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Take Me Group has made two further additions to its portfolio with the acquisitions of A1 Embassy and Wednesfield Radio Cars. A1 Embassy will become part of Take Me’s north-west England operations. A1 Embassy has more than 40 years’ operating experience with cars in…
Veezu has made a major acquisition by adding Sheffield’s biggest private hire operator City Taxis to its portfolio. The deal is the third major deal in the past few months for Veezu, having added Panther Taxis of Cambridge and ABC Taxis of Norwich last…
Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s new Clean Air Zone went live on January 30, but local taxi and private hire operators are angry at the way private cars are given priority treatment over licensed vehicles. Under the scheme, non-compliant taxis or PHVs – vehicles that don’t meet Euro…
Standardised taxi licensing across North Yorkshire is likely to be adopted later this year following a consultation in the region. Seven borough and district councils are being brought together into a single North Yorkshire Council region on April 1, and a key proposal is…
Cab Guru, the taxi fleet management service co-owned by a number of leading private hire operators, has acquired dispatch systems provider Cordic Technology for an undisclosed sum. The move brings the two companies together under a new umbrella company called CabFusion, which the new…
Conservative members of the Greater London Assembly are demanding an inquiry into Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to extend the Ultra Low emissions Zone into the outer London boroughs. They claim up to 5,000 responses, to the consultation into the scheme mainly opposing the plan,…
Gridserve has opened another EV charging ‘Super Hub’ close to the A303 in Wiltshire. The charging station is at Solstice Park, close to Stonehenge in Wiltshire. It shares the site with Greggs and Taco Bell drive-throughs, so there’s a choice of food and drink…
New restrictions on the type of vehicles used by taxi and private hire operators in East Lothian will make 30% of vehicles illegal. East Lothian Council’s licensing sub-committee today has approved new vehicle licensing rules, including precise specifications of the number of seats and…
Bolt is looking to recruit a head of electrification in a bid to speed up the switch to electric cars. The new global role will focus on growing the share of EVs in the Bolt fleet across 45 countries in Europe and Africa. Bolt…
Twenty-four taxi companies in Rochdale have formed a single co-operative organisation called Tiger 2000. The 24 firms include Tiger Cars, 2000 Cars, Castle Taxis, Strand Taxis, United Millennium, Central Newline, Town Taxis, Cozy Cars and Heywood Cars. The move is designed to maximise working…