Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Rat Catcher on February 11, 2023, 02:37:59 pm
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Got a job last night in Darndale from Free Now with the destination given as Dublin Airport Pick Up Zone 18. When the lad got in he says he wanted to go to the city centre. Now it's not the first time DAP has been incorrectly specified as the desto from those parts but they're usually local jobs so don't bother me. However, last evening I thought fuck that for a lark and told your man, pointing to me screen, that I'm here for Joe (not actual name). That's me, says he... No, says I, I'm looking for the Joe that's going to Dublin Airport... arr I just put that in 'cos ewes take ages if I say town, etc... that was silly, says I, the cunts only gave it to me 'cos I've a prebooking at the Airport in 19 minutes. Anywaysanall, I told him I'd leave him on the main road where he could flag a taxi or re-hailo with the correct or no destination specified and cancelled the job as "incorrect passenger"... happened that there was a lad using my layby so I left him there, not sure if the other lad took him or not - I only noticed that he was black or of mixed race as he got out.
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Not rascist just a little bit dodgy, the booking, and possibly the client I mean. I would have taken him to the city if I assessed his character as ok, if not I would have done as you did..... whatever the skin type.
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Not racist at all. You met a unreliable potential passenger that you couldn't trust. He'd already lied to you once. How could you trust whether he'd pay you once you got to town. Or give you counterfeit money if you asked for the money upfront?
You should probably tell FN though in case the story ends up on Joe Duffy or something. Once they understand your position, they might reward you with an Ambassadorship for dropping the liar on the Dual Carriageway.
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Don't think that the lying was that significan on it's own, seems a valid enough trick if you think that it's the only way to town. One often sees street flags who deliberately stand on your side of the road, and then turn you around to go back.
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It was more a frame of mind thing than anything else. I was pretty sure it wasn't an airport job when I took it which put me in a cantankerous humour. If I'm honest there was probably no good reason not to take him to the city aside from the fact thet I didn't want to go to the city and wouldn't have taken the job if it said city. As BS alludes to, specifying DAP as the desto is an increasingly common "trick" deployed by clients in that general geographical area. In fact, only a week or so ago, a colleague/competitor advised me to beware of Carrs Lane or Malahide Road (Campions end) to DAP as they're invariably local jobs and often Cara Park.
Anywaysanall, I think my "guilt" arose mainly because of the colleague/competitor using my layby. I couldn't drive past an empty taxi with the roof sign illuminated having told the client I'd drop him somewhere he could get a taxi. The isssue then becomes the colleague/competitor knowing I dumped the client on him and, without knowing why, probably turned him away.
I know a lot of my colleagues/competitors who are white and Irish by accident of birth don't knowingly pick up immigrants. In fact, I recall an amusing conversation with one of my Free Now regulars... a quiet lad, sits in the back (even before COVID '19 anall) and rarely engages in conversation other than do you want anything in the shop kinda thing says to me you know your man, Bill (not real name) the immigrant (paraphrased) from a specified area, he thinks your filth. Why's that, says I... arr he's paranoid, he was out doing a bit one night and every time he hailoed a taxi you turned up (made me recall him cancelling for no apparent reason on the last - possibly 6th or 7th - hailo on the night in question) so he thinks he was being tracked anall... sure you know yourself, says I, I work around here most evenings and with him being an immigrant anall most of the lads would have him blocked... sure I know that, says he, I told him ifn you were filth you'd be driving a better car than this... none taken, says I!
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i've noticed a surge in phoney airport runs the past while.
maybe they've always been there because i've traditionally hated going up there and am reluctant to accept airport hailos.
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DAP -vs- Cara Park... I know which one I would and wouldn't accept.
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friend my hole.
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It was more a frame of mind thing than anything else. I was pretty sure it wasn't an airport job when I took it which put me in a cantankerous humour. If I'm honest there was probably no good reason not to take him to the city aside from the fact thet I didn't want to go to the city and wouldn't have taken the job if it said city. As BS alludes to, specifying DAP as the desto is an increasingly common "trick" deployed by clients in that general geographical area. In fact, only a week or so ago, a colleague/competitor advised me to beware of Carrs Lane or Malahide Road (Campions end) to DAP as they're invariably local jobs and often Cara Park.
Anywaysanall, I think my "guilt" arose mainly because of the colleague/competitor using my layby. I couldn't drive past an empty taxi with the roof sign illuminated having told the client I'd drop him somewhere he could get a taxi. The isssue then becomes the colleague/competitor knowing I dumped the client on him and, without knowing why, probably turned him away.
I know a lot of my colleagues/competitors who are white and Irish by accident of birth don't knowingly pick up immigrants. In fact, I recall an amusing conversation with one of my Free Now regulars... a quiet lad, sits in the back (even before COVID '19 anall) and rarely engages in conversation other than do you want anything in the shop kinda thing says to me you know your man, Bill (not real name) the immigrant (paraphrased) from a specified area, he thinks your filth. Why's that, says I... arr he's paranoid, he was out doing a bit one night and every time he hailoed a taxi you turned up (made me recall him cancelling for no apparent reason on the last - possibly 6th or 7th - hailo on the night in question) so he thinks he was being tracked anall... sure you know yourself, says I, I work around here most evenings and with him being an immigrant anall most of the lads would have him blocked... sure I know that, says he, I told him ifn you were filth you'd be driving a better car than this... none taken, says I!
In O'Tooles, across from yor loading bay/bus stop, do you ever notice the same shyster working the club?
He's not registered on the App. I'd report him but I f**king hate the skobes coming out of the kip, he's welcome to them.
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Memory serves me correctly the O’Tooles / Ayrfield used to have a unofficial rank in the car park during the austere years, on a quiet Wednesday night it could make or break your night with the quick local runs, I’m sure RC can confirm if there is still a rank in operation.
Re FN airport runs; the latest departing flight generally no later than midnight, handy rule of thumb is to be wary of job offers later than 8/9pm.
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I don't use Blunden Drive much these days, SB...only if Priorswood Rd and Northside SC are occupied really. Used it more a few summers ago when I was starting in the afternoon. There's two laybys there, the larger one containing a marked bus stop but with plenty of unmarked space, the smaller with no markings that I'm aware of. I don't think there's any specified loading bay there.
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Memory serves me correctly the O’Tooles / Ayrfield used to have a unofficial rank in the car park during the austere years, on a quiet Wednesday night it could make or break your night with the quick local runs, I’m sure RC can confirm if there is still a rank in operation.
Re FN airport runs; the latest departing flight generally no later than midnight, handy rule of thumb is to be wary of job offers later than 8/9pm.
Frank [if memory serves] charges fixed fares and doesn't run the meter. And you're right about the 'port.
Primrose Grove to the airport/ contact name Deano, or Wayno doesn't ring true! 8)
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There's one or two DAP workers around there who do night shifts and (sometimes) commute by taxi. Campions or Inish Fails to DAP at 23:xx is somewhat less likely.
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There's one or two DAP workers around there who do night shifts and (sometimes) commute by taxi. Campions or Inish Fails to DAP at 23:xx is somewhat less likely.
Most of the ASU workers travel around 03.30 to start work at 04.00. Check-in desks open at 04.00.
Last night I had an airport call from the corpo houses on Edenmore Avenue beside the Concorde. What struck me as unusual was it was 01.07 and the airport specified was in Greece, the contact was "Sabrina". As they say on Pop Idol "That's a NO from me Dawg". 8)
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The cleaning crew seem to go in between 23:00 and 00:00.
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friend my hole.
Like the matches.
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The cleaning crew seem to go in between 23:00 and 00:00.
They never did when I worked there, I'd guess DAA farmed out the shite jobs to save a few shekels. I'm sure when all the old nepotistic norms were challenged they brought in Emerald and Noonans with new Irish working for buttons and fewer rights. But again, I was there when Aer Rianta was running the show before being branded DAA - Dublin Airport Authority - responsible for Shannon and Cork.
Thankfully, I got a job with Aer Lingus and away from Aer Rianta, a horrible kip.
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... yet ended up driving drunks home from pubs when the "new Irish" drivers don't want to... How do you spell irony?
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... yet ended up driving drunks home from pubs when the "new Irish" drivers don't want to... How do you spell irony?
A bit like steely, don't ask me Y.
I never had you down as "New Irish" who knew?
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I'm a second generation migrant, does that count? However, I don't work after midnight very often... I think most that do so are first generation migrants.
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I'm a second generation migrant, does that count? However, I don't work after midnight very often... I think most that do so are first generation migrants.
Yur at it again ratti... ::fds fuk sake I taut I explained it before .....a migrant is a transitory travellin worker hungry to better himself an breaks his bollix an moves on wen a better opportunity comes along or wen he/she/they has enough money to buy a gaff an stuff at home ....an immigrant comes in with the intention of stayin an gettin a free gaff an stuff
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Occi you need to simplify .An Immigrant is somebody who is offended by everything a Migrant is somebody who gets on with it .
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Occi you need to simplify .An Immigrant is somebody who is offended by everything a Migrant is somebody who gets on with it .
Me ma is givin out fuk Johnny...thers this huge big Nigerian after gettin a free gaff beside her an he's out the back garden Roarin down the phone all the time an he's louder that the 2 beside him who's always havin rows an threatenin to kill each other all the time ..me da says he's always in the Bookies Roaring aswell ....noisy cnut
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My own mother is like that, Octy. I'd say her sister back in their old country could just open her window and hear every word without any need for the telephone.
The best of intentions can change with time. My parents just grew to love the country... With free health (although I was born in Mount Carmel), free education (although I did attend a fee paying preparatory school), warm welcoming natives, wonderful scenery within a short drive, etc... what's not to like, at least from a migrant perspective?
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My own mother is like that, Octy. I'd say her sister back in their old country could just open her window and hear every word without any need for the telephone.
The best of intentions can change with time. My parents just grew to love the country... With free health (although I was born in Mount Carmel), free education (although I did attend a fee paying preparatory school), warm welcoming natives, wonderful scenery within a short drive, etc... what's not to like, at least from a migrant perspective?
I FUCKING KNEW IT !You are really a Southsider .
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I was born on the Southside cos the parents were given a free gaff in Rathfarnham when they arrived in our green and pleasant land.
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I was born on the Southside cos the parents were given a free gaff in Rathfarnham when they arrived in our green and pleasant land.
If only they stayed there you might of went to a Rugby Playing School and that might of offered some opportunities for a Handsome Kid like yourself .
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Indeed. Alas, they bought their own gaff in Coolock within a year. Father is more of a soccer man anyway. You can't buy class!
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Agh!……….leave ith
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!!!!!
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there's a story in the indo today about a taxi driver who was snared by a phoney airport run. picked the cunt up and he was robbed at knifepoint. the guards arrested him later attempting to do it again at the exact same pickup spot.
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The scumbag is lucky he didn't get a keshie or he would have been the one robbed at knifepoint...
The problem is now we have a whole section of the fleet who don't have permits trying to get back there for an app pick ups.These poxy apps create more problems sometimes than they solve.
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there's a story in the indo today about a taxi driver who was snared by a phoney airport run. picked the cunt up and he was robbed at knifepoint. the guards arrested him later attempting to do it again at the exact same pickup spot.
I assumed it was a FN job FROM the 'port, not from Tallaght:
A robber held up a taxi driver at knifepoint after ordering the cab through an app and posing as a genuine fare to Dublin Airport, it is alleged.
Sean Barrett (25) was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the robbery after gardaí found him later that day outside the same address in another airport-bound taxi without any travel documents or luggage.
Mr Barrett, of Brookview Drive, Tallaght, was refused bail at Dublin District Court and remanded in custody.
Objecting to bail, a garda told Judge Bryan Smyth the alleged victim accepted a fare through the Free Now app and went to a house at Brookview Way, Tallaght, at 3.30am on February 13.
The journey was to be from there to the airport.
When he arrived, the suspect approached the driver’s door brandishing a silver knife with a 10in blade and demanded money. The taxi driver handed over €600 in cash from his wallet and the centre console and the suspect fled through gardens, the garda said.
High quality dashboard CCTV did not capture the robber’s face but audio was heard and his clothing was seen.
The driver told gardaí he had believed it to be a genuine fare when he accepted the job from the app.
Gardaí got the details of the app user who had ordered the taxi. Later that day, at 12.20pm, gardaí saw another taxi parked outside the same address at Brookview Way.
Mr Barrett was the passenger and the driver said he had picked him up and was about to go to the airport.
Mr Barrett lived around the corner and had “no reason” to be getting a taxi from there, the garda said. The phone number used to order both taxis was the same as the number for the phone found on Mr Barrett, he added.
The gardens the robber had escaped through backed almost directly onto the accused’s home, the garda told the court.
Defence barrister Luke O’Higgins said it could not be said there was no logical reason for the accused to have got a taxi from another address. He could have been “out and about”, he said.
Applying for bail, he said the prosecution’s case was “circumstantial at this point”.
The robber’s face was not seen and the accused had no weapon when he was stopped in the other taxi, he added.
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there's a story in the indo today about a taxi driver who was snared by a phoney airport run. picked the cunt up and he was robbed at knifepoint. the guards arrested him later attempting to do it again at the exact same pickup spot.
I assumed it was a FN job FROM the 'port, not from Tallaght:
A robber held up a taxi driver at knifepoint after ordering the cab through an app and posing as a genuine fare to Dublin Airport, it is alleged.
Sean Barrett (25) was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the robbery after gardaí found him later that day outside the same address in another airport-bound taxi without any travel documents or luggage.
Mr Barrett, of Brookview Drive, Tallaght, was refused bail at Dublin District Court and remanded in custody.
Objecting to bail, a garda told Judge Bryan Smyth the alleged victim accepted a fare through the Free Now app and went to a house at Brookview Way, Tallaght, at 3.30am on February 13.
The journey was to be from there to the airport.
When he arrived, the suspect approached the driver’s door brandishing a silver knife with a 10in blade and demanded money. The taxi driver handed over €600 in cash from his wallet and the centre console and the suspect fled through gardens, the garda said.
High quality dashboard CCTV did not capture the robber’s face but audio was heard and his clothing was seen.
The driver told gardaí he had believed it to be a genuine fare when he accepted the job from the app.
Gardaí got the details of the app user who had ordered the taxi. Later that day, at 12.20pm, gardaí saw another taxi parked outside the same address at Brookview Way.
Mr Barrett was the passenger and the driver said he had picked him up and was about to go to the airport.
Mr Barrett lived around the corner and had “no reason” to be getting a taxi from there, the garda said. The phone number used to order both taxis was the same as the number for the phone found on Mr Barrett, he added.
The gardens the robber had escaped through backed almost directly onto the accused’s home, the garda told the court.
Defence barrister Luke O’Higgins said it could not be said there was no logical reason for the accused to have got a taxi from another address. He could have been “out and about”, he said.
Applying for bail, he said the prosecution’s case was “circumstantial at this point”.
The robber’s face was not seen and the accused had no weapon when he was stopped in the other taxi, he added.
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The robber’s face was not seen and the accused had no weapon when he was stopped in the other taxi, he added.
His finger/thumbprint will be on the seat buckle.
Notice:
This is not the same Sean Barrett that brought about deregulation from his ivory tower.
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Immigrant?