Shropshire taxi accelerates to 600 vehicles
Go Carz, a taxi business with offices at Telford, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Willenhall, has added another 210 vehicles to its fleet by merging with Comet Cars from Shrewsbury, so its total fleet size now exceeds 600 vehicles.
Carl Wilday, the Managing director of Go Carz said: ” The merger expands the number of drivers available in Shrewsbury which will improved efficiencies for drivers and enhanced service and improved dispatch times to customers. We are proud to have been the biggest and most reliable taxi firm in Shropshire for some time, but we now have the largest number of available vehicles by some margin.”
The company has invested heavily in its delivery infrastructure over recent years to the tune of £1m, which has produced mobile apps and an automated booking system.
Wilday added: ” We are very much a corporate taxi company, with a corporate set-up, internal systems and structures. Our mobile phone app is very simple to use, and now accounts for 50% of our bookings. We also have an executive vehicle service which caters for business clients with a fleet of high-end cars and very smartly dressed drivers , and a fleet of minibuses which are regularly used for airport trips or group outings. We are proud of our service, which is underpinned by a team of excellent staff and drivers who are highly trained and given enhanced checks when they join the firm.”
Research shows the overall UK private hire business to be worth around £9bn, consisting of over 15,000 businesses and employing 397,000 workers, with no dominant provider, despite the presence of Uber. Some analysts see the market freeing up again, especially once contactless payments in many cabs negates one of Uber’s greatest competitive advantages.
