First Female

First Female

In the year we celebrate the suffragettes, just who was the first female cabbie. Tony Silver gives his blog on Marie White I started the knowledge with a friend and neighbour Phil in August 1975. After trying various schools we joined the LTDA school, run by Martin...
ASSAULTS: WHAT THE LAW SAYS

ASSAULTS: WHAT THE LAW SAYS

ASSAULTS: WHAT THE LAW SAYS We are seeing a rising number of assaults on cabbies by Moped and Street gangs. We have consulted our legal team and the advice is the following: Should you find yourself in this situation the law says you may use such force as is...
Cabbie family

Cabbie family

A community spirit has always existed in the cab trade as part of our history but have we still got it, or have we lost it? When it looked like my previous job would probably go to the dogs, it was my friend Graham who said: “Sarah you should become a cabbie,...
UCG AGM 4/6/2018

UCG AGM 4/6/2018

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 4TH June 2018   Venue: Rugby Tavern WC1   Committee  present: Trevor Merralls – General Secretary, Angela Clarkson – Deputy General Secretary and chair for AGM, Steve Jones – Treasurer, Sarah Smith – Secretary, Brian Ghairban, Jamie...
All for one

All for one

I was always worried when it was decided regulation of the cab trade would pass from the Met police to TFL.  I had previously been in the Civil Sevice -where I was also a union rep- I had seen various department’s “out-sourced”, I never saw in a...