Category: Taxi & FHV

On June 11, the German Taxi and Private Hire Association (BZP) will be kicking off a country-wide campaign to ‘preserve the taxi industry.’ This campaign follows a series of large demonstrations in main German cities over the past weeks. These campaigns were aimed at the country’s politicians and at the general public. With vigils in […]

The Transportation Alliance (formerly known as the Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association – TLPA) took its fight for proper regulation in the taxi and for hire vehicle industry to Capitol Hill. On June 5 it wrapped up its annual legislative fly-in with transportation executives from around the country holding more than 50 policy briefings with […]

The largest internet company in Russia is under fire from the Russian security service FSB. It insists that Yandex hand over the encryption keys of its internet services, including e-mail, a taxi app (the popular Yandex Taxi service) and cloud management. Yandex is the Russian counterpart of Google and, just like that company, is everywhere. […]

Taxi app ‘taxi.eu’ wants to massively strengthen its network and make taxi radio circuits cooperate better. That is why, in the near future, the brand will come under the umbrella of a newly established company provisionally called ‘Taxi Europe AG’ which will also be open to outside investors. The existing partners – mostly taxi radio […]

Uber is being examined by US and foreign tax authorities, the company confirmed on Tuesday, saying it could face charges in key markets including the UK, The Guardian, Forbes and Bloomberg report. The news, contained in a regulatory filing and first reported by Bloomberg, is a new blow to the company. Uber has lost about […]

Investigative reporter Brian M. Rosenthal and his team from the New York Times have spent over 10 months, interviewed 450 people, built a database of every medallion sale since 1995 and reviewed thousands of individual loans and other documents, including internal bank records and confidential profit-sharing agreements. The investigation found example after example of drivers […]

After the medallion market collapsed, Mayor Bill de Blasio opted not to fund a bailout, and earlier this year, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, shut down the committee overseeing the taxi industry, saying it had completed most of its work. Over 10 months, The Times interviewed 450 people, built a database of every medallion […]

The investigations come after The New York Times found that thousands of drivers were crushed under debt they could not repay. The New York attorney general’s office said Monday it had opened an inquiry into more than a decade of lending practices that left thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in crushing debt, while Mayor Bill […]

Kapten, the French ride-hailing app backed by Daimler and BMW, has launched in London, coupled with a feisty ad campaign taking a swipe at Uber’s tax arrangements. It follows Kapten (formerly called ‘Chauffeur Privé’)   obtaining a license from TfL, London’s transport regulator, to operate its private-hire vehicle (PHV) service in the U.K. capital city. The […]