Few modern industries conduct daily business under terminology inherited from horse-drawn transport. Taxi licensing does exactly that. “Hackney carriage” survives in legislation, council policies and licence documents even though the working vehicle may be an electric car, purpose-built cab or wheelchair-accessible people carrier. The Department for Transport says vehicles licensed under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 or Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869 are described i

Uber will remove its Share product from UberX in October after GMB members raised concerns about how shared journeys worked, according to a the union. GMB said members had been reporting concerns to its national representatives since the product launched in June 2025. The union said their feedback was raised regularly at quarterly meetings with Uber. Issues included the potential for disputes between passengers and cases where passengers refused to travel with people accompan

The Home Office has updated its guidance on preventing illegal working in the UK taxi and private hire sector, setting out how licensing authorities must check whether individual applicants are eligible to hold driver and operator licences. The revised guidance applies to checks carried out from 1 October 2026 and replaces the previous version, published in August 2025. The rules place a legal duty on licensing authorities not to issue, renew or extend a taxi, private hire ve