Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on March 31, 2023, 11:53:30 pm
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what is this dirt i'm now seeing on the freenow.
do cunts have a new option to get us to deliver packages for them.
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Means fookall afaik.
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ok. the new app redesign is deadly though. very slick lookin. likin it a lot.
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ok. the new app redesign is deadly though. very slick lookin. likin it a lot.
It's shit ...and ther riding you up the hole
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If they start that courier shit bear in mind YOU are responsible until its delivered and get a name --so if you leave the car --parking charge -time etc and IQ req to deliver becomes chargeable --they will baulk ,in my mind 30 yoyos min charge !
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You can't use the bus lanes with just a parcel so e30 sounds about right!
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We aren't allowed carry packages?
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what is this dirt i'm now seeing on the freenow.
do cunts have a new option to get us to deliver packages for them.
What makes you think the Courier jobs are for you .They might be about to launch a Courier section on the App same as their rent a Bike .All the services in the one GREAT App .Expect a food delivery section soon .Free Now the TRANSPORT APP .
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Ide do them all the time ....don't hav to talk to apes ( the weather is bad isn't? Are ya busy ? )
Yucan play yur own music volume up ...scratch yur goolies without fear of accusations of playin wit yurself ...pick yur nose , fart , an all on the meter ....lovely
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We aren't allowed carry packages?
Yes, but technically, you can only use the bus lanes when you're transporting people. If it's a package/envelope, you can't!
Edit:
NTA Taxi Bible (Ed. 7.1, 2018 version)
Use of bus lanes by taxis
- The Road Traffic Regulations 1997 permit taxis in the course of business to use normal (with-flow) bus lanes.
- A taxi can use a normal (with-flow) bus lane only while it is operating as an SPSV – carrying apassenger, on the way to pick up a pre-booked customer, or plying for hire.
- Taxis must not use bus lanes if they are not operating as an SPSV – for example, driving home at the end of a shift, travelling on personal business, or transporting only goods and not passengers.
- Taxis are not allowed to use contra-flow bus lanes (in which traffic travels in the opposite direction to the traffic beside it) under any circumstances.
- Hackneys and limousines are not permitted to use bus lanes.
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We aren't allowed carry packages?
Yes, but technically, you can only use the bus lanes when you're transporting people. If it's a package/envelope, you can't!
Am I wrong in thinking that one can use the bus lanes "on the way to a job"?
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I edited my answer while you were typing...
- A taxi can use a normal (with-flow) bus lane only while it is operating as an SPSV – carrying apassenger, on the way to pick up a pre-booked customer, or plying for hire.
- Taxis must not use bus lanes if they are not operating as an SPSV – for example, driving home at the end of a shift, travelling on personal business, or transporting only goods and not passengers.
Obviously you'd want to meet a cop in a really bad mood to be caught. My warning was more about people who throw an envelope at you and think you'll get it there in 5 mins 'because bus lanes'. Or someone could go ballistic if you refused them because of an envelope on the front seat?
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A traditional base with which I worked years ago would always try to arrange a passenger job to go along with the package job.
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Sometimes a taxi is easier to get on an app than a courier.I doubt that they are time sensitive deliveries unless someone is waiting for keys or something important.
All the jobs I've gotten that say courier trip are just passenger jobs.It's just another fuk up with the software.The wankers at Freenow keep changing things without any consultation.
Any pictures of that scratch on yer roof DMG...
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Is there a special symbol for courier jobs? Can't say I've seen one yet?
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Now that ya reminded me Watty has anyone ever been done or heard of anyone getting done in a taxi for driving in the contraflow bus lanes?
I'm starting to think it's not a real thing as every weekend I see some foreign lads bating down the contra flow on Earslfort terrace.The passenger must think I'm going the longer legal way to squeeze more money out of them.
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watty:
Is there a special symbol for courier jobs? Can't say I've seen one yet?
I don't remember a symbol but there used to be an option on the older version of the app to opt in or out of delivery jobs.
Despite what is posted on here we're only paid to drive and can't be done for delivering something unless we know it's something dodgy.
Back when I was a courier there was a gaff in Ballyfernot dialing legit courier companies to deliver drugs.Stupid fukkers.Only lasted a week or two before they intercepted by the cops and raided.
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if you expand the job to see the full details sometimes they say courier job.
they seemta come from this one hotel so i cancel them.
this hotel hazza habit of unloading pissheads from the bar on toppa ye.
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The 'Courier' thing means nothing at the moment. I had 2 over the weekend, 1 instant hail and 1 pre-book instant which some other driver had fired back, both were ordinary customer jobs on account.
Maybe the 1st instant hail customer had used the Reserve taxi option and been charged 3 Euro fer their mistake ??
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I always thought I read in the rules that we couldn't carry packages. I always refuse to carry any.
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There are no rules.Nobody cares what were doing as long as we follow the rules of the road.
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There are no rules.Nobody cares what were doing as long as we follow the rules of the road.
You sure? never get pulled and had your customer searched?
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Yes I have had that.
I'm not sure what yer getting at 1990.I don't care what people are doing as long as I'm getting paid.Better off not knowing.
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Yes I have had that.
I'm not sure what yer getting at 1990.I don't care what people are doing as long as I'm getting paid.Better off not knowing.
what if you start carrying packages for someone say once a week and get pulled. Do you not think you would be a suspect, if it turns out to be drugs?
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No if that was the case there would be no DHL or FED Ex or whatever.It's not the type of work I'd be chasing anyway.Yer not part of the drugs squad so don't be thinking about these things.Do ya think the train driver from Cork to Dublin cares how many potential packages with drugs might be on his trian in the cargo section.
If I was sending drugs around the last cunt I'd be allowing to look after it is some taxi driver.Taxi drivers gossip more than the women.The secret wouldn't be a secret for long.
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No if that was the case there would be no DHL or FED Ex or whatever.It's not the type of work I'd be chasing anyway.Yer not part of the drugs squad so don't be thinking about these things.Do ya think the train driver from Cork to Dublin cares how many potential packages with drugs might be on his trian in the cargo section.
If I was sending drugs around the last cunt I'd be allowing to look after it is some taxi driver.Taxi drivers gossip more than the women.The secret wouldn't be a secret for long.
What about this guy?
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/cabbie-convicted-of-moving-drugs-for-dublin-gang-became-courier-after-driving-for-iranian-hitman/1589040983.html (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/cabbie-convicted-of-moving-drugs-for-dublin-gang-became-courier-after-driving-for-iranian-hitman/1589040983.html)
Someone twice asked me to transport a cake, the fare was 70 euro. they said yeah thats no problem. dodgy?
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I think you're making the mistake of believing what was put in the newspaper.What happens in real life is usually much less interesting.
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I think you're making the mistake of believing what was put in the newspaper.What happens in real life is usually much less interesting.
I know the newspapers add to stories and make stuff up but he was caught moving packages for a drugs gang. How was he to know what was in the packages?
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I'd imagine the Guards would know quick enough that you'd be innocent but they'd still keep you in the station for 24 hours just for the devilment. That loss of 24 hours would be the downer. And the women round my way are professional gossips so they'd work it out quick enough that you got lifted. No smoke without fire 'n all that, they'd be tut-tutting over the hedge.
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Dunno...24 hours listening to one of us..
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rofl
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What happens when a driver gets shot for messing up a delivery... Will Free Now trot out the usual bullshit that they can only ban the gunman from the dead drivers' car leaving him free to hire the rest of the fleet?
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We already know from the newspapers that taxi drivers make excellent drug dealers/couriers etc so FN's approach makes sense. No point in tarring all taxi drivers with the same brush because of one guy's mistake.
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I am just thinking out loud .DID ANY OF YOU GET A COURIER JOB TODAY .?Or are Courier jobs a bit like Irish Soccer Results .Some day some day
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I done one the other day and there was a passenger just going somewhere like all the jobs.
On some of the previous versions of the app you could send a delivery through the passenger app.I've done a handful of those over the years.
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No if that was the case there would be no DHL or FED Ex or whatever.It's not the type of work I'd be chasing anyway.Yer not part of the drugs squad so don't be thinking about these things.Do ya think the train driver from Cork to Dublin cares how many potential packages with drugs might be on his trian in the cargo section.
If I was sending drugs around the last cunt I'd be allowing to look after it is some taxi driver.Taxi drivers gossip more than the women.The secret wouldn't be a secret for long.
What about this guy?
[url]https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/cabbie-convicted-of-moving-drugs-for-dublin-gang-became-courier-after-driving-for-iranian-hitman/1589040983.html[/url] ([url]https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/cabbie-convicted-of-moving-drugs-for-dublin-gang-became-courier-after-driving-for-iranian-hitman/1589040983.html[/url])
Someone twice asked me to transport a cake, the fare was 70 euro. they said yeah thats no problem. dodgy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg) rofl rofl
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We already know from the newspapers that taxi drivers make excellent drug dealers/couriers etc so FN's approach makes sense. No point in tarring all taxi drivers with the same brush because of one guy's mistake.
Shatner's bassoon.
One guy?
ORGANISED CRIME | Two men jailed for seven and four years for roles in large-scale money laundering operation
Lawlor (56) and Hanway (32) were paid wages of up to €5,000 a month for laundering cash for €12m crime gang
L-R: Patrick and Ian Lawlor, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice
L-R: Patrick and Ian Lawlor, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice — © Paddy Cummins - PCPhoto.ie
Ross Hanway
Ross Hanway
L-R: Patrick and Ian Lawlor, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice
L-R: Patrick and Ian Lawlor, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice — © Paddy Cummins - PCPhoto.ie
Ross Hanway
Ross Hanway
Jessica Magee, Fiona Ferguson and Eimear Dodd
Sunday World
Wed 12 Oct 2022 at 18:35
Two men who received monthly wages for their roles in a money laundering operation for a criminal gang which had an income of almost €12 million during 2019 have been handed lengthy prison sentences.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that just under €900,000 was seized by gardaí following a surveillance operation at the home of Patrick Lawlor (56).
Lawlor (56) and Ross Hanway (32) were on Wednesday handed prison sentences of seven years and four years respectively for their roles working for an organised crime gang.
The court heard the men were only involved in money laundering and not in drugs. Lawlor received monthly cash payments of €5,000 while Hanway was initially paid €1,250, which rose to €4,000 by 2019.
When gardaí searched the Lawlor family home, a small amount of drugs and cash was found in the bedroom of Lawlor's son, Ian Lawlor (24). Gardai believe this was a “sole enterprise” unconnected to his father's offences and separate to the garda investigation.
Hanway of The Beeches, Archerstown Demense, Ashbourne, Co Meath, pleaded guilty to possessing €412,000 on May 26, 2020, which was the proceeds of crime.
Patrick Lawlor of Collins Avenue West, Whitehall, Dublin 9 pleaded guilty to possessing €412,000 on May 26, 2020 which was the proceeds of crime.
He also pleaded guilty to possession of €477,370 in cash, £6,920 Sterling, 1,940 Romanian Lei (approximately €400), 187 Ukrainian Hryvnia Lei (approximately €5) and $3,295 US Dollars.
Lawlor Sr further pleaded guilty to possession of an encrypted mobile phone.
Ian Lawlor also of Collins Avenue West pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine, ketamine, MDMA valued at €18,000 and €12,000 in cash on the same date.
L-R: Patrick and Ian Lawlor, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice
L-R: Patrick and Ian Lawlor, pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice — © Paddy Cummins - PCPhoto.ie
The three men have no previous convictions and have not come to garda attention since this offending.
Judge Melanie Greally said “it does not take any leap of imagination to infer” that money seized by gardaí had originated from serious criminal activity.
Judge Greally noted that all three defendants had entered early guilty pleas, co-operated with gardaí, and had no previous convictions.
She said both Hanway and Lawlor Sr received financial rewards for their roles in the money laundering operation. She said Hanway was transporting €412,000 in cash to a truck driver, who would then have taken this money outside the jurisdiction.
Judge Greally said it was an aggravating factor that Hanway was a taxi driver at the time, and had acted as a courier for the criminal group on a number of occasions.
Judge Greally said Hanway would have enjoyed the trust of those higher up the organisation and set a headline sentence of 110 months.
After considering the mitigating factors, she imposed a custodial sentence of four years, with the final two years suspended on strict conditions.
Judge Greally said Lawlor Snr played a “central role” which would have been of “critical importance” to the criminal organisation over a period of several years.
She said Lawlor Sr had received substantial amounts of money for his role, and had accumulated money, which was part of the cash seized by gardaí during the search.
Judge Greally acknowledged that Lawlor Sr had a modest family home, but he also had a significant amount of cash in a frozen bank account and a luxury vehicle.
She set a headline sentence of 12 years for each count of money laundering and four years for the count of possession of an encrypted phone.
Having considered the mitigating factors, Judge Greally imposed a sentence of eight years with the final 12 months suspended on strict conditions.
Judge Greally said Ian Lawlor 's offending was detected during the course of a search of the family home. Lawlor Jr told gardaí he was holding the drugs to reduce a drugs debt and was involved in small scale drugs dealing.
She said Lawlor Jr was a young man from a respectable background, who suffered with mental health difficulties. Lawlor Jr had also taken steps to address his addiction and had strong family support.
Judge Greally set a headline sentence of 54 months. She said the nature of the offending necessitated the imposition of a custodial sentence, though she would give “significant credit” for the mitigating factors and positive steps taken by Lawlor Jr.
She handed Lawlor Jr a three year prison sentence with the final 12 months suspended on strict conditions.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was previously told by Detective Garda Ronan Doolan that ledgers seized by investigating gardaí showed Hanway and Patrick Lawlor were both working for an organised crime gang which had an income of over €12 million during 2019.
The gang, which has operations within and outside the State, spent over €98,000 on encrypted mobile phone devices during the same year, the court heard.
Dt Doolan told Kieran Kelly BL, prosecuting, that members of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Bureau mounted a surveillance operation of Lawlor's family home following a confidential tip-off.
On the day in question, gardaí saw Lawlor Sr leave his Dublin home carrying a heavy rucksack on his back. He then got into a taxi which pulled up beside him, without being flagged and driven by Hanway.
Gardaí stopped the taxi, arrested both men and seized the rucksack, containing €412,000 in cash. Both Hanway and Lawlor had Android mobile phones and also dual-partition encrypted phones.
Det Doolan said that these encrypted phones are used by criminal gangs to communicate with each other.
He said such phones have a “dummy screen” which looks like an ordinary phone, until the user opens a certain app, for example the calculator, then a different screen loads once a code is entered.
When Lawlor was searched, the encryption app on the phone was open, allowing gardaí to take screenshots of messages sent and received over the previous week including some between Hanway and Lawlor.
Det Doolan said that on encrypted phones, the messages burn off every seven days, so that even as they were taking screenshots, messages from the previous week were being wiped.
Gardaí searched Lawlor's house on foot of a warrant and found a further sum of over €470,000 in cash, including sterling and some Romanian currency.
The court was told that both Hanway and Lawlor Sr were only involved in the laundering of money, not with drugs.
The court heard that in the course of their investigation, gardaí found ledgers which gave a window into the wage structure and scale of operation within the crime gang.
Hanway, whose name was entered in the ledgers under a pseudonym, was being paid around €1,250 monthly at first, rising to an average of €4,000 by 2019. Lawlor Sr was being paid an average of €5,000 monthly.
During the search of the Lawlor home, gardaí found drugs valued at €18,045 and cash in Ian Lawlor’s bedroom. Gardai believe this was a “sole enterprise” on Ian Lawlor’s part and unconnected with what was going on in the house.
When interviewed Lawlor Sr told gardaí that he had fears for his and his family’s safety and had been under pressure. He said he was shocked and surprised to learn of the drugs in his son’s room.
Gardai agreed with Patrick Lawlor’s defence counsel Oisin Clarke BL that Lawlor accepted his own role and told gardaí his family had nothing to do with the offences. They accepted he was put under pressure to become involved and that he expressed relief during interview that it was over.
Counsel said his client had found himself in extreme financial difficulty and facing the risk of losing the family home.
Judge Greally noted that Lawlor Sr was receiving monthly cash payments of €5,000 for his role.
Mr Clarke said the considerable amount of cash seized by gardaí from the shed at Lawlor's home included some cash which his client had put aside.
Lawlor did not want to accept the cash, but his debts did not reduce as the criminal gang found it useful to keep him in his role.
Mr Clarke said his client was a family man who started working at an early age. He worked in construction as a sole trader and was doing “extremely well” during the 1990s and early 2000s.
The financial crash of 2008 was a “devastating blow” to Lawlor, as he became unemployed and depleted the family's savings due to financial pressures.
While Lawlor returned to work, he found himself in debt to certain individuals and became involved in a criminal enterprise.
Mr Clarke said his client has an “overzealous drive to provide and protect family” and had built a rental property, which would provide an income to his wife in the coming years. A number of references from friends and family were handed into the court on Lawlor's behalf.
Mr Clarke said his client did not display any visible trappings of wealth and designer watches found at the property were fake.
Dt Doolan said bank accounts, containing around €100,00 belonging to Lawlor Snr and his wife, had been frozen and Lawlor Sr also had a 191 Mercedes E-class vehicle.
Dominic McGinn SC, for Ian Lawlor, said his client is an apprentice electrician, whose training was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
He acknowledged that while the Probation Service consider Lawlor Jnr to be at moderate risk of re-offending, his client is now drug-free and has become involved in charitable works.
A number of testimonials were handed to the court on behalf of Lawlor Jnr. Mr McGinn also noted that the likely imprisonment of Lawlor Sr would have a devastating impact on the family and asked the court to consider a non-custodial sentence for Ian Lawlor.
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No if that was the case there would be no DHL or FED Ex or whatever.It's not the type of work I'd be chasing anyway.Yer not part of the drugs squad so don't be thinking about these things.Do ya think the train driver from Cork to Dublin cares how many potential packages with drugs might be on his trian in the cargo section.
If I was sending drugs around the last cunt I'd be allowing to look after it is some taxi driver.Taxi drivers gossip more than the women.The secret wouldn't be a secret for long.
What about this guy?
[url]https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/cabbie-convicted-of-moving-drugs-for-dublin-gang-became-courier-after-driving-for-iranian-hitman/1589040983.html[/url] ([url]https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/cabbie-convicted-of-moving-drugs-for-dublin-gang-became-courier-after-driving-for-iranian-hitman/1589040983.html[/url])
Someone twice asked me to transport a cake, the fare was 70 euro. they said yeah thats no problem. dodgy?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg[/url]) rofl rofl
I knew it. rofl
Rolf Harris ::), didint expect to see him.
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I always thought I read in the rules that we couldn't carry packages. I always refuse to carry any.
It is not against any Taxi rules to carry a package only, but I would be very cautious about doing so.
If it turned out to be drugs you could be in all kinds of trouble with the Gardai,
or even worse the drug supplier if the guards took a package off you.
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I always thought I read in the rules that we couldn't carry packages. I always refuse to carry any.
It is not against any Taxi rules to carry a package only, but I would be very cautious about doing so.
If it turned out to be drugs you could be in all kinds of trouble with the Gardai,
or even worse the drug supplier if the guards took a package off you.
I definitely remember reading in the rules before I did the entry test that it wasn't allowed to carry packages. Also there are so many cases involving taxi drivers getting caught carrying drugs that the Guards probably think a lot of us are at it.
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Maybe in years gone by it was in the rules (Bubba might shine some light on that ?), but it's defo not in the rules anymore.
Guards are not stupid, they know the difference between an ordinary Joe doing a once-off and a fella doing it full-time.
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Sure werent taxis delivery blood all over the country for years.We're paying commercial insurance rates so might as well make some money out of it.
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Maybe in years gone by it was in the rules (Bubba might shine some light on that ?), but it's defo not in the rules anymore.
Guards are not stupid, they know the difference between an ordinary Joe doing a once-off and a fella doing it full-time.
I suppose but what if you have regular customers who are in the drugs trade?
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Maybe in years gone by it was in the rules (Bubba might shine some light on that ?), but it's defo not in the rules anymore.
Guards are not stupid, they know the difference between an ordinary Joe doing a once-off and a fella doing it full-time.
I suppose but what if you have regular customers who are in the drugs trade?
I wouldn't be interested in that type of work, but a Taxi driver is breaking no rules by driving a person to and from a destination regardless of his suspicions. Fer myself I stay as far away as possible from anything to do with the drug trade.
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Maybe in years gone by it was in the rules (Bubba might shine some light on that ?), but it's defo not in the rules anymore.
Guards are not stupid, they know the difference between an ordinary Joe doing a once-off and a fella doing it full-time.
I suppose but what if you have regular customers who are in the drugs trade?
I wouldn't be interested in that type of work, but a Taxi driver is breaking no rules by driving a person to and from a destination regardless of his suspicions. Fer myself I stay as far away as possible from anything to do with the drug trade.
Funny thing is, them kind of customers are usually far nicer to deal with than so called respectable people who live in mansions in my experience.
But what I'm saying us, if you carry them, then get caught with a package of drugs, it wouldn't look good.
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You get to know which punters are doing the bagging and counting of drugs/money if you work nights.
Nearly always finishing up around 03.00 and going fairly local, often stinking of weed.
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Maybe in years gone by it was in the rules (Bubba might shine some light on that ?), but it's defo not in the rules anymore.
Guards are not stupid, they know the difference between an ordinary Joe doing a once-off and a fella doing it full-time.
I suppose but what if you have regular customers who are in the drugs trade?
I wouldn't be interested in that type of work, but a Taxi driver is breaking no rules by driving a person to and from a destination regardless of his suspicions. Fer myself I stay as far away as possible from anything to do with the drug trade.
Funny thing is, them kind of customers are usually far nicer to deal with than so called respectable people who live in mansions in my experience.
But what I'm saying us, if you carry them, then get caught with a package of drugs, it wouldn't look good.
It sure wouldn't look good, even if you are transporting a regular drug customer and you get pulled in and he gets nabbed, plod will have a lot of questions fer you and if you answer you are in trouble with yerman, and if you don't answer or tell lies you are in trouble with plod, making it a no win situation.
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Maybe in years gone by it was in the rules (Bubba might shine some light on that ?), but it's defo not in the rules anymore.
Guards are not stupid, they know the difference between an ordinary Joe doing a once-off and a fella doing it full-time.
I suppose but what if you have regular customers who are in the drugs trade?
I wouldn't be interested in that type of work, but a Taxi driver is breaking no rules by driving a person to and from a destination regardless of his suspicions. Fer myself I stay as far away as possible from anything to do with the drug trade.
Funny thing is, them kind of customers are usually far nicer to deal with than so called respectable people who live in mansions in my experience.
But what I'm saying us, if you carry them, then get caught with a package of drugs, it wouldn't look good.
It sure wouldn't look good, even if you are transporting a regular drug customer and you get pulled in and he gets nabbed, plod will have a lot of questions fer you and if you answer you are in trouble with yerman, and if you don't answer or tell lies you are in trouble with plod, making it a no win situation.
Very true. I think the guards appreciate the situation we are in as well. its like when you see some married guy with another woman in the car, its none of my business, I dont want to know, im just doing my job.