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EXCLUSIVE Taxi shortage to leave partygoers with long waits this Christmas - Free Now boss
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Adrian Weckler
November 17 2022 02:30 AM
The global boss of taxi firm Free Now has said there will be shortages of lifts in Ireland this Christmas.
Speaking exclusively to the Irish Independent’s Big Tech Show podcast, Thomas Zimmermann said it now looks unavoidable and blamed a lack of drivers in the market.
“There’s always a Christmas shortage, because a lot of drivers go on vacation,” he said. “We have seen post-pandemic shortages in supply [of drivers] across Europe. A lot of drivers needed to change profession during the pandemic. Many did not come back.”
Mr Zimmermann said it remains hard to recruit enough drivers to meet the post-pandemic demand, which has risen by a third since the lockdowns ended.
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“There’s competition for drivers, especially in the Irish market,” he said. “There are also quite a lot of formalities you need to do.”
He said that while he did not think Irish taxi regulations were too strict, the “motivation” of officials creating policy could be better.
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“I think it’s more about maybe the motivational aspects from the city or the Government,” he said.
“If you see there’s a shortage in drivers, you want to motivate that ecosystem because something besides public transport plays a very big role in the general infrastructure of the city. Therefore, it should be in the interest of the minister or the municipalities as well.”
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Mr Zimmermann said there was disappointment in the industry that the Government had delayed legalising e-scooters, which still officially require a driver’s licence, tax and insurance under traditional motoring laws in Ireland.
Free Now is one of a number of “mobility” firms that has been trying to launch escooter rental services in the Irish market.
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“To a certain extent it is a disappointment,” he said. “Because we can provide that service to Irish users. If you compare it to other countries where we have already brought a mobility offering, you can see the beauty for the end user in terms of cross-usage.”
He also doubted whether Free Now would be able to expand a new service integrating its taxis, e-bikes and e-scooters with public transport ticketing, as it has just done in Germany’s largest transit zone.
“Dublin doesn’t have a central API [application programming interface] for public transport systems,” he said.
“There’s definitely a plan to go to more European cities to integrate public transport, but in Dublin it’s hard to tell. The public transport system in Ireland is comparatively small.”
Mr Zimmermann said autonomous taxis are unlikely to be seen as a mainstream service in the coming years.
He also said the public debate over Uber’s private-hire model had evolved in markets to accommodate a shortage of public hire vehicles.
To hear the full interview with Free Now CEO Thomas Zimmermann, download or stream the Big Tech Show on any podcast platform.
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EXCLUSIVE Taxi shortage to leave partygoers with long waits this Christmas - Free Now boss
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Adrian Weckler
November 17 2022 02:30 AM
The global boss of taxi firm Free Now has said there will be shortages of lifts in Ireland this Christmas.
Speaking exclusively to the Irish Independent’s Big Tech Show podcast, Thomas Zimmermann said it now looks unavoidable and blamed a lack of drivers in the market.
“There’s always a Christmas shortage, because a lot of drivers go on vacation,” he said. “We have seen post-pandemic shortages in supply [of drivers] across Europe. A lot of drivers needed to change profession during the pandemic. Many did not come back.”
Mr Zimmermann said it remains hard to recruit enough drivers to meet the post-pandemic demand, which has risen by a third since the lockdowns ended.
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“There’s competition for drivers, especially in the Irish market,” he said. “There are also quite a lot of formalities you need to do.”
He said that while he did not think Irish taxi regulations were too strict, the “motivation” of officials creating policy could be better.
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Free Now CEO Thomas Zimmermann says car-hailing is part of urban transport mix of the future
“I think it’s more about maybe the motivational aspects from the city or the Government,” he said.
“If you see there’s a shortage in drivers, you want to motivate that ecosystem because something besides public transport plays a very big role in the general infrastructure of the city. Therefore, it should be in the interest of the minister or the municipalities as well.”
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Mr Zimmermann said there was disappointment in the industry that the Government had delayed legalising e-scooters, which still officially require a driver’s licence, tax and insurance under traditional motoring laws in Ireland.
Free Now is one of a number of “mobility” firms that has been trying to launch escooter rental services in the Irish market.
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“To a certain extent it is a disappointment,” he said. “Because we can provide that service to Irish users. If you compare it to other countries where we have already brought a mobility offering, you can see the beauty for the end user in terms of cross-usage.”
He also doubted whether Free Now would be able to expand a new service integrating its taxis, e-bikes and e-scooters with public transport ticketing, as it has just done in Germany’s largest transit zone.
“Dublin doesn’t have a central API [application programming interface] for public transport systems,” he said.
“There’s definitely a plan to go to more European cities to integrate public transport, but in Dublin it’s hard to tell. The public transport system in Ireland is comparatively small.”
Mr Zimmermann said autonomous taxis are unlikely to be seen as a mainstream service in the coming years.
He also said the public debate over Uber’s private-hire model had evolved in markets to accommodate a shortage of public hire vehicles.
To hear the full interview with Free Now CEO Thomas Zimmermann, download or stream the Big Tech Show on any podcast platform.
Free Now CEO Thomas Zimmermann says car-hailing is part of urban transport mix of the future
Free Now chief executive Thomas Zimmermann
Free Now chief executive Thomas Zimmermann
Adrian Weckler
November 17 2022 02:30 AM
Thomas Zimmermann is used to the slagging over the name.
“I know practically all of the jokes,” says Free Now’s recently-appointed global CEO.
The taxi company’s name is still invoked in frustration on social media whenever someone is left waiting. He insists, though, that the rebranding from ‘Hailo’ some years back has been a success.
“In most countries by now we see higher awareness than we saw during the Hailo era,” he says.
Ireland, he says, remains “important” for the company, which now spans 10 countries across Europe with 54 million users and multiple services beyond taxis, such as e-bikes and e-scooters.
But taxis are still its core brand in Ireland. And Mr Zimmermann says that we’ll once again face a Christmas period of shortages.
“There’s always a Christmas shortage, because a lot of drivers go on vacation,” he says.
It’s not just that, though.
A lot of drivers needed to change profession during the pandemic. Many did not come back
“We have seen, in general, post-pandemic shortages in supply across Europe. A lot of drivers needed to change profession during the pandemic. Many did not come back.”
The situation is improving now, he says, but not enough to prevent noticeable shortages in the coming weeks.
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Is it hard to get drivers?
“In general, yes,” he says. “There’s competition [for them], especially in the Irish market. There are also quite a lot of formalities you need to do and a test you need to pass.”
Are the regulations here too strict in that regard?
“Not necessarily,” he says. “I think it’s good if there are some regulations because this also encompasses a certain amount of safety and quality that we can then deliver to our users, which is important. But I think it’s more about maybe the motivational aspects.”
By ‘motivational aspects’, Mr Zimmermann is talking about public policy in helping to encourage drivers into the workforce.
“While we provide training, it could also be something that comes from the city or the government,” he says.
“If you see there’s a shortage in drivers, you want to motivate that ecosystem because something besides public transport plays a very big role in the general infrastructure of the city. So therefore, it should be in the interest of the minister or the municipalities as well.”
Irish public policy on transport issues that Free Now is interested in has been a mixed bag for the firm.
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For example, Free Now, like others, has been ready to go on the introduction of e-scooter rental for some time. But legalisation for e-scooters, which was expected to be in place by now, has been kicked back by the Government until 2023.
Is this a disappointment?
“Yeah, to a certain extent it is,” says Mr Zimmermann. “Because we can provide that service to Irish users. If you compare it to other countries where we have already brought a mobility offering, you can see the beauty for the end user in terms of cross usage.”
Free Now has other ideas, too, that look like being adopted in Europe years before Irish authorities will consider them. It has just launched an integrated ticketing system in Germany’s largest transit zone that lets people link up public transport services with Free Now services in the same app.
The public transport system in Ireland is comparatively small
Dublin is on the list of hopefuls for expansion of the service. But it would depend on bus and train authorities’ systems being interoperable., This looks like an unlikely scenario, given the slow pace at which Irish public transport systems implement technology.
“There’s definitely a plan to go to more European cities to integrate public transport.
“But in Dublin, it’s hard to tell. You don’t have a central API for public transport systems. And then there’s also how big the demand is. The public transport system in Ireland is comparatively small”
There are other reasons why Free Now might want to see an acceleration of such integrated ticketing. Across Europe, cars are in the early stages of being banned in cities. Paris, Oslo and Ghent are seen as forerunners of what could become the norm in major European metropolitan areas in the next decade.
As a company still reliant mostly on cars for hire, is this of concern?
“Actually, not very much,” he says. “To a certain extent, I would say it’s the opposite. What we are striving for as a company is to change how what the urban landscape in metropolitan areas looks like. Cars sometimes occupy space that could be used better, right? And then you have all the congestion and stuff that comes with it. [In some of those cities banning cars] it’s private cars that are not allowed but you can enter if you’re car sharing, or if you’re using a ride-hailing service. So it’s not that the city completely closes up or that nobody [in a car] can get in. They just want to restrict it.”
To listen to the full interview, download or stream today’s The Big Tech Show podcast on any podcast platform.
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Coincidentally, Vinne Kearns was on the radio today saying similar stuff - can't get enough drivers. Imagine that!
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Coincidentally, Vinne Kearns was on the radio today saying similar stuff - can't get enough drivers. Imagine that!
Fat Vinny. How many pensions can one gimp have?
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God be with the Radio Companies of old 40/50/60 quid a week freight earn all you want --VIP or NRC do the work get paid --up to 80 % cash !
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EXCLUSIVE Taxi shortage to leave partygoers with long waits this Christmas - Free Now boss
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Adrian Weckler
November 17 2022 02:30 AM
The global boss of taxi firm Free Now has said there will be shortages of lifts in Ireland this Christmas.
Speaking exclusively to the Irish Independent’s Big Tech Show podcast, Thomas Zimmermann said it now looks unavoidable and blamed a lack of drivers in the market.
“There’s always a Christmas shortage, because a lot of drivers go on vacation,” he said. “We have seen post-pandemic shortages in supply [of drivers] across Europe. A lot of drivers needed to change profession during the pandemic. Many did not come back.”
Mr Zimmermann said it remains hard to recruit enough drivers to meet the post-pandemic demand, which has risen by a third since the lockdowns ended.
The Big Tech Show: The ‘Free Now’ boss on taxi delays and banning cars
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“There’s competition for drivers, especially in the Irish market,” he said. “There are also quite a lot of formalities you need to do.”
He said that while he did not think Irish taxi regulations were too strict, the “motivation” of officials creating policy could be better.
Read More
Free vapes given out in Dublin pubs and nightclubs labelled as ‘nasty, cheap marketing’
Free Now CEO Thomas Zimmermann says car-hailing is part of urban transport mix of the future
“I think it’s more about maybe the motivational aspects from the city or the Government,” he said.
“If you see there’s a shortage in drivers, you want to motivate that ecosystem because something besides public transport plays a very big role in the general infrastructure of the city. Therefore, it should be in the interest of the minister or the municipalities as well.”
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Mr Zimmermann said there was disappointment in the industry that the Government had delayed legalising e-scooters, which still officially require a driver’s licence, tax and insurance under traditional motoring laws in Ireland.
Free Now is one of a number of “mobility” firms that has been trying to launch escooter rental services in the Irish market.
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“To a certain extent it is a disappointment,” he said. “Because we can provide that service to Irish users. If you compare it to other countries where we have already brought a mobility offering, you can see the beauty for the end user in terms of cross-usage.”
He also doubted whether Free Now would be able to expand a new service integrating its taxis, e-bikes and e-scooters with public transport ticketing, as it has just done in Germany’s largest transit zone.
“Dublin doesn’t have a central API [application programming interface] for public transport systems,” he said.
“There’s definitely a plan to go to more European cities to integrate public transport, but in Dublin it’s hard to tell. The public transport system in Ireland is comparatively small.”
Mr Zimmermann said autonomous taxis are unlikely to be seen as a mainstream service in the coming years.
He also said the public debate over Uber’s private-hire model had evolved in markets to accommodate a shortage of public hire vehicles.
To hear the full interview with Free Now CEO Thomas Zimmermann, download or stream the Big Tech Show on any podcast platform.
Cnut ......heel get paid in January in his nice office an big salary whilst all us feel the recession hit an are sittin in cars worrying bout bills ...wat an absolute bastard
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Quote ...."There’s always a Christmas shortage, because a lot of drivers go on vacation,” he said. “
Straight away a big lie .....its obviously a surge in demand
..yu don't need to read anymore ....
Now ya know wat yur dealing wit if ya didn't already ....
Hopefully the nta is not influenced by this bollixology an remembers
From the mistakes in the past wen blokes went bankrupt wen recession hit .....
Zimmermann will move on to his next goal up the corporate ladder
An pull his plum at the damage he's trying to do to taxi drivers livelihoods....
Thomas ....yur a sociopathic cnut with no regard for people only yur self profit ...its shit like yu has the world in chaos....Happy fukin Christmas
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Since the dawn of time,there's always been a shortage for a few hours a week of cabs,ever try get a barman's attention at near last orders?,or a bag of chips in the chipper when the bars close,the rest of the week you're awash with taxis,the last couple of weeks been ordinary enough and quieter than normal.
What are all these new taxis going to do for the rest of the week outside the "Busy" 5 or 6 hours a week on a Friday and Saturday night?
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The elephant in the room...
Cash job e20 v same FN job e17
10 jobs e200 v e170
15 jobs e300 v e255
30 jobs over 2 nights e600 v e510
That's no joke!
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Since the dawn of time,there's always been a shortage for a few hours a week of cabs,ever try get a barman's attention at near last orders?,or a bag of chips in the chipper when the bars close,the rest of the week you're awash with taxis,the last couple of weeks been ordinary enough and quieter than normal.
What are all these new taxis going to do for the rest of the week outside the "Busy" 5 or 6 hours a week on a Friday and Saturday night?
If the numbers are increased to unsustainable levels to run a taxi business marko especially with the undeniable downturn an recession in progress
Drivers will que up to get stickers to try gain
competitive advantage over other drivers .....free advertisin for freenow and dominance of the app market an drivers take every shit job they can to make ends meet ...including jobs they wouldn't normally take for safety reasons ...every job covered instantly profitable/safe or not to drivers ....then Tom will increase the commission because he can because drivers are desperate ...then the technology fee will go up ...then the hospitality charge will go up ...then he mite even insist on a uniform you buy yurself off him an the branding will cover the hole car ...then heel lobby for ride share an escooters as a cheaper mode of transport for his customers in a recession ...then heel lobby for car/taxi exclusion zones in the city's an freenow escooters An freenow hire bicycle only streets ...then heel exclude diesel an petrol hybrids from priority an demand ev only taxis wit the full backin of the green nut cases that are buildin that bicycle lane from fairview to town ...only yull hav to buy it an yull decide its not worth workin the hours to pay for it
Then heel bring in his own fleet of ev taxis an rent them to you for a huge ammount a week an yull insure it yurself an they'll get full priority...but yull get a pain in yur bollix cause its not worth drivin for take home of 5 euro an hour ....then heel bring in afghan drivers that'll work 120 hours a week to pay the grand they'll need just to pay him to drive his cars ...then heel sack them if they don't accept every job offered or if they complain ...which they won't an heel have a que o them ready to join up cause ther desperate aswell comin in ever increasin numbers ...an then drivers will realise they have participated in ther own own unemployment
Welcome to America
Poor cnuts
oops
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Since the dawn of time,there's always been a shortage for a few hours a week of cabs,ever try get a barman's attention at near last orders?,or a bag of chips in the chipper when the bars close,the rest of the week you're awash with taxis,the last couple of weeks been ordinary enough and quieter than normal.
What are all these new taxis going to do for the rest of the week outside the "Busy" 5 or 6 hours a week on a Friday and Saturday night?
Probably the best post ever on this Forum well said Marc .5 week waiting for a doctors appointment no dentists available people on trollies waiting to get a hospital bed ,yet the Fucking journalist writes no Taxis because he or she has to wait a while for a taxi .The biggest fraud in this country is journalism I know I was a member of the NUJ .If you dont write what the Editor wants and what the Advertising department wants you dont get published .Obviously no more taxi licences will be issued before Christmas but You now know to book early on Free Now of Vinni Cab .This is what they call article based advertising .
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Booking early means nohing in this game, depends on whether the driver wants the job,or not when the time comes.
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The work is getting done,people have multiple apps running,if they can't get one on FN they'll get one on Lynx rofl,Uber or Bolt,it's because FN don't get all their jobs covered on their screen they're saying that there's not enough cabs.
Drivers have deserted FN because of a severe a pain in their hole with the way FN give out the work.... ::fds ::fds
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Here's a good un...
On the radio this morning, they were reporting NTA wants to ease visa rules to bring in non-nationals to drive the buses!
lol
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Normally when something is in short supply, the price goes up. Instead of increasing bus driver salaries, they're importing yellow-packs from abroad to keep the wages low >:(
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Quote ...."There’s always a Christmas shortage, because a lot of drivers go on vacation,” he said. “
Straight away a big lie .....its obviously a surge in demand
..yu don't need to read anymore ....
Now ya know wat yur dealing wit if ya didn't already ....
Hopefully the nta is not influenced by this bollixology an remembers
From the mistakes in the past wen blokes went bankrupt wen recession hit .....
Zimmermann will move on to his next goal up the corporate ladder
An pull his plum at the damage he's trying to do to taxi drivers livelihoods....
Thomas ....yur a sociopathic cnut with no regard for people only yur self profit ...its shit like yu has the world in chaos....Happy fukin Christmas
It wasn't that long ago we were up in the Phoenix Park for a Candlelit vigil remembering drivers who took their own lives:
TAXI drivers gathered at Áras an Uachtaráin last night to hold a silent vigil to remember the high number of drivers who have taken their own lives in light of the recession.
Organisers of the vigil estimate that up 25 drivers have committed suicide in the last two years due to the economic pressure which has mounted upon them.
Organiser Lisa Corr said there had been two notable clusters of suicides, the first last August and then again last week.
She said some of those who died were well known around Dublin.
"These deaths have upset the industry an awful lot," she said. "The recession has hit everyone across the country but there are too many cars on the roads and that is hitting our industry hard.
"There are 11,000 drivers in Dublin now. That is more than in New York for the population," she said.
Taxi unions have been calling for some time for the industry regulator to put a cap on the number of licenses being issued so that drivers can find it easier to make a living.
John Usher from the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation, who said he was aware of nine suicides amongst taxi men in the last year, said a lot of drivers had seen their cars or houses re-possessed.
Last night’s silent candlelight vigil was addressed by representatives from suicide support organisation Console.
Organisers said they hoped their action would draw the Government’s attention to the tragedies which the industry had suffered.
Anyone who needs support should contact Console’s 1Life suicide helpline on 1800 247100.
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FN don't realise or else don't give a bollicks about
Plenty of drivers are day drivers and don't qualify for any bonuses
Not all night drivers work long enough to do 15 jobs or 15 jobs for just one app to get a bonus
A lot of drivers don't want their cars destroyed by FN multi coloured stickers making their cars look like a joke in their driveway.
There are other rival apps and some of the Taxi phone companies still exist and most people can still hail off the streets so hence not all the jobs on their platform are covered but do get covered elsewhere.
Boiling drivers pi$$ by showing them a job right beside them for a millisecond only to give it to a stickered car probably 10 minutes away and then offering the same driver jobs 20 minutes away from them.
As Jimmy Cricket says "There's more"
And before you say it I have voted with my feet. ::fds ::fds
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FN should introduce surge pricing and, ideally, share at least some of the surcharges with drivers as bonuses.
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FN should introduce surge pricing and, ideally, share at least some of the surcharges with drivers as bonuses.
They've already god rid of most of our tips with their poxy 1 Euro surcharge which makes a tip unlikely where it was commonplace. ::fds ::fds
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Because I only used to use the one App I was always a "Gold star" driver apparently. Now I have two Apps I rarely pass bronze status.
I've noticed quite an increase in people using BOLT as against FN. After the FN quest ended I had 2/10 jobs completed.
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Because I only used to use the one App I was always a "Gold star" driver apparently. Now I have two Apps I rarely pass bronze status.
I've noticed quite an increase in people using BOLT as against FN. After the FN quest ended I had 2/10 jobs completed.
If yeh don't have the stickers you're pissing into the wind.
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Because I only used to use the one App I was always a "Gold star" driver apparently. Now I have two Apps I rarely pass bronze status.
I've noticed quite an increase in people using BOLT as against FN. After the FN quest ended I had 2/10 jobs completed.
If yeh don't have the stickers you're pissing into the wind.
True Marky....always amazes me how quick those airport jobs get whipped off the screen,they have to be sitting around obviously have themselves busy....personally I'd rather do multiple short hops than tie myself up waiting for 29mins on a job that'll bring you to a place where there's hundreds of other taxi's with little hope of getting a fare out of there....unless it's an Uber....you'll always get a job within a very short time if you do a fare to the airport with them.
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Not sure what yisser expect or are used to earning these days but the last time I dipped into Free Now I found myself faced with paying in excess of €7.50/hour freight... and that's only working a quarter of a county only taking work from residential addresses.
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FN don't realise or else don't give a bollicks about
Plenty of drivers are day drivers and don't qualify for any bonuses
Not all night drivers work long enough to do 15 jobs or 15 jobs for just one app to get a bonus
A lot of drivers don't want their cars destroyed by FN multi coloured stickers making their cars look like a joke in their driveway.
There are other rival apps and some of the Taxi phone companies still exist and most people can still hail off the streets so hence not all the jobs on their platform are covered but do get covered elsewhere.
Boiling drivers pi$$ by showing them a job right beside them for a millisecond only to give it to a stickered car probably 10 minutes away and then offering the same driver jobs 20 minutes away from them.
As Jimmy Cricket says "There's more"
And before you say it I have voted with my feet. ::fds ::fds
Fair play to you markey, I haven't used mytaxi since 2 years BC and I don't miss it, I don't use any of the apps out there and I get along fine working days
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Not sure what yisser expect or are used to earning these days but the last time I dipped into Free Now I found myself faced with paying in excess of €7.50/hour freight... and that's only working a quarter of a county only taking work from residential addresses.
Switch it off
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FN don't realise or else don't give a bollicks about
Plenty of drivers are day drivers and don't qualify for any bonuses
Not all night drivers work long enough to do 15 jobs or 15 jobs for just one app to get a bonus
A lot of drivers don't want their cars destroyed by FN multi coloured stickers making their cars look like a joke in their driveway.
There are other rival apps and some of the Taxi phone companies still exist and most people can still hail off the streets so hence not all the jobs on their platform are covered but do get covered elsewhere.
Boiling drivers pi$$ by showing them a job right beside them for a millisecond only to give it to a stickered car probably 10 minutes away and then offering the same driver jobs 20 minutes away from them.
As Jimmy Cricket says "There's more"
And before you say it I have voted with my feet. ::fds ::fds
Fair play to you markey, I haven't used mytaxi since 2 years BC and I don't miss it, I don't use any of the apps out there and I get along fine working days
That's because you work a Fookin 18 wheeler fer poxy Aldi/Lidl !!
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Not sure what yisser expect or are used to earning these days but the last time I dipped into Free Now I found myself faced with paying in excess of €7.50/hour freight... and that's only working a quarter of a county only taking work from residential addresses.
A Nifty an hour is hardly to be sneezed at !
And Pick and Choose your jobs to boot !!
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Fifty an hour gross isn't worth a bollix if yer mechanic is charging you more than fifty an hour to fix your four wheeled money pit.
This needs to be said in case any new entrants are looking in and being misled.
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I guess my point is that my experience differs somewhat from MMWs and, as previously stated, I don't cover prebookings, airport pick ups or any pub/hotel work. Given that I rarely (if ever) have priority and I'm not an ambassador it's safe to assume my freight/earnings is very much at the lower end of the scale. There must be a large fortune to be had off street work but I don't come across much of it on my watch.
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FN don't realise or else don't give a bollicks about
Plenty of drivers are day drivers and don't qualify for any bonuses
Not all night drivers work long enough to do 15 jobs or 15 jobs for just one app to get a bonus
A lot of drivers don't want their cars destroyed by FN multi coloured stickers making their cars look like a joke in their driveway.
There are other rival apps and some of the Taxi phone companies still exist and most people can still hail off the streets so hence not all the jobs on their platform are covered but do get covered elsewhere.
Boiling drivers pi$$ by showing them a job right beside them for a millisecond only to give it to a stickered car probably 10 minutes away and then offering the same driver jobs 20 minutes away from them.
As Jimmy Cricket says "There's more"
And before you say it I have voted with my feet. ::fds ::fds
Fair play to you markey, I haven't used mytaxi since 2 years BC and I don't miss it, I don't use any of the apps out there and I get along fine working days
That's because you work a Fookin 18 wheeler fer poxy Aldi/Lidl !!
Do I ?
That's news to me
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I drove as Freenow Executive, until they dropped a nice email basically telling us to fuck off with a weeks notice. Bet their kicking themselves now that they dont have enough drivers, who keep the app on at all times.
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Last Year, Brian Trundle, our lucky FREE NOW driver who completed 200 trips in December was chosen at random by a fellow driver, and drove home in a brand new MG ZS Exclusive worth €37,695. Check out the video below:
Brian Trundle, witha name like that you'd expect him to drive a steam roller. 8)
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Brian Trundle, eh? Funny how the car HE allegedly won is attached to a plate owned by Mr. Fox (T19190)... the Mr. Fox that owns and rents out many taxis that is, not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now.
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Brian Trundle, eh? Funny how the car HE allegedly won is attached to a plate owned by Mr. Fox (T19190)... the Mr. Fox that owns and rents out many taxis that is, not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now.
The Foxs' Covert...operations! 8)
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Brian Trundle, eh? Funny how the car HE allegedly won is attached to a plate owned by Mr. Fox (T19190)... the Mr. Fox that owns and rents out many taxis that is, not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now.
Strangely, there's a Philip Fox working in Newmarket, next door to a MVLO who likes to pose in a chauffeurs cap.
(https://i.postimg.cc/7CSh69cy/disclaimer.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/7CSh69cy)
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So...did Mr Tumble actually get the leccy car or wha?
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Normally when something is in short supply, the price goes up. Instead of increasing bus driver salaries, they're importing yellow-packs from abroad to keep the wages low >:(
Yuv just described "globalisation" watty ....at least the
main purpose behind it...
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Do you want to hear a Free Now joke?
Its free
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Do you want to hear a Free Now joke?
Its free lol
Now....or later?
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So...did Mr Tumble actually get the leccy car or wha?
He gets to drive one, T19190, at least. He obviously enetered into some kind of arrangement with Mr. Fox (the Mr. Fox who rents out many taxis not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now) and/or Mr. Fox (the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who rents out many taxis) - presumably after the result of the raffle was published.
It might be more interesting or at least as interesting to know who trousered what portion of the NTA grant money - Mr. Trundle, Mr. Fox, Mr. Fox or Free Now?
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I thought he just got to stand beside one for a photo op.....for Free Now!!
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So...did Mr Tumble actually get the leccy car or wha?
He gets to drive one, T19190, at least. He obviously enetered into some kind of arrangement with Mr. Fox (the Mr. Fox who rents out many taxis not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now) and/or Mr. Fox (the Mr. Fox who runs Free Now not to be confused with the Mr. Fox who rents out many taxis) - presumably after the result of the raffle was published.
It might be more interesting or at least as interesting to know who trousered what portion of the NTA grant money - Mr. Trundle, Mr. Fox, Mr. Fox or Free Now?
They way yur talkin yid swear it was rigged or sumtin
Fuk sake ...don't need daft rofl...
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Am I having a fever dream or what?
What happened to the O'Neills /Free Car draw this summer?
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https://www.free-now.com/ie/oneills-terms-and-conditions/ (https://www.free-now.com/ie/oneills-terms-and-conditions/)
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https://www.free-now.com/ie/ev-and-oneills-giveaway-july-and-august-2022/ (https://www.free-now.com/ie/ev-and-oneills-giveaway-july-and-august-2022/)
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Am I having a fever dream or what?
What happened to the O'Neills /Free Car draw this summer?
I qualified fer the O'Neills offer and put in me small fellas soccer club, never heard anything about the draw or the winners announcement ever again.
In hindsight I regretted entering the raffle, I could just imagine the state of the clothing they supplied decked out with the FN logo from head to toe.
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...... It might be more interesting or at least as interesting to know who trousered what portion of the NTA grant money - Mr. Trundle, Mr. Fox, Mr. Fox or Free Now?
I would hazard a guess that after the raffle is drawn, then FN buy the car fer the winner using his name and badge number and qualify fer all the dealer and NTA grants on his behalf. FN get the grants and the driver gets a free'ish full wrap EV with a load of T&C's.
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Recently my girlfriend asked me if I was having sex behind her back and I replied, ‘Yes, who did you think it was?’
ANYMORE FREE NOW JOKES
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Recently my girlfriend asked me if I was having sex behind her back and I replied, ‘Yes, who did you think it was?’
ANYMORE FREE NOW JOKES
rofl rofl rofl