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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: dalymount on September 24, 2019, 12:33:21 pm
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The NTA are proposing a 4.5% increase in taxi fares, in addition to card paying facilities as mandatory
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Greeks bearing gifts.
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Where are you getting your information?Can it be verified?
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Verified here.
Excerpt from an email sent to me by the NTA;
NTA estimates that the cost of operating a taxi has increased by about 4% since 2017. Our proposal for an increase in maximum fares of 4.5% covers both this increase, and the cost associated with the provision of card payment.
Paying by card for your cab will soon be standard as the National Transport Authority (NTA) announces plans to require card payment facilities in all taxis.
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Thanks Ken I just found it in my inbox.It's gonna be hard to argue against an increase.Twitter is gonna be raging.
The only positive thing I see is 100% cards will loosen Freenow's grip on our testicles.
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I see the house prices increasesin dublin has haulted, inverted yield curve in the states, price of gold has gone up 350 dollars an oz in the past year......
America is fuked....its about to collapse again...........ya better baton up yur hatches ......
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Why do you think that about the CC's MFH ?
The one proposal that I loved (having read the whole PDF) was the 1.90 per KM Chrimbo/NYE rate.
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I took another payment on Revolut yesterday.So far it's the only way to accept payment I can find that's free to use.Maybe we could all adopt it over time.
Ken the reason is I think many folks up here use the app because we don't all accept cards yet.I regularly see passengers e hailing right beside the rank because they wanna pay by card.Even when there are 6 cars on the rank in front of them.
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I took another payment on Revolut yesterday.So far it's the only way to accept payment I can find that's free to use.Maybe we could all adopt it over time.
Explain that to me very Slowly MFH, because I really don't understand.
How do you take revolut payments ?
Do you have a card reader ?
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FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
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Download the app.Take a photo of yer identification(drving licence) and wait to be verified.
When a passenger has it it works kinda like Pay with Mytaxi/free now.Customer opens their own Revolut app and the phones GPS shows a list of other Revolut folks in their immediate vicinity who they can forward payment to.Money goes from one phone to another.Very fast.No fees on it.
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So you dont need a card reader?
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FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
What's wrong DMG ?
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Download the app.Take a photo of yer identification(drving licence) and wait to be verified.
When a passenger has it it works kinda like Pay with Mytaxi/free now.Customer opens their own Revolut app and the phones GPS shows a list of other Revolut folks in their immediate vicinity who they can forward payment to.Money goes from one phone to another.Very fast.No fees on it.
Sounds great, Thanks MFH ! ::cheers
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......Money goes from one phone to another.......
So you dont need a card reader?
DOH !
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^^^I have one but you don't need one for Revolut.The customer needs to be have a Revolut account though.
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The NTA could easily say you need to give a printed credit card receipt also.
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Card payment is the first step in compulsory alignment. I call upon all independent drivers to resist both compulsory 3,and compulsory card payment facilities.if there is enough support for my call,then I propose seeking collective legal advice as to wether the NTA can implinent such measures without consolation
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I'm sure it's possible to print off from the Revolut app with a mini printer from your mobile.Email receipts should be acceptable nowadays though.Waste of paper and all.
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^^^I have one but you don't need one for Revolut.The customer needs to be have a Revolut account though.
I doubt the NTA will accept that as a creditable CC service ??
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Has the NTA factored in the "Credit Card" fees/costs in the new rate increase ?
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Card payment is the first step in compulsory alignment. I call upon all independent drivers to resist both compulsory 3,and compulsory card payment facilities.if there is enough support for my call,then I propose seeking collective legal advice as to wether the NTA can implinent such measures without consolation
What is wrong with compulsory CC payments ? IMO it should have been brought in many years ago.
If you wish to consult with them DM then there is a consultation link on the email they sent you.
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Has the NTA factored in the "Credit Card" fees/costs in the new rate increase ?
Excerpt from NTA email;
NTA estimates that the cost of operating a taxi has increased by about 4% since 2017. Our proposal for an increase in maximum fares of 4.5% covers both this increase, and the cost associated with the provision of card payment.
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So they estimate the commission on credit cards to be half a percent,when they used to allow you charge 5% extra?(ten times as much).
Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)
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Has the NTA factored in the "Credit Card" fees/costs in the new rate increase ?
Excerpt from NTA email;
NTA estimates that the cost of operating a taxi has increased by about 4% since 2017. Our proposal for an increase in maximum fares of 4.5% covers both this increase, and the cost associated with the provision of card payment.
Sorry Ken the Auld mince pies aint what they used to be, have to agree with Van .5% aint going to cover the CC fees
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Ken what's wrong with compulsory card payment, and indeed compulsory alignment is, it is in breech of the understanding I, and most others joined industry on. The right to operate our SELF EMPLOYED business without being detailed in our duties
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.......Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)
I think it is only till December 1st ??
I'll be going with revolut after that !
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.......Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)
I think it is only till December 1st ??
I'll be going with revolut after that !
Earlier post says Customer must have a revolut A/C, Wont be much good if the customer don't have a rev A/C
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Ken what's wrong with compulsory card payment, and indeed compulsory alignment is, it is in breech of the understanding I, and most others joined industry on. The right to operate our SELF EMPLOYED business without being detailed in our duties
Fer me, we are not detailed enough ! We are PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLE licence holders and we owe our customers a Decent service.
Thankfully the NTC and Suitability have managed to put some manners on us. The RSA did a bit but not enough. Now the NTA are taking it a step further thankfully.
@ DM, Do you remember the days only Ten years back with all the totally clapped out disgraceful shiteboxes on the road ?
I'm sure you remember the days before NCT DM, I don't, but I would imagine it was scary stuff back then ?
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Earlier post says Customer must have a revolut A/C, Wont be much good if the customer don't have a rev A/C
Agreed STC's, I will still take both types of payment after 1st Dec, but the (2.75%) Sum-up stickers in my cab will be coming down and the (0%) Revolut stickers will be going up !
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Revolut may not be approved by the NTA as a method of CC payment !
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You can have a card facility but push Revolut to the passengers as a preferred payment.As long as you get paid there's no problem.
Fast forward a couple of years and cash jobs on freenow that get paid by card means you'll be paying 12% commission plus 2.75 to Sumup.So 14.75% commission before Freenow up their fees to 15%.Then it will be 15+2.75 for the cash jobs.Lovely stuff.Uber aren't even riding their drivers that hard.
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You can have a card facility but push Revolut to the passengers as a preferred payment.As long as you get paid there's no problem.
Fast forward a couple of years and cash jobs on freenow that get paid by card means you'll be paying 12% commission plus 2.75 to Sumup.So 14.75% commission before Freenow up their fees to 15%.Then it will be 15+2.75 for the cash jobs.Lovely stuff.Uber aren't even riding their drivers that hard.
I've had passengers do that and i've told them it's a no no....you either have a card registered with them or pay cash...or for those tourists who want to pay by card and who have had a taxi ordered for them using FreeNow.....input a lower fare value to offset the SumUp commission.
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Ken it's a pity they would not tackle all the illegality within the industry without trying to make legal drivers conform to their demands .in view of my belief of what the future holds for us,I will not be part of this industry.i would NEVER allow a third party like a dispatcher detail me in the course of my dutys.and btw I do agree that the public deserve a good service from us,but by the same token taxi drivers have a right not to have to compete with illegal drivers,unvetted drivers,unlicenced drivers,double jobbers etc etc
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Ken it's a pity they would not tackle all the illegality within the industry without trying to make legal drivers conform to their demands .in view of my belief of what the future holds for us,I will not be part of this industry.i would NEVER allow a third party like a dispatcher detail me in the course of my dutys.and btw I do agree that the public deserve a good service from us,but by the same token taxi drivers have a right not to have to compete with illegal drivers,unvetted drivers,unlicenced drivers,double jobbers etc etc
With all that said DM, how can the NTA determine who is legal and who is illegal ?
The NTA as I see it are doing their best to keep the "illegal drivers,unvetted drivers,unlicenced drivers,double jobbers etc etc" out of the industry, and We as full time Legal drivers will have to jump through the same hoops to prove that we are legal drivers.
If'n you want the industry Cleaned up DM then you will have to jump through the Hoops or would you rather go back to the 'Good old days' ?
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Thanks Ken I just found it in my inbox.It's gonna be hard to argue against an increase.Twitter is gonna be raging.
The only positive thing I see is 100% cards will loosen Freenow's grip on our testicles.
You may get drivers who are fans/devotees of FN, when they get a street fare wanting to pay by card, directing them to "Pay with FN" which is commsion free, thereby increasing FN usage an popularity even more.
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FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
What's wrong DMG ?
the meters were only recalibrated and resealed 18 months ago.
if the powers that be want to constantly interfere they should unfuck the plates can't be sold between parties bollocks.
that was implemented 5 years ago.
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What happens if you're in the middle of connemara with no reception and some hayseed wants to pay with credit card.
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Ken I've always supported a fully legal, fully compliant, fully licenced, industry consisting only of full time drivers in fact I have been complaining for a long time now that this is not the case. The mere fact that I, and others have continuesly made such complains for this length of time , bears out the fact that the NTA have failed miserably to address the issues
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you're the biggest bleedin gangster on here dalymount.
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So they estimate the commission on credit cards to be half a percent,when they used to allow you charge 5% extra?(ten times as much).
Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)
You get .5% on all fares, cash, FN, and CC, to compensate for 2.75% on CC fares.
I worry about the possible increase in FN's commission. All these big companies are ever chasing "growth". As it stands their only growth possibilities are NTA fare increases, recruit more drivers, or increase commission. When do they reach "churn" on new drivers, i.e. no further growth possible, and what do they do for growth when maximum commission is imposed?
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Oh Dr Martin , I shocked at your assertion, please qualify your remarks
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Download the app.Take a photo of yer identification(drving licence) and wait to be verified.
When a passenger has it it works kinda like Pay with Mytaxi/free now.Customer opens their own Revolut app and the phones GPS shows a list of other Revolut folks in their immediate vicinity who they can forward payment to.Money goes from one phone to another.Very fast.No fees on it.
Thanks for that. Sounds interesting.
How do Revolut make money then? Do they charge an annual fee or something? Do you pay the Irish credit card tax on it?
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Oh Dr Martin , I shocked at your assertion, please qualify your remarks
lol I'm pulling your wire big guy.
have ye had any more punters giving you fascist salutes recently.
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Said it before...they better take into account the possible abolition of daylight savings when meters need recalibrating.
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Watty Revolut is just another online bank.They make money when you go over a certain amount of cash withdrawals.Over 600 a month I think gets charged at 2% on a standard free account.But if you buy stuff with the Revolut debit card it free to use.
It's not meant as a credit card accepting mechanism.Just an app that makes transfers person to person in real time.Apparently they have 200000 users in Ireland.It's popular with the foreigners as it offers cheapish. currency exchanges.
I'm not sure if it was meant to be used this way by the creators but it works pretty fast so it's as close to getting cash in real time that there is.There's probably a catch but I can't see one yet.
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Thanks. Now the next thing is to get my head around Google and Apple's version of 'pay by phone'
In 10 years time, we'll be posting photos of real paper money on here and saying 'remember the ten euro note' lol
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4%...ish more for...less meter boxollogy an no more of the thieving of the 50 wads mistakes for the tenners....Wats the world coming 2
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Just keep in mind all our
fancy phones/smartwatches are communicating with each other when they're close to each other, even with strangers.This software just allows them to send funds back and forth almost instantly.
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Why do the NTA get our re sealing money and not legal matrolagy ?
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Ere where the fukk is the ratman ??He seen to be missing in action
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Add up all the increases excluding the one the fucking retards in TTNH turned down on your behalf and taxi drivers have probably recieved the largest income increase of any workers .
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Yes and incurred the highest running costs as well
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Yes and incurred the highest running costs as well
Did you .What about labourers who need to renew safe passes ,manual handling just to get on a site then add in safety gear FUCK OFF and stop feeling sorry its a job with no skill requirement most passengers know where they are going and can inform or direct you a courier cant ask a box for help with delivery .
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NAME ANY OTHER WORKERS GUARENTEED A WAGE REVIEW EVERY TWO YEARS .WE HAVE NEVER SEEN A DECREASE IN FARES NOT EVEN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE RECESSION .
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Ken what's wrong with compulsory card payment, and indeed compulsory alignment is, it is in breech of the understanding I, and most others joined industry on. The right to operate our SELF EMPLOYED business without being detailed in our duties
Fer me, we are not detailed enough ! We are PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLE licence holders and we owe our customers a Decent service.
Thankfully the NTC and Suitability have managed to put some manners on us. The RSA did a bit but not enough. Now the NTA are taking it a step further thankfully.
@ DM, Do you remember the days only Ten years back with all the totally clapped out disgraceful shiteboxes on the road ?
I'm sure you remember the days before NCT DM, I don't, but I would imagine it was scary stuff back then ?
And your clapped out heap is how old?
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Thanks Ken I just found it in my inbox.It's gonna be hard to argue against an increase.Twitter is gonna be raging.
The only positive thing I see is 100% cards will loosen Freenow's grip on our testicles.
You may get drivers who are fans/devotees of FN, when they get a street fare wanting to pay by card, directing them to "Pay with FN" which is commsion free, thereby increasing FN usage an popularity even more.
Telling them what they don't want to hear....it'll never happen.
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John most jobs that require safe pass, manual handling, etc are paid for by that particular company, or government dept, and in some cases paid for by the sole the same way as a taxi driver who attends the Muppets in mount street for a course to learn the routes are paid for
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No cash jobs means greater insight into past earnings.............tethered goats is all some people are.
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Apart from a few suckers paying 100k for plates it's never been so expensive to be on the road.In 2021 I'm gonna be paying at least 14000 to stay in the job for another 4/5 years.That's before insurance,maintenance and fuel.
The standard of the vehicles has not really improved IMO.All that happened is the number on the reg got a little bit newer.
If we were smart we'd be pushing for the taxi test pass rate to be increased back to 80% in exchange for accepting mandatory credit card payments.We need better protection from all this Brexit misery.If we were smart..
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Your absolutely right MFH. what always worry's me about taxi drivers is, they only look at the now. They do not want to look at a possible recession that will probably happen in the not to decent future . If/when that happens, the Industry will again be over run will drivers out of work in eir 9 to 5 jobs, this is why we should resist this proposal and any future proposal for compulsory alignment
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Freenow aren't interested in what you think lads. They know the future won't include you at all.
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The last recession ment Fook all to me.
More ways to make income from your taxi than sitting on a rank
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The last recession ment Fook all to me.
More ways to make income from your taxi than sitting on a rank
Jack, would selling illegal booze from the boot appeal to you ?
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You never come on here complaining, JMO..........you just get on with it. We could all learn a thing or two from you.
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The last recession ment Fook all to me.
More ways to make income from your taxi than sitting on a rank
Jack, would selling illegal booze from the boot appeal to you ?
Afraid not
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We need to know about Jacks murky past....or create one for him!! lol
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Talk on the local radio station last week of a taxi driver on a 1400 Euro a week contract school run.
He’s not going to starve when the recession hits.
That’s worth over 52k a year for the next 5 years.
Plenty of that work out there but most of ye won’t do it.
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We need to know about Jacks murky past....or create one for him!! lol
Just a taxi driver Hal.
I lead a rather boring life.
Few scoops a couple of nights in the week,
That’s me lot.
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I get the impression Jack is a grafter works his cab the Oracle FDS once said this is only a part time gig .Passed Heuston earlier 39 cars on the rand pickedout one or two drove backover an hour later and one of those cars was still on the rank .The amount of wheelies has increased at least 5 fold but I have never seen one carrying a wheelchair .Few knowledgable heads on here ,the Citizens Information people are looking for full and part time staff.
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We need to know about Jacks murky past....or create one for him!! lol
And no better place for such creations- from millions of criminals to spies from the NTA,....-.to FreeNow activists and LGBTQ campaigners and Fathers for Justice diehards with ex-millionaire businessmen and hapless fools.......a miasma of misfits all meeting up in one place.
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Even Trolls who imagine they drive taxies .
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There's quite a few of them...you're right.......not the ones who masquerade as Economists though.
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there is definitly one doubt he even has a bicycle never mind a cab .
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More than one John.....more than one. There are fellows who think because they have a bike that they'll end up fit......they need to learn to lose the shuffle before they can walk properly....it's not rocket science but they'd like everyone to help them along nonetheless.
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ANYBODY..Gardaí have seized a quantity of illicit alcohol, following a search of an apartment in Cork.
The seizure is part of an investigation which also involves the Revenue Commissioners, the Food Safety Authority and the Health Service Executive.
No arrests have been made as part of this morning's operation, but gardaí believe the alcohol was being distilled and sold to homeless people in the city.
During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized.
The alcohol will be analysed. It is believed to be of a high strength.
Gardaí suspect that up to 240 litres of alcohol were being distilled per week.
The alcohol was being sold for around €10 per bottle to people who were sleeping rough in the city.
During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized
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We need to know about Jacks murky past....or create one for him!! lol
Just a taxi driver Hal.
I lead a rather boring life.
Few scoops a couple of nights in the week,
That’s me lot.
Nah...not buyin it!!
I wish i could have a couple of scoops a few nights a week....don't think the punters would approve!!
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During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized,
The answer is right there!!
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Where's Belker today?
I had someone in the car from the merchants quay project and they've seen a huge spike in Easters overdosing on hand sanitizer!
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There's quite a few of them...you're right.......not the ones who masquerade as Economists though.
The dismal science. Created to give Astrology a bad name.
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Apparently, there are more of them than there are climatologists though.
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During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized,
The answer is right there!!
No mention of Donut's !!!
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During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized,
The answer is right there!!
No mention of Donut's !!!
But there is of Cash........man.......case closed!!
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During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized,
The answer is right there!!
No mention of Donut's !!!
But there is of Cash........man.......case closed!!
In Cork, Cash is King...or so he'd have you believe! 8)
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During the search, alcohol, bottles, packaging and a quantity of cash were seized,
The answer is right there!!
No mention of Donut's !!!
But there is of Cash........man.......case closed!!
In Cork, Cash is King...or so he'd have you believe! 8)
In Cork, Donuts along with Cash are King
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Talk on the local radio station last week of a taxi driver on a 1400 Euro a week contract school run.
He’s not going to starve when the recession hits.
That’s worth over 52k a year for the next 5 years.
Plenty of that work out there but most of ye won’t do it.
School runs only operate for 186 days, so your 1400 is only approx 36000, not your 52 a year calculated
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1400 a week which is 280 a day.
280 a day by 183 days in the school year is 51,250
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Do you need a big expensive van or can a saloon driver get those rates?I dunno if I could listen to someone elses kids 5 days a week.
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I could. I'd even buy a big expensive van if I thought I could get that kind of a contract. If I did get a contract like that, it would be the deciding factor as to wether I stay in the game or not
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You're only with them for a half hour to an hour there and back. The School Bus companies pay their drivers well for the work so there must be something in it.
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Tax bill would be fairly hefty.Daly there are day drivers pulling that sort of money on the apps.It's possible just hard work.
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Just to add I know a guy who used to do a run and 1400 a week is double what he said he was getting.I think he mentioned 600 plus a week.He said new drivers weren't getting the same rates as guys doing it from years ago.He has to stop as he was too old.
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Posted this years ago .Why do you think they want Rural Hacks why do you think they keep pushing for locals to work local .These contracts will go to local licenced drivers but not at the present rates .The big savings to be made in HSE if there are more LICENCED drivers .What sort of LICENCE ?Ross once said he would not allow un LICENCED DRIVERS operate nothing about licenced cars .Ruralschool and hospital transport is costing a fortune .Think about it when was the last time you saw anybody in a wheelchair in a taxi .The reason they want WATs is to fulfill hospital transfers and daily transport of Wheelchasir bound passengers ,At the moment they send an ambulance to transport people to day centers if they could replace a few of them with taxies or local hacks the savings could be huge .The reason given for rural hacks was to get people home from the pub safe but a huge % of rural pubs have closed as young people dont drink they smoke weed snort powder and go to gaff parties .
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One don’t a taxi to get a school contract
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all these contracts will be offered to LICENCED drivers but what sort of licence and how do you get one .A local area hack might get local school or hospital runs at a reduced rate .Ideal work for farmers who would not be busy during school term .The more competition the less they will have to pay .I remember talking to a fella in the IWA he said that they get a lot of minibusses Donated by Friends and Businesses ,this allows them to pick up their own patients .Im sure its cheaper to run a DONATED bus than use private contractors .School runs in the country are usually local area but getting somebody from down there to up here for tests costs .Dont be surprised to see the taxi thingey offering mandatory courses for WAT drivers on how to deal with wheelchair bound and other passengers with special needs .Its a race to the bottom
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To get a school contract you don’t need a taxi license or a hackney license.
You don’t even need a SPSV licence.
All school runs are sent out to drivers that have expressed an interest.
Up to that person to tender a price he’s happy with.
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Garda vetting too....very strict on that......ever charged never mind convicted.........not entertained?
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Oh ya
Have to get Garda Clearance
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Garda Clearance - may present a problem to some folk !
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A handful alright.
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Ken got cleared...go figure!!
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And he done porridge
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Donut's work wonder's
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Donut's work wonder's
For the super? lol
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Can only imagine if Krispy Kreme opens up in Cork.
Bunch of turkeys waiting to bring Donuts out to the office.
“Sur I was going out there anyway to get some receipt rolls”
And bring the ol doll with ya to take a picture.
Muppets
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I always thought Jack Me Off and Belker were one and the same person....very similar writing style...apologies to both, or either, if offended...none intended.
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Are there two levels of Garda vetting?One for driving the drooling drunks around and another for drving drooling kids?
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Maybe they are LL....Jack being the self flagellation side...Belker being the straightner in a McDonalds carpark side...and Ken being the author..
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I got the OK from the Gards a few years back for my young fellows soccer team that he played for, so there is hope out there !
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Are you saying there are two different clearance procedures?If you were a convicted kiddy fiddler surely that would exclude you from getting a PSV anyway?
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You just never know but that's my own fault for being such a conspiracy head. As i said, if I'm wrong then hands up and apologies. Maybe I'm seeing Hippos everywhere myself now?
The Garda vetting thing is a breeze if you haven't been involved in shady shit. The waiting time is chronic now though,,,,,,,and you have to do it again every 3 yrs or is it down to 1 now?
Sorry...edited again...even lads doing voluntary GAA stuff have to go through it so delays are ferocious...thank God for Zappone and Tusla, eh?
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Maybe I'm seeing Hippos everywhere myself now?
Are ye near a mirror?
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I find it hard to believe there are two different standards.Some on here have suggested school bus/taxi drivers are somehow cleaner than the rest of us.Seems strange to me.
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Now, now, Hal...don't you start aswell...bad enough having the man who contacted me about this forum in the first place throwing a strop....you're above all that...no mirrors in my gaff, Hal......just icons of The Messiah, Mary and The Sigil of Baphomet.
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I find it hard to believe there are two different standards.Some on here have suggested school bus/taxi drivers are somehow cleaner than the rest of us.Seems strange to me.
Think the drivers of school buses are exempt from PSVs.........the company employing them has plenty of paperwork to fill in about them and many hoops to jump through before they can start working for them.
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So they estimate the commission on credit cards to be half a percent,when they used to allow you charge 5% extra?(ten times as much).
Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)
Except that we’re not getting anything close to 0.5% extra to cover the cost of taking credit cards. We already had 95.5% of the fare, so a €10.00 fare will now increase to €10.45, it’s an extra 45 cent, 0.5% of that 45 cent to cover our credit card facility costs..so we get less than an extra quarter of 1 cent to cover them.
I’m all for modernisation, and have offered credit card facilities myself for years, I just don’t like them pretending we’re being compensated when we are not.
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Oh and I never mentioned that the taxi driver who had the 1400 Euro a week contract was also on disability and living in a corpo crib.
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Krispy Kreme sold 6.6 million doughnuts to Irish customers in the past year.
The shop in Blanchardstown - the company's most successful store internationally - is open one year today.
More than 600,000 customers have been into the outlet to eat their treats.
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The increase is just a distraction IMO.I haven't heard anyone suggesting a strike or rejection of compulsory card payments.Everyone just accepted and forgot about it.Taxi drivers are shite at maths generally.
That's also forgetting card users rarely tip.And 100% of card payments will be eh..yis know the rest.Taxman etc etc etc..
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The increase is just a distraction IMO.I haven't heard anyone suggesting a strike or rejection of compulsory card payments.Everyone just accepted and forgot about it.Taxi drivers are shite at maths generally.
That's also forgetting card users rarely tip.And 100% of card payments will be eh..yis know the rest.Taxman etc etc etc..
You could always tell them your machine is broke
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The increase is just a distraction IMO.I haven't heard anyone suggesting a strike or rejection of compulsory card payments.Everyone just accepted and forgot about it.Taxi drivers are shite at maths generally.
That's also forgetting card users rarely tip.And 100% of card payments will be eh..yis know the rest.Taxman etc etc etc..
You could always tell them your machine is broke
It would be like telling them your meter is on the blink
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You can pretend but after a while it will get to the point where you'll be an hour on the ranks again during the day shift waiting for a cash job.Plenty of lads passing back work because they don't take cards already.They end up just waiting and waiting sometimes.
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I wonder if a CC machine could be Set-Up in another name ??????
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I wonder if a CC machine could be Set-Up in another name ??????
Ive mine linked to my grandsons account
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I wonder if a CC machine could be Set-Up in another name ??????
Ive mine linked to my grandsons account
Happy Days so
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Tony is a generous guy!!
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Tony is a generous guy!!
And a smart one
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Tony is a generous guy!!
And a smart one
I never said he was going to see any of it
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Tony is a generous guy!!
And a smart one
I never said he was going to see any of it
OK drop the generous , let's just leave it as Smart
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Tony is a generous guy!!
And a smart one
I never said he was going to see any of it
OK drop the generous , let's just leave it as Smart
rofl
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Tony is a generous guy!!
And a smart one
I never said he was going to see any of it
OK drop the generous , let's just leave it as Smart
I'd drop the Smart too !
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The increase is just a distraction IMO.I haven't heard anyone suggesting a strike or rejection of compulsory card payments.Everyone just accepted and forgot about it.Taxi drivers are shite at maths generally.
That's also forgetting card users rarely tip.And 100% of card payments will be eh..yis know the rest.Taxman etc etc etc..
You could always tell them your machine is broke
It would be like telling them your meter is on the blink
Or you could say the CC machine is working but your phone has no credit. You can't afford it because you're waiting on all the money to land in your bank account from the CC payments? I bet it will happen to a few taxi drivers when it comes in!
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1400 a week which is 280 a day.
280 a day by 183 days in the school year is 51,250
I used the calculation that 1400 a week multiplied by 26, approx 182 days which equals 36,400
However, your calculation of 280 a day multiplied by 186 is in fact 52,080
Strange how maths works out like that.
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All school transport runs are priced on a daily basis.
So depending on the type of school you are operating out of.
Secondary school have 163 days in the school year.
Primary school have 183 school days in the year.
Some special needs school have a summer camp in July so that could be an extra 20 days.
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Sounds like a big commitment for a bloke like me, almost like having a real PAYE job without the holiday pay.September is nearly over and I've only just started to do full weeks.Cant imagine getting up early for work 12 months a year.I did it when it was shit but wouldn't be making a habit of it.
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https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/concerns-over-school-buses-amid-failed-safety-tests-38532496.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/concerns-over-school-buses-amid-failed-safety-tests-38532496.html)
Probably why they use so maey taxis
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I'd say it would cost them more to hire bus drivers on €900 plus a week with holiday pay and buy a coaches worth a couple of hundred grand each.With taxi drivers they can tell them to get lost in the summer and not have to find shit for them to do.
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
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Seems to work for drivers and the bus companies.They've got an almost unlimited number of taxi freelancers they can dip into as they please.I'll bet their statistics show taxis operating this service don't ring in sick after a Sunday session as they're afraid to lose the security of a school run.Their bus drivers have the unions to save their skin.
I'd love to know how much it costs to run one of their coaches a day.50/100 on diesel?Expensive equipment usually costs lots to maintain.Taxi drivers who supply a vehicle with insurance could be cheaper overall.
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They are finding it very hard to get taxis to do runs now.
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They are finding it very hard to get taxis to do runs now.
Local Hacks will sort that .join the dots ?With all the kids being diagnosed with some sort of ailment especially since Joan cut the Lone parents for over 7s these kids now are designated special needs so their lone parents can claim carers allowance after the kid is 7 .All you hear now is about kids on the Spectrum I thought a Spectrum was a computer .
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As i used to say to my kids when they were younger...."i've one nerve left....and you're on it!!"
I think most of us fuks on here are on the spectrum....octy,Ken,LL,horse,ermy...are deffo adhd or asperger's......or fukin mad!!
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As i used to say to my kids when they were younger...."i've one nerve left....and you're on it!!"
I think most of us fuks on here are on the spectrum....octy,Ken,LL,horse,ermy...are deffo adhd or asperger's......or fukin mad!!
::cheers....thanks dr Phil lol
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Einstein had adhd.....apparently we brains are all over the place but find a passion an yull have superhuman hyperfocus capabilities hal and also apparently we drive the woman's mad horny in bed......I read somewhere
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The new stroke is get the Child diagnosed and you can claim a carers allowance .Since Joan Burton decided to cut lone parents off when the youngest child is 7 trying for a carers allowance has become a way of maintaining a payment .There has been a huige increase in kids diagnosed on the spectrum since Joan the Moan changed the welfare payment ...Go figure .Children with real issues are being denied care due to scammers .I would bet a few shillings there are more kids on the Spectrum down the flats than in Foxrock .
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As i used to say to my kids when they were younger...."i've one nerve left....and you're on it!!"
I think most of us fuks on here are on the spectrum....octy,Ken,LL,horse,ermy...are deffo adhd or asperger's......or fukin mad!!
A new disorder is invented every day to make money for the billionaire Pharma companies. They have one now for any patient questioning why they've been placed on a particular drug....ODD....Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Nurses laughed initially, but as Bob Monkhouse said, "they're not laughing now". Louth seems to have an alarmingly high rate of Autism (whatever that truly means because we're all supposed to be on the scale). No wonder the cunts are claiming they live in Meath.
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Plenty of artistic types up here alri!!
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Was it not Nigel Farage who said they are not laughing now ?
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Was it not Nigel Farage who said they are not laughing now ?
Both of them said it (not at the same time though)
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Plenty of artistic types up here alri!!
Sellafield/Windscale...too close to the Brit dumping ground a.k.a. Wales. Kids born on the Welsh coast with 5 testicles...and they were female.
http://www.sxolsout.org.uk/15.html (http://www.sxolsout.org.uk/15.html)
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Was it not Nigel Farage who said they are not laughing now ?
Probably did, but Monkhouse was taking the piss out of himself...told his family he was going to be a stand-up comedian...they all laughed, but they're not laughing now.
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They are finding it very hard to get taxis to do runs now.
Local Hacks will sort that .join the dots ?With all the kids being diagnosed with some sort of ailment especially since Joan cut the Lone parents for over 7s these kids now are designated special needs so their lone parents can claim carers allowance after the kid is 7 .All you hear now is about kids on the Spectrum I thought a Spectrum was a computer .
You missing the point John,
You don’t need a Hack or a taxi to do a school run.
You don’t need a SPSV licence either.
They still can’t get people to do them.
All one needs is section 60 car insurance and Garda clearance.
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Id do any work I can get as long as it's night time, I couldn't work days I actually believe I woul end up in the portrane institution if I had to work in that traffic every day
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
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Daly I reckon the Days might do ya good.Yerself and Ermy are the only ones on here giving a feck about Brexit.Both night drivers who have already lost their sanity...Normal people work during the day.Students and immigrants work at night and fellas with ugly wives probably.
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They are finding it very hard to get taxis to do runs now.
Local Hacks will sort that .join the dots ?With all the kids being diagnosed with some sort of ailment especially since Joan cut the Lone parents for over 7s these kids now are designated special needs so their lone parents can claim carers allowance after the kid is 7 .All you hear now is about kids on the Spectrum I thought a Spectrum was a computer .
You missing the point John,
You don’t need a Hack or a taxi to do a school run.
You don’t need a SPSV licence either.
They still can’t get people to do them.
All one needs is section 60 car insurance and Garda clearance.
Your missing the point if they sweeten the pot to allow you cover both it might encourage more to give it a tey .Plenty of Arable farmers would give it a go .
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
It’s insurance specifically for school runs.
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They are finding it very hard to get taxis to do runs now.
Local Hacks will sort that .join the dots ?With all the kids being diagnosed with some sort of ailment especially since Joan cut the Lone parents for over 7s these kids now are designated special needs so their lone parents can claim carers allowance after the kid is 7 .All you hear now is about kids on the Spectrum I thought a Spectrum was a computer .
You missing the point John,
You don’t need a Hack or a taxi to do a school run.
You don’t need a SPSV licence either.
They still can’t get people to do them.
All one needs is section 60 car insurance and Garda clearance.
Your missing the point if they sweeten the pot to allow you cover both it might encourage more to give it a tey .Plenty of Arable farmers would give it a go .
Don’t think the poor ol farmers would be happy declaring an extra 30k net on their tax returns.
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Youse Cork boys have it all sewn up....i tell ye!!
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
It’s insurance specifically for school runs.
Would imagine it would cost a fair bit, considering you be carrying crazied up kids
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
It’s insurance specifically for school runs.
Would imagine it would cost a fair bit, considering you be carrying crazied up kids
Fuck Sake Stone you work the 8.10,12s dosent get much crazier than that
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
It’s insurance specifically for school runs.
Would imagine it would cost a fair bit, considering you be carrying crazied up kids
Fuck Sake Stone you work the 8.10,12s dosent get much crazier than that
Suppose your right there JM
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
It’s insurance specifically for school runs.
Would imagine it would cost a fair bit, considering you be carrying crazied up kids
Fuck Sake Stone you work the 8.10,12s dosent get much crazier than that
Suppose your right there JM
Not crazed up kids but kids with special needs.
Could be non verbal, autistic or just slow learners.
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Jack what is section 60 Car Insc ?
It’s insurance specifically for school runs.
Would imagine it would cost a fair bit, considering you be carrying crazied up kids
Fuck Sake Stone you work the 8.10,12s dosent get much crazier than that
Suppose your right there JM
Not crazed up kids but kids with special needs.
Could be non verbal, autistic or just slow learners.
Apologies , no disrespect meant to kids with special needs, taught it was school going ones
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Maybe it’s the drivers that are crazed up.
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4.5% isn't great and it'll cost us the guts of a deuce to get it.
What's the legal position on making us accept card payments, erm? Are NTA entitled to remove our entitlement to legal tender and, if so, could such a directive be taken as indicative of a new status as employees of NTA? ... and what happens when the internet or phone signal fails?
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4.5% isn't great and it'll cost us the guts of a deuce to get it.
What's the legal position on making us accept card payments, erm? Are NTA entitled to remove our entitlement to legal tender and, if so, could such a directive be taken as indicative of a new status as employees of NTA? ... and what happens when the internet or phone signal fails?
If you're going to a desto known for pisspoor Wi-Fi you could ask for payment up front.
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Wi-Fi is the wrong term, completely wrong. You mean poor mobile internet or a poor mobile phone signal. What happens if you're going to an area with excellent coverage and it fails? Should we just ask for a deposit up front as a matter of course for all card payments, as is our legal entitlement?
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Wi-Fi is the wrong term, completely wrong. You mean poor mobile internet or a poor mobile phone signal. What happens if you're going to an area with excellent coverage and it fails? Should we just ask for a deposit up front as a matter oil course for all card payments, as is our legal entitlement?
Don't panic:
https://youtu.be/nR0lOtdvqyg
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They are finding it very hard to get taxis to do runs now.
Local Hacks will sort that .join the dots ?With all the kids being diagnosed with some sort of ailment especially since Joan cut the Lone parents for over 7s these kids now are designated special needs so their lone parents can claim carers allowance after the kid is 7 .All you hear now is about kids on the Spectrum I thought a Spectrum was a computer .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3OvSJVJtFk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3OvSJVJtFk)
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.
As regards a driver getting €280 a day, let’s just say he will be doing a lot of driving for that money
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.
As regards a driver getting €280 a day, let’s just say he will be doing a lot of driving for that money
I wouldn’t do it to be honest
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.
As regards a driver getting €280 a day, let’s just say he will be doing a lot of driving for that money
I wouldn’t do it to be honest
Don’t think i would either. I’m happy with my 2 hours lost to the school run and I can work between the drop off at school and pick up from school.
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A school run that pays 280 a day I would have no interest.
It’s big mileage.
It sounds great.
But not for me.
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If we need to take card will the taxithingey tell us how we do it as there is nowhere in legislation says a taxi driver must carry a phone or internet accessable device .Will the Minister sign a SI instructing drivers to carry a phone .If you run out of credit must you stop working ?
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4.5% isn't great and it'll cost us the guts of a deuce to get it.
What's the legal position on making us accept card payments, erm? Are NTA entitled to remove our entitlement to legal tender and, if so, could such a directive be taken as indicative of a new status as employees of NTA? ... and what happens when the internet or phone signal fails?
skilled electricians dot 2.2%
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If we need to take card will the taxithingey tell us how we do it as there is nowhere in legislation says a taxi driver must carry a phone or internet accessable device .Will the Minister sign a SI instructing drivers to carry a phone .If you run out of credit must you stop working ?
True John
I can see that point.
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Don't push the NTA too far or they'll force us to install some expensive equipment that always has wifi.They may require it to be calibrated and sealed at our expense too.Maybe best to stay quiet and see what they come up with.A simple Sumup reader may not be enough.
London taxis all accept cards now.So it can be done.
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The world has/is changed, soon there will be no cash, shit or get off the pot scenario, none of us like this or want it but I dont see any way we can stop it.
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The French taxi men would have blocked three airports and a dual carriageway by now.We're more chilled about these things.
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@ Jack now that Board Na Mona is closing will the farmers who did casual bog work now do casual taxi work .?
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Prob not,
They would loose all their benefits.
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Don't push the NTA too far or they'll force us to install some expensive equipment that always has wifi.They may require it to be calibrated and sealed at our expense too.Maybe best to stay quiet and see what they come up with.A simple Sumup reader may not be enough.
London taxis all accept cards now.So it can be done.
Wi-Fi is of no use unless internet is available. That, in turn, generally requires a mobile telephone signal when out and about although some towns and a lot of business premises offer free Wi-Fi with internet access. However, we still don't have 100% internet or mobile coverage in the State and regardless of whatever configuration is deployed hardware and software can and will fail from time to time. The law of the land requires debts to be settled in legal tender hence any rules requiring us to accept anything less would seem to suggest a level of control over our businesses akin to levels of control employers exercise over employees.
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Satellite phones linked to card readers?.The most expensive solution possible no doubt the NTA will make us buy them..Prefer cash meself.
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.....
Did you get the Run yourself from CIE Vikkiz, or did you get it through a base ?
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Satellite phones linked to card readers?.The most expensive solution possible no doubt the NTA will make us buy them..Prefer cash meself.
Throw a ball-park price at that option MFH ?
I can see a lot of the auld Nokia brigade retiring if'n the NTA make this compulsory.
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.....
Did you get the Run yourself from CIE Vikkiz, or did you get it through a base ?
Through a contractor
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^^^^ I just made it up Belker but I found it is actually a thing from Googling.Probably cost a few grand.Anything is possible though of you have enough money.
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.....
Did you get the Run yourself from CIE Vikkiz, or did you get it through a base ?
Through a contractor
Does the contractor pay you or Bus Éireann
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Satellite phones linked to card readers?.The most expensive solution possible no doubt the NTA will make us buy them..Prefer cash meself.
What use is a satellite when you're under a tree beside a tall building in pissing rain? You're letting your imagination run riot, FFS NTA can't come up with a sicker that sticks!
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.....
Did you get the Run yourself from CIE Vikkiz, or did you get it through a base ?
Through a contractor
Does the contractor pay you or Bus Éireann
contractor, not a base though
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It’s not for everyone.
Doing one for 20 years and it suits me.
I started one this year. It’s security for me for the next 5 years. Guaranteed income.
Not to be sneezed at.....
Did you get the Run yourself from CIE Vikkiz, or did you get it through a base ?
Through a contractor
Does the contractor pay you or Bus Éireann
contractor, not a base though
Better off getting your own run.
He’s probably getting a touch of your run.
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I would agree with JMO (And I too have a lot of experience in that game).
By going through a contractor (you think) that you can take the odd day off or go on holidays, the contractor might have a very different view of things.
If'n you get your own run then surely you have a mate/s who you can pay the full rate + an extra few bob to cover your odd day off.
With that option you would be way better off than paying a contractor fer doing next to nothing.
I used to cover runs fer mates before, but all they offered was the standard price less the contractor/base fees and no Extras fer doing them a favour. I don't do that anymore.
If'n ya want a mate/colleague to cover a run, then offer them the full fare + a Tenner on top and then they will cover it fer you and pay them ASAP just to keep them onboard.
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This is my first one so maybe next time I’ll get my own
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Even Trolls who imagine they drive taxies .
Or thick cnuts who put stupid ideas Into other people's heads. Sure it takes all sorts.
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Simple Solution would be to go back to the beginning and introduce a category where members have to submit their Badge numbers. This would cut out the crap.....Not telling anyone what to do here by the way....i'm sure many members wouldn't mind re-signing up etc...You could allow a guest facility for NTA/Emergency services to bypass it I'm sure........
Why are there so many non-contributors here? It's worse than Roys for that. Good luck to whomever has to cope with the bullshit...just a suggestion.
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Yis are gone very cryptic lately lads.I have to say I dunno what the fuk yis are on about in most of the threads.It's like as if there are posts missing or something.Like trying to read a book with every third page torn out.
Are yis bouncing PMs all over the place?How the hell are new people supposed to start posting when the place comes across very confusing.Took me months signed up on Roys before I could make any sense of the threads and post anything.
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Yis are gone very cryptic lately lads.I have to say I dunno what the fuk yis are on about in most of the threads.It's like as if there are posts missing or something.Like trying to read a book with every third page torn out.
Are yis bouncing PMs all over the place?How the hell are new people supposed to start posting when the place comes across very confusing.Took me months signed up on Roys before I could make any sense of the threads and post anything.
It doesn't take drivers too long to go off on a tandem!! 8)
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Yis are gone very cryptic lately lads.I have to say I dunno what the fuk yis are on about in most of the threads.It's like as if there are posts missing or something.Like trying to read a book with every third page torn out.
Are yis bouncing PMs all over the place?How the hell are new people supposed to start posting when the place comes across very confusing.Took me months signed up on Roys before I could make any sense of the threads and post anything.
It doesn't take drivers too long to go off on a tandem!! 8)
Or a rickshaw!!
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Yis are gone very cryptic lately lads.I have to say I dunno what the fuk yis are on about in most of the threads.It's like as if there are posts missing or something.Like trying to read a book with every third page torn out.
Are yis bouncing PMs all over the place?How the hell are new people supposed to start posting when the place comes across very confusing.Took me months signed up on Roys before I could make any sense of the threads and post anything.
Just making it harder for lunatics and sexually-frustrated members to accuse other members of being impostors, Merc. Seems to me many people here aren't sure who's who......if they had to submit their badge number to join then it would make it a tad harder for the psychotics to keep doing a "Tonight Matthew I'm going to be......"
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And, yes Merc..I experienced the same nervousness on Roy's before posting....there were far more contributors though and many wiser men. The personal stuff was far more severe but very enjoyable all the same....too many weeping Jesus's around this place.
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Ok sound I thought I was losing it.We should be more direct IMO.No more asking for apologies every few pages.They mean fuk all as it's the internet anyway.I've never asked any cunt for an apology in me life.
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And no more “thanks to everyone who sent me messages of support”
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That's the spirit JM!.
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Fook out everyone that was involved in drugs.
Gives taxi drivers a bad name.
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Everyone ever charged and convicted of an offence.
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Even porridge
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I feel like there's an agenda here.
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And no more “thanks to everyone who sent me messages of support”
May I refer you to;
http://intaxi.org/forum/index.php?topic=10968.0 (http://intaxi.org/forum/index.php?topic=10968.0)