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Leading chauffeur company and Professional Driver QSi Gold Award winner iChauffeur is training all its chauffeurs to follow correct safety procedures in terms of hygiene in order to minimise the risk of its drivers and customers catching the Covid-19 virus.

Veezu has strengthened its positon as the UK’s largest private hire operator with the acquisition of Shrewsbury-based Go Carz, ranked number 6 in the ProDriver 100.

CityFleet Networks has acquired one of Merseyside’s largest taxi operators, Argyle Satellite Taxis, in a seven-figure deal. The move is a strategic move for growth in north-west England, one of the largest private hire vehicle markets outside London.

The London ride-hailing app market is getting more crowded with the launch today of Ola, another rival to market leader Uber, and rivals Bolt and Kapten.

Former chief executive Liam Griffin is to be reappointed to run the company after banks agreed a bailout deal for the struggling company.

Addison Lee’s banks are planning to take control of the company in a bid to avoid the threat of administration. The move is in reaction to a lack of progress in selling the business, which is facing a debt replayment of more than £250m…

Ambitious private hire group Veezu claims it has overtaken Addison Lee to become the largest private hire operator in the UK, following the acquisition of two more companies in South Wales.

Uber has announced an agreement for Nissan to supply up to 2,000 electric cars to its drivers in London. Under the deal drivers will be able to apply to use the vehicles, which are manufactured at Nissan’s Sunderland factory.

More than 75,000 individual private hire vehicles have paid the capital’s Congestion Charge in the first eight months since TfL withdrew exemption from the charge to the trade.

A six-month trial of wireless charging technology for electric taxis in Nottingham has been announced by the Department for Transport.