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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Rat Catcher on March 28, 2025, 09:43:08 am
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Email from NTA
Approved: Taxi Regulation (Taxi Maximum Permissible Age) Regulations 2025
Following public consultation, the NTA Board has approved the Taxi Regulation (Taxi Maximum Permissible Age) Regulations 2025. This regulation permits an extension to the final operation date of taxis currently in the fleet, first registered in 2015, and due to reach their final operation date between 1 st January 2025 and 31 st December 2025.
The new Regulations come into effect on April 1 st, 2025 .
For those with licenced vehicles that meet this description, but which went inactive since January 1 st 2025, from April 1 st you can contact NTA to renew your licence with this vehicle until its new final operation date in 2026. NTA will not apply a late renewal fee for such licence holders where the late renewal is completed by 30 th April 2025.
Affected SPSV licence holders will receive communications in the coming days confirming the new final operation date of their current licensed vehicle.
The consultation report and final version of the Regulation can be found below:
Taxi Regulation (Taxi Maximum Permissible Age) Regulations Public Consultation Report 2025
Taxi Regulation (Taxi Maximum Permissible Age) Regulations 2025
Yours sincerely,
National Transport Authority
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Very shoddy work from the NTA to bring that out 3 months in to the year in question when the vast majority of drivers have already changed vehicle.
::fds ::fds
@ Stephen; Is it possible to see on any database how many 152 taxis are in the fleet ?
As they will seemingly be the only ones to make any gain from this taking it that the vast 99% of 151 taxies have already traded up.
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"For those with licenced vehicles that meet this description, but which went inactive since January 1 st 2025, from April 1 st you can contact NTA to renew your licence with this vehicle until its new final operation date in 2026. NTA will not apply a late renewal fee for such licence holders where the late renewal is completed by 30 th April 2025."
I would love to know how many taxi drivers the above line is aimed at ? ::fds
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I wonder will 171 cars get an extension.
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I wonder will 171 cars get an extension.
Not a chance !
But then again I did say that about the 2015's too !! lol
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Any car that was registered as a Taxi during covid should be given the same extension as everyone else. There's years left in my car but presently it has to go Jan 27 when it's 10 years old.
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Any car that was registered as a Taxi during covid should be given the same extension as everyone else. There's years left in my car but presently it has to go Jan 27 when it's 10 years old.
Mine is the same but's it's not a worry to me, I'd be more concerned with Toyota bringing out a nua Avensis before 2027 as I would prefer it to a Corolla.
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Any car that was registered as a Taxi during covid should be given the same extension as everyone else. There's years left in my car but presently it has to go Jan 27 when it's 10 years old.
100%, there is only 105,000 miles on my engine. I have to change the car in may 2026.
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I'd be kicking off if I was you 90. I'd be getting onto them now and enquiring if my car will be due an extension and if so can I know BEFORE it goes out of date and I get rid of it. This time next year I'll be contacting them and wanting to know how some cars got extensions and others didn't. Why did some drivers have to change cars whist others did not. I'd easily get another 5 years out of that car. 1 more year would give me more breathing space and I'd easily upscale with me next one. I want a camry and I'm God damn gonna get one.
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Any car that was registered as a Taxi during covid should be given the same extension as everyone else. There's years left in my car but presently it has to go Jan 27 when it's 10 years old.
+1. I did write to Minister Canney to point out how we were punished for complying with Government advice. I was somewhat encouraged to be advised that my comments were noted!
At the very least we should be given extensions equivalent to the length of time we were in receipt of PUP/PTSE.
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@ Stephen; Is it possible to see on any database how many 152 taxis are in the fleet ?
As they will seemingly be the only ones to make any gain from this taking it that the vast 99% of 151 taxies have already traded up.
Probably... leave it with me!
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I will certainly be chasing it up next year. I will want to know why I'm being penalised when others weren't.
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Indeed. I'm not sure I'm finished whinging about it either. I'll certainly be contacting my local TDs and I might pay a visit to a certain public house in the independent State of Kerry and possibly contact Boxer Moran as per Ken's earlier suggestion.
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When is your car out rats? What year is it? Was it lying up for 2 years like mine was? I want to know about possible extensions before the car expires thus forcing me to sell it not 3 months after the fact.
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Mar 2026.
Yes - and I have the social welfare payment records to prove it!
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So you've a year left. I'd be all over that from now. I'd make it my mission to use all my spare time chasing it up. I'd email them, I'd phone them and I'd god damn arrive at their door kicking up stink about it. I'm not just saying that you should do it now, thus setting the playing field for me and others like me for next year but you could certainly get the ball rolling.
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I'd be kicking off if I was you 90. I'd be getting onto them now and enquiring if my car will be due an extension and if so can I know BEFORE it goes out of date and I get rid of it. This time next year I'll be contacting them and wanting to know how some cars got extensions and others didn't. Why did some drivers have to change cars whist others did not. I'd easily get another 5 years out of that car. 1 more year would give me more breathing space and I'd easily upscale with me next one. I want a camry and I'm God damn gonna get one.
Yeah, I will send them an email. See what happens. I will have to change the car in January to get the grant so they better not give an extension in March 2026.
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It would be nice to know what they say. That way I can be prepared when I start doing their nuts in next year.
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I'd be kicking off if I was you 90. I'd be getting onto them now and enquiring if my car will be due an extension and if so can I know BEFORE it goes out of date and I get rid of it. This time next year I'll be contacting them and wanting to know how some cars got extensions and others didn't. Why did some drivers have to change cars whist others did not. I'd easily get another 5 years out of that car. 1 more year would give me more breathing space and I'd easily upscale with me next one. I want a camry and I'm God damn gonna get one.
Yeah, I will send them an email. See what happens. I will have to change the car in January to get the grant so they better not give an extension in March 2026.
Grants close in December and don’t reopen until February.
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So you've a year left. I'd be all over that from now. I'd make it my mission to use all my spare time chasing it up. I'd email them, I'd phone them and I'd god damn arrive at their door kicking up stink about it. I'm not just saying that you should do it now, thus setting the playing field for me and others like me for next year but you could certainly get the ball rolling.
I did that Junior Minister for transport young Jack Chambers told me no more extensions .Seems Government dont know what the fuck they are doing .Mick From Cork would probably dig up a corpse and arse fuck it on Tic Toc if it meant he could be Taoiseach .Wait till Donny T calls out the sycophantism in the Irish Government Cock Gobbling America since the 1970s letting them use Ireland as a Tax free Gateway into the EU .Now we are going to get Bitch Slapped by Donny and the Yanks .Only this time there is nowhere to run .The Brits ,Aussies and Yanks themselves are fucked so its Dole and Spare Room for the Kids
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I'd be kicking off if I was you 90. I'd be getting onto them now and enquiring if my car will be due an extension and if so can I know BEFORE it goes out of date and I get rid of it. This time next year I'll be contacting them and wanting to know how some cars got extensions and others didn't. Why did some drivers have to change cars whist others did not. I'd easily get another 5 years out of that car. 1 more year would give me more breathing space and I'd easily upscale with me next one. I want a camry and I'm God damn gonna get one.
Yeah, I will send them an email. See what happens. I will have to change the car in January to get the grant so they better not give an extension in March 2026.
Grants close in December and don’t reopen until February.
When did they say that?
It's usually early January that you can apply for wheelchair grant.
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....... I want a camry and I'm God damn gonna get one.
Toyota stopped selling the Camry in Ireland in 2023 or 2024, there is a new version fer the US, but not sure it will be available here.
With the used car market being grossly over-priced since Covid/Brexit, I find it better value to go new with the full 10 year licence.
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Shite, are you serious Ken? If I can't get a camry I'll get a Corolla. Really wanted a hybrid camry though.
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I was just looking at corollas on done deal there Ken. They literally have hundreds of them. Fairly reasonably priced too. If I can't get a 5 year old camry next year I'll get a Corolla and we can be car brothers Ken.
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Shite, are you serious Ken? If I can't get a camry I'll get a Corolla. Really wanted a hybrid camry though.
You can still buy a used 2023/4 hybrid 2.0 Camry with a 6 or 7 year license when your due in 2027, it will probably cost about 5K more than a new Corrola though, the way things have gone in the used car market.
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I should be able to manage around 30k Ken. I'll also be selling the prius. How much would a 10 year old ex taxi with around 250k km go for Ken? A grand, 2 grand, 3?
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I was just looking at corollas on done deal there Ken. They literally have hundreds of them. Fairly reasonably priced too. If I can't get a 5 year old camry next year I'll get a Corolla and we can be car brothers Ken.
Of course you will be able to buy a 5 year old Camry in 2027, but it will cost you 5K more than a new Corrola and only have a 5 year taxi license.
I'v been watching the Corolla market a long time Horse and fer me the value is in a nua Corolla in 2027 at 35K and hoping that I can get 10K fer me 171 Avensis.
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I'd love to be able to afford a brand new car Ken. I'll see where I stand next year but 30k would be about my limit.
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I should be able to manage around 30k Ken. I'll also be selling the prius. How much would a 10 year old ex taxi with around 250k km go for Ken? A grand, 2 grand, 3?
A lot more than that, the 10 year old Prius is about 14K on carzone, obviousely knock a good bit off that fer it being ex- taxi.
https://www.carzone.ie/search?make=Toyota&model=Prius&maxYear=2015&minYear=2015 (https://www.carzone.ie/search?make=Toyota&model=Prius&maxYear=2015&minYear=2015)
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Jasus! I'd be more than delighted to get 5k. It's a perfect car with absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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I'd love to be able to afford a brand new car Ken. I'll see where I stand next year but 30k would be about my limit.
30K is also my budget too, taking in to account all the change-over costs.
I never had a brand new car myself so looking forward to my probable first one, and with a full 10 year license, which will surely see me out !!
https://www.toyota.ie/models/corolla-saloon/build?path=customize/65bfd91d-f2a8-4cbb-bdbc-3834b400492a/acd4153b-2d07-4cb3-a854-49bc578a9044&c=c0ba4abf-9d38-41dc-8851-799ed75c37cd&u=fc04c435-8607-4db1-b9b4-f83fe98a1239&financeOption=cash (https://www.toyota.ie/models/corolla-saloon/build?path=customize/65bfd91d-f2a8-4cbb-bdbc-3834b400492a/acd4153b-2d07-4cb3-a854-49bc578a9044&c=c0ba4abf-9d38-41dc-8851-799ed75c37cd&u=fc04c435-8607-4db1-b9b4-f83fe98a1239&financeOption=cash)
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Jasus! I'd be more than delighted to get 5k. It's a perfect car with absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Looking at the 10 year old Prius prices on carzone above you won't have any problems selling your car fer 8 to 10K in 2027.
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Hopefully Ken.
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Hopefully Ken.
We are very much in the same boat Horse, I think the value is to go new as the used car market is way over priced and also I get the full 10 year taxi license.
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If I can I will Ken.
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If I can I will Ken.
The Bright side of it is the 10 year taxi license which will bring me to 71.5 years old in 2037 and similar fer you just a fews years behind me, which means that we both no longer have to save fer a new car because by 2037 we will both be in a retirement home or Dead !!
lol
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When you're doing all the sums don't forget to include your fuel saviings.A Prius/Corolla should run on nearly half the money of the old diesels so your fuel savings are significant and possibly in the thpusands.That all adds up over a few years.I can't see a situation where fuel cost at the pump goes down a lot.Might as well save a bit while you can by moving to a more efficient vehicle.
Owning the new car should cost almost nothing for the first few years.I haven't spent anything on my car yet.... and it's nearly two years old.I didn't really spend much on my Prius either.
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Iffin I was eating the wrong stuff I'd be thinking like that Ken. I collected my 86 year old mother from the airport yesterday where she arrived back from Spain. That's what I hope to be doing in my twilight years.
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When you're doing all the sums don't forget to include your fuel saviings.A Prius/Corolla should run on nearly half the money of the old diesels so your fuel savings are significant and possibly in the thpusands.That all adds up over a few years.I can't see a situation where fuel cost at the pump goes down a lot.Might as well save a bit while you can by moving to a more efficient vehicle.
Owning the new car should cost almost nothing for the first few years.I haven't spent anything on my car yet.... and it's nearly two years old.I didn't really spend much on my Prius either.
... but do factor in an increased income taxation bill... in general 20% of what you save will go to the taxman.
... plus significantly higher maintenance costs. An EV tyre equates to replacing a timing belt (twice if you do it yourself) on a normal car... a pair of tyres equates to a brand new DPF ifn you don't drive a Toyota... then you have the annual rip off from the main stealers to maintain your warranty....
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I haven't bought a tyre yet RC in nearly two years.Less than a tenner a week in electricity more than balances out all the other stuff.As I bought the car before I put the hard work in so most of the bigger tax bill will be written off against the capital cost.If I did it wrong no doubt they'll tell me in Revenue eventually.
I really havent spent much on the car since I bought it.Maybe three €8 car washes and one pair of wipers in nearly two years.I don't see anything big coming up as I'm barely working again.
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None of them cost anything if you don't use them but a few lads have posted shocking prices for tyres, 12v battery, annual servicing, etc.
Taking an ID4, for example, as it's a car I quite like having taught someone in one... c.€300 for a tyre... c.€1,500 for a headlight bulb are among the items mentioned on here. When you consider that VW warranties are limited mileage and otherwise pretty harshly restricted you'd have to be prepared to increase your maintenance budget quite considerably over a normal car if you intend to drive it and keep it for any length of time. You could be lucky and never get a puncture or blow a bulb (in a VAG, that'd equate to winning the lotto!) but to fail to prepare is to prepare to fail, I guess!
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The only EVs with small wheels are the MGs AFAIK.I can get a decent brand name tyres fot the BYD for 160 delivered but getting them fitted is another matter.I haven't properly explored it yet.I like a quiet tyre and so I'm happy to pay more if the rest of the car costs feck all to run.Having a quiet car is very underrated in this job.Even when I'm at the lights and there's a diesel beside me I have to close the window as they all sound like they're broken.It just doesn't sit right with me.It's going to be difficult to go back to a normal vehicle.
A tenner a week in electricity is cheaper than it used to cost me to run a 125cc motorcycle hard for 50 hours a week.I was putting €30 a day into my little petrol Primera when I started off and back then there was fuk all work.
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The MG is probably favourite for me from a business (need) perspective while the ID4 would be my favourite (within reason) from a, perhaps reckless, want perspective. I guess whether one considers one's car to be an office - with swivel chair, vertical blinds, filing cabinets, whiteboards, fax machine, water cooler, coffee machine, etc - or a toolbox is relevant.
Either way I hope to be back to a 20 hour (max) working week once I change the car next year so I'm not overly concerned about running costs.... it'll be down to what grants are or aren't available and capital cost, I guess.
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@ Stephen; Is it possible to see on any database how many 152 taxis are in the fleet ?
As they will seemingly be the only ones to make any gain from this taking it that the vast 99% of 151 taxies have already traded up.
Probably... leave it with me!
According to our database there's 745 current records for 2015 saloon taxis. That includes 151 and 152 reg plates that are either active or have recorded expiry dates in 2025 which, in turn, includes those plates that have lapsed since the beginning of the year and are, therefore, capable of being re-activated FOC in accordance with the latest age extension directive. For convenience I've sorted them by expiry date.
http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php (http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php)
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It could be interesting to revisit the records in due course to ascertain how many of those men who have already been forced out of business actually reactivate their plates as permitted under the latest age extension directive. Of course, they'd have to still have the car in perfect working order to do so. As the above link is dynamic I'll jot down those possible - inc those with expiry dates up to and including 31/03/2025 - identified by our database here:
18074 TAXI HUBERT CORCORAN 151D246 02/01/2025
35022 TAXI RICHARD BRADY 151D2034 06/01/2025
26447 TAXI NIALL WHELAN 151D43892 06/01/2025
35545 TAXI ORHAN YILMAZ 151G7134 08/01/2025
38477 TAXI RICHARD BRENNAN 151D48593 08/01/2025
37519 TAXI ANNE LOWNDES 151D3636 08/01/2025
15184 TAXI ELIZABETH HALVEY 151MN1984 10/01/2025
26564 TAXI DAVID POWER 151D46738 12/01/2025
13124 TAXI BREFFNI FOY 151G706 13/01/2025
18172 TAXI LIAM MCCUTCHEON 151MH537 13/01/2025
28749 TAXI KEVIN MCCUTCHEON 151LH388 13/01/2025
36138 TAXI VALENTINE SHEEHAN 151D17177 15/01/2025
17755 TAXI ERIC RYAN 151D5409 15/01/2025
41996 TAXI DANIEL DUMITRU VISAN 151D5895 16/01/2025
39784 TAXI TREVOR DUNWORTH 151D48369 16/01/2025
11733 TAXI COLIN BARRY 151C2674 16/01/2025
33845 TAXI JOHN FAIRBROTHER 151MN195 16/01/2025
27247 TAXI ANTHONY AYLWARD 151W2541 16/01/2025
42305 TAXI SHABAKIYU ADEMOLA SANUSI 151D52406 19/01/2025
31730 TAXI WILLIAM CRAWLEY 151CN256 19/01/2025
23412 TAXI THOMAS DORAN 151KK523 19/01/2025
14335 TAXI RICHARD OBRIEN 151D7176 21/01/2025
27074 TAXI PATRICK KELLY 151D7624 22/01/2025
17507 TAXI PAUL DARCY 151D8031 23/01/2025
26161 TAXI NOEL CLINCH 151MH879 23/01/2025
35432 TAXI DECLAN GILMORE 151LD867 25/01/2025
30526 TAXI SEAMUS KELLY 151D48863 26/01/2025
26592 TAXI PAUL CLOONEY 151D43444 26/01/2025
21939 TAXI RICHARD CLEARY 151D52648 27/01/2025
25650 TAXI EDWARD OKESOKUN 151D54249 27/01/2025
38325 TAXI JAGJIT SINGH 151D53900 27/01/2025
18639 TAXI JOHN HAYDEN 151D52398 27/01/2025
33565 TAXI GRAHAM WALSH 151C18004 27/01/2025
41274 TAXI SEAN MCDONALD 151D52613 27/01/2025
18695 TAXI HONG MING XIE 151D56368 27/01/2025
19062 TAXI JOHN ANDERSON 151D48843 27/01/2025
36754 TAXI CLEMENT OSAGHAEDE 151KE5204 27/01/2025
25609 TAXI JAMES MC DERMOTT 151D53585 27/01/2025
40806 TAXI GORDON O CONNOR 151MH5062 27/01/2025
10947 TAXI DONAL KELLEHER 151D46730 28/01/2025
19694 TAXI STEPHEN CORRIGAN 151D51779 29/01/2025
37189 TAXI DECLAN GOULD 151C3821 29/01/2025
20687 TAXI JEFFREY CRONIN 151WW732 29/01/2025
10850 TAXI MICHAEL MARTIN 151C3831 29/01/2025
23152 TAXI DEREK PERRIS 151D10269 29/01/2025
39398 TAXI THOMAS KELLY 151D39312 30/01/2025
14602 TAXI THOMAS KELLY 151D11651 30/01/2025
42578 TAXI DEREK FARRELL 151LH2498 30/01/2025
17742 TAXI THOMAS MOLLOY 151D11445 30/01/2025
11272 TAXI JOHN SINGLETON 151C4867 30/01/2025
31552 TAXI IAN MADDEN 151LH870 30/01/2025
21232 TAXI JOHN MURPHY 151D51637 31/01/2025
24154 TAXI JOSEPH HICKEY 151D12142 31/01/2025
31265 TAXI BRIAN MULCAHY 151T3977 31/01/2025
13472 TAXI GERARD DONNELLAN 151MH3310 01/02/2025
28854 TAXI ANTHONY ROGERS 151MH1246 04/02/2025
18876 TAXI HENRY AKINROLIE 151D24253 06/02/2025
39158 TAXI JEROME HOWE 151D44123 06/02/2025
15150 TAXI DAN O CONNELL 151L4676 11/02/2025
24661 TAXI KENNETH DALY 151MH1343 11/02/2025
30138 TAXI MICHAEL HEARNE 151D25456 13/02/2025
27983 TAXI MICHAEL QUINN 151C5671 13/02/2025
17615 TAXI LUKE ANTHONY QUINN 151D48905 13/02/2025
19145 TAXI DAVID HORGAN 152D2212 18/02/2025
17556 TAXI BRENDAN BRADY 151D15078 19/02/2025
14271 TAXI JOSEPH NAUGHTON 152D33695 22/02/2025
37753 TAXI JOHN A DEEGAN 151D20024 23/02/2025
15870 TAXI EAMONN CURLEY 151G2038 24/02/2025
17514 TAXI JACQUELINE CARRIG 151D16843 25/02/2025
35168 TAXI TREVOR O CONNOR 151D17183 26/02/2025
12470 TAXI DAVID WILSON 151D17727 26/02/2025
19462 TAXI NOEL FEENEY 151D17567 26/02/2025
41595 TAXI KEITH HARRIS 151D17574 26/02/2025
35409 TAXI FRANCIS MURPHY 151D17583 26/02/2025
19398 TAXI CHARLES DEDE DICK ORJIAKOR 151D17163 26/02/2025
24317 TAXI CHRISTOPHER HOLBROOK 151D20923 27/02/2025
26737 TAXI KARL LARKIN 151CE1296 27/02/2025
38262 TAXI DENIS CROWLEY 151D54079 27/02/2025
19285 TAXI CHARLES MOORE 151D56069 27/02/2025
32642 TAXI TONY O GRADY 151D18265 27/02/2025
26062 TAXI MING JIN 151D45827 27/02/2025
38608 TAXI DONG SHENG RUI 151D56462 27/02/2025
12960 TAXI THOMAS BRENNAN 151D52608 27/02/2025
13543 TAXI CORMAC O REILLY 151G7512 27/02/2025
22117 TAXI SHANE BRENNAN 151D52563 01/03/2025
40804 TAXI RICHARD STEPENSKE 151WW2667 01/03/2025
12491 TAXI KAYODE AKINNAWONU 151D54945 01/03/2025
28735 TAXI PATRICK MCMASTER 151LH2955 02/03/2025
32343 TAXI JOHN CLARKE 151D19662 03/03/2025
23708 TAXI JOHN CONNOR 152D28085 04/03/2025
17564 TAXI JAMES PENNIE 151D51566 04/03/2025
17519 TAXI PAUL WYNNE 151D49381 04/03/2025
23114 TAXI PAUL BRADY 152D5767 05/03/2025
11050 TAXI THOMAS LINEHAN 152C2007 07/03/2025
19867 TAXI VINCENT ADETOKUNBO 151D56390 07/03/2025
20663 TAXI PATRICK MALONE 151D20664 10/03/2025
24424 TAXI MATTHEW LAWLESS 151D55407 11/03/2025
21261 TAXI TAUQEER KHAN 151LS1609 11/03/2025
36688 TAXI ADRIAN BRADY 151D44977 12/03/2025
24157 TAXI JOHN JOSEPH LOWRY 151MO1230 12/03/2025
11017 TAXI MICHAEL RING 151C17111 13/03/2025
20454 TAXI MICHAEL FLYNN 151D49636 13/03/2025
13470 TAXI SEAMUS KEANE 151G7015 13/03/2025
18637 TAXI KENNY SHAW 151D43257 13/03/2025
21255 TAXI SUKHDEEP SINGH 151D51428 13/03/2025
35574 TAXI ION GREC 151MH2049 16/03/2025
32175 TAXI THOMAS BYRNE 151MN626 16/03/2025
26775 TAXI LIAM FRENCH 151KE2781 16/03/2025
20791 TAXI LEO BALLANCE 151D21790 18/03/2025
13996 TAXI THOMAS TOMKINS 151CW843 20/03/2025
18352 TAXI GERARD SQUIRE 151D42479 20/03/2025
29626 TAXI CATHAL MOLLOY 152D27448 21/03/2025
18375 TAXI YULAI CHI 151D55559 23/03/2025
40288 TAXI ANTHONY DALTON 151D23024 23/03/2025
33897 TAXI DAVID ALLEN 151D23418 23/03/2025
29150 TAXI JAMES MCDAID 151D23022 23/03/2025
14798 TAXI MICHAEL O CONNELL 151D51251 23/03/2025
30521 TAXI NICHOLAS M HANNON 151D23796 24/03/2025
17300 TAXI MARK TALLON 151D42513 25/03/2025
31771 TAXI EAMON O DROIGNEAIN 151D24191 25/03/2025
15356 TAXI ROY LINDEN 151WX3332 26/03/2025
17627 TAXI MATTHEW MCDONNELL 151MH5427 27/03/2025
13096 TAXI PATRICK JOSEPH MEADE 151D55625 27/03/2025
40223 TAXI MICHAEL ANEVHO 151D53822 27/03/2025
25882 TAXI SAJID RAZA 151D52506 27/03/2025
37049 TAXI BRENDAN SPEARING 151D25221 27/03/2025
26089 TAXI DAVID PURDY 151D50039 27/03/2025
14908 TAXI SINGH & CHANDI TRANSPORT VENTURES LTD 151D52742 27/03/2025
20433 TAXI VIKRAM SINGH 151T4654 27/03/2025
20513 TAXI TONY DOWNEY 151CE3519 27/03/2025
29683 TAXI DAUDA ABIOYE 151D44864 27/03/2025
35811 TAXI SEAMUS WALSH 151D25426 27/03/2025
39154 TAXI INTERCITY CABS LTD 151D46482 27/03/2025
38783 TAXI MERVYN TIMMINS 151D25359 27/03/2025
34260 TAXI THOMAS BRENNAN 151D53124 27/03/2025
16593 TAXI EUGENE BOYLE 151D57853 27/03/2025
17328 TAXI INTERCITY CABS LTD 151D47469 27/03/2025
24706 TAXI SHANE BRENNAN 151D56489 27/03/2025
45336 TAXI TRINITY TPL LTD 151D56403 27/03/2025
36715 TAXI HAI YAN WU 151D55178 27/03/2025
20478 TAXI ALLAN BALOGUN 151D51994 27/03/2025
21918 TAXI FRANCIS OGORMAN 151D54126 27/03/2025
27028 TAXI EDWARD CARRIG 151LD626 30/03/2025
20906 TAXI FRANK GAHAN 151D41074 30/03/2025
22313 TAXI TERESA DEVANEY 151D27492 31/03/2025
30158 TAXI JAMES FARRELLY 151D27677 31/03/2025
38105 TAXI STEPHEN MAHER 151D43849 31/03/2025
31770 TAXI SUZANNE PAYNE 151D28566 31/03/2025
11321 TAXI JAMES ANTHONY DESMOND 151D28818 31/03/2025
18278 TAXI MICHAEL QUINN 151C9905 31/03/2025
37965 TAXI VICTOR OKOYE 151C15439 31/03/2025
17932 TAXI NOEL O REILLY 151D28902 31/03/2025
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I'd say very few lads are going to be keeping their old taxi on the drive.Most are already sold on or in the scrapyard having availed of the grant.
There might be a few "lucky" lads who couldn't get the grant and went renting but I'd say they'd be like hens teeth out there.Someone told me the other day their pal was paying 450 a week for a rental.I didnt even earn that last week.Nuts.
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If they availed of the grant or otherwise replaced their cars they wouldn't be on that list as their plates would be attached to their (once) new cars.
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Amazing how few immigrants are being forced off the road. When I do the list of new drivers every month the vast majority are immigrants... men being forced off the road are predominately white and Irish by accident of birth... one for the conspiracy theorists?
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They're getting old RC like meself.I was 32 when I started nearly 16 years ago and I thought some of the lads were getting on back then.A good few I knew have retired or even passed on since and the ones that are left look ready to retire.If I was getting to pension age I wouldn't really want the bullshit associated with working for the apps and card paymets and the higher costs of staying on the road.
No point for many in getting 270 a week pensions if it's all gone on the vehicle.
The immigrants are young and hungry.Even the Nigerians that were in the business when I started are hard to find.Maybe they got better opportunities or just had enough of it.
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Indeed. I could well do without buying a new car at this stage of my life given that my current one is in perfect working order. I'd be happy enough if they lifted the current temporary moratorium on the issue of saloon hackney plates with no age restrictions to be honest.
I should qualify the above list to note that some may have been renewed after they were last scanned by our bots last month. That number is probably quite small but will become apparent at the end of this month as our bots only scan each plate once per month. I'll try to remember to revisit it early next month to get an even more accurate picture.
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Drivers are getting older and the business is getting more 'professional' (i.e. red tape) and it might not suit some. I've seen comments on here about someone paying 6 yrs back tax in one go, licences used to be a fiver, and you could run a €1,000 banger as a taxi. Now it's a paperwork, tax clearance certs, VAT returns for some, newish cars and the business might disappear in a decade or two with robotaxis.
And we're dying out... ~40% of us were over the age of 58 in 2023. TBH, I'm surprised they haven't opened the saloon licences to get new blood into the industry.
(https://i.ibb.co/1fB2CJht/Taxi-driver-Age-Profile-2023.jpg)
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Indeed. I could well do without buying a new car at this stage of my life given that my current one is in perfect working order. I'd be happy enough if they lifted the current temporary moratorium on the issue of saloon hackney plates with no age restrictions to be honest.
I should qualify the above list to note that some may have been renewed after they were last scanned by our bots last month. That number is probably quite small but will become apparent at the end of this month as our bots only scan each plate once per month. I'll try to remember to revisit it early next month to get an even more accurate picture.
Jus buy the dip rat .... Trump creating fear in the markets and the Trump family buying the bollix out of crypto ....wat does that tell ya ? Seriously?
The plebs are shoitin ther knickers an sellin an the trumps an elon are buyin ...an big money buyin the fuk out of it ...the lower it goes .. the more ya buy ... Elon probly buyin the fuk out o tesla ... lol
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I've reprogrammed our bots to scan all the 2015 plates again (ahead of their regular monthly workload) to catch the ones that have been updated since they were last scanned sometime last month.
Assuming I've done it right - it's years since I've looked at that code - we might have more accurate data and, perhaps, some interesting info in terms of what those who have renewed or reactivated relevant plates in that timeframe have done. Our bots are pretty lazy bastards so it'll take them a few hours to scan the 743 odd scheduled. I have to work this evening and the weekend so it might be Mon/Tue before I can analyse the (hopefully!) updated data.
Watch this space!
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You can actually track the bots progress on that page I created for Ken...
http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php (http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php)
...and note the count decreasing as renewed plates are excluded from that report. The ones appended with the number 1 have been rescanned with those numbered greater than 1 on the bots active worksheet. Those numbered 0 have been renewed with the 2015 car.
... although it might renumber them all again when it's finished ... in fact, it probably will!
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Work was a waste of time this evening. I did get a couple of messages from Uber suggesting there was high demand at DAP. I might have to bite the bullet and reluctantly spend a tenner on one of them poxy permits.
Back on topic, the bots had a far more productive shift than me, getting through the full list... leaving 679 (from 745) relevant plates. I'll analyse the ones from those originally identified as having expiry dates prior to April fools day that have been renewed recently in due course and see what, if any, trends are evident.
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From a quick look at that data ( http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php (http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php) ) we can note a few things.
The 679 includes (not necessarily by design but nonetheless useful) 25 15 reg cars that now expire in 2026 so the age extension has already saved the livelihoods of 25 men.
That leaves 66 that have changed their cars in the last month. It could be interesting to analyse those in due course.
Probably most interesting so far is the length of licence issued to those who were eventually allowed to keep their cars and their livelihoods. The many, many, many, many, many, many, many previous age extensions imposed 6 monthly LRAs on vehicles over 10 years of age. It seems that our friend who takes a pint in a certain public house in the autonomous State of Kerry got himself and all the other men who were in a similar predicament an exemption from that provision with licences seemingly being renewed for the full 12 months.
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Precedent set for operators’ cars that were in the fleet before the covid 19 pandemic started and did not receive an age limit extension (myself included)
My wanked out French panel van was 1st licensed c.July 2018, I did not get a age extension despite the car been sat up for the best part of 2 years while that mean nasty Dr Leo kept my customers hostage in their gaffs.
An extension for 2 years seems fair for such licenses who’ve already not received such an extension.
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Could you find how many electric taxis were registered so far this year ?
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Only by identifying every EV by make/model. While I can list every make/model from http://intaxi.org/database/make.php (http://intaxi.org/database/make.php) it'd probably need someone with better knowledge of which ones are EV than me to compile such a list.
However, I think NTA have budgeted €12.5M for EV grant aid in 2025. At an average grant of €18,000 that would equate to a maximum of 694 for the full year. The top 3 EV models are MG5, ID4 and BYD in that order as far as I can ascertain. Interestingly there are now 10 EV TXs (London black cabs) on the fleet... there must be some money to be made driving a cab if lads can afford them!
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Tesla is close behind BYD at 210 BYD v. 197 Teslas.
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You'd wanna be a big believer Musk and Trump to buy a Tesla now.Someone I know just bought a 251 to use as a taxi.You have to wonder where they get their news from or if they even watch it at all.
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Free Now have a deal with Tesla, I think... probably free cars (after grant aid and subject to scrappage) for men with gold stars.
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to be fair i havn't seen a broken down testicle yet.
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You can actually track the bots progress on that page I created for Ken...
[url]http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php[/url] ([url]http://intaxi.org/database/car-2015.php[/url])
...and note the count decreasing as renewed plates are excluded from that report. The ones appended with the number 1 have been rescanned with those numbered greater than 1 on the bots active worksheet. Those numbered 0 have been renewed with the 2015 car.
... although it might renumber them all again when it's finished ... in fact, it probably will!
Thanks fer all that info Stephen.
On looking at the stats I would guess that about 200 to 400 drivers will benifit from the late announced extension, which would be about 1% or 2% of the fleet.
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It might be a small percentage, Ken... but in the week or so since implementation 25+ men have been given back their livelihoods and their dignity... and the taxpayer has saved a few notes on social welfare payments.