Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on September 04, 2024, 02:27:36 pm
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I don't use Zone 18 but I'm reliably informed certain drivers arrive in the zone without a booking and simply tout any potential passenger - pre-booked or not - to steal work. They are picking and choosing what work they'll do as the NTA has washed their hands of the zone saying it's a DAA matter.
So I'd say fill your boots and park at the first opening of the tunnel approaching the zone and tout among the sub-continental Asians.
You don't even have to show you have a pre-book when entering the zone because DAA knows they'll get paid the €1.50 parking fee every time.
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I've been known to take a job from T2 meself but I wouldn't be shouting out the window as I'm just not that bothered anymore.There needs to be a better setup in the airport.There's no reason anyone should be queuing at the official terminals at 3pm like yesterday.
When I was in Seatle the Uber drivers would just park outside the cruise terminals and hotels and shout at pedestrians walking past.I can understand why drivers do this with commission being so high and Uber and Lyft able to push the fare prices down during quiet periods.
The old rules are out the window.
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Just thinking it was this time last year the DAA were asking any interested drivers to apply for permits.Looks like they're still struggling to cover their busy periods if yesterday is anything to go by.
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Sunday / Monday evenings are generally the best times for snatching from the terminals. If you loiter with intent perspective clients will approach you so you can generally pick an agreeable destination. I only really bother with it myself when Free Now / Bolt are screaming for cars at zone 18 but I wouldn't go to the extent of paying parking fees.
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Uber allows us to pass the parking charges on but it's still a pain to get in and out through the barrier on busy days.The Uber app even knows when you've gone through the barrier to adjust the €1.50 out of the commission they take I think...
I don't always be out the airport but if I feel it's busy I'm not leaving empty.Yesterday I got two Maldrons and the third job was into town so I eventually got the job I wanted.We need a short pass for the T2 snatching area.
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We need a short pass for the T2 snatching area.
Laffin... but them immigrants would only abuse it!
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Anyone know why the keshies have their permits on the rear windows lately?The permit isn't exactly small, I dunno why they'd want more shit blocking visibility out the rear window.
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To wind up the gobshites driving in behind them to pay up to 15% commission plus parking fees!
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did i ever tell yiz about the time i drove inta the kesh by accident a couple of years ago and the circus that erupted around me. it's a ken length story if yizzer interested i'll put it up.
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We could do with the content... and the laugh!
I drove straight onto the rank during my first week renting a taxi having never heard of the kesh! Funny thing is, after the initial uproar an older, wiser gentleman rationally explained what I'd done wrong and rationally explained that I didn't know to the riff raff - I think pointing out that the kesh was empty anyway - and they all then agreed I may as well take a fare... which I did and bought my permit very soon after!
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^ actually I don't think there was a fee for the permit back then. If there was it was only pennies. We paid 40p per job in those days... and charged IR£1.20 pick up fee. I do remember having to get the plate owner's details from the fleet company I rented from and I think I had to join one of the unions... if I did it woulda been ITDF which was probably around IR£40 back then. I may have been the first city cabs driver to either use the kesh or join the union. I recall a couple of other fleet drivers joining DAA around the same time and there might have been others who had permits but rarely/never used them as there was reputedly some animosity towards such drivers... although I never experienced anything I'd take seriously in that regard myself. Mad really when you look as the riff raff in there these days... spitting in each other's faces and fighting and what not!
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I never understood wantin to get a permit ....rite OK i get that ya can get long jobs like a job to talla say ....but you've to drive all the way back again ... or do they work the apps like the pleb taxi drivers
An wen they get a job to the airport ...go to the Kesh then ? ....otherwise ide imagine it wud be a very inefficient way of workin ... the mind boggles....but my mind boggles alot ... ....today I was tinkin all day why aldis brand of chocolate hob nobs tastes so much better than the real hob nobs an are much cheaper ...
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They done a good fry up in my day...
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Probably all goat curry and halal burgers without baps these days!
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Your right Rat the Aer Rianta permit was free back in the day, you just paid 50p to go through the Kesh which I only done on a Sunday evening when it was busy. Blue Cabs had all the ssp work at the time bringing staff in and out so that bet waiting for hours in the Kesh. That's the reason why I let my permit expire over 20 hours ago, might be handy to have one now though.
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....... I drove straight onto the rank during my first week renting a taxi having never heard of the kesh! Funny thing is, after the initial uproar an older, wiser gentleman rationally explained what I'd done wrong and rationally explained that I didn't know to the riff raff .........
My first ever fare was quite similar, drove on to the main Cork airport rank not knowing about the full holding rank up above in 'Pebble beach' ! Some African lad started shouting at me in Fookin African which I ignored his; "initial uproar an older, wiser gentleman rationally explained what I'd done wrong".
PS. Post it DMG ! lol
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I don't use Zone 18 but I'm reliably informed certain drivers arrive in the zone without a booking and simply tout any potential passenger - pre-booked or not - to steal work. They are picking and choosing what work they'll do as the NTA has washed their hands of the zone saying it's a DAA matter.
So I'd say fill your boots and park at the first opening of the tunnel approaching the zone and tout among the sub-continental Asians.
You don't even have to show you have a pre-book when entering the zone because DAA knows they'll get paid the €1.50 parking fee every time.
My Tuppence-worth !
As a non-Doob Taxi driver I seldom see Dooblin airport, but I had a family pick-up there at about 5am on the last August bank holiday Monday morning where I parked up in zone 18, during the 15 minutes that I was in there giving the cab a birra of a clean 2 separate people approached me asking if I was available.
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The airport is a mess, ya can do whatever you want out there.I've picked up up app customers who were lost at the T1 rank in front of a line of waiting taxis...none of the drivers gave a bollox.
Too many people all over the place for anyone to notice.
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Your right Rat the Aer Rianta permit was free back in the day, you just paid 50p to go through the Kesh which I only done on a Sunday evening when it was busy. Blue Cabs had all the ssp work at the time bringing staff in and out so that bet waiting for hours in the Kesh. That's the reason why I let my permit expire over 20 hours ago, might be handy to have one now though.
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I let mine expire too 'cos I was on the radio and had no use for it back then!
The 50p is interesting in itself. When they increased it to 50p from 40p the pick up charge was increased to IR£1.30. However, our meters were programmed to add extras in 40p increments so there was a lengthy argument during the period of which DAA never actually took the 50p. It might have been the great strike of 1999 that prompted them to implement the increase or it could have been an earlier strike? Of course, after entry liberalisation we lost the pick up charge altogether and we lost our pre-booked free parking area which was where the disabled parking is in the T1 short term car park. Ah those were the days!
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Not much chance of DAA giving permits now, WN... Not while there's gobshites willing to pay up to 15% commission plus parking fees to shift the punters for them.
... Amazing when you consider the rows we had about the irrecoverable 10p increase all those years ago!
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Not much chance of DAA giving permits now, WN... Not while there's gobshites willing to pay up to 15% commission plus parking fees to shift the punters for them.
... Amazing when you consider the rows we had about the irrecoverable 10p increase all those years ago!
Were you one of the very few not picking the scratcher, which covered the cosy freight?
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Memory fails me on that one but neither DAA nor ITDF were interested in social welfare or even tax clearance in those days. In fact, tax clearance only became an issue in 2004 after some crowd or other told the tax man they were robbing him blind. The mind boggles!
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I remember an acquaintance going to join a union back in the 90s. NTDU told him he'd have to surrender his hackney plate and agree to terminate all social intercourse with known hackneymen or some such so he rang ITDF and asked what the T&Cs of membership are. John told him IR£60 and as he further questioned if he would have to surrender his hackney plate, etc... John interrupted his soliloquy putting significantly greater emphasis on the monosyllabic "sixty pounds" response!
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Memory fails me on that one but neither DAA nor ITDF were interested in social welfare or even tax clearance in those days. In fact, tax clearance only became an issue in 2004 after some crowd or other told the tax man they were robbing him blind. The mind boggles!
That was one of the three Stooges, the Drumcondra one. he thought Froggy was a MVLO. froggy was audited and got a tax rebate, a copy of which he sent to Gorman. rofl
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I remember an acquaintance going to join a union back in the 90s. NTDU told him he'd have to surrender his hackney plate and agree to terminate all social intercourse with known hackneymen or some such so he rang ITDF and asked what the T&Cs of membership are. John told him IR£60 and as he further questioned if he would have to surrender his hackney plate, etc... John interrupted his soliloquy putting significantly greater emphasis on the monosyllabic "sixty pounds" response!
Everything the sausage man touched turned to gick. He'd support Leo with that track record. 8)
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Working the Kesh is indeed a tricky one.To port tunnel it back quickly or wait around town for a Northside run.I don't think I've perfected it yet.
Dumb luck gave me a Skerries (then a local cash job in Skerries!)from 3arena this morning when I was heading back to the Kesh.
This afternoon I got T1 to Lucan then an Uber from Grange Castle back.Like I said pure luck can make 100 difference in a shift as a keshie
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The less thought you put into it the better!
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Working the Kesh is indeed a tricky one.To port tunnel it back quickly or wait around town for a Northside run.I don't think I've perfected it yet.
Dumb luck gave me a Skerries (then a local cash job in Skerries!)from 3arena this morning when I was heading back to the Kesh.
This afternoon I got T1 to Lucan then an Uber from Grange Castle back.Like I said pure luck can make 100 difference in a shift as a keshie
I dropped a taxi guy off to Santry recently who is driving a 161 Caddy. he got back from holliers refreshed, only to find that there were metal shavings discovered in his oil sump.
He was hoping it would see him through to 2026, but now he is not so sure. Keep an eye on your lubricant.
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Would that be the ultra reliable Caddy I've put 6 grand into since Christmas?
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Nasty. I hope my MKIII Octy hasn't got that engine.... assuming it's the engine causing the cost? So far I've 241,605 kilos on the clock and I've spent €1,749 on maintenance. It had 108,947 kilos on the clock when I bought in in January 2019 so maintenance is working out at c1.3c per kilo or c.€26.10 per month... although it wasn't used much during COVID '19 anall so the monthly computation is somewhat skewed.
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Would that be the ultra reliable Caddy I've put 6 grand into since Christmas?
I know. Sometimes you must choose to put a car/dog out of its misery.
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VD cam you tell us what sort of mileage you're doing a year if it's not a sensitive topic?I know it's going to be high but I'm just curious really.
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I do 1000 km a week.
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Ok thanks VD just wondering if the maintenance costs were down to excessive mileage but yours isn't crazy high.
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It started with the alternator,starter motor and battery all going one after the other.Then a clutch master cylinder,then two engine cooling leaks.They were 1800 between them.Then an adblue delete.Add in 4 sets of front tyres a year and pads and discs all round and pretty soon it adds up!
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Hopefully that's all the spending done for a good while.
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Hopefully that's all the spending done for a good while.
Check out OC Mobility on the old airport road: https://www.occars.ie/ (https://www.occars.ie/)
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Aside from the coolant leaks there's nothing major in any of that, VD.
Apart from brake pads/discs and tyres I haven't yet experienced any of those issues in my MKIII Octy but have tackled a couple (as below) on the MKII. Nether the MKII nor the MKIII have adblue but I did come accross a known issue with VAGs that use adblue whereby it kills some component associated with the EGR valve and incorrectly self-diagnoses a DPF fault.
From the MKII Service Record:
19/08/2020 306,520 Timing Belt Kit, Water Pump, Clutch Master Cylinder €400.00 Aiden (supply & fit)
29/12/2020 315,221 Altenator €140.00 Euro Car Parts NI
13/08/2021 330,119 Battery €104.00 EBC Cabra
I don't know how much of the €400 on line 1 was for the clutch master cylinder supply & fit bit I'm guessing the timing belt / water pump kit accounts for the majority... and the battery isn't of the AGM / Start-Stop type. I did price that type for the MKIII a while back (the start-stop function has been a rarity since COVID '19 anall) and I think it was c.€200-220 from EBC, probably a bit cheaper up in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Front tyres tend to last c.50,000 kilos on both of the above Octys... that's for the run of the mill (non seasonal) now €75 ones from Collin or Keit Duffy.
Brake pads would be in the region of €15 (rear) or €22 (front). I generally change them every 40-50,000 kilos and use one set of discs for every 3 sets of pads at a cost in the region of €30-60 per pair depending on source.
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Would that be the ultra reliable Caddy I've put 6 grand into since Christmas?
Looking on the Bright side, my DPF problems cost me 8K in 2023, but me tax bill last week (snow white) went down by a good bit.