UGO Infoboards put customers in touch with a wide variety of services at no charge. They are located in busy places and are used for taxi booking, hotel and bed & breakfast accommodation, takeaway restaurants, job agencies, florists, and a host of other businesses who provide the things people need.
UGO Freephones are single button telephones most often seen in supermarkets although they are also found in hospitals, shopping centres and pubs and clubs. They are used to link to a single service and are perfect for booking private hire cars and taxis.
Anybody can call a UGO 0800anywhere number from any phone and be put through to a taxi or private hire company easily and quickly. UGO 0800anywhere freephone signs are ideal for bars, nightclubs and college halls of residence.
Helping people get what they want, when they want it.
UGO works by linking a source of customers such as a supermarket, hospital or entertainment venue with a particular service such as a taxi or private hire firm or a pizza delivery company. The customer makes a freephone call which links them to the company.
19th July 2010
Private hire drivers in Reading are upset that whilst they are banned from using bus lanes taxis coming into Reading from adjacent counties are allowed to use the bus lanes.
15th July 2010
A Nottingham private hire driver has been given 10 months' suspended custody and has been banned from the roads for six months after pretending his wife had been driving the car so he could avoid losing his driving licence.
12th July 2010
A Welsh limo hire company, Vegas Limousines, of Ynysddu, became the first to get a limo licence after Caerphilly County Borough Council changed its policy to allow quirky hire vehicles.
26th June 2010
Transport for London is trialling a new technology that prevents vehicles from exceeding the speed limit.
24th June 2010
A Southampton driver has became the first taxi driver to be have his license revoked after being filmed on his own security camera.
10th April 2010
Fares for London's black cabs rise today by an average of 2.3%. Bob Oddy of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association welcomed what he called "a small but important increase".
10th April 2010
Westminster Council is planning to introduce a pre-pay scheme for taxis on Friday and Saturday nights.
1st April 2010
It is quite wrong that at major sporting events, fashion shows, film premieres, air shows and much more, licensed drivers are challenged for documentation and the requirement to comply with current licensing regulations, whilst an unlicensed, illegal, element remains doing the same job unchallenged alongside the regulated industry.
1st April 2010
The date has been confirmed for this year's LPHCA Golf Day Fund-Raiser which is to be held on Tuesday September 14.
23rd February 2010
The PCO has issued a reminder that there is a specific duty on private hire operators to keep certain records of their operation. These include booking records which must include 'the main destination specified at the time of the booking'.
23rd February 2010
Transport Innovation will be at this year's Private Hire & Taxi Exhibition to be held in the Jaguar Exhibition Hall at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.
1st February 2010
The UGO website is being extended to give you more functions and features. Members of the UGOnetwork will soon receive a letter with their unique passcode and log-in details! If you would like to know about how you will benefit from this please call 020 8532 4990.
19th January 2010
TfL receives many requests from licensed private hire operators wishing to use TfL branding and the Private Hire roundel on printed material and websites. To assist operators a set of guidelines about using such branding has been created.
19th January 2010
The PCO has carried out a comprehensive review of the guidelines for CCTV systems installed in licensed London taxis and private hire vehicles in order to reflect current standards in this area.
19th January 2010
London Mayor Boris Johnson has published his Air Quality Strategy for London that sets out the framework for delivering improvements to London's Air Quality.
19th January 2010
John Mason is the new director of Taxi and Private Hire at the Public Carriage Office. Mr. Mason spoke at the LPHCA's AGM in October 2009 and stated he was looking forward to the challenges ahead. He said "I am here to really commit to providing the best possible service I can".
18th January 2010
Transport for London (TfL) and the Public Carriage Office (PCO) have received a number of enquiries recently over the regulation and control of the M4 Bus Lane. However it is The Highways Agency (an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport) that is the relevant highway authority.
12th September 2008
Steve Wright has joined the board of Transport for London, the body responsible for regulating the way in which the public uses highways and is responsible for traffic signs, traffic control systems, road safety and traffic reduction. It is also the licensing authority for hackney carriages and private hire vehicles.
