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Uber's £340m black cab case thrown out by the High Court, new Uber car rules from today, and what's really happening with robotaxis. Will robotaxis take your work? 👇 #taxidriver #uberdriver #blackcab #londontaxi #taxipalnews

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Weekend round-up: Toyota will build Waymo's robotaxis for the UK 🚕🤖 Robotaxis: Toyota will build Waymo's next robotaxi, an electric bZ4X, for Japan and the UK. Testing starts in Japan next year, with no UK date yet. Waymo is already testing in London, alongside Uber with Wayve, and Baidu with…

Fuel duty: tomorrow's Budget is expected to freeze it ⛽ The BBC understands the government will freeze fuel duty again and keep the 5p cut. If so, the planned rises (+3p a litre in January, +2p in March) won't happen. The Living Wage is also expected to rise from £12.71 to £13.20 an hour (The…

Big-mileage drivers: your tax-free rate is going up 🚕💷 The Treasury says the 55p a mile rate for your first 10,000 business miles is now permanent, and the rate above 10,000 miles rises from 25p to 35p. Self-employed drivers are included: the Treasury says it's up to £300 less tax a year at 15,000…

Waiting in car parks all day? New rules on private parking fines are coming 🅿️ A new Private Parking Code for England, Scotland and Wales has gone before Parliament: 5 minutes before you're treated as parked (not for pre-booked parking), a 10-minute grace period before you can be charged (not in…

Uber drivers in London and Manchester: Uber says it will match your tips this Sunday morning 💷 On trips starting between 00:01 and 08:00 on Sunday 25 Oct (the extra clock-change hour included), Uber matches 100% of tips: up to £10 a trip and £50 per driver, while the budget lasts. Riders get up to…

London drivers: your next car may have to be fully electric. ⚡ TfL wants every private hire car licensed in London for the first time to be fully electric from 3 July 2028. That means no new plug-in hybrids (wheelchair-accessible PHVs get until 1 July 2030). Cars already licensed carry on up to…

Freenow drivers: miss this and the job offers stop. ⚠️ Freenow is moving all driver payments to Stripe. You need to re-enter your bank details (and maybe do a quick ID check). It takes about 2 minutes and you're set offline while you do it, so pull over first. Skip it, and Freenow says it can't…

Fuel has pushed the cost of living up to its highest rate in almost a year ⛽ Official figures out today: prices rose 3.5% in the year to September, and fuel was the biggest reason. Diesel averaged £1.92 a litre in September, the highest since July 2022. Fuel duty is due to rise in January, unless…

13,000+ black cab drivers sued Uber for £340m. The judge never decided who was right, because one deadline sank the whole case. Here's how, straight from the judgment ⚖️ Should the drivers appeal? 👇 #blackcab #londontaxi #taxidriver #uber #taxipalnews

The government wants drivers in England licensed where they do most of their work. Its reply to MPs today says it will look at ways to discourage out-of-area working in a new draft law. In-car CCTV, English language skills and safeguarding training are going to a consultation by the end of the…

Your week on the road 🚕 Oxford Street shuts to taxis and PHVs from Mon 26th, the A40, M25, M42, M6 and M1 closures, J Cole at The O2, the weekend's football, and the clocks going back. What's your busiest night this week? 👇 #taxidriver #uberdriver #privatehire #ukroads #taxipalnews

He knows what he'll spend, but not what he makes. Do you know your real take-home after cost? 👇 #taxidriver #uberdriver #privatehire #ukdriver #driverlife #pay

Two Uber stories: the GMB says Share is coming off UberX this month (Uber hasn't confirmed a date), and London drivers locked out for 3 days were offered £80, about £3.30 an hour. Were you hit by the outage? 👇 #uber #uberdriver #privatehire #taxidriver #gmb

Fuel, insurance, the car: what's gone up the most for you this year? 👇 #taxidriver #blackcab #costofliving #ukdriver #privatehire #driverlife #inflation

Diesel hit a record 200.01p a litre (RAC). That's about £110 to fill a 55-litre tank, and around 20p a mile. Tip: Google Maps now shows live fuel prices. What's a fill-up costing you? 👇 #diesel #fuelprices #taxidriver #uberdriver #privatehire #ukdriver #taxinews#new

Bolt drivers: from 30 November, Bolt Standard drivers who accept the new terms become "workers": National Living Wage, holiday pay and a workplace pension. Bolt Flex only? Nothing changes. Will you accept the new terms? 👇 #bolt #boltdriver #privatehire #taxidriver #ukdriver #taxinews #new

200 miles a day… and half of them earn you nothing. How many dead miles did you do this week? 👇 #taxidriver #uberdriver #privatehire #hussle #ukdriver #driverlife

30 years on the job, and this is what he'd tell a young lad today. Would you recommend driving? 👇 #taxidriver #blackcab #privatehire #ukdriver #uberdriver #driverlife

Your shift is more than the driving. 🚕 Meet TaxiPal: shift logging, Driver Chat and Vehicle Health in one place. Launching across the UK on 29 October. Join the launch list at taxi-pal.co.uk. What is the first thing you do when your shift ends? #TaxiPal #TaxiDriver #PrivateHire #DriverLife #taxi