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Cabbie Gets Year In Jail For Sex Assault 2007-01-22 10:30:32 Â
Shawn Soper
OCEAN CITY - 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 [...] Read more:Cabbie
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Taxi recapitalization concerns too late: govt 2007-01-22 10:29:17 Â
The transport department says it has made every effort to get all stakeholders on board regarding the taxi recapitalization programme, and it is now too late to reverse the process. This follows the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) threat to launch a legal challenge against the recapitalization programme.
Government has started scrapping old taxi’s but is behind [...] Read more:concerns
Think outside the Box 2007-01-22 10:28:15 Â
Last night I was driving a couple of “upwardly mobile” junior executives to the bar. They were talking shop and one of them said something about thinking “outside the box”. I immediately broke into a cold sweat and had a very brief panic attack.
Let me explain…
About 18 years ago, I had a job with the [...]
Deartour 2007-01-22 10:26:06 Â
With one of Barrow main roads Holker St being blocked for repairs we cab drivers are having to think on our feet(mmm not true in reality it’s on our butts ) to avoid long delays. But because this is one of the main thoroughfares it does lead to us having to take longer routes to [...]
300 taxi drivers join chase 2007-01-22 10:25:03 Â
(China Daily)
About 300 taxi drivers cooperated on Tuesday to try to catch a motorcycle-riding thief who had robbed a woman on a street in Baoding, Hebei.
Seeing the thief escaping, a taxi driver radioed his colleagues. To his surprise, the drivers joined them soon after the robber hid out in a building on a college campus.
More [...] Read more:chase
Would-be robbers shoot Lauderdale taxi driver 2007-01-22 22:40:12 Â
BY ERIKA BERAS
eberas@MiamiHerald.com
Fort Lauderdale
police are searching for two would-be robbers
who shot a cab driver Thursday night.
The unidentified taxi driver was taken to Broward General Medical Center with minor injuries.
The cab driver picked up two passengers. At some point, the passengers tried to rob him. A gun went off.
The injured driver drove his cab [...]
S'wak taxi operators work in fear of safety 2007-01-22 22:39:07 Â
KUCHING (Bernama) - Fearing for their safety at night and during the wee hours, taxi operators in Sarawak have appealed to the traffic police to relax the rule on seat belts.
Taxi Owners Associated of Sarawak (TOAS) chairman Yeo Eng Chai said after the January 7 incident in Kuching many taxi operators have voiced concern on [...]
Determining child's age a trying task for cabby 2007-01-22 22:38:08 Â
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I REFER to the letter, ‘Can five go in a cab?’ (ST, Jan 2), and the reply by Ms Naleeza Ebrahim, deputy director (media relations) of the Land Transport Authority (’Three ‘adults’ plus two young child
ren allowed in taxi’; ST, Jan15).
I have a few questions.
What if the size of the children is misleading? Some children [...]
TAXI GPS TECH ON TARGET 2007-01-22 22:33:37 Â
By JEREMY OLSHAN
I SPY . . . A GPS
device being developed for cabs would show a rider ads from businesses located in the car’s vicinity.January 22, 2007 — New technology will soon allow businesses to target taxi passengers as they ride.
Four companies are working on systems that will also let riders pay by credit [...]
Update: Cab Driver Shooting 2007-01-22 22:30:14 Â
Knoxville (WVLT) - A man injured in an early morning shooting remains in critical condition.
KPD says a cab driven by 55-year-old John F. Cooper was called to the 1700 block of Mississippi Avenue just after 3:00 a.m. Monday.
Cooper says he became involved in an argument with two women.
Cooper was shot in the lower back, drove [...] Read more:Update
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Taxi Driver Accounts 2007-01-23 22:54:20 Â
taxi driver accounts is not a complex area and the cost of preparing a set of taxi driver accounts should not be a financial burden. In many cases a Taxi Driver
will have nothing more complicated than a weekly taxi office bill which may also include leasing the taxi from the taxi company, daily receipts [...] Read more:Accounts
Taxi Accounting 2007-01-23 22:27:32 Â
A total bookkeeping solution that goes much further than simply recording your financial transactions, DIY Accounting Cabsmart provides mini cab, private hire and taxi drivers with a small business accounting software package that automatically updates your financial accounts and is equally applicable to owner van drivers and couriers. Producing an accounting analysis of expenditure and [...]
Taxi Meter Tampering Cases on Rise in Valley 2007-01-23 21:40:56 Â
Smriti Poudyal
Lack of awareness among consumers about their rights and regular checking by traffic police have led to an increase in the number of taxi meter tampering cases in the Valley
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A local of Gairidhara, Shaileshwori Sharma, said: “I usually travel from my friend’s house at Kalikasthan to Ghairidhara in a taxi and I am usually [...] Read more:Meter
Oklahoma cops seek two inmates in abduction 2007-01-23 21:39:31 Â
OKLAHOMA CITY — Two escaped inmates
, including a convicted killer, were suspected of abducting a woman and stealing cars in a crime spree in Oklahoma
, authorities said Tuesday.
The woman had been freed, but the inmates were still missing after they escaped Monday from the medium-security Great Plains Correctional Center in Hinton by cutting through a [...] Read more:abduction
Taxis go hi-tech to boost safety 2007-01-23 21:37:23 Â
Fears about the safety of his cabbies has prompted the boss of an Oxford taxi firm to do all he can to keep his drivers and passengers safe.
Mark Green, director of 001 Cars in St Aldates, is installing “super software” in his taxis following an alleged assault on a taxi driver last weekend.
Staff at the [...]
Airport taxi group pay hike rescinded 2007-01-24 13:53:19 Â
By Deborah Lohse
The San Jose City Council voted Tuesday to rescind a pay increase to the non-profit that oversees taxi and shuttle services at Mineta San Jose International Airport while the group works out its operational problems.
Under its two-year contract, signed in 2005, Taxi San Jose had been entitled to an automatic annual increase of [...]
Illegal taxi: owner fined 2007-01-24 13:52:27 Â
A TAXI operator who traded without a proper licence has been landed with a £2,000 legal bill.
Mark Shortland was prosecuted by North East Derbyshire District Council for illegally operating a business.
Shortland, aged 40, of Hull Road, Eastrington, was fined £1,000 for operating a private hire vehicle without an operating licence, permitting the vehicle to be [...]
Image of taxi attacker released 2007-01-24 13:51:41 Â
By Andrew Ffrench
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Detectives in Oxford have released an E-fit of the driver of a taxi who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman passenger.
The 25-year-old woman contacted police on Saturday, January 13 and told them she had been picked up the night before by a black cab, close to the James Street Tavern, off Cowley [...] Read more:Image
New London taxi looks old-school, but with low-emission diesel inside 2007-01-24 13:48:39 Â
Launched three weeks ago by LTI Vehicles, the next generation of purpose-built London taxis, the TX4, is now available on Edinburgh streets. The TX4 looks like previous generation London taxis, but under the hood and inside
the cab there have been some changes. Most interesting for us is the lower-emission
s, Euro IV compliant VM turbodiesel
[...]
Update boosts London taxi sales 2007-01-24 13:47:25 Â
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The introduction of LTI Vehicles' new TX4 low emission London taxi in October boosted sales 68.4% year on year in November.
362 new taxis were delivered to UK customers last month.
Coventry-based LTI has sold 2,387 "London style taxis' in the UK so far this year, an increase of 3% over the same period last year.
Matthew Cheyne, [...] Read more:Update
School bus and taxi costs go over budget 2007-01-24 17:51:59 Â
By Katya Mira
A council-run service which transports children to school is thousands of pounds over budget
because of increased motoring costs and demands of pupils with special educational needs.
The service which pays for children in Brighton and Hove to get to school is predicted have spent £330,000 more than it should have for the 2006-07 [...] Read more:School
Jury out in taxi murder trial of five teens 2007-01-24 17:50:26 Â
JURORS are set to debate their verdicts on five teenagers accused of a brutal murder
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Judge Dame Heather Steel was due to finish her summing up today before sending out the jury to consider the case against the youths accused of murdering Birkby taxi driver Mohammad Parvaiz at Field Head in Golcar.
The father-of-three was battered to [...]
RTA provides the airport taxi fleet with 30 new cars 2007-01-24 17:47:45 Â
The Public Transport Agency in the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) provides the Dubai Airport Section’s fleet in Dubai Taxi with 30 new Volvo cars. To serve passengers coming through Dubai International Airport, to be added to 258 cars currently operating at the airport
, including two vehicles for people with special needs and driven by [...]
Jump-start cabbie gets ticket for being helpful 2007-01-24 17:46:12 Â
A HELPFUL taxi driver went to jump-start the car of a seriously ill woman who needed to collect her medicine - and received a parking ticket for his troubles.
Joe Cartwright, of Blundell Street, Holloway, went to help Linda Dingley, who is in her 60s. She needed to collect drugs which had been left at relatives [...] Read more:helpful
Taxi driver who sold drugs has licence to drive cabs returned 2007-01-24 17:44:50 Â
A TAXI drive
r has been given his licence back after the council revoked it because he had been selling drugs.
James Dunn, 28, of Alexander Close, Workington, appeared before West Allerdale Magistrates yesterday to state his case against Allerdale Council, who revoked his hackney carriage licence last November after receiving a letter from Cumbria police informing [...]
All's fare in love and lyrics 2007-01-26 15:24:13 Â
BY NIGHT he's the bloke who ferries you into town for a night out with your mates.
But by day Chorlton cabbie Liaquat Ali becomes a wistful man of letters, lost in a world of reverie and reminiscences.
Liaquat, known to hundreds of his fans as Aehad i Ghazal - his pen name - has just published [...] Read more:lyrics
Cavalcade for cabby 2007-01-26 14:41:30 Â
By Lewis Cowen
THERE was scarcely a cab to be had in Devizes yesterday morning as a cavalcade of taxis accompanied the hearse of driver Graham Amor.
An appalling start to 2007 for his family culminated in the sudden death of the 60-year-old Potterne taxi driver, who had never had a day’s illness in his life.
Mr Amor [...]
OC's now defunct White's Taxi wins in federal appeals court 2007-01-26 14:36:49 Â The town of Ocean City has been ordered to pay $250,000 to White
's Taxi, Incorporated. A federal appeals court says the resort acted unconstitutionally when it revoked the taxi company's certification in 2003 over vehicle inspections. White's is out of business now - but was at one time the largest taxi service in Ocean City.
http://www.wgmd.com/newspost/fullnews.php?id=2660
Tentative taxi fines expected 2007-01-26 14:34:20 By Christopher Marcisz, Berkshire Eagle Staff
NORTH ADAMS — A City Council subcommittee is expected to return next month with a proposed list of fines
for taxi companies that don’t follow their licensing obligations.
A Public Safety Committee outlined concerns such as identification numbers that are not updated on the cabs, license amendments not being filed with [...]
Taxi bans guide dog 2007-01-26 14:25:15 Â
DISABILITY campaigners have expressed outrage after a mini cab driver refused to take a blind passenger’s fare - because of his guide dog.
Alan McLoughlin, from Hollin, says he was told he could not get into the private hire vehicle with his dog Dolly - a move which flouts recent disability laws designed to eradicate such [...]
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