More than 200 taxi drivers in New South Wales were found to have ignored initial punishments for overcharging passengers and were further disciplined for repeat offending, data covering the last 12 months reveals.
The industry is now pleading with the Minns government to crack down on the behaviour by establishing a centralised driver database, with leaders saying dodgy drivers who get sacked from one cab network are easily moving to rival companies whose administrators have no clue about their history of misbehaviour.
