To celebrate International Day of People with Disability, Safe Transport Victoria is helping drivers understand the important role they play when it comes to safe, accessible transport. 

For those living with a disability, transport options can be limiting - which is why riding a CPV can be an essential part of their day. 

So you can learn more, Safe Transport Victoria is inviting CPV drivers to join them on Tuesday 6th December at Melbourne Airport for a FREE hot drink and tasty snack, while they discuss how to best transport passengers with a disability. Hurry, it's first come, first served. 

Mobile phones and keys are usually the most common items left behind in a taxi, but try losing a prosthetic leg or a $20,000 Cartier necklace with the price tag still attached.

​Taxi company 13cabs’ 2022 Lost Property report catalogues the more than 5200 personal items left behind by passengers. And it seems NSW passengers are the most forgettable, followed by riders in Victoria and Queensland.

Taxi industry bigwigs will meet in a bid to work out how to crackdown on drivers refusing to turn on their meters and forcing passengers to negotiate a set fare before letting them in their vehicles.

Martin Rogers, the CEO of the NSW Taxi Council, told The Daily Telegraph he would organise an urgent meeting with representatives from across the state’s taxi networks in a bid to restrict the illegal practice, saying that drivers would also be hit with suspensions and fines amid a concerning rise in incidents. 

Weary travellers catching cabs at Brisbane Airport are being overcharged by dodgy taxi drivers who refuse to use or honour their meters.

The illegal behaviour is known across party precincts in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. A safety advocacy group for Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley also raised concerns about drunken revellers sparking violence if they cannot get home.

Frequent flyer Mina Dunstan has lived in Hong Kong for 17 years, but regularly travels to Brisbane and did so on October 15.

Some of Australia’s biggest companies and organisations have joined forces in an ambitious push to have one million electric cars on the road by 2027.

​The companies, which include the Woolworths Group, Microsoft, IKEA, AGL Energy and Linfox, have flagged the goal in response to the federal government’s release of a discussion paper on EVs in September.

​A compensation package for taxi licence holders worth half a billion dollars is in tatters after a backbench revolt forced the government to go back to the drawing board in an attempt to find extra money for drivers whose investments have been junked.
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The Daily Telegraph can reveal that a raft of government MPs blew up in a party room meeting on Tuesday, demanding taxi licence holders get fair compensation for the impact of rideshare companies like Uber on the industry.