| However, some cabbies are up in arms over plans for them to wear clip-on ties instead, which they say still represent a danger. |
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| It's a place where all the cabbies are loquacious, every stranger is a character, and people frequently break out into song on the street. |
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| But a drive to cut waiting times could open the floodgates for more cabbies to take to the streets. |
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| Normally, cabbies asked to take clients on long journeys ask for the money up-front. |
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| And there's all these Victorian horse-drawn cabs outside and all the cabbies are trying to avoid eye-contact. |
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| Private hire cabbies have united with hackney drivers as they prepare for battle over bus lanes. |
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| New rules to be introduced will force cabbies to take lessons in everything from manners to regional geography. |
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| Black cabbies pay the airport a fee to operate there, while Checker was required to bid for a contract. |
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| An original plan to make sure all taxis were painted black-and-yellow was dumped after cabbies baulked at the cost. |
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| Angry cabbies took to the streets of York to demonstrate against moves by rail company GNER to smarten them up. |
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| Eighteen cabbies have been banned from picking up fares after their vehicles were found to be too dangerous to drive. |
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| Angry cabbies serving York rail station are flocking to sign a petition against plans to make them wear clip-on ties. |
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| In an effort to boost pride in York, it was agreed cabbies should wear smart suits, tailored trousers and black dress shoes in winter. |
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| Some of the more thirsty fellows who knew the cabbies in Moose Jaw, pooled their money and brought a lot of beer on board the train. |
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| Black-cab drivers should beware after a serial fare-dodger escaped a prison sentence last week, despite the brazen cons he pulled on trusting cabbies. |
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| As a result, many cabbies stay home on days like today, and those who work will pass the markup to riders like me. |
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| This book eventually influenced the abolition of the cruel bearing rein, kicked off the animal-rights movement, and forced more humane treatment of London's human cabbies. |
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| And, as a cyclist who treats cabbies as an out-group, I know exactly how it feels. |
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| If he can get London cabbies to recognise Cityside it would be no less of a miracle. |
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| Neither of these is easy on gas, but cabbies are generally not allowed to drive Toyota Echos and Daimler Smart Cars by law. |
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| A long conversation ensues, usually by speakerphone, since few cabbies bother with headsets. |
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| London may as well also require that cabbies master the art of saddling a horse and mending a harness. |
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| Chatty, engaging and knowledgeable, cabbies in Hong Kong are also avid listeners of discussion programs on local radio. |
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| Dr Maguire and her team have now turned their attention to how cabbies learn the Knowledge. The prodigious geographical knowledge of the average cabbie is, indeed, savant-like. |
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| Most of the cabbies have had that Viv Richards in the back and Richie Richardson, who comes from Five Islands, and Curtley Ambrose, who's from Swetes on the west coast. |
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| I cannot really say if they are grumpy, but I can say most cabbies are road hogs. |
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| It was a film that began in anecdotal blitheness, talking to ancient cabbies and apprentice ones about the trade, and the merciless discipline needed to acquiring the Knowledge. |
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| Dramatic first-hand accounts of the results of handgun rounds fired into criminals by cops, storeowners, cabbies and others are the heart and soul of this long-awaited book. |
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| Our report revealed licensing officials had been swamped with complaints about cabbies who cherry-picked fairs or overcharged vulnerable customers. |
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| Cabbies could pay a charge for an electronic sensor to make it fall when they approached. |
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