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Proper service. 24/7 🚖 Serving Blaydon, Ryton, Prudhoe, Rowlands Gill, and surrounding areas — friendly faces, fair fares, and always turning up when you need us.

F**k off Carey, it’s not December yet 🙄
27/10/2026

F**k off Carey, it’s not December yet 🙄

I used to look at every other taxi company as competition.Simple as that.They had customers I wanted.They had drivers I ...
26/10/2026

I used to look at every other taxi company as competition.

Simple as that.

They had customers I wanted.

They had drivers I wanted.

If they were doing well, in my head that probably meant there was less for us.

Now I don’t really see the industry like that anymore.

They’re still competitors, obviously.

We all want passengers to choose us.

But there are times when working together actually makes far more sense.

Because when demand goes mad, passengers don’t really care whose logo is on the car.

They just want someone to turn up.

And Kingsway Cabs is probably a good example of how much my thinking has changed.

Scott, who owns Kingsway, has been a good friend of mine for years. We’ve worked closely on different projects long before we started networking taxi bookings between our companies.

We still run two completely separate businesses and we still compete.

But when one of us is struggling to cover demand and the other has cars available, it makes far more sense to help each other than leave people waiting unnecessarily.

And that relationship is just one part of a much bigger network of taxi companies we now work with.

Sometimes they help us.

Sometimes we help them.

Local is still completely independent.

Nobody has bought us.

Nobody runs us.

We’ve just realised that being competitors doesn’t mean we can’t work together when it benefits everyone.

Younger me probably would have hated the idea 🙈

These days I think differently.

Competition can make you better without having to make everybody else your enemy.

That’s been a useful lesson far beyond taxis as well.

The bigger Local has got, the more I’ve realised people remember the smallest things.Not the app.Not the logo.Not how cl...
23/10/2026

The bigger Local has got, the more I’ve realised people remember the smallest things.

Not the app.

Not the logo.

Not how clever the dispatch system is.

Little things.

A driver waiting until an elderly passenger gets through their front door.

Somebody helping with shopping bags without being asked.

The person answering the phone actually listening instead of rushing somebody off.

A driver noticing the address doesn’t look right and checking before setting off.

Someone saying hello properly when a passenger gets in.

None of those things sound particularly impressive.

And individually they probably aren’t.

But that’s what people remember.

Technology helps us run the company.

Systems help us organise it.

Rules help keep things consistent.

But ultimately people decide whether they like Local based on thousands of tiny interactions with actual human beings.

I probably didn’t appreciate that enough when I started.

I thought building a better taxi company meant building better systems.

Turns out a lot of it is just getting the little human things right, over and over again.

That’s harder to scale than any app 🤯

22/10/2026

There’s no greater betrayal than somebody saying “I’m five minutes away” when they haven’t even left the house 😭😂

21/10/2026

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

We’re delighted to confirm that after an extensive period of consideration, the team at Local Taxis has reached a unanimous decision.

The office kettle has been replaced.

We appreciate this news will come as a surprise to many.

The previous kettle served the company with distinction, and we thank it for its years of dedicated service.

We look forward to this exciting new chapter.

No further statements will be issued at this time.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 👀We’ve been keeping something under wraps for a little while now.After weeks of discussions, careful pl...
21/10/2026

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 👀

We’ve been keeping something under wraps for a little while now.

After weeks of discussions, careful planning and some difficult decisions, we’re finally ready to share the news.

Full announcement at 7pm.

20/10/2026

There’s a special kind of confidence involved in ringing a taxi company and saying…

“Hiya, it’s me.”

No name.

No address.

Just absolute faith that we know who you are 😳

19/10/2026

I genuinely don’t understand people who can have 147 unread WhatsApp messages and just carry on with their day.

I’d have to cancel all my plans until I’d cleared them 😂

Sometimes it’s about more than getting from A to B.It’s getting to that hospital appointment you’ve been worrying about....
19/10/2026

Sometimes it’s about more than getting from A to B.

It’s getting to that hospital appointment you’ve been worrying about.

Popping into town when you don’t drive anymore.

Meeting a friend for a coffee and a catch-up.

Or simply getting out of the house and keeping a bit of independence.

To us, it’s never just another journey on the system.

Because to our passengers, it could be the most important part of their day.

And that’s worth remembering.

Because we’re not just taking people places. We’re helping them carry on doing the things that matter to them.

That’s what being a local taxi company should be about ❤️

17/10/2026

I reckon one of the nicest things you can hear from somebody is…

“I saw this and thought of you.”

Doesn’t even matter what it is.

Just knowing somebody spotted something completely random and you popped into their head.

Little things like that are underrated 🩵

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Local Taxis Group, Unit 14, Blaydon Industrial Park, Chainbridge Road
Blaydon
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