In addition to operating the taxi payment service, Cabcharge also owns the big Sydney fleets - Taxis Combined and ABC Taxis. The company has since diversified to take control of the dispatch systems that cover parts of Melbourne's taxi fleet.Cabcharge's CEO and founder (in 1976) is Reg Kermode. Cabcharge is chaired by former New South Wales Labor premier Neville Wran.Supporters of Lime Taxi include Macquarie Bank's head of property and banking Bill Moss, trucking industry billionaire Lindsay Fox and former tourism minister John Brown. Michael Jool from the driver's association said: "This is obviously not about 240 disabled cabs, this is about Macquarie taking on the industry."Lime launched its new fleet of wheelchair accessible taxis with a photo opportunity last week in Sydney, even before the company obtained licence approval from the NSW Department of Transport.The wheelchair accessible taxis are cheap cabs to license, they are in short supply and apparently being delivered for a bargain via Lindsay Fox's connections at Mercedes Benz. Only seven per cent of the current Sydney fleet are wheelchair accessible, leaving the disabled with long waits for essential transport.Although a wheelchair accessible taxi can cost $25,000 more than a normal cab to set up, it attracts only a $1000 government license charge, compared to the average Sydney taxi license of $300,000. "Very clearly Reg Kermode has used his contacts and corporate regulatory stealth tactics to build up the Cabcharge monopoly ... Now its about to change. Macbank are worthy opponents, said Michael Jool from the driver's associationLime says disabled clients will get priority but the taxis will be able to pick up any passengers. Lime wants to have 240 cabs on the road by the end of 2006, almost doubling the total number of wheelchair accessible taxis currently in service. The independent drivers also have their own former NSW ALP heavyweight in former Attorney General and judge Jeff Shaw who has previously represented the drivers, although it is not clear whether he will be representing the drivers in the Competition Tribunal hearing.