transporting people, but he sowed fear among women.”
A Sessions Court judge was pronouncing sentence on a taxi driver after he was found guilty of raping a woman twice.
Judge Rosenani Abd Rahman sentenced Abdul Ghani Abdul Karim to 20 years' jail and ordered that he [...]
Crisis meeting to be held over spate of attacks on Leeds cab drivers 2007-01-18 19:33:30 BY ALISON BELLAMY
POLICE chiefs and politicians are to hold a crisis meeting
over the violent attacks
on cab drivers in east Leeds
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Following the spate of attacks on private hire drivers, which has seen seven people arrested, some areas of Leeds, including parts of Gipton, have become “no go areas” for drivers.
Gangs of yobs have been [...] Read more:Crisis
Taxi driver given 8 years for running over customer after quarrel 2007-01-18 19:32:31 A 57-year-old taxi driver was given eight years in prison for fatally running
over a 72-year-old passenger in April last year after he had an argument over which road to take to the destination.
The driver, Tatsuro Yoshizawa, denied in a hearing at the Tokyo District Court that he ran over the male passenger. Prosecution sought [...]
Overtaking taxi causes highway chaos 2007-01-18 19:31:46 By Sholain Govender
One person was killed and 15 injured when a bus and taxi collided on Hans Strijdom Drive on Wednesday.
According to witnesses, the full taxi hit the bus after trying to overtake a truck at about 8.15am.
Police and emergency workers blocked off a section of the M10 Mamelodi road and diverted traffic for about [...] Read more:causes
Spit bags come to Shanghai's taxis 2007-01-18 19:28:44 The Shanghai
Daily reports that cabbies are going to get plastic bags in their cars so that they don’t have to spit outside.
While Shanghai residents have generally heeded the no-spitting plea in the interests of health and manners, many taxi drivers seem to have missed the message, and are continuing to spit out their windows.
A [...] Read more:taxis
Prague's taxi drivers protest 2007-01-18 19:27:12 A few days ago the Czech newspaper Mlada Fronda DNES published an article about some Prague
's taxi drivers cheating their customers. The journalists, who pretended to be foreign visitors of the Czech capital, found out that six taxi drivers out of ten overcharged their services. MF DNES also offered some advice for people taking a [...]
Motorist catches taxi after crash 2007-01-19 21:52:14 A 45-year-old woman was injured when a car crash
ed into her car on Friday afternoon, Ekurhuleni Metro police said.
Inspector Jimmy Maboko said the woman had been travelling with her six-month-old baby girl when a Mazda rammed into her Renault Megane at the Blackreef and Dorking road intersection in Germiston.
“The woman had been following a taxi [...] Read more:catches
Import of black taxi to solve transport problems: 2007-01-19 21:50:55 Chairman Senate Mohammadmian Soomro on Friday rejected adjournment motion submitted against import of black taxies from London that triggered protest of the opposition parties.
The opposition Senator Enwar Baig submitted an adjournment motion in the Senate saying that the government wanted to purchase black taxies from a Prime Transport Company that would ply in Islamabad, Lahore [...] Read more:Import
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Cabbie Gets Year In Jail For Sex Assault 2007-01-19 21:49:11 Shawn Soper
A resort taxicab driver who escorted a highly intoxicated woman to an Ocean City hotel room and sexually assaulted her will spend a year in jail after being found guilty of all of the charges against him last week in Worcester County Circuit Court.
Sachindra Nepal, 21, of West Ocean City, was in Circuit Court [...] Read more:Cabbie
, Assault
"Daddy Cabbie' & "Mother Schoolers' 2007-01-19 21:48:12 Tell me something. Why is it that the state is not doing more to protect our young girls from what seems to be a growing number of paedophiles, a large number of whom are going around under the guise of being cab and bus drivers? Let me say here that not all cab and bus [...] Read more:Cabbie
, Daddy
Reviewed: ecoigo, London's newest green taxi service 2007-01-19 21:46:45 I’m feeling a tad worse for wear this morning, largely due to consuming a lot of organic wine at last night’s Newconsumer.com launch party. I don’t usually drink, partly because I cycle religiously everywhere in London, but last night I bucked my habits because of the offer of a free ride from ecoigo, the latest [...]
Slain cabbie's wife sobs at trial 2007-01-20 16:38:10 By TONY BLAIS, SUN MEDIA
EDMONTON — The distraught widow of a slain cab driver sobbed as she was helped out of a murder trial yesterday while a witness tearfully described the attack.
Farhia Yussuf, the wife of Hassan Yussuf and mother of their seven children, came and went several times during the testimony, which left many [...]
Police advice on cabs 2007-01-20 16:36:42 Police have given out safety advice to women worried about getting into taxis after a sex attack on a woman in Oxford.
The 25-year-old told police the driver of a black cab drove her to garages near Pennywell Drive in Cutteslowe and assaulted her. The alleged attack happened on Friday night. She was being interviewed by [...] Read more:Police
Six accused "were all in on plan' to attack driver 2007-01-20 16:35:30 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
A GANG of teenagers murdered a Huddersfield taxi driver in a planned revenge attack
.
That is the prosecution’s case against the five defendants accused
of killing Lockwood Taxis driver Mohammad Parvaiz.
Making his closing speech yesterday, Adrian Waterman QC told jurors that all of the youths played a part in the savage attack, [...]
Tony Schwartz - The New York Taxi Driver 2007-01-20 16:30:39 Tony Schwartz
worked at WNYC in New York and specialized in field recordings of the people and sounds of that city. Many of his recordings were released on Folkways, but this was his big “hit” record on Columbia.
It contains recordings he made while riding around in cabs talking to the cabbies during the 50s and [...] Read more:Driver
Cabbie returns tourist's money 2007-01-20 16:27:29 A Bangkok taxi driver yesterday turned over US and Taiwanese currency worth around Bt140,000 left behind by a Taiwanese tourist
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The relieved passenger, Chen Ching Ning, gave the honest cabbie Rian Wiangsamut, 45, a Bt4,000 reward.
On Thursday evening around 8pm, Rian called the Sor Wor Por 91 radio station’s 1644 hotline and reported he’d found a [...] Read more:Cabbie
Camco men charged with robbing cabbie 2007-01-21 17:57:11 Â
STRATFORD SOUTH JERSEY
Two cab fares are suspected of robbing
their driver at gunpoint after a struggle early Saturday moments after he picked them up for a ride, police said.
Raron Tibbs, 19, of Camden, and Jamie R. Warren, 18, of Lindenwold, are charged with armed robbery, firearms offenses and conspiracy, Police Chief Ronald M. Morello said.
Patrolman [...]
London Taxi Knowledge 2007-01-21 17:55:42 Â
This site is dedicated to the “Knowledge
”, within this site you will find 1,000’s of points, just click the links, to find any London street, just click on the maps You can see what is required to obtain a Taxi cab’s Driver’s license just click on the faq’s or you can have a look at [...] Read more:London Taxi
CONVICTED KILLER GETS SECOND CHANCE TO BECOME CAB DRIVER 2007-01-21 17:54:07 Â
 A CONVICTED killer is being given a second chance to apply for a taxi driver’s licence. William Currie, who served 12 years of a life sentence, will be allowed to address councillors in Stewartry, near Dumfries.
Currie, 51, was convicted in 1993 at Kilmarnock High Court for the murder of Dumfries man Robert McMurtrie, 54. The [...]
bizarre morning ride 2007-01-21 17:53:03 Â
I was running extremely late for an important meeting this morning and
had to suck up the no other option but to take a cab. I was a bit
frantic and trying my best to collect my thoughts and jumped into the
first cab I saw…only to be shocked..
My driver was an old Chinese man
-who was listening to [...]
Cabbies suspended over sex attacks 2007-01-21 17:51:54 Â
Nicole Cox
THE State Government will review screening procedures for taxi drivers after two Perth drivers were charged with sexual and indecent assaults on female passengers.
Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah McTiernan yesterday said WA was the only state in Australia that had psychological testing for taxi drivers, but in light of the latest allegations, a review [...] Read more:suspended
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