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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Rat Catcher on August 01, 2025, 10:00:44 am
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When I opened my Uber Driver app this morning I got a message prompting me to celebrate becoming a Gold star driver. Anyone else?
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Not me
Congratulations on the promotion
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My offers from Uber seem to be dropping off the less I work it.My account has platinum wanker status.I think more Freenow drivers are working Uber full time and that might be part of the change.
Unusually the other day off Freenow I got a full fare long job to the edge of Drogheda from the city center but as expected zero all the way back unit I got to Ballymun.I only took it because it was quiet.Wasnt really worth much extra it in the end.
Does anyone use the areas preference thing on Uber for two hours a day where you can pick which zones you prefer to work?Is it bullshit or does it just offer you less?
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Honestly, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to anything on the apps other than the offers that come my way so I didn't know you could restrict offers from Uber. I will have a look at that in due course cos it can bombard you with jobs that are miles away. That said, I don't know if I should be associating with platinum scum now that I've got my gold star!
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There's another diamond level above again.I'd say the hard grafters are all on diamond level getting spoonfed everything.Uber does send out a lot of crap like medals and milestone pictures of birthday cakes in your profile but unfortunately you won't pay you bills with them.They are American after all.
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Honestly, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to anything on the apps other than the offers that come my way so I didn't know you could restrict offers from Uber. I will have a look at that in due course cos it can bombard you with jobs that are miles away. That said, I don't know if I should be associating with platinum scum now that I've got my gold star!
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I dont use it cause some day a job mite suit ... i just dont accept antin that doesnt suit an work local or go town wen its quiet ...
Im platinum pond scum aswell so I tink thats why I get offered jobs an they disappear or accept them then I get the middle finger ... but I tink payin attention to any of this licky lacky arse lickin bull shoite is for gibbons , immigrants an greedy cnuts wit no self respect...
::sleep
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I've actually just realised that platinum is better than gold . I think I was platinum last month. Not sure why the app thinks I should celebrate, maybe it knows I'm a working class socialist so assumes I'll be happier with a lower virtual social status. However, to get back to platinum I just have to collect 250 points according to the bottom bar on the home screen. I'm sure I've done that before so it might happen again but I'll not be changing how or when I work. Que sera sera...
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The only option I'm getting when I press the bottom left button is accept cash or not. Maybe you have to be platinum to get the trip radar thing? Anyway, it's only for two hours a day so no great loss. You'd think it'd make more sense for them as well as us to stop sending jobs that are miles away, they're only wasting the Internet offering such jobs.
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The only option I'm getting when I press the bottom left button is accept cash or not. Maybe you have to be platinum to get the trip radar thing? Anyway, it's only for two hours a day so no great loss. You'd think it'd make more sense for them as well as us to stop sending jobs that are miles away, they're only wasting the Internet offering such jobs.
(https://i.postimg.cc/yxTMV31f/Screenshot-20250801-124956-Uber-Driver.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/y3kQjdS9)
Do ya not see this ?
Weird ... do ya update apps ?
They turn up that radar radius wen the rugby is on or concerts or bollix i rekon ...its the biggest flaw on uber an counterproductive stupit bollix ...i usually turn it off an jus do fukyanow an bolt ... wen its doin that
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In other countries they drivers surge pricing during busier times so you might drive a bit further if the job pays a lot more.I dunno why they can't see that it won't work with taxis unless there's a l financial incentive.
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I've actually just realised that platinum is better than gold . I think I was platinum last month. Not sure why the app thinks I should celebrate, maybe it knows I'm a working class socialist so assumes I'll be happier with a lower virtual social status. However, to get back to platinum I just have to collect 250 points according to the bottom bar on the home screen. I'm sure I've done that before so it might happen again but I'll not be changing how or when I work. Que sera sera...
If you were platinum, chances are you might have status protection which means you can reactivate your platinum level again for this period no conditions attached. To have the status protection you would need to have maintained your level for two periods though. If you go to the uber pro rewards page, you will see an item called “status protection “.
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I've actually just realised that platinum is better than gold . I think I was platinum last month. Not sure why the app thinks I should celebrate, maybe it knows I'm a working class socialist so assumes I'll be happier with a lower virtual social status. However, to get back to platinum I just have to collect 250 points according to the bottom bar on the home screen. I'm sure I've done that before so it might happen again but I'll not be changing how or when I work. Que sera sera...
Cuba is full of working g class Socialist
But they are queuing up to get into America
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When I opened my Uber Driver app this morning I got a message prompting me to celebrate becoming a Gold star driver. Anyone else?
Platuminum.
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Of course my apps are up to date, Octy. How could one sleep at night with updates pending?
As per screenshots below the only Preference option I get is Accept Cash. The others must be only for ewes licky lackys. The Pro/Rewards page doesn't seem to have any option to restore my previous status, I was probably only platinum for one period, I think I was Blue Scum before that but thanks for the suggestions.
(https://i.postimg.cc/YSJ98Jbv/Screenshot-20250803-122536-com-ubercab-driver-Carbon-Activity.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QBJhdnLD)
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So do you get more or less money for the work you do ?Or is it the same ?
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More with uber than Free Now.... and the Uber clients generally pay less than Free Now's clients.
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Honestly, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to anything on the apps other than the offers that come my way so I didn't know you could restrict offers from Uber. I will have a look at that in due course cos it can bombard you with jobs that are miles away. ....
I find it imperative to know your app inside-out, which is easy fer me as I only use the one.
Radius settings and Cash jobs accepted options being changed a few times per shift.
Adjusting to the correct maximum radius setting after dropping out of Town,
as opposed to my usual 2.5km when in Town I did get a 3 nice Return jobs from FN last Sunday alone;
Donnybrook in Cork suburbs to Hawbowline naval base (16km), with a return from Carrigaline to Town (13km).
Town to Grenagh (25km), with a return from Tower to Union quay in Town (14km).
Town to Grenagh AGAIN (23km), with a return from Blarney to Washington street in Town (10km).
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Sometimes I wish I had that level of interest... well, TBH, I don't... ever! Where I'm at with cab driving theses days is that I take work if work I deem to be viable is offered and if it's not offered I don't really care. Bad attitude, I know, but I've never been one to think like a businessman and/or maximise takings/earnings.
How are the Taxi Save jobs working out for you, Ken? I did loiter around the Northside suburbs (where Free Now still seems to be significantly more popular than Uber) up above in Dublin for an hour or two over the weekend. Practically every offer I got was a Taxi Save job which kinda fucked up working that area for me. When I work(ed) suburbia of a weekend evening I never took jobs going to or near the city centre before c.22:12 on account of traffic and the general availability of traffic free local jobs. With Taxi Save jobs my analysis concluded that only fares of c.€22.31+ are beneficial to drivers. The local fares I'd traditionally cover are below that figure and it's the fares I didn't want at full fare rates that are above that figure which presents me with something of a conundrum...
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..... How are the Taxi Save jobs working out for you, Ken? .....
Taxi Save jobs have not yet been introduced outside of the Pale, but I'm sure they will in time as Yiz idiots in Dooblin are covering them.
I have been vehemently opposed to them since Day 1 and I have always posted as so.
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Brace yourself. Even the tenner jobs disappear from the screen within milliseconds.
From Free Now's perspective they seem to be a resounding success. It allows them compete (at least to some extent) with Uber's low fares with drivers carrying the cost and, I guess, the kind of conundrum I identified above is exactly what they want in terms of eliminating "cherry picking".
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In fact, Ken... when I passed Dublin Airport on my way home last evening (c.21:34) there was 92 drivers queuing for Taxi Save jobs. Not only are Free Now DAP pickups 100% Taxi Save, the down syndrome halfwits queuing for hours on end to cover them have to pay DAA €3.00 per job on top of buying an annual permit for the pleasure of paying Free Now 15% of the little bit of the fare they eventually get... and by paying all that money they're preventing themselves from ever getting a proper permit to join the villains in the kesh. Don't mind what Michael O'Leary does be saying about DAA... they're fucking geniuses... charging halfwits to solve their problems... or, maybe, parasites, I guess I don't have to tell an ex-bookie that it's a fine line!
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I've opted out of the taxi save stuff.In the last few weeks I'm getting less Uber and more Bolt and Freenow.Not much more but it's deffo different.
I reckon a lot of lads didn't read the emails and never opted out and may just have stopped using it.Why would you use the Freenow app if all it seems to send is discounted jobs.Uber and Bolt is still full fare work.Business is quieter but it's not that bad yet that I need to hand over he best part of my fares....the PUC.
Many of my pick ups are from locations like hotels and train staions right beside the taxi ranks but people still pay the PUC plus the tech fees.The fact that passengers don't know or care about the extra cost is perhaps good reason not to cover the discounts in the first place and for Freenow not to be offering them.
Just a thought...
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I fell out with Bolt. I uploaded a bank account statement and they said the address doesn't match my driving licence address. The addresses are the same but they refuse to look at the documents again and just try to solicit more documents. Given that we're dealing with potentially sensitive financial and identification documents and I have already submitted them I refuse to submit them again and opted to submit a general data access request instead in accordance with data protection legislation.
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I'd say they've a lot of turnover RC.....just send them off again next week and they'll likely approve it.Afterall we're likely dealing with kids behind the keyboard who don't remember what they had got brekkie.
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I can't send them again. I already told them that they may close my account if they're not prepared to look at the documents already submitted again!
I did consider opting out of Taxi Save jobs, MfH... but, when I work passively from home I get the odd decent (€50+) job some of which are Taxi Save. I don't mind losing €3 on those jobs and pressing reject for the one's I don't want is no great inconvenience so I concluded that opting out could amount to cutting off my nose, so to speak. Of course, the contrary could also be true i.e. maybe they don't offer the full fare jobs to Taxi Save scum unless there's no Full Fare scum available?
If I ever get an EV I guess the cheaper fuel expense might make the lower Taxi Save fares viable. I have seen a few EVs plastered with Free Now advertising (including at least one driven by a man I know to be Irish by accident of birth) so maybe that's the way those boys are thinking i.e. less money on fuel means being able to give more money to Free Now?
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Yes Rc every situation is different.The majority of my work is short jobs so I'm fairly fond of the PUC.Sometimes it's 30% of the fare.
The flip side is customers aren't going to pay full fare if they're getting offered a discounts.I understand Uber and sometimes Bolt offers discounts on their side but as long as they cover the difference I won't complain too much.
No doubt we could all end up offering discounts if the economy gets slower.
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I guess if Free Now can't compete they won't survive. An Uber monopoly wouldn't work out any better for drivers than a Free Now one. It's not that long since Free Now had a virtual monopoly so anything's possible. The more competition for our pittance the better IMO.
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Yes..Let's not forget their likely taking direction from Lyft HQ who are well used to competing against Uber.They'd likely know what works and what doesn't better than Freenow themselves.
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Ah, I mightn't be finished with Bolt. Their latest email is a little more conciliatory than the exchange I finished by telling them to close my account if they still refuse to look at the documents again and explain what difference they can see in the addresses:
Dear Stephen,
Thank you for reaching out. I completely understand your concern regarding the account suspension and the address mismatch issue, and I truly appreciate your patience during this time.
I’ve escalated your case to our Operations team for further review. It has been forwarded to the relevant department, and we’ll update you as soon as we receive their feedback.
Your patience and understanding in the meantime are sincerely appreciated. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Best regards,
**********, Bolt
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oooohhh it's bin escalated....now yer suckin daysel.. yay
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The day keeps getting better. Just got my wages from Free Now, €21.94... get in!
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The day keeps getting better. Just got my wages from Free Now, €21.94... get in!
€115 for me .... im borderin licky lacky ::cheers
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.... Afterall we're likely dealing with kids behind the keyboard who don't remember what they had got brekkie.
There is No Kid behind the keyboard, yiz are dealing with an A1 Bot.
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I fell out with Bolt. I uploaded a bank account statement and they said the address doesn't match my driving licence address. The addresses are the same but they refuse to look at the documents again and just try to solicit more documents. Given that we're dealing with potentially sensitive financial and identification documents and I have already submitted them I refuse to submit them again and opted to submit a general data access request instead in accordance with data protection legislation.
I fell out with Uber fer similar reasons, but what I have found in the mean time is that if I keep my status very high on just the 1 app, then I do get spoon-fed from that app.
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I'm not really that bothered, Ken. I haven't used Bolt since I reactivated my Uber account because the document upload system didn't work for me. I just gave it another try last week 'cos I had to buy a new phone (another ton out of pocket) the previous week - long story, the charger I was using for both my old phone and the Laptop killed both. The Laptop recovered after being left unplugged overnight but the phone didn't but would work as a hand warmer as all it does now is get extremely hot when plugged in. I managed to upload the requested documents but they replied stating that my bank account was rejected because the address doesn't match my driving licence. I only have one address so it does match but may be in a different format or one might contain the Eircode and the other not. As I was busy doing fuckall this morning I decided to send them an email and, to be fair, they replied almost instantly but were hung up on getting more documents from me. I don't know why they want a bank statement anyway, Free Now didn't and Uber only required the certificate of account ownership or whatever it's called so I'm reluctant to furnish them with any more such documents. There comes a point where you have to question is it's just a scam aiming to lift as much data as they can. In any event there was never enough work on it to justify all that hassle.
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BTW, Ken... it's the same bank account as they have already paid my wages into... having done so for quite some time before suddenly wanting to harvest statements.
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BTW, Ken... it's the same bank account as they have already paid my wages into... having done so for quite some time before suddenly wanting to harvest statements.
I was the same with Uber, my bank account said Ken but my Taxi license said Kenneth, it took 9 months of chatting to A1 Bots to get sorted, and then they emailed me telling me that my insurance was about to expire in so many days time and to upload the new one, which I did, only to have it rejected because THE DATE IS IN THE FUTURE !!
Between that and the VAT issue I gave up on them.
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Well, as far as I recall, you never actually worked for Uber. I did work for Bolt and got my wages paid into the bank account they've now rejected.
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Well, as far as I recall, you never actually worked for Uber. I did work for Bolt and got my wages paid into the bank account they've now rejected.
I did work fer Uber fer 9 months after the Bank/Name issue was eventually resolved.
I never really understood the VAT issue, so I was happy to walk away when the insurance details became a problem.
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I stand corrected, thanks.
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I stand corrected, thanks.
I would guess that most of ye tech savvy nerds have this sussed already but I'll post it anyways.
As a newbie multiple app user, as in Uber and FN, a colleague of mine gave me this tip.
When I have just one App open and online the clock in the top Left hand corner is in plain colour, as below.
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Not seeing any difference, Ken other than them being different apps. I'm sure you're making a point but I'm fucked if I know what it is!
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Not seeing any difference, Ken other than them being different apps. I'm sure you're making a point but I'm fucked if I know what it is!
I don't know what plain colour is!
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Black, judging by the photos... but, to my eye anyway, it's the same in both screenshots.
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Not seeing any difference, Ken other than them being different apps. I'm sure you're making a point but I'm fucked if I know what it is!
That post was just to prove that I did work fer Uber in the past.
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I stand corrected, thanks.
I would guess that most of ye tech savvy nerds have this sussed already but I'll post it anyways.
As a newbie multiple app user, as in Uber and FN, a colleague of mine gave me this tip.
When I have just one App open and online the clock in the top Left hand corner is in plain colour, as below.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Xqv1zHQX/thumbnail-Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-14-17-51.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/XGTgZ8M0)
(https://i.postimg.cc/VNcG8LDx/thumbnail-Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-14-18-37.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G4qJPr0K)
But if I have 2 Apps on the go and both online then the clock shows in Blue, as below.
If I touch on the Blue clock then it brings me back to the previous App.
(https://i.postimg.cc/LXJNkYXZ/thumbnail-Screenshot-2024-07-16-at-14-19-29.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/34HXYw2K)
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I blocked Uber and Freenow for sending me texts I didnt ask for and reported them for it. Freenow reckon I could earn more and at no extra cost to me. rofl they must have forgot about the 15% commission.
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I blocked Uber and Freenow for sending me texts I didnt ask for and reported them for it. Freenow reckon I could earn more and at no extra cost to me. rofl they must have forgot about the 15% commission.
That wasn't the best idea you ever had !
Your believing all the Horse$hit posts that you have read on here which are all as I say total Horse$hit because everyone on here works the App's (Maybe not Horse, but that's questionable, he is from Fookin Tallaght !) the App's are a main source of work to most on here, much as they dislike them, myself included, we all use them.
The €3 PUC generally covers the commission over the week.
You made a mistake doing that 1990.
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I blocked Uber and Freenow for sending me texts I didnt ask for and reported them for it. Freenow reckon I could earn more and at no extra cost to me. rofl they must have forgot about the 15% commission.
That wasn't the best idea you ever had !
Your believing all the Horse$hit posts that you have read on here which are all as I say total Horse$hit because everyone on here works the App's (Maybe not Horse, but that's questionable, he is from Fookin Tallaght !) the App's are a main source of work to most on here, much as they dislike them, myself included, we all use them.
The €3 PUC generally covers the commission over the week.
You made a mistake doing that 1990.
No I didn't. I have my principles.
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..... No I didn't. I have my principles.
Principles are Great, but ya can't Eat 'em ! lol
You might change yout tune when you see your Legal colleagues racing around your town in FN or Uber branded vehicles whilst your sitting alone on a deserted rank ?
Which is more or less what happened in Cork and Dooblin !
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..... No I didn't. I have my principles.
Principles are Great, but ya can't Eat 'em ! lol
You might change yout tune when you see your Legal colleagues racing around your town in FN or Uber branded vehicles whilst your sitting alone on a deserted rank ?
Which is more or less what happened in Cork and Dooblin !
If you work for either app do you have to have the stickers on the taxi? Just wondering as I haven't seen any yet.
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Not seeing any difference, Ken other than them being different apps. I'm sure you're making a point but I'm fucked if I know what it is!
That post was just to prove that I did work fer Uber in the past.
Jaysus... I didn't doubt you... but dem pictures could be from anybody's phone... just sayin!
I dunno if that's an iPhone thing but on my Android Uber puts a little button on top of any app in the foreground when you're plying for hire.
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Thought FN were changing names this summer.
Is this happening?
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Not before time... How long has it been Free Now... seems like ages?
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..... If you work for either app do you have to have the stickers on the taxi? Just wondering as I haven't seen any yet.
No, branding is Not compulsory with any Taxi app.
With FN branding you get a higher Priority status which Seemingly offers you better jobs ??
I don't work the Uber app but I think you get a lower commission rate (13% ??) if your cab is Uber branded ??
But you can still work both apps regardless if branded or not.
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If I was them I'd insist drivers have the stickers and can't work for competitors.
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If I was them I'd insist drivers have the stickers and can't work for competitors.
That would make you a DeFacto employee and they don't want that smoke..
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I run five apps and have given them all permission to appear on top. I let the c*nts fight it out among themselves. 8)
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I struggle to cope with two!
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I struggle to cope with two!
FREE NOW
UBER
HOLA
CAB2K
BOLT
It's Sod's Law, they're all busy at the same time.
I've only got three jobs off HOLA since they launched.
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If I was them I'd insist drivers have the stickers and can't work for competitors.
A lot of Taxi bases tried that, it didn't work, the drivers left and joined the apps !
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I struggle to cope with two!
FREE NOW
UBER
HOLA
CAB2K
BOLT
It's Sod's Law, they're all busy at the same time.
I've only got three jobs off HOLA since they launched.
5 Jaysus !
I'm with Rats, I struggled with 2 !!
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I use 3, and remembering to turn the other 2 on, and off, when occupied is a pain.
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I use 3, and remembering to turn the other 2 on, and off, when occupied is a pain.
I let mine ring out.
This weekend I'll turn on the busiest two remembering that Uber gives jobs that are - by and large - 15 plus minutes away, or inaccessible (Croke Park).
Failing that I'll work the streets in town and the Apps in the suburbs.