Roger Roger

as Sam: The owner of Cresta Cabs. He struggles to keep the company operational despite financial problems. His wife is in a nursing home with early-onset Alzheimer's and later dies. He had a brief affair with his married colleague Reen and still has feelings for her.

Robert Daws

as Dexter: Sam's business partner. He has a young wife Tina and a lavish lifestyle, which he supports by embezzling company funds. He apparently kills himself in series 1, leaving Sam in financial trouble, but reappears in series 3, having faked his death.

Keith Allen

as Reen: The office manager and dispatcher at Cresta Cabs. She is married to an alcoholic but is in love with Sam.

Pippa Guard

as Baz: A postman who drives minicabs part-time. Baz goes on a series of unsuccessful first dates through a dating agency. He has a developmentally disabled stepson, Marlon.

David Ross

as Phil (played by Neil Morrissey in the pilot): A minicab driver and aspiring rock star with a girlfriend Chrissie and two children, Madonna and Cher. In the second series, he is hired as a personal driver by a businessman who turns out to be a criminal. He does not appear in series 3.

Philip Glenister

as Chrissie (played by Lesley Vickerage in the pilot): Phil's girlfriend who wants him to settle down and be realistic about his chances of becoming a rock star. She does not appear in series 3.

Helen Grace

as Tina: Dexter's flighty wife who makes advances on Sam after Dexter's death.

Barbara Durkin

Terence Maynard as Andre: A minicab driver and ladies' man who has several children with different women. He does not appear in series 3.

as Rajiv: A minicab driver and accountant who later becomes Sam's business partner.

Paul Sharma

as Henry: A minicab driver notorious for getting lost.

Jude Akuwudike

as Marlon: Baz's developmentally disabled stepson.

Ricci Harnett

as Cambridge: A minicab driver who went to university. He does not appear in series 3.

Chris Larkin

(series 1) and Jonathan Moore (series 2–3) as Barry: A minicab driver.

John Thomson

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