Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: mercenary for hire on December 02, 2021, 12:28:11 pm
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I had a look at the latest Freenow offer to cover 200 jobs during December to win a stickered up MG.
On the conditions they say they'll take it back of you reduce the numbers of jobs accepted or stop working for them entirely.Seems like they want to own your business forever if you win.Hardly worth it to commit to one app when we have Uber and Bolt providing jobs more and more everyday.
How the hell do yis accept being walked on so readily.And I'm talking to the ambassadors on here who think Freenow are doing a great job.
Quote from the terms and conditions....
"If the winner does not comply with the above conditions and/or ceases to provide tours through FREE NOW and/or materially or substantially reduces the number of tours he/she provides, the car will be returned to FREE NOW."
What a bunch of wankers.
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I wonder who on here will be the first to ring the bell at 200
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No good as a taxi if its won by some lad with a Wheeley plate .But its a nice prize I hope if they have applied for all the Government Grants they have checked that it is legal to offer those grants as a part of a prize if they are included .
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Hopefully Ken will win it and we can take some pleasure in knowing he can't charge it from his apartment without using three extensions cords linked together...
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Hopefully Ken will win it and we can take some pleasure in knowing he can't charge it from his apartment without using three extensions cords linked together...
Will the draw be televised?
An immigrant winning, but living 15 to a room in a two-bed apartment won't look so well on camera.
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Its an interesting Draw If you are a renter without your own Saloon plate the prize is no good to you or if you drive a Cripmobile you cannot transfer a WAT plate to a saloon .The prize is the car .As most renters and Cripmobile drivers would be Non Nationals is there a Racist element to this promotion .I am sure somebody earning more wages than me considered this issue before launching this promotion .Or will they become aware when they look in and read this tread ?
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As we've seen before the prizes are usually won by some Chinee or Malaysian chap.I suppose it will be handy that they can source some cheap parts from home when it needs a bit of maintenance.
It would take me until March to complete 200 jobs so I'm out!
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Its an interesting Draw If you are a renter without your own Saloon plate the prize is no good to you or if you drive a Cripmobile you cannot transfer a WAT plate to a saloon .The prize is the car .As most renters and Cripmobile drivers would be Non Nationals is there a Racist element to this promotion .I am sure somebody earning more wages than me considered this issue before launching this promotion .Or will they become aware when they look in and read this tread ?
Living on the 5th floor of an apartment block in the arse end of Rathfarningham,15 to a room, and having a charger installed suggest a very, very long lead!
Asif! 8)
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aS the charger is part of the prize would they need a court order to enter your property to recover the charger if you fail to cover the required indenture ?
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As we've seen before the prizes are usually won by some Chinee or Malaysian chap.I suppose it will be handy that they can source some cheap parts from home when it needs a bit of maintenance.
It would take me until March to complete 200 jobs so I'm out!
Even the so-called prizes for pointless electronic goods are shared out via racial profiling allegedly.
One prize - Indian sub-continent.
One prize - Africa.
One prize - Ireland.
The next week is mix and match.
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It might be rash to assume that the Prize winners are profiled that would be stupid to indulge in but the profile of saloon plate owners does leave room for suggestion that the Prize does favour one and exclude other ethnic groups based on the required saloon plate ownership to register the CAR as a taxi to fulfill the requirement to cover taxi work .I detest racism applied or inferred .
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I wonder if the winner can just tell the garage or free now to give them the dosh and hold into the money for a different car...
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Anyway 200 jobs for the week of December is funny ....lol
They make ya laugh,they can't get simple things right like paying lads on time
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And the other shitty offer...eh do 7 jobs at a time we MIGHT get some street work and get 40 quid...lol...fuck off yous deluded wanker cunts
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Also they tell us about the competition on the 2nd of December....terms on the competition say the month of December?
So what the fuck....
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Now I was driving back From Paddy Power after collecting last nights winning treble on City,Liverpool Chelsea and I thought lets say .If probably the most likely winner on here Vandriver as he will tell you he regulary uses the app .(we wish him well ) I cant win it wouldnt be able to cover that number of jobs in my limited work week .So he wins the car and I loan him my plate as I go market gardening in Leitrim .Now the vehicle has to be in my name if its in my name why would I let Me taxi seiz my property so the possibility if you win the car of borrowing or renting a plate is removed by the treat to retake the car if you dont continue to taxi .Add to this the High court ruling that a Taxi licence owner does not need to opperate that licence .Somebody with a marketing degree must of thought up this promotion .Most marketing degree holders couldnt tell you the colour of a Coke can .
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Not a hope of me doing 200 fn jobs either in 4 weeks. That's 50 jobs a week or 10 a day for 5 days a week, which is the average amount of days I work. Now because its December, Christmas time, I'll be taking a week off. So that leaves me with 3 weeks to do the 200 jobs or 15 working days. 200 jobs divided by 15 is 13 and a third jobs per day. The only time I get offered jobs is when it's busy. I'd say I'd average out at 1 job offer per hour. So that means I've to work 13 hours a day for the next 3 weeks to be in with a chance to win. Eh, no thanks.
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So what exactly is the prize ?Is it a lend of a fully licenced taxi if so how do they reach the valuation and is it really a prize of a car .If it is a lend of a car what are the taxable BIK for the lend .Would of been so much easier just to raffle the car .Are Free Now still associated with Daimler .Interesting promotion of a Chinese motor and not one of their own products .Im sure a Decent Motor Journalist could write a decent article about that .Like I said Marketing degrees and the color of Coke Cans .
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Nice one. I doubt I'll do 200 jobs but fair play anyway.
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As Watty would say BNI. 8)
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And the other shitty offer...eh do 7 jobs at a time we MIGHT get some street work and get 40 quid...lol...fuck off yous deluded wanker cunts
Why would you do street work when you're getting an extra €5.71 per job working for Free Now.
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The small print says if you win the car, you have to work for FreeNow for the next year at similar levels. Some prize where you win the right to be their slave >:(
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The small print says if you win the car, you have to work for FreeNow for the next year at similar levels. Some prize where you win the right to be their slave >:(
A damning indictment:
(https://i.postimg.cc/hXzCvwLD/download-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/hXzCvwLD)
Arbeit Macht Frei Now
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The small print says if you win the car, you have to work for FreeNow for the next year at similar levels. Some prize where you win the right to be their slave >:(
like I asked if you win the CAR if you dont have a saloon plate to put on it how can you work it .
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The small print says if you win the car, you have to work for FreeNow for the next year at similar levels. Some prize where you win the right to be their slave >:(
A damning indictment:
(https://i.postimg.cc/hXzCvwLD/download-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/hXzCvwLD)
Arbeit Macht Frei Now
Summed up in one picture .and not even tasteless .
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So they giv yu a car as a prize but its not yurs an if yu don't break yur bollix for them they take it back?
So yur prize is they own you an the car .....
rofl
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So they giv yu a car as a prize but its not yurs an if yu don't break yur bollix for them they take it back?
So yur prize is they own you an the car .....
rofl
YES .
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Its an interesting Draw If you are a renter without your own Saloon plate the prize is no good to you or if you drive a Cripmobile you cannot transfer a WAT plate to a saloon .The prize is the car .As most renters and Cripmobile drivers would be Non Nationals is there a Racist element to this promotion .I am sure somebody earning more wages than me considered this issue before launching this promotion .Or will they become aware when they look in and read this tread ?
Dump the cripmobile plate and just apply for a new electric saloon plate. Only get €10k grant though as a new e-plate holder as opposed to the €20k grant available to existing plateholders who scrap their old maxi. If it meets the mileage requirements.
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If it meets the mileage requirements.
Or age!!
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I'm learning a lot today if I am to understand that new saloon plates are available if an EV is supplied.
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Don't think so Bob.It was just a misinterpretation of the rules that was repeated on here a few times.Might happen in the future though.
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I'm learning a lot today if I am to understand that new saloon plates are available if an EV is supplied.
I read it as being available to new applicants....
But here is the link to the guidelines or see the snippets attached from the guideline document.
https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Information-Guide-for-eSPSV21-Grant-Scheme-1.pdf (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Information-Guide-for-eSPSV21-Grant-Scheme-1.pdf)
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When they say new maybe they mean wheel chair accessible electric plates?
They would have had to announce that they were releasing saloon plates again.It kinda goes against their wish to keep putting accessible vehicles on the road.It would make no sense to put existing saloon plate holders at a disadvantage by offering them less money than any potential new entrant.
Ring them and ask but my money is on no electric saloon plates.
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A lot of their publications are worded arseways and have been updated.Best to call them and you might find that even the operator in the call centre doesn't understand the regulations.
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I always believed it to mean what Bob thinks it means......the caveat being that it's an EV licence for life.
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I'm hopeless at reading these things but my read of it is that the NTA only care about the vehicle being electric and not so much about the driver. It does sound like a newly licenced driver could buy an EV and get the grant after it's passed out as a taxi.
4 Who can avail of the Scheme?
4.1 The Scheme is available nationwide to:
(a) persons (individuals or companies) applying for new SPSV licences; and
(b) existing SPSV licence holders who wish to upgrade their current vehicle with a replacement EV,
New and existing drivers...
They will have to open the gates to new saloons within 5-10 years I'd say. We're dropping like flies and there's no young 'uns entering the game. Though why would you when robotaxis are supposed to the future?
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Are there no more robotaxis arriving from Africa or India anymore?
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Do Ya know what's mad...we're always like no more saloon plates but very few of us actually enjoy driving the fukkin things.
Any little enjoyment I used to get from driving is completely gone now with the constant traffic and new bike lanes forcing us into smaller and smaller spaces.The last two evenings I worked I just fukked off early.City is ruined.Let the robotaxi take over I'm bolloxed..
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Do Ya know what's mad...we're always like no more saloon plates but very few of us actually enjoy driving the fukkin things.
Any little enjoyment I used to get from driving is completely gone now with the constant traffic and new bike lanes forcing us into smaller and smaller spaces.The last two evenings I worked I just fukked off early.City is ruined.Let the robotaxi take over I'm bolloxed..
+1, but Lotto 1st.
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African robo taxis
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I emailed the NTA about this point.
Thank you for contacting the NTA (National Transport Authority). We refer to your recent correspondence received on 7th May 2021.
Please note the NTA no longer issue Taxi/Hackney vehicle licences. The vehicle licence which you can apply for with the eSPSV Grant Scheme is a wheelchair accessible vehicle licence or a limousine licence.
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I emailed the NTA about this point.
Thank you for contacting the NTA (National Transport Authority). We refer to your recent correspondence received on 7th May 2021.
Please note the NTA no longer issue Taxi/Hackney vehicle licences. The vehicle licence which you can apply for with the eSPSV Grant Scheme is a wheelchair accessible vehicle licence or a limousine licence.
that cleared that up .So the prize is restricted to Saloon licence plate owners only who would mainly be middle aged White Men .Was the promotion really to get this cohort to cover work as other Nationalities who rent or drive Crypmobiles already widly support the app .Just saying the conditions are questionable .Did the E mail say you would have to answer a question to gain entry into the draw ,could that question be do you hold a transferable saloon licence to affix to this prize ?
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Now Vandriver do you see how unfair this win a car promotion is to YOU .If you won the CAR you dont have a saloon Plate to put on it .If they plate it up for you its not your car it belongs to the plate owner .Like I said before Marketing degree wouldnt know the colour of a Coke Can .
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Competition should be void...i was only notified about it on 2nd of December 11:48 pm by email off free now when in fact the Competition seemily started on December 1st,first time I was ever told...oh we have a competition.....it started yesterday!
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Winner winner chicken dinner!!
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What's the craic with most cripmobiles being diesel, is it so that the smell of diesel masks the overwhelming stench of piss?
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I wonder who on here will be the first to ring the bell at 200
(https://i.ibb.co/DWMLXKz/Screenshot-20211209-101123-FREE-NOW.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XL5VBJj)
Started on Friday,though it's no use to me!
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I wonder who on here will be the first to ring the bell at 200
(https://i.ibb.co/DWMLXKz/Screenshot-20211209-101123-FREE-NOW.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XL5VBJj)
Started on Friday,though it's no use to me!
You've to do 200 in the month of December - only 150 to go.
I'm currently at 66 without really trying.
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I reckon I'm about the same, again without much effort. I suppose every driver that works for them will be in the draw come January so I'll try not to get too exited. They should be giving away an EV every week with the money we're giving them.