Taxi Driver Online

This is simply recruitment advertorial, but focuses on the female driver slant.

And I suspect this hasn't so much to do with recruiting women than using that angle to make it newsworthy. 'Drivers urgently required' isn't really that newsworthy for a cab office


Taxi service operating in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury and Buckingham launches female recruitment drive

https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/peo ... ve-3969804

Fewer than three per cent of workers in the industry are female

A taxi company that transports people in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury, and Buckingham has launched a new initiative looking for female drivers.

Royal cabs which has fleets across Buckinghamshire is looking for more female drivers.

In light of startling data which shows that the taxi industry is one of the most male-dominated work forces in the UK.

Latest data indicates that fewer than three per cent of workers are female.

Owner of the company Richard Fairbank said: “After last years recruitment drive and a recent acquisition of a few taxi firms across Buckinghamshire we now have a solid fleet of 650 vehicles. We are expanding daily and would like to invite more females drivers to the industry as we feel there is not enough females within the taxi industry. We have several benefits to join 001 Royal Cabs such as joining bonuses, 24/7 driver support team, Full guidance to obtain a taxi badge.”

Last year the taxi firm set the ambitious goal of attracting 500 new drivers.

Richard added: "A lot of our drivers handed their plates back to the council. They retired and now there is a shortage of drivers."

It is hoped that adults over 18 with full driving licences will take up the initiative.

The company can be contacted on 07775120000 or by emailing info@001royalcabs.com.

Latest estimates suggest the company has over 650 drivers on its roster, it is hoped that number can increase significantly following the new scheme.

I'm amazed it's that high.

When I started all those years ago about 5-10% of drivers working nights were ladies, now I suspect it's less than 1%.

A few work days doing schools, but no more than 2-3%.

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Yes, and when the article refers to the 'startling' data, I think they're surpised that three per cent is so low.

I mean, they're 'startled' that very few drivers in the trade are women - who knew?

There were a few here when I started back in the late 90s, and in fact a few years later and there was actually quite a healthy cohort of women in the trade, and quite young women at that

They gradually disappeared, though, and think there's only one or two left, at least in terms of regular drivers, rather than the occasional ones, or the ones who disappear from the job fairly quickly.

Not sure there's ever been any difference between night and day either in terms of numbers, although our punters are certainly a lot tamer than the average in Dundee, where I would be surprised to find any women at all working nights.

I do recally one case here, though, when one of the female drivers here was assaulted by a punter in a fare ruck, which was taken to court, and ironically the perp was another female. The driver must have only been about 25, though

Of course, CCTV and the like might make the job a bit more attractive to women drivers these days, but if even the men increasingly won't work nights...