All too often customers accidentally leave lost property in one of our Taxi cabs after a journey. Although our drivers always check the seats as soon as the customer leaves the cab, sometimes a mobile phone may have fallen out of the passengers pocket and slipped down between the seat and door of the Taxi.

Gloucester City Council requires all Taxi and Private Hire Drivers to hand lost property into the Council Offices at Herbert Warehouse, Gloucester. This forms part of Taxi and Private Hire Drivers terms and conditions for the grant of a licence. However, this is not always practical, as the owner almost always calls the lost mobile phone very soon after noticing they have missed placed it. Most Taxi drivers tend to hold onto lost property for a day also after finding it, in the hope that the owner will make contact with the driver to arrange its safe and prompt return, a Taxi fair will apply to the customer if the driver has to make an extra journey to pass back the lost property, or they will be able to arrange for you to collect it from the Taxi Company Offices at a suitable time.

Mobile Phones are probably the most common left items in our Taxis, if you regularly travel, it may be worth you taking out mobile phone insurance to cover yourself in the event of loss.

If you have lost some property in a Gloucester Taxi, you should contact the Environmental Department at Gloucester City Council, they may be able to help you recover your lost property. You can call them on 01452 396396.

More than 40 officers from Gloucestershire Police have held a massive sting operation in central Gloucester today (Operation Brogue), targeting illegal motorists and known criminals.
Using hi-Tec vehicle number plate recognition cameras (ANPR), in real time, uninsured drivers are spotted, pulled over by the police, their details double checked and arrested all in the space of a couple of minutes. To really spoil the uninsured drivers day, their car is confiscated by the Police and could be crushed!

Gloucester Taxi drivers had a front row seat as Police pulled illegal car drivers into the City Railway Station forecourt to avoid unnecessary congestion on the city centres roads. One of the arrested drivers was a young women with a child in the car, she was stopped due to lack of driving licence and insurance – thats another one of the road!

Word on the street is that people think Gloucestershire Police are doing a cracking job today, getting illegal drivers off the roads in Gloucester. Top marks on a good days work by all officers and support workers involved today!

Gloucester Taxi would to like advice local Taxi Drivers, local Businesses, residents and Visitors alike that forged £20 notes have hit the streets of Gloucester!

The problem was highlighted today by The HSBC Bank in Gloucester when a local Taxi driver banked his takings, only to have a number of £20 notes retained by one of the new automated cash deposit machines at The Gloucester Cross Branch of HSBC. Staff at the bank confirmed the machine was correct and the notes were forgeries!

Be on your guard and double check that all the notes you handle are original, as you will get no refund !
More advice can be found here