Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: U Wha on October 01, 2020, 03:02:33 am
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The world and times are changing....
To survive you need to be flexible and able to quickly adapt. If you look at nature, species that specialise and depend on a particular food source or environment are at risk of extinction. Same rules apply to the modern world. If you get set in your ways you will be left behind. That is a risk for taxi drivers who don't like change. The apps have disrupted the traditional dispatchers, drivers need to follow the trends or get left behind lamenting the old days.
Maybe taxi drivers need to look beyond passengers. We are insured to carry people and goods for hire or reward. The high street retailers are fecked, more and more closing down every day. Sales are virtual, payments are virtual but the products are real and have to be delivered in the real world.
An Post are closing post offices and their snail mail business has been decimated but they have adapted and their parcel delivery business is growing exponentially.
Amazon want to control everything and now they have, they want to set up and run their own delivery fleet and cut out the middleman. Remains to see if that will work.
Lynk are adapting too with 'Lynk Delivers'. They are partnering up with the big multinational private parcel companies as local service providers and utiliising any drivers on the existing taxi fleet that are interested and recruiting extra car/van drivers to supplement the delivery fleet.
I am doing agency HGV truck driver work and one of the contracts I was working on recently had half a dozen taxis in the warehouse loading up with parcel deliveries every morning. Drivers adapting to the situation and it is less risky during Covid as they are carrying no passengers. It is different but still a living to be made until the taxi game picks up.
Stand still and you are History!
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Can you tell us how much they're earning per day doing deliveries.Generally speaking delivery work is poorly paid.
Why aren't you using your taxi to do deliveries?
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Can you tell us how much they're earning per day doing deliveries.Generally speaking delivery work is poorly paid.
Why aren't you using your taxi to do deliveries?
Tink hes delivering a truck merc .....uwha cud do well at journalism aswell ...
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It's a little bit too articulate for a truck driver...there was a time we'd tear this chap a new bumhole.Times a changing alright.Double jobbers are cool, except Hal he's gonna cut his finger off in some oulwan's kitchen.
Where's that word a day LL queer fella anyway?
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Parcel drops are available for a Euro a drop you have to have a tax clearance cert .The Man who hires casual labour says that revenue will be seeking information on all self employed contractors from employers to decide on tax liabilities on earnings and to check that people receiving Pandemic UNEMPLOYMENT Payments were not in fact WORKING .Also heard a story A lad in Inchicore who fits alarms took a contract to deliver parcels and when his job reopened tried to give up the deliveries only to be told he signed a contract and if he welched on it they would assign the work to somebody else and sue him for breaking his contract .
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There are experienced couriers out there struggling to make a decent living.If the work is being sub contacted then it's shite and underpaid.
I was getting a tenner a drop as a subcontractor form UPS in Santry 15 years ago.Only got it sometimes but that's what they paid.
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Lad use to have all of Clondalkin had two others working for him he was telling me they are giving his work to others he was contracted on the old rate the new rate is a euro a drop and plenty of takers but the companies are returning the pay sheets to revenue as you are a contractor not an employee so they have no tax liability for your earnings once they disclose them to revenue .
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1 euro a drop is only running costs .......crazy small money and apparently plenty to do it ......sounds like the uber model wer yur earnings only cover your car expenses.....
Gas the way the world is going into slavery..we all working for peanuts ...whites an blacks ....an bezos earns 2500 $ a second .....welcome to America land of the free
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Euro a drop,no where to park,6th floor,large heavy box,lift broken,ages trying to get in the hall door,package slightly incorrectly addressed-should have been 15 not 115,nobody home,parking ticket when you come back down. ::fds
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Euro a drop,no where to park,6th floor,large heavy box,lift broken,ages trying to get in the hall door,package slightly incorrectly addressed-should have been 15 not 115,nobody home,parking ticket when you come back down. ::fds
On the bright side.....a package won't puke or piss on your back seat, pull a needle on you, give you lip, leg it, accuse you of sexual assault (maybe that was just me [emoji57]) change your radio without asking, want you to take it on a Coke run, or offer you a BJ for a lift- unfortunately.
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So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?
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I see the good Justice Wolf got his ass covered by his buddies.
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So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?
Better off asking Leo Burdock if he wants a few chips delivered
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So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?
Imagine the wear and tear on your motor,15 drops an hour and your still only on minimum wage with a vehicle to keep road worthy.
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So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?
Imagine the wear and tear on your motor,15 drops an hour and your still only on minimum wage with a vehicle to keep road worthy.
An hour wasted going back to the depot and loading up again. Probably a couple of times a day
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It's a little bit too articulate for a truck driver...there was a time we'd tear this chap a new bumhole.Times a changing alright.Double jobbers are cool, except Hal he's gonna cut his finger off in some oulwan's kitchen.
Where's that word a day LL queer fella anyway?
Axe me bollox....i'm a professional!!
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Hope it's working out Hal.
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Yep.....
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Can you tell us how much they're earning per day doing deliveries.Generally speaking delivery work is poorly paid.
Why aren't you using your taxi to do deliveries?
Thought I read an ad saying drivers can earn €80 to €120 a day and somebody mentioned that delivery drivers can do in excess of a 100 drops a day.
I am only back on the road with the taxi so I might. Have to see how the truck driving goes. It is an adjustment but nice to have a pay check each week. I could get used to that certainty again.
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Can you tell us how much they're earning per day doing deliveries.Generally speaking delivery work is poorly paid.
Why aren't you using your taxi to do deliveries?
Tink hes delivering a truck merc .....uwha cud do well at journalism aswell ...
You think?
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So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?
They do up to 100 a day and maybe more
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I dunno where half these stories come from,,,?
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So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?
They do up to 100 a day and maybe more
150 a day plus collections.....be at hub at 6.30 in the morning and ye might be lucky to see the start of the Tonight Show on Virgin with Matt!!
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Euro a drop,no where to park,6th floor,large heavy box,lift broken,ages trying to get in the hall door,package slightly incorrectly addressed-should have been 15 not 115,
Yer alri Marky....all the towers in the Mun are gone!!
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U wha that's possible but 80/100 gross.A taxi costs a minimum of €200 week to run.Factor that into your calculations for a 50+ hour week.It's nothing special.
I have family with truck licenses the money doing that is fairly shite considering the responsibility you have.
The COVID payment is like a paycheck.Every Tuesday...very reliable.
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Not for me its not,the bastards took it off me when I hit 66. I wrote to them telling them that it is outrageous that the state pension is considered to be a social welfare payment when it is something you paid into all your working life.
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U wha that's possible but 80/100 gross.A taxi costs a minimum of €200 week to run.Factor that into your calculations for a 50+ hour week.It's nothing special.
I have family with truck licenses the money doing that is fairly shite considering the responsibility you have.
The COVID payment is like a paycheck.Every Tuesday...very reliable.
I would say younger more enthusiastic drivers might get that or more. I haven't done it I have only heard people talking about it. I just thought it might help supplement whatever you earnt in the taxi. Shallowhal seems to have more experience or knowledge on it. What I heard from a lynk employee was that non taxi delivery drivers with 'lynk delivers' could do in excess of 100 jobs/drops a day for delivering small parcels on a particular route or zone. I also saw a poster/ad that stated delivery drivers could earn €80 to €120 a day. Lynk are partnering with UPS and others. As Shallowhal said some sort of hub will be set up and drivers collect the parcels each morning for their route or zone.
I agree for the responsibility and workload the money isn't great. Heavy trucks can do damage so it needs full concentration and then add on the bullshit around paperwork and getting it all done on time. Lot of hassle. Makes you appreciate working a taxi, which has different hassle.
I almost got to like the PUP payment too much. Staying in the leaba and drinking too much. Anyway I got myself motivated and have a plan for the next 18 months so need to earn more. Whether I stay at it long term remains to be seen.
The truck driver rates range from €13.50 to €16 per hour depending on the type of truck (rigid or artic) and the role. Most employers also pay a tax free subsistence rate that varies between €13 and €23 per day.
So the regular cheque for 45 hours work is double the PUP even factoring in fuel and putting aside few bob for the taxman. The driving hours allow 90 hours per fortnight but that is just driving, you might clock another few hours for other work. The working time directive kicks in though so you can’t work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks. So if you clock up hours then you have to work less down the road.
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I agree with U Wha.....i could have easily stayed on the PUP...but i got me gaff decorated to an IKEA brochure standard,i was signed up to Indeed as i've already said,i did say to the war office that i won't be jumping on any job and as ermy says employers might not be keen to bet on a 50+ yrs of age taxi driver,my job is primarily driving with some workshop duties and helping the company fitter on site but the role is changing since i started as my previous experience in the kitchen biz has to trust as a snagger on completed jobs,i have a Merc boxbody available for my own use should i need it,i have it home couple of nights a week(which means a later start) to collect from a company in Gormanston on my way in....it saves me juice,i generally get close to two weeks juice out of a tank on the Prius...and as U Wha alluded to....a weekly salary.
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