Local Taxis Wickford
Book local taxis across Wickford through Swift dispatch: fares metered locally with fixed quotes on longer runs, and the nearest car allocated considering live traffic.
- Track your driver in real time
- DBS-checked, council-licensed drivers
- Local office staffed around the clock
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- Fares quoted before you book
- Favourite routes saved for one-tap booking
- Track your driver real time
Quick Answers
- How do I book a local taxi?
- The Swift Cars app on iPhone or Android is the fastest and best way to book, and app bookings get priority. It finds your location, quotes the fare, and shows the car coming. The website works the same way, or ring 01277 757575 and our 24/7 office staff will help you.
- How quickly can you pick me up?
- Our advanced dispatch system sends the nearest suitable driver based on live traffic, so ASAP jobs around Billericay usually land within minutes. Pre-booked cars arrive when booked.
The Nearest Car, Every Time
Our advanced dispatch system reads live traffic and allocates your job to whichever driver can reach you quickest, then shows you their name, car and reg on the map in Wickford. Station runs, shopping, closing time: the pattern has worked in Billericay for 25 years and the software just made it faster.
Quick Pickups, Every Time
Our advanced dispatch system allocates the nearest suitable driver using live traffic, which is why an ASAP car in Billericay tends to appear in minutes.
No Mystery Cars
Before pickup you see the driver's name, the vehicle make and model, and the registration, in the app or by text. You get in the right car, every time.
Every Way to Pay
Saved card, Apple Pay or Google Pay in the app, chip & pin in the car, or cash on local trips. A monthly account facility is available for businesses.
What's Included:
- Live-traffic dispatch to the nearest driver
- Driver and reg confirmed before pickup
- Licensed, inspected, rated after every trip
Booked, Allocated, Moving
The routine is the same for a hop across Billericay or a run to the far end of the country. Here is how it goes.
Book Your Taxi
Book in the app, on the website, or by ringing 01277 757575. Just give us your pickup point and destination and we take care of the rest.
Track Your Driver
Our advanced dispatch system allocates the nearest driver, who appears on your map with their name, vehicle and registration. The ETA updates live as they make their way to you.
Enjoy the Ride
Sit back and travel in comfort, then pay however suits you: app, card, cash or account. Afterwards you can rate the trip and tell us how it went.
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Trusted By Passengers Across Essex
Licensed Drivers
DBS Checked
Rated Excellent
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Local Cab in Wickford, at Swift Speed
More than 25 years of cab service around Billericay and Essex, now backed by the Basildon Taxis Ltd group and its shared fleet.
Council-licensed, DBS-checked drivers, metered fares locally with fixed quotes on longer runs, and a dispatch desk that answers at every hour. We cover all SS11, SS12 postcodes.
Licensed Drivers
DBS Checked
Rated Excellent
by local customers
Serving Billericay for Over a Quarter Century
Swift started as an independent private hire operator in Billericay and has carried the town ever since: station commuters, school mornings, Friday nights and everything between. In 2023 the company merged into the Basildon Taxis Ltd group alongside two other long-running local operators, which pooled the fleets without changing the phone number.
What the merger did change is the technology. Bookings now run through the Sherlock dispatch platform: live traffic allocation, a passenger app with real-time tracking, saved favourite routes and cashless payment. Same trusted name, new kit.
Book with Swift and you get:
- The nearest driver, allocated considering live traffic
- Driver, vehicle and reg confirmed before pickup
- Fares metered locally, fixed quotes on longer runs
- Licensed, DBS-checked local drivers
- A dispatch office that never closes
- A rating screen after every trip, and we read them
What Every Job Gets
Nearest Car Wins
Our advanced dispatch system allocates considering live traffic, so the car that takes your job is the one that can reach you fastest.
Know the Car Before It Arrives
Driver name, vehicle and reg on a live map in the app, or by text on phone bookings, so you know exactly which car is yours.
Licensed Drivers
Council licences from Basildon or Castle Point on every driver, DBS checks included in the deal.
Every Way to Pay
Saved card, Apple Pay or Google Pay in the app, chip & pin in the car, or cash on local trips. A monthly account facility is available for businesses.
ASAP or Diary Job
Right-now cars and bookings weeks out run through the same dispatch and get the same punctuality.
Cars Worth Sitting In
Maintained, valeted and council-inspected, with a rating screen after every trip keeping standards honest.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to the questions we hear most.
The Swift Cars app on iPhone or Android is the fastest and best way to book, and app bookings get priority. It finds your location, quotes the fare, and shows the car coming. The website works the same way, or ring 01277 757575 and our 24/7 office staff will help you.
Our advanced dispatch system sends the nearest suitable driver based on live traffic, so ASAP jobs around Billericay usually land within minutes. Pre-booked cars arrive when booked.
Billericay is our home town, with Basildon, Wickford, Stock, Ingatestone, Laindon and the rest of south Essex covered daily. Type your postcode into the booking form and it will confirm on the spot.
For any time on any date, days or weeks ahead. Flights and appointments are exactly what pre-booking is for.
Saved cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay in the app, chip & pin and contactless in the car, cash on local work, and monthly accounts for businesses.
Every driver is licensed and DBS checked through Basildon Borough Council or Castle Point Borough Council, and the vehicles pass the same council inspections.
The app shows the assigned car moving on a live map with the driver's details, registration and an updating ETA. Phone bookings get the same details by text.
Yes. The dispatch office never closes, so the 3am jobs get answered as fast as the 3pm ones.
Anywhere in the country at a fixed quote given before you commit. Book a day ahead for the big ones. Out-of-area work is prepaid by card.
We work out a fixed quote from the route, the distance and the vehicle you need. The price we quote at booking is exactly what you pay.
Lock In Your Taxi Ride
Book local minicab in Wickford in the app or by phone. Dispatch never closes.