Mini cab claims of "35% cheaper than taxis" are false

Radio Taxis Group Chairman and CEO maintains, there is solid evidence that claims by leading Mini Cab companies to be "at least 35% cheaper on average than taxis" are completely false and designed to mislead the public.

Riesel said evidence has been exposed that firms involved in these spurious claims were typically found to be quoting "low rates per mile charges" but were "systematically overstating mileages and extras." 

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Riesel went on to say that most Mini Cab companies, even the biggest of them offer inferior service and can't compete with the licensed taxi industry's professionalism. The company owners regularly bemoan the fact that their mini cab drivers "are clueless."

Mini Cab  companies by and large use drivers who don't know where they are going, time and again can't find destinations and these "amateurish drivers" frequently struggle to find the pick up address because, basically, they are lost in London.

Riesel concluded by saying

"The majority of these companies feel that the only way they can sell their services is to give the impression that they offer a much cheaper service, when by and large they do not.  It is a sharp practice endemic in the Mini Cab business"