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.
In December 2011 an online taxi driver and vehicle licence checker was launched by Transport for London. The principal purpose was to enable users to enter a driver’s name or badge number, or a vehicle registration and confirm whether that driver or vehicle was currently licensed by TfL. Users include Metropolitan and City of London Police, taxi proprietors, anyone operating or setting up a taxi booking service and members of the public.
A taxi driver could not believe his ears when told of his passenger’s journey. John Judd said he was called by a woman who had used his cab before and was asked if he took dogs in my taxi. As she had previously been a good customer, John said yes. She then asked him to give her a price to pick the dog up and bring it to her house in Knightsbridge. When asked for the address her reply “Madrid” staggered John.
A Dundee taxi firm is intending to plant a tree for every job it undertakes for NHS Tayside. The company Dundee 505050 said thousands of trees will be planted during the £240,000 contract over the next two years.
A magistrate has found against a cabbie who tried to take two non-fare-paying passengers to a police station. According to law experts Howards Solicitors, the dispute between Eve Lamb and insurers Equity Red Star has set a precedent for the duty of care required of taxi drivers towards their customers.
Councillors are demanding to know more how the estimated cost of a taxi rank at Leeds-Bradford Airport has increased over ten times to £905,000. Initial estimates for the scheme were about £80,000, with the local taxi trade contributing towards the cost.
A private hire firm has been stripped of a contract to take pupils to school after failing to address safety concerns raised five months beforehand. The private hire firm had its Derbyshire County Council contract terminated with immediate effect after one of its vehicles was found to have a defective tyre.
A campaign by Wandsworth Council comprises posters on toilet doors in pubs, bars and clubs in Battersea, Putney and Tooting whichl contain QR (quick response) codes. These are small square images which can be scanned by the cameras in smart phones. Once scanned, a Transport for London travel page is automatically uploaded which includes details of the taxi and local private hire firms in the area.
Cardiff’s cabbies have been told by a trade leader to demand fares up front following a surge in late-night passengers running off without paying. Hackney carriage drivers say they are losing “hundreds of thousands of pounds a year” from punters doing a runner. Mathab Khan, chairman of Cardiff Hackney Carriage Association, said cabbies had grown frustrated at a lack of response from the police and Cardiff Council over the problem. He has instructed his members to ask to be paid before the start of a journey if they have concerns the passenger might fail to pay.
