Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on January 13, 2023, 05:25:51 pm
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i noticed a problem after the last meter fare update. When the meter was fully off it would beep and come on with PRG on it and then turn off. i had a very loose connection with wunna the wires in the glovebox once and that was the cause. i checked all the wires and evertin is brand new. i thought after the last fare update the meter was runnin a little internal maintenance or diagnostic sporadically or sumtin when it knew it was off and not being used but it's never done the beepin or done the PRG or gone blank mid fare until last night.
Drove by these 4 yokes and the one center stage was flappin it's arms up and down and motioning for me to spin the car round in the opposite direction. This is a cunt now if ever there was one i saysta to myself. I pull in amongst heavy traffic and i can't gerra turn. i'm stopped and boxed in by traffic. He's gonna say how come ye did'nt turdin the car round for us and sure enough he does. Fat fuck get's in the front the surly aulfla in the back, the aulwan and the fat fuck's girlfriend who was like a bleedin ukranian. "Busy no." I knew he was a cunt. I looked at the meter and said i cudda sworn i started it. Went to start it again and it was dead. Bollockssssssssssssss. I'll just charge them a flat 15 i saysta myself. "It's great to talk to a taxi driver without needin an interpreter." Interpret this ye fat cunt i felt like sayin while fuckin squeezin my mickey at the yoke. Ocean drive by the Lighthouse Family was on the radio. "He's a great singer is'nt he." He is yes. Super song. The black fella don't know his name. "Ye can't say black fella anymore". Why the fuck not ye cunt ye. "He sang Batman." Pardon? The yoke is really irritatin me now. He sang what? "He sang Batman. Kiss from a Rose." That was Seal ye fuckin cunt ye. Anudder fuckin great song. Just pullin inta their estate the meter beeps and comes back on with 4.40 on it. Aw Jaysus the mouthpiece is gonna say 4.40 that's grand. The three yokes in the back got out without a word of thank you. Dirt. He digs himself outta the car and i quickly knock the meter off. Now that's 15 please squire. Had anudder little fiddle with the wires earlier but evertin is rock solid and i could'nt duplicate the fault i could'nt.
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Semitron sounds like a horny transformer.
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laffin.
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Semitron sounds like a horny transformer.
Yeah one that drives a taxi but can't get a full blown horn!!
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Get it fixed DMG, ya know it will give ya problems again another night and most likely when ya really don't want them...
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My semitron was switching off in the middle of the journey, then comes back on at the same fare it turned off. Later it blew a fuse. Got it fixed and hasn’t happened again
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My semitron was switching off in the middle of the journey, then comes back on at the same fare it turned off. Later it blew a fuse. Got it fixed and hasn’t happened again
Did the seal need to be broken ?
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No the meter fuse is somewhere under the glovebox.
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If a fuse had blown it wouldn't come back on as suggested. More likely dodgy wiring. In fact, you're probably lucky it didn't start a fire.
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meter beeped and went dead once or twice last week and was totally dead yesterday. i fiddled with the wiring and noticed that when i press down hard on the yellow 5 amp blade fuse i replicated the problem. new fuse problem solved. the damage to the top was from trying to pull it out with a little pliers.
(https://i.postimg.cc/C11708sJ/20230727-190606.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LqcLBn7Z)
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Where did you get it Ken in Scan ?
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yes but the stuff was transferred over from my old car.
i was having problems with the central locking i remember and when i got the car back the meter was'nt working. they'd been fiddling with the meter gear and it was'nt connected back up properly.
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On mine it wont let you clear a fare if the car is moving .
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same with mine.
ye know when ye do be goin the wrong way it would be nice to be able to pause the meter while you're moving.
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same with mine.
ye know when ye do be goin the wrong way it would be nice to be able to pause the meter while you're moving.
i can pause it just sometimes it wont let me clear a fare if I am moving .
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i can't pause/stop/end fare while car is moving.
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meter beeped and went dead once or twice last week and was totally dead yesterday. i fiddled with the wiring and noticed that when i press down hard on the yellow 5 amp blade fuse i replicated the problem. new fuse problem solved. the damage to the top was from trying to pull it out with a little pliers.
(https://i.postimg.cc/C11708sJ/20230727-190606.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LqcLBn7Z)
The hands of a Surgeon.... :D :D :D
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Has anyone ever figured out how to deactivate the printer on one of these meters wothout it showing the error message.I hate wasting all that paper for nothing.
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In case anyone is wondering I solved this printer issue by putting tape over the little light sensor inside the printer.Now of someone asks me for a paper receipt I can reninstall the paper roll and print it out like normal.Pain in the hole having to go look for paper when it's busy.
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In case anyone is wondering I solved this printer issue by putting tape over the little light sensor inside the printer.Now of someone asks me for a paper receipt I can reninstall the paper roll and print it out like normal.Pain in the hole having to go look for paper when it's busy.
Can you do it with a Hale Microtax-05?
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I dunno SB if all the printers work the same way.Whatever mechanism it's using to detect the paper on yours it should be possible to work around it.
I'm surprised the NTA still mandate this printing now that most of us have gone digital with the apps.
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I dunno SB if all the printers work the same way.Whatever mechanism it's using to detect the paper on yours it should be possible to work around it.
I'm surprised the NTA still mandate this printing now that most of us have gone digital with the apps.
Like RC, I'm on the old analog printer. It sounds like a dwarf punching an old typewriter in the glovebox.
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I've a semitron meter but the printer that came with mine has a little door that the roll goes into. If it's loosely open it doesn't print, it makes the noise as if it thinks there's paper there but doesn't need paper in it. The meter doesn't seem to notice what's going on so I just close the door if I need a receipt and pop it back open when they get out. A roll does me about a year.
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U sound like Ken Horse rofl
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That's just about the worst bit of stick I've ever gotten, ever, anywhere. Holy shit, where did that come from?
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That's just about the worst bit of stick I've ever gotten, ever, anywhere. Holy shit, where did that come from?
Savin on receipt rolls ....I mean how much are they a year ? ...anyway yur supposed to be keeping receipts ( I know ) as i tink ratti pointed out a while ago .......I use them for wrapping me chewing gum an scrapin bird shit off me windos
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Ah right, I get ya. You were merely pointing out ken's meanness and trying to project that shit onto me. Its nothing to do with saving money but rather having to get the rolls. A 12 pack will pretty much do me a decade.
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I've a semitron meter but the printer that came with mine has a little door that the roll goes into. If it's loosely open it doesn't print, it makes the noise as if it thinks there's paper there but doesn't need paper in it. The meter doesn't seem to notice what's going on so I just close the door if I need a receipt and pop it back open when they get out. A roll does me about a year.
Taxi driver operating illegally;
Failure to print and offer a taximeter receipt in the prescribed form to a passenger upon completion of a journey in a taxi. €100 fine.
https://www.nationaltransport.ie/taxi/compliance-enforcement/prosecutions-and-fixed-payment-offences/ (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/taxi/compliance-enforcement/prosecutions-and-fixed-payment-offences/)
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I ask them if they want a receipt, if they don't, which 99% of the time they don't, then I don't print it. You're telling me I should be fined whilst all the while booting down the road, apping on yer phone doing illegal u turns. You're some bleedin tuplip you know that.
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And the dubs are gonna kick yisser country ass all over the shop today. Again.
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I ask them if they want a receipt, if they don't, which 99% of the time they don't, then I don't print it. You're telling me I should be fined whilst all the while booting down the ........
Yes, you are operating illegally ?
As fer booting down the road, your the one with speeding penalty points, NOT ME !
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I've no points on my license Ken, not one. Zero, zilch, nada. If anyone should be fined and banned for no less than 6 months it's mongs driving down the road interacting with their phones. Pure madness how it's allowed to carry on.
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And don't get me started on idiots who do u turns into oncoming traffic. Mongs the lot of them. That behavior may be acceptable down in bog land but up here in the civilised world we are considerate of other road users. We'll most of us are. A few like to rank up wherever they want, blocking everywhere but that's still not as bad as your dangerous activities.
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I've no points on my license Ken, not one. Zero, zilch, nada. If anyone should be fined and banned for no less than 6 months it's mongs driving down the road interacting with their phones. Pure madness how it's allowed to carry on.
Good fer you, the last speeding offense must be recently gone off your record ?
And all the 'Eh'hem' other stuff too ?
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All the other 'eh'hem' stuff has nothing to do with my driving licence or standards Ken. You may as well say but what about that fine you got for fishing down the river out of season. It has nothing to do with this. You're clutching at Straws again. As usual.
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As the Dubs stroll off into the sunset with their well deserved prize.
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In case anyone is wondering I solved this printer issue by putting tape over the little light sensor inside the printer.Now of someone asks me for a paper receipt I can reninstall the paper roll and print it out like normal.Pain in the hole having to go look for paper when it's busy.
Can you do it with a Hale Microtax-05?
I have given up trying to find a way to do that with the same meter, I used to have a switch on it, but it was ilegal and the meter calibrator fella would not work on an illegal meter so had to take it out and never bothered putting it back in, also I don't think it would pass suitability these days.
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So you say I'm acting illegally by not printing out a receipt for every fare even though I offer one yet you've given up trying to do what I've managed to achieve? You're some can of piss fu you know that.
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You can get free rolls from Freenows office,so who cares if you throw away yards of the shite every week?
(Or in the case of some of you lazy shites... centimetres)
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All the other 'eh'hem' stuff has nothing to do with my driving licence or standards Ken. You may as well say but what about that fine you got for fishing down the river out of season. It has nothing to do with this. You're clutching at Straws again. As usual.
is Ken a fisherman ? Tell us Horse about that one
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I don't know if Kenneth the sailer man is also a Fisher man octy. He was trying to say, unsuccessfully I might add, that the illegal (in the eyes of the law) activities I engaged in all those years ago could somehow impact my driving licence or standard of driving. The man is clearly nuts. I'd say if he was a Fisher man he'd have to have an app to show him where to cast his rod, what bait to use, how fast or slow to reel in his spinner and what time to go poxy home at. Born loser.
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vandriver:
"You can get free rolls from Freenows office,so who cares if you throw away yards of the shite every week?
(Or in the case of some of you lazy shites... centimetres) "
When I'm putting in a bit of work the paper takes up too much space once it comes off the roll.In me new jammer it fills the glovebox in no time.Just turns it into another bin to empty.
@Belker the printer still works normally.The meter just doesn't stall anymore on "Printer busy" when it runs empty on paper stopping me from taking another fare.
By the way lads after reading the manual on the meter... this is a setting that can be removed very easily.In other countries the taxi drivers have to select the option to print a receipt instead of having it on by default.What fukkin wanker thought this would be a great idea?
My understanding of the regulations is we have to offer a receipt but not necessarily print one out after every job.
Suitability may require it but it's their interpretation of the rules AFAIK.Very easily changed.
Besides the fact that I'm a hungry fuk I dont like offering Freenow free advertising to my other street/app passengers by taking the 'free' rolls option.It's bad enough that street hails have almost disappeared on the day shift.
The price of printer rolls has doubled too since I started driving ...nobody ever notices this shit.Maybe it's because I started during the bad years that I'm more carefull about these things.When things take a shit yis will care again.
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From the NTA initial suitability manual.
Note the word capable below...
My interpretation is it should be an option to print automatically.Maybe I'm deliberately misinterpretating the words though..because it suits me.
"A printer shall be fitted, wired to the taximeter and capable
of automatically printing a receipt including the details of
the vehicle registration and the licence number."
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You can get free rolls from Freenows office,so who cares if you throw away yards of the shite every week?
(Or in the case of some of you lazy shites... centimetres)
You can buy them online Van D from;
https://www.discounttillrolls.ie/taxi-supplies (https://www.discounttillrolls.ie/taxi-supplies)
they work out at about .60 cent per roll.
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All the other 'eh'hem' stuff has nothing to do with my driving licence or standards Ken. You may as well say but what about that fine you got for fishing down the river out of season. ...
is Ken a fisherman ? Tell us Horse about that one
I was kinda wondering about that post myself ??
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I was merely making a point that what I was doing would have about as much significance to what we were talking about as being caught with no fishing permit or no TV license yet fu tried to inject it into the topic to try and portray me in a bad light. Pathetic stuff really. By the way fu, do you have a TV license?