Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Rat Catcher on April 29, 2019, 12:34:05 pm
-
Anyone know who the driver is?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChronicOG101/status/1121916160096841729
-
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/suspect-in-case-of-shocking-viral-attack-on-taxi-driver-hands-himself-in-to-garda-38057565.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/suspect-in-case-of-shocking-viral-attack-on-taxi-driver-hands-himself-in-to-garda-38057565.html)
Suspect in case of shocking viral attack on taxi driver hands himself in to gardaí
Mícheál Ó Scannáil
April 28 2019 2:31 PM
A suspect in the case of a shocking 'viral' video has presented themselves to gardaí.
The footage online shows a man racially and physically abusing a taxi driver, and has been shared widely on Twitter over recent days.
It is understood the incident was recorded on Easter Sunday night in Dublin.
Gardaí in Clontarf, Dublin have confirmed that they are investigating an alleged assault of a taxi driver. They said a suspect in the case has presented themselves at a north Dublin Garda station and gardaí are following a definite line of enquiry.
Gardaí said they will provide no further comment as the investigation is ongoing.
In the footage, a man - who is sitting in the front passenger seat - is seen shouting “what’s your favourite position?” in the face of the driver, before referring to him using a racial slur on several occasions.
The man - who appears to be heavily inebriated - then proceeds to attack the driver him referring to him as a “f***ing c***” and punching him on several occasions.
The passenger then removes his seatbelt and accosts the driver, requesting that he gets out of the car while claiming to be “a police officer.”
The video has been shared hundreds of times on social media with the original poster requesting help in identifying the passenger.
It is understood the man is not a member of An Garda Síochána.
Derek Devoy, who founded Taxi Watch, a suicide prevention service run by his taxi drivers, said earlier he has been in contact with who he believes is the passenger today.
Mr Devoy confirmed to Independent.ie earlier that the man was due to go to a garda station on Sunday evening.
“I don’t want anything that will jeopardise his court case. I just want to get him to the Garda station and after that I’m finished," Mr Devoy said. “I spoke to him for an hour this morning. He’s 100pc remorseful but I don’t think that’s going to help him.”
Vincent Kearns, CEO of Xpert Taxis has worked as a taxi driver and was Vice President of the National Taxi Drivers Union. He said that incidents like this are not uncommon for taxi drivers.
“It’s horrific. It’s a difficult one to handle. I spent most of my life as a taxi representative, the head of a union and even now I run a taxi company with over 500 drivers.
“If I get a driver, whether it be a Nigerian driver or an Indian driver, someone who is easily identifiable by race as not being Irish, I ask them if they have ever suffered any type of racial abuse. The majority of them say, ‘nothing too serious, but yes.’
“On Friday and Saturday night when people are tanked on drink or drugs, that type of talk often happens in taxi. Independent drivers working the street are at the highest risk.”
Mr Kearns added the majority of such attacks go unreported.
“If you’re out on a Friday or Saturday night driving your taxi and you call for Garda assistance, the likelihood is that they are pushed with more serious issues so the majority of these attacks are never unreported," he said.
“There are no statistics on how frequently this type of abuse happens, but I can tell you, it’s frequent enough. I’ve certainly heard of many cases of it.”
-
Fair play to the driver for not kicking the shit out of yer man.I've seen him around he's a big enough chap.I wouldn't have taken that myself.The culchie didn't land one dig.
-
Anyone know who the driver is?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChronicOG101/status/1121916160096841729
Immigrant
-
I was thinking that myself, MfH... he coulda flattened the little fella with half a punch.
-
It looks like he was restricted by his own seatbelt.But with that much drink and whatever else taken he had no chance.
-
Independent.ie: Man who claimed to be a guard quizzed over vile racist attack on taxi driver.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/garda-quiz-man-over-taxi-video-of-racist-abuse-38059014.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/garda-quiz-man-over-taxi-video-of-racist-abuse-38059014.html)
500 y'say?
Never miss an opportunity to self promotion on the back of someone else's tragedy.
Sad man.
-
The Irish Times: Taxi drivers should buy dashcams, says uploader of alleged assault video.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/taxi-drivers-should-buy-dashcams-says-uploader-of-alleged-assault-video-1.3875052?localLinksEnabled=false (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/taxi-drivers-should-buy-dashcams-says-uploader-of-alleged-assault-video-1.3875052?localLinksEnabled=false)
-
Something about Vinny's response that seemed a bit Trumpish..if yis get me.
-
The world is a stage.......and this place certainly will be now....
-
I can't find it now but in another article he said that non aligned drivers were more likely to be involved in these incidents.
Here this..
https://www.herald.ie/news/man-who-claimed-to-be-a-guard-quizzed-on-vile-racist-attack-38058564.html (https://www.herald.ie/news/man-who-claimed-to-be-a-guard-quizzed-on-vile-racist-attack-38058564.html)
Come work for us and nobody will call ya a nxxxxxx.....on camera.That's not a quote BTW.
-
Something about Vinny's response that seemed a bit Trumpish..if yis get me.
Probably trying to remain relevant even though the world has moved on.
-
Kearns was just trying to make out that it is safer to be his EMPLOYEE then to be an independent.him and his kind would go to any lengths to get more drivers fukk him
-
Something about Vinny's response that seemed a bit Trumpish..if yis get me.
His hairdo?
-
I can't find it now but in another article he said that non aligned drivers were more likely to be involved in these incidents.
Here this..
https://www.herald.ie/news/man-who-claimed-to-be-a-guard-quizzed-on-vile-racist-attack-38058564.html (https://www.herald.ie/news/man-who-claimed-to-be-a-guard-quizzed-on-vile-racist-attack-38058564.html)
Come work for us and nobody will call ya a nxxxxxx.....on camera.That's not a quote BTW.
Is there is beginning to Vinny Kearns level of education?
If you're out on a Friday or Saturday night driving your taxi and you call for Garda assistance, the likelihood is that they are pushed with more serious issues so the majority of these attacks are never unreported," he said. 8)
-
To be fair, most of the scum hail on the street up above in Dublin hence it is a lot safer to work for a dispatch firm. I work for mytaxi myself.
-
"These attacks are never unreported "
That Kearns quote is up there with
" I eat shit like you for breakfast "
Keep 'em coming Kearns
Do your Wurst!! 8)
-
Dangerous times........the Irish and their need to talk-: it'll be their downfall.......
-
Dangerous times........the Irish and their need to talk-: it'll be their downfall.......
Due to the HUGE increase of Reported attacks on Taxidrivers the Minister has decided tomake CCTV linked to a secure server to preserve data security mandatory .This service will cost drivers LESS than 20 euro a week..
-
Dangerous times........the Irish and their need to talk-: it'll be their downfall.......
Due to the HUGE increase of Reported attacks on Taxidrivers the Minister has decided tomake CCTV linked to a secure server to preserve data security mandatory .This service will cost drivers LESS than 20 euro a week..
They tried that a few years back, it didn't pass.
-
Kearns was just trying to make out that it is safer to be his EMPLOYEE then to be an independent.him and his kind would go to any lengths to get more drivers fukk him
It is Safer to have a Two way Radio in your cab, well a tad safer as you are in constant contact with the base and if an incident arise's then you can report it to the base immediately. How much assistance the base can offer is another story.
-
Dangerous times........the Irish and their need to talk-: it'll be their downfall.......
Due to the HUGE increase of Reported attacks on Taxidrivers the Minister has decided tomake CCTV linked to a secure server to preserve data security mandatory .This service will cost drivers LESS than 20 euro a week..
Fellow with a Leinster jersey telling me how his new c-pap mask keeps him alive at night.,,,,his wife decided he had sleep apnoea and that it would benefit both him and her in their bid for a night's sleep..........I was so sore from laughing he started getting thick and all uppity..."not about you man...it's all about her...." Couldn't see it as like most men he was as thick as two short planks.
-
Kearns and the other radio EMPLOYERS are just trying to make a case for compulsory alignment,I hope the powers that be dont buy ita,or even if they do,that drivers join mytaxi instead
-
I posted this tale a few days ago, but in order to keep the story some way short I left out a few bits.
Excerpt from Taxi Diaries 2;
Trouble Again !
I got a base job one night to collect a fare from Ballinure in Mahon
at about 3.30am, I got directions on my phone from a drunk elderly
lady into her estate and she tells me; "Its not for me but for my son".
Eventually the son comes out, a dirty looking fella about my own
height and weight, but a few years younger than me.
In he sits and stares at me with Two huge googly eyes, it looked like
a good mix of cannabis, pills & alcohol, "Douglas" he says. No problems,
I drive on, my customer slurs a few incoherent sentences,
I just 'Nod and Smile', he directs me into the Topaz in Douglas village,
he exits warning me 'Not to leave and I won't be in any bother'
he buys cigarettes with his Laser card but is refused cash back,
so I tell him; "We can put the card through with the base or there is
an ATM around the corner".
He points at the corner and we drive over to the ATM, he gets out and
obviously can't work the machine due to his drunken condition.
I'm thinking 'Cut n Run' but its a base job and I flippin can't 'Cut n Run'.
He hails me out to help him, I go up to aid him but he refuses to tell
me his pin number, I leave him and sit back in the car and start it up,
he hails me back out a second time with the exact same result.
15 minutes later with him drunkenly pressing all the ATM buttons,
I'd had enough and started to drive off leaving him at the ATM,
but he followed straight away and sat back in the car. I told him that
we would put the card through with the base, he half-agreed, nodding
the 'Noddy-smile'. Then we started a 20 minute tour of Douglas, all over
Greenhill's, Rosebank, Front & back Douglas roads, all with me demanding
to get his address and him refusing to tell me, him getting more abusive
and aggressive and pointing where to be taken, eventually he slurred
"Douglas Baths", so I headed for the swimming pool with absolutely
no intention of letting him near the swimming pool lane to do a Runner.
I got onto the main Douglas road and high-tailed it for town.
Langer Dan was now pulling at the base radio mic and I was trying to
drive and keep him away from it, when we got up to the crossroads by
Zicos pizza, I told him; "Tell me your address now or its a Garda matter".
I knew this would blow his mind, but I was sick-shit of him, he immediately
became much more aggressive telling me to do an immediate 360 or he
was going to 'Whack me'. I said "Fine, we head back to Douglas this way",
and I booted off for town, we got as far as Copley street and he leant
across me and dragged the keys out of the ignition, somehow I managed
to stop the car without crashing it considering my power braking and
power steering were gone, as soon as I stopped I grabbed him by the arm,
because he was attempting to flee out of his passenger door.
I called into the base looking for emergency assistance, the base operator
called the Gardai for me immediately, but he still had my car keys.
I managed to talk him into giving me back the key's under the promise
that I would recontinue my tour of Douglas, he had bent the ignition key
pulling it out, but I managed to straighten it and get the car going again.
I drove straight across Angelsea street the wrong way and hailed a
passing squad car, parking headlong into Anglesea Street Garda station
and blocking a line of traffic, I gave the Gardai a brief description of what
had just happened and the Guard asked me to park the car up properly.
I sat back in to the cab and Langer Dan threw a sneaky 'Sucker' punch at
me, which caught me in the lower jaw, I jumped out of the car straight
away, but the Guards had parked away down near the crossroads and
they were both still in their squad car.
So whilst I'm stood outside my cab with no one at all coming to my aid,
I up with my cowboy boot and left yer-man have it, in tru the door twice,
one in the side and one in the chest, I pulled back for a third good kick
aiming the point of my boot at his ribs, but alas the heel of my boot caught
on the drivers seat and took away most of the brunt of the kick, maybe just
aswell because if I kicked him full bore with the toe of my boot it might well
have driven his Spleen out through his Nose !
(But he will still have some nice bruises to show the next morning).
When the guards came along I was nursing my injured jaw, I told the guards,
he had hit me in the jaw with his fist and Langer Dan was trying to explain
that I had assaulted him, by showing the guards a black eye that was
obviously a week or more old, the Gardai laughed that off, actually the guards
were very jovial over the whole thing, because yer man was just so stupid and
stoned outta his head, a guard searched his pockets and came up with 8Euro
which he gave to me, he took all our details and said to me that he would try
and get me the the other 25Euro for the fare during the week. A Paddy wagon
was called and Langer Dan was cuffed and taken away to the Bridewell.
As my Boss the 'Dark Lord' once said to me;
"Ken, take everything that's going Except a Dig !"
So I'm only following Base orders !!
What I left out was that after I had belled in to the base with the exact phrase of; "Car 16, IN NEED OF EMERGENCY GARDA ASSISTANCE ON COPLEY STREET", the base op did Fook all, he called no one at all.
After the incident had been sorted I rang the base to assure them that I was OK only to be asked/told; "Were you OK there earlier ? I wasn't sure what you meant by that" !!
I met a Taxi base colleague later that night who had heard my call on his back-to-back Two way radio whilst ranked less than a KM away on Washington street, he enquired; "What happened there earlier, I heard it on the back-to-back, were you OK ?".
-
We should all have two-way radios in our cars so that our colleagues can listen to us take a beating from miles away.What an age we live in..
-
Kearns and the other radio EMPLOYERS are just trying to make a case for compulsory alignment,I hope the powers that be dont buy ita,or even if they do,that drivers join mytaxi instead
Vinny has a point and yes granted his point would make it more profitable fer him, but it's still non compulsory to join a base.
The question that I would like to ask any dispatch owner is what training the base op's have in order to deal with an emergency, as in the true case of the tale I just told my Emergency call was dealt with disgracefully by the base op and disgustingly by my Taxi colleague.
-
We should all have two-way radios in our cars so that our colleagues can listen to us take a beating from miles away.What an age we live in..
Totally agreed, I was disgusted by both parties, neither of whom made any effort to come to my aid, it's not like I was crying 'Wolf' or anything, in my 9 years with that base that was the only time ever that I asked fer help and the Two Gobshites that heard it 'Sat on their hands' !
-
Training ?? Half of these scumbags were done by the NTA for not even having an indate licence to operate. Training indeed !
-
Belker I didn't read your essay but what did you expect?You and all the other Shambassadors are putting stickers on yer motor to get preferential treatment over your colleagues on the Mytaxi app.I'd have to be in a very good mood to offer help to any if yis.Except maybe SB he has a bad hip and drives a Prius.
If your bringing in cigarettes to yer base controller chances are the other lads didn't like ya.That's just the way it goes.
-
Its like the work that goes out the back door Ken,you were not a priority for the scum who ignored your plea for help
-
Ok I read it now but my point still stands.If you're getting preferential treatment over the other drivers who pay the same money they do not like you.That's just human nature.
-
It was nothing to do with preferential treatment or Ambassador (as the story is about 6 years old) what I'm saying is that the Two imbeciles who heard my emergency call were either too stupid or too lazy to act on what I said.
So basically as I found out the Hard way, just because you have a Two way radio doesen't mean that anyone is coming to help you if your in a trickey situation.
-
You posted up here or Roy's place that you used to drop cigarettes into the base or drop the staff home for some reason and recently said you'd be getting airport jobs all night for some other favour.I'd hate to be working with lads like you I met loadsa couriers like that over the years and they're bad for business.If other drivers feel they're not getting a fair portion of the work they disengage and in some cases leave the base.I hardly think I'm telling you something you didn't already know.
-
Ken is right ,though the assholes should have responded by calling the cops,but it also confirms my ongoing point that work goes out the back door,and the owners of these companies know it,and dont give a fukk .and this is what drivers are prepared to continue to pay a ton plus a week for
-
More than one way to skin a cat. The lickarses can't cover everything......sometimes the man on the outs is in when the knaves go missing. No need to go all crawler.
-
Lads lets get one thing straight her , we are all part of the "Me Fein" party anybody who thinks otherwise should not be driving a Jo
-
You posted up here or Roy's place that you used to drop cigarettes into the base or drop the staff home for some reason and recently said you'd be getting airport jobs all night for some other favour.I'd hate to be working with lads like you I met loadsa couriers like that over the years and they're bad for business.If other drivers feel they're not getting a fair portion of the work they disengage and in some cases leave the base.I hardly think I'm telling you something you didn't already know.
Nope ! I never dropped cigarettes to the base fer free, bringing home staff fer free was commonplace but ya got a job back fer it, I used to drop off Double Chocolate Mc Muffins to a base op once upon a time, she was the girl friend of a good mate of mine so nothing a strange was going on there only that I liked her company, the Airport runs back in the day were frequent but a Double Choc Mc Muffin would see them more frequent !
-
You posted up here or Roy's place that you used to drop cigarettes into the base or drop the staff home for some reason and recently said you'd be getting airport jobs all night for some other favour.I'd hate to be working with lads like you I met loadsa couriers like that over the years and they're bad for business.If other drivers feel they're not getting a fair portion of the work they disengage and in some cases leave the base.I hardly think I'm telling you something you didn't already know.
Nope ! I never dropped cigarettes to the base fer free, bringing home staff fer free was commonplace but ya got a job back fer it, I used to drop off Double Chocolate Mc Muffins to a base op once upon a time, she was the girl friend of a good mate of mine so nothing a strange was going on there only that I liked her company, the Airport runs back in the day were frequent but a Double Choc Mc Muffin would see them more frequent !
Was your Mate aware you liked her company ? ::fds
-
Ken is right ,though the assholes should have responded by calling the cops,but it also confirms my ongoing point that work goes out the back door,and the owners of these companies know it,and dont give a fukk .and this is what drivers are prepared to continue to pay a ton plus a week for
Work going out the back door was the primary reason I left my base after 9 loyal years.
My base, call it Base A, merged/took over/whatever with Base B and kept on a lot of the Base B base op's and base B drivers.
All was not good in the camp with rumours of the nua base B op's looking after base B drivers.
I took it all with a 'Pinch of Salt' as Taxi drivers are generally a Grumbly lot.
Then I got a street pick-up one afternoon heading out to Fota hotel (12km outside Cork), a hotel that we at the time had the contract with so I bell in to the base telling them of my destination and requesting that if anything came in fer Fota to ring me.
I drop off my customer with no phone call from the base only to see another cab from my base racing up the driveway to collect a Fare from the hotel. It was a cab from my own company, but it was a Base B driver and the job was given out by a Base B op. Needless to say I followed it through to the extreme, the base B base op got fired but still it kinda soured me toward any base, after 9 loyal years of service that I had to go through all that.
-
Ken is right ,though the assholes should have responded by calling the cops,but it also confirms my ongoing point that work goes out the back door,and the owners of these companies know it,and dont give a fukk .and this is what drivers are prepared to continue to pay a ton plus a week for
Work going out the back door was the primary reason I left my base after 9 loyal years.
My base, call it Base A, merged/took over/whatever with Base B and kept on a lot of the Base B base op's and base B drivers.
All was not good in the camp with rumours of the nua base B op's looking after base B drivers.
I took it all with a 'Pinch of Salt' as Taxi drivers are generally a Grumbly lot.
Then I got a street pick-up one afternoon heading out to Fota hotel (12km outside Cork), a hotel that we at the time had the contract with so I bell in to the base telling them of my destination and requesting that if anything came in fer Fota to ring me.
I drop off my customer with no phone call from the base only to see another cab from my base racing up the driveway to collect a Fare from the hotel. It was a cab from my own company, but it was a Base B driver and the job was given out by a Base B op. Needless to say I followed it through to the extreme, the base B base op got fired but still it kinda soured me toward any base, after 9 loyal years of service that I had to go through all that.
Gud men are hard to come by, fair play to you Ken for sticking up to your morals, I've never been with a base in 15 years and am glad I didn't have to put up with that sort of shite. I'm now with MYT and is it any different with them and their favouritism towards Hambassadors ?
-
I was reluctant to stick this up but fuk it...on Saturday afternoon I'm driving passed the Burlo and a job comes in at the Fitzwilliam tennis club(200 meters away)so I take it and have it on the screen waiting for the lights to go green.Still have it when I get up to the next right then I look again and its dissapeared.No beep , no cancellation or record of it in my job history.I see a bloke waiting looking into his phone so I pull up and talk to him.On his phone there's another driver coming so I explain to him that I had that job and it vanished.He says driver 50*** is on the way.So 2 mins later we're talking and a van with ambassador stickers turns up like I expected.
This has happened me before where I get there before the Ambassador car with minutes to spare.How the fuk are these guys better than the traditional radio companies if they're feeding a few drivers and giving the scraps to the rest of us.Bunch of absolute cunts.Does this ever happpen to yis?
-
I was reluctant to stick this up but fuk it...on Saturday afternoon I'm driving passed the Burlo and a job comes in at the Fitzwilliam tennis club(200 meters away)so I take it and have it on the screen waiting for the lights to go green.Still have it when I get up to the next right then I look again and its dissapeared.No beep , no cancellation or record of it in my job history.I see a bloke waiting looking into his phone so I pull up and talk to him.On his phone there's another driver coming so I explain to him that I had that job and it vanished.He says driver 50*** is on the way.So 2 mins later we're talking and a van with ambassador stickers turns up like I expected.
This has happened me before where I get there before the Ambassador car with minutes to spare.How the fuk are these guys better than the traditional radio companies if they're feeding a few drivers and giving the scraps to the rest of us.Bunch of absolute cunts.Does this ever happpen to yis?
Not yet, but there are some very Fckn quick drivers out there with their accept fingr.
This has come up in the past with the hambassrds getting the cream.
As I've or others have said before, better solution is give them a lower rate and lets all play on the same field please.
-
Swings and roundabouts.....if they don't feel like giving me certain jobs during the week...fine.....the weekend comes around very quickly and when they do need me the streets are generally hoppin...fuk dem
If that's their business model,there's nothing you can do about it.
-
Lad rang me today to find out why I haven't used it for a while. I just said I hadn't bothered with it - without clarifying that I hadn't bothered working without it either. After a short exchange I think we agreed that there's loads of work on it but it's too expensive with the best drivers paying €300+/week freight.
-
We should all have two-way radios in our cars so that our colleagues can listen to us take a beating from miles away.What an age we live in..
And cameras so we can post photos of our injuries on facebook and instagram ::)
-
Technology is amazing.I've got a WhatsApp video off some little gurrier robbing someone's car.Then his video of himself joyriding the car.Then a screenshot of the threats made by the owner. Then the hospital pics of the young gurrier after the hiding.What a age to be alive.
-
Kearns was just trying to make out that it is safer to be his EMPLOYEE then to be an independent.him and his kind would go to any lengths to get more drivers fukk him
It is Safer to have a Two way Radio in your cab, well a tad safer as you are in constant contact with the base and if an incident arise's then you can report it to the base immediately. How much assistance the base can offer is another story.
In the early 90's we had 2 way radios. One click of the Mike and a codeword( ours was as benign as" Dudley "So Dudley at the Blacker etc was broadcast to 300 drivers. Gardai were never needed.
-
.......... I'm now with MYT and is it any different with them and their favouritism towards Hambassadors ?
So why not go Ambassador and join the ranks STC's ?
I was totally opposed to it just a year ago but me mate Korky talked me in to it, the 2 or 3 second advantage on instant hails is what is most important to me, + 8 cent off per liter and half price car washes saves a few Euro per week. The stickers on the cab ya won't even notice after a day or Two.
As Korky said to me a year ago; "It's a No-Brainer Ken" and a year down the line I would have to agree with him.
-
I was reluctant to stick this up but fuk it...on Saturday afternoon I'm driving passed the Burlo and a job comes in at the Fitzwilliam tennis club(200 meters away)so I take it and have it on the screen waiting for the lights to go green.Still have it when I get up to the next right then I look again and its dissapeared.No beep , no cancellation or record of it in my job history.I see a bloke waiting looking into his phone so I pull up and talk to him.On his phone there's another driver coming so I explain to him that I had that job and it vanished.He says driver 50*** is on the way.So 2 mins later we're talking and a van with ambassador stickers turns up like I expected.
This has happened me before where I get there before the Ambassador car with minutes to spare.How the fuk are these guys better than the traditional radio companies if they're feeding a few drivers and giving the scraps to the rest of us.Bunch of absolute cunts.Does this ever happpen to yis?
So go Ambassador ! DOH !!
-
I don't want to give away 2k worth of advertising for free.I'm not operating a charity.Don't forget every ambassador is obliged to accept pay with Mytaxi jobs whether you get the job off the street or even a rank.Where I work I'm harassed by folks wanting to pay by card already on the ranks.Until its made compulsory I try to avoid it.
-
I don't want to give away 2k worth of advertising for free.I'm not operating a charity.Don't forget every ambassador is obliged to accept pay with Mytaxi jobs whether you get the job off the street or even a rank.Where I work I'm harassed by folks wanting to pay by card already on the ranks.Until its made compulsory I try to avoid it.
MFH are you saying the Ambasdrs have to have the facility to accept Card Payments ?
-
Yes it was on one of the emails that were sent out a couple of years ago but I don't know if they're following up on any complaints.I'm guessing they want to be able to say all our cars have card facilities.
-
Yes it was on one of the emails that were sent out a couple of years ago but I don't know if they're following up on any complaints.I'm guessing they want to be able to say all our cars have card facilities.
OK for the moment I'll stay as a normal MYT scum driver , still need a bit of cash for the pub
-
I don't want to give away 2k worth of advertising for free.I'm not operating a charity.Don't forget every ambassador is obliged to accept pay with Mytaxi jobs whether you get the job off the street or even a rank.Where I work I'm harassed by folks wanting to pay by card already on the ranks.Until its made compulsory I try to avoid it.
If you are already getting 2K per annum fer advertising on your cab then best plan is to defo stick with that. H'mmm !!
As fer accepting Pay with MyTaxi payments off the streets, I think I have done 3 in about the 3 years that it has been available and all commission free and Bank Fee Free. Where is the problem ?
-
Yes it was on one of the emails that were sent out a couple of years ago but I don't know if they're following up on any complaints.I'm guessing they want to be able to say all our cars have card facilities.
OK for the moment I'll stay as a normal MYT scum driver , still need a bit of cash for the pub
When you sign up as an Ambassador, they give you a FREE Sum-up card reader with Zero % fees till Dec 2019.
They even set it up in their office fer you and explain it all, then give you a Ton fuel voucher as a Thank You fer joining.
-
@ STC's, chances are that MFH is himself an Ambassador, but he doesen't want the likes of you joining in and diluting his Gravy patch !
-
@ STC's, chances are that MFH is himself an Ambassador, but he doesen't want the likes of you joining in and diluting his Gravy patch !
Good bit of detective work there Ken, all taken on board but me poor 07 Avensis might be allergic to them stickers, probably wait till I have to change and with the extra cost involved may call in the Ambassador Status to assist.
-
I thought they would not take an 08 last year but they did, definately hour on hour the best year I ever put down driving a Taxi.
-
@ STC's, chances are that MFH is himself an Ambassador, but he doesen't want the likes of you joining in and diluting his Gravy patch !
I can confirm his shiteheap is not stickered up....and he also pisses sitting down....at night with the light off!!
-
@ STC's, chances are that MFH is himself an Ambassador, but he doesen't want the likes of you joining in and diluting his Gravy patch !
I can confirm his shiteheap is not stickered up....and he also pisses sitting down....at night with the light off!!
Eunuch ?
-
That's not my name Ken.
-
Them fukking radio companies introduced sard paying facilities to the public,and it was ALSO them who introduced discounts to the public (at no cost to themselves) and STILL ypu continue to support them .sometimes I have to wonder about taxi drivers
-
Dalyer, stick your last million on Bohs to topple Rovers come the summer and stop worrying....
-
Ah good auld lippy,I just knew you'd take the sting out of it for me
-
;) So, it's true then?...you're down to your last million?
-
Well not quite,but in getting there
-
To be fair DM, even mytaxi allows us charge full fare these days but we do have to pay a lot more freight than the Irish firms ever charged and we have to pay to pick up their clients at Dublin Airport and pay commission on the money we pay to pick up their clients at Dublin Airport.
-
Well then aren't ye worst fools to be with ANY dispatcher ?
-
Maybe... but I guess half a loaf is better than no bread.
-
Back on topic:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-want-justice-says-taxi-man-racially-abused-in-his-own-car-38063772.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-want-justice-says-taxi-man-racially-abused-in-his-own-car-38063772.html)
'I want justice' - says taxi man racially abused in his own car
Laura Lynott and Micheal O Scannail
April 30 2019 1:09 PM
A taxi driver assaulted and racially abused by a passenger has called for justice to be served and admitted he now fears for his safety.
Samuel Johnson (47) managed to capture footage on his dashcam of the assault inflicted on him by a male passenger on Easter Sunday night in Dublin.
The footage was shared online hundreds of times and led to the passenger, a man who appeared intoxicated, handing himself in to gardai as Twitter users attempted to identify him.
The Herald understands that the suspect made a statement to gardai but has yet to be formally arrested over the incident.
Mr Johnson, from Nigeria, who's been living in Ireland for 19 years and is an Irish citizen, is concerned justice will not be done, and said it must be enacted to help combat such incidents in future.
The married father said: "I want justice, equality to prevail. That is what I want.
"It's not about being sorry or not sorry. I want equality to prevail."
Mr Johnson said he'd never experienced racism in Ireland previously and referred to the Irish as "nice, welcoming people".
But he felt there were racists everywhere and it was the justice system itself that had to ensure this behaviour was stamped out.
Mr Johnson told the Herald: "We have these types of people all over the world, we have them everywhere, we cannot eliminate them in the system.
"There's nothing we can do but we need justice so we can minimise [the problem] or so it [racism] will be reduced so these people will change and become better people.
"I was really in shock as this has never happened to me before.
"I still remember. I still feel the pain that something like that can happen."
Mr Johnson said he cannot afford to give up his work driving a taxi but is more afraid since the incident.
"Sometimes I'm afraid to work. I'm still working but I'm not really productive," he said.
"I'm driving because I have to pay bills, but I'm being more careful about who I let into the taxi."
Ireland does not have any legislation to prevent hate crimes despite having one of the highest rates of hate crimes in the EU against people of an African background.
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties (ICCL) issued a report on this last year entitled The Lifecycle Of A Hate Crime: Country Report For Ireland.
The ICCL said it would not comment on an ongoing case but said there were "significant gaps in Irish law, policy and criminal justice practice around how we respond to the problem of hate crime".
The ICCL strongly feels Ireland needs to introduce legislation on hate crime to protect people.
The footage of the male passenger repeatedly racially abusing the taxi driver and then lashing out and physically striking Mr Johnson caused shockwaves across social media with calls from users for justice.
Mr Johnson said he now believed it should be compulsory for all taxi drivers to have dashcams on board, as an insurance policy against antisocial passengers.
"I want to believe things will change, that with dashcams for taxis everyone will behave themselves - both the taxi driver and passenger.
"The dashcam proved what happened to me, it showed everything.
"I'm only out to work but supposing a passenger has a knife or that I'm attacked and as a result I'm dead - this is not what we'd be talking about today.
"My wife and kids are supporting me.
"The injury is not physical but I feel pain emotionally, inside.
"I just want to get on with my life and be more careful.
"If I suspect any bad behaviour from a passenger I'll refuse to drive and that's it."
Gardai would not comment on any further updates on the incident.
They reissued a statement provided to media 24 hours earlier, stating: "Gardai in Clontarf are investigating the alleged assault of a taxi driver that occurred at approximately 10pm on the Malahide Road, Donnycarney, on April 21, 2019.
"A suspect in the case has presented themselves at a north Dublin garda station and gardai are following a definite line of inquiry," the statement went on to add.
-
Ken is right ,though the assholes should have responded by calling the cops,but it also confirms my ongoing point that work goes out the back door,and the owners of these companies know it,and dont give a fukk .and this is what drivers are prepared to continue to pay a ton plus a week for
Work going out the back door was the primary reason I left my base after 9 loyal years.
My base, call it Base A, merged/took over/whatever with Base B and kept on a lot of the Base B base op's and base B drivers.
All was not good in the camp with rumours of the nua base B op's looking after base B drivers.
I took it all with a 'Pinch of Salt' as Taxi drivers are generally a Grumbly lot.
Then I got a street pick-up one afternoon heading out to Fota hotel (12km outside Cork), a hotel that we at the time had the contract with so I bell in to the base telling them of my destination and requesting that if anything came in fer Fota to ring me.
I drop off my customer with no phone call from the base only to see another cab from my base racing up the driveway to collect a Fare from the hotel. It was a cab from my own company, but it was a Base B driver and the job was given out by a Base B op. Needless to say I followed it through to the extreme, the base B base op got fired but still it kinda soured me toward any base, after 9 loyal years of service that I had to go through all that.
The base operator was wrong in the way in the way the job was dispatched.
You thought the job should have been yours as you were dropping at the hotel.
The car that was picking up at the hotel could have told the operator he was dropping in the area in case any job came in well before you. Or he could have been picking up his own private job.
The correct procedure should have been to call the job over the radio and first car free will get the job.
You got the hump then cos you weren’t fed.
Should have just reported operator to Val.
You packed up the base because of feeding but when you look at it you wanted to be fed first.
-
Ken is right ,though the assholes should have responded by calling the cops,but it also confirms my ongoing point that work goes out the back door,and the owners of these companies know it,and dont give a fukk .and this is what drivers are prepared to continue to pay a ton plus a week for
Work going out the back door was the primary reason I left my base after 9 loyal years.
My base, call it Base A, merged/took over/whatever with Base B and kept on a lot of the Base B base op's and base B drivers.
All was not good in the camp with rumours of the nua base B op's looking after base B drivers.
I took it all with a 'Pinch of Salt' as Taxi drivers are generally a Grumbly lot.
Then I got a street pick-up one afternoon heading out to Fota hotel (12km outside Cork), a hotel that we at the time had the contract with so I bell in to the base telling them of my destination and requesting that if anything came in fer Fota to ring me.
I drop off my customer with no phone call from the base only to see another cab from my base racing up the driveway to collect a Fare from the hotel. It was a cab from my own company, but it was a Base B driver and the job was given out by a Base B op. Needless to say I followed it through to the extreme, the base B base op got fired but still it kinda soured me toward any base, after 9 loyal years of service that I had to go through all that.
The base operator was wrong in the way in the way the job was dispatched.
You thought the job should have been yours as you were dropping at the hotel.
The car that was picking up at the hotel could have told the operator he was dropping in the area in case any job came in well before you. Or he could have been picking up his own private job.
The correct procedure should have been to call the job over the radio and first car free will get the job.
You got the hump then cos you weren’t fed.
Should have just reported operator to Val.
You packed up the base because of feeding but when you look at it you wanted to be fed first.
Or maybe the Base Contrlr took a dislike to Ken
-
Like the saying in the novel Animal Farm
“We are all equal but some are more equal than others”
-
Like the saying in the novel Animal Farm
“We are all equal but some are more equal than others”
4 Legs good 2 legs bad
or in this case Ken may not have brought in enuf donuts
-
Like the saying in the novel Animal Farm
“We are all equal but some are more equal than others”
4 Legs good 2 legs bad
or in this case Ken may not have brought in enuf donuts
Chocolate muffins was it !!
Should have bought the Johnny blue