About Us
TweetaLondonCab is the service that is hoping to help connect customers to drivers in London. We are a "collective" (or community, even) of Licensed London Taxi Drivers who started out using Twitter as a means of keeping in touch while we work; updating each other on roadworks, work opportunities and general cabbie chit-chat. Over time we started receiving requests from followers to book us, so the obvious next step was to try and harness the power of Twitter to launch a formal London Taxi booking service. Thus, @tweetalondoncab was born.
Initially we were quite a small group of drivers, so we started slowly, testing out how the service could work and seeing where it could take us. Even now, over a year on, because of the relatively small number of drivers registered with TLC, compared to the big Taxi radio circuits, we are a service that is primarily aimed at pre-booked journeys, rather than the “it’s 2am on a Saturday morning, I'm standing on the Strand and can't find a Taxi”, type of journey! However, we always try to help out wherever possible!
Whilst we are driven by competing with rivals in the industry (via Fixed and Capped Price offers etc.), it is important to note that Tweetalondoncab is not competing with "Fred in a shed" minicab office operators. We offer a quality service using a licensed, trained driver and quality purpose-built vehicle. We are happy to offer realistic fixed-price advance bookings to airports, long distances & day hires but if hunting down the very cheapest price regardless of the service offered is your preference, Tweetalondoncab is probably not what you are looking for. Having said that, you are encouraged to ask us for a price for any journey, you may find even if you can get it for a few quid less elsewhere, the benefit of booking with us will far outweigh that price difference.
As a rule of thumb in terms of our competitiveness, on Fixed Price deals for the longer journey, we will ALWAYS beat Addison Lee's prices by at least 10%. Plus, given that companies such as this will invariably have a minimum fare, for the shorter journey you can almost guarantee we will be cheaper as we will revert to meter, wherein the minimum fare is the flag-fall of £2.20. So you can always be sure of a competitive quotation with TLC!!