Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: silverbullet on May 20, 2026, 02:52:13 pm
-
My cousin has removed all TAT advertising from his vehicle in protest that he strongly believes that work is being stitched up, a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform.
Has anyone heard similar?
-
Interesting. That's the sort of stuff that could sink it before it gets going.
-
Any hints on how drivers might be getting more than others?
Surely all jobs are going out straight away for all to see/decline/accept?
-
EVIDENCE ??????????????
Thers more taxi drivers going around thar not only look like less Dawson in drag ..... but fukin talk an act like him .... emmmm her ......
Fukin owlones spreadin rumours cause ther freenow licky lacky lick arse stickers aint doin it fir them anymore ...... in fact fuk now has gotten so bad now that we had a licky lacky lick arse on here last week complaining thar he was forced to doo 25% commission as if ther was a gun to his head from his former doughnut mates in Mount Street or watever fukin hole they crawl in .....
Now im a bit of a mad cunt an even me ma wud tell ya that .... an im inclined to exadurate stories an tings on account ov me high iq I ger bored very easily ...... bur im goin tell ya yous oirish are the dopiest poor cnuts on earth .... an as me ma always said .... yis hate yur own .... particularly wen someone or something is a success ..... kinda like wen paddy across the road drives up the driveway in his new car an yur lookin tru the curtains .... an yur mot is sayin why cant yu buy a new car ya lazy cunt ..... so ya go round the pub that nite tellin everyone ya saw paddy in the George suckin off a tranny .......
Poor cunts
::sleep
Tap is me biggest earner
-
(https://i.postimg.cc/G2ccVyzJ/Cissie-and-Ada.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
-
O:-)
-
https://youtu.be/ABml9AvVXQ4?is=QLWalkoqEd-o5IS3
-
Can't see the big deal, disillusionment with the biz has been an occupational hazard for as long as I have plied the trade.
-
Its simple its Business .They do not have the Work simple as .This app was sold to Drivers as a Driver Led App exactly the same as Halo in London .Now answer me this why would a Passenger opt for a more expensive option than others .Free Now have Fucked up with excessive Booking Fees and Uber offer discounts to Passengers ..The Tap only appeals to drivers but its not drivers it needs its customers .It simply CANNOT Succeed .Look at Hailo Drivers probably gave then ONE HUNDRED MILLION in no PUC over the first few years it took it to get established .
Its simple Business ,Passengers want the lowest fares they are exactly the same cars ,same ,drivers ,Same licence .Why would they pay more ..Imagine UBER and FUCK NOW laughing their bollox off at lads paying 300 to sign up then telling passengers use us because we charge full fares .Every mouth subliminally promoting UBER and Fuck Now .
Now somebody on here reported they spoke to Dave Knox he said they had covered 36,000 jobs .Now do the maths 2000 drivers thats an average of 16 jobs per driver since it started .Obvious some lads have got verry little or nothing at all .
Think of a lad working Tap branded for Uber or Fuck Now trying to tell a passenger .You could of booked me on any of the platforms .You dont believe enough in your project to commit to it .Imagine standing on the alter getting married and your girlfriend is giving you head .Who thinks that Marrage will last .
Fools and their Purse and all that .
-
I doubt that's true. The Estonians control the app but if you're not happy with what you get from it you're free to delete it or it's advertising, I guess.
-
Can't see the big deal, disillusionment with the biz has been an occupational hazard for as long as I have plied the trade.
I was only talking about"Private Noel" from Foxrock Taxis today.
Plus the other guy who stitched up all the work from Design Partners!
-
Boxing off work is a different kettle of fish, I guess. As far as the commercial rideshare platforms go it's not something that'd bother me. We are self employed after all. However, with a co-op I guess it's likely to be against the rules of association or at least discouraged.... I don't know what TaTs rules are in that regard?
-
Its simple its Business .They do not have the Work simple as .This app was sold to Drivers as a Driver Led App exactly the same as Halo in London .Now answer me this why would a Passenger opt for a more expensive option than others .Free Now have Fucked up with excessive Booking Fees and Uber offer discounts to Passengers ..The Tap only appeals to drivers but its not drivers it needs its customers .It simply CANNOT Succeed .Look at Hailo Drivers probably gave then ONE HUNDRED MILLION in no PUC over the first few years it took it to get established .
Its simple Business ,Passengers want the lowest fares they are exactly the same cars ,same ,drivers ,Same licence .Why would they pay more ..Imagine UBER and FUCK NOW laughing their bollox off at lads paying 300 to sign up then telling passengers use us because we charge full fares .Every mouth subliminally promoting UBER and Fuck Now .
Now somebody on here reported they spoke to Dave Knox he said they had covered 36,000 jobs .Now do the maths 2000 drivers thats an average of 16 jobs per driver since it started .Obvious some lads have got verry little or nothing at all .
Think of a lad working Tap branded for Uber or Fuck Now trying to tell a passenger .You could of booked me on any of the platforms .You dont believe enough in your project to commit to it .Imagine standing on the alter getting married and your girlfriend is giving you head .Who thinks that Marrage will last .
Fools and their Purse and all that .
See ... this is the sort of misinformation im talkin about johnny ... wer are ya gettin 16 jobs per driver since it started ? Utter nonsense.... I got 350 off it last week an I aint no grafter I only do days to ger away from me ma an less than 30 hours a week .... I sent ya me figures for last week on all the apps.... tap is me biggest earner and the demand is growing .... I did 250 the week before an that was still me biggest earner out of 4 apps it was fukin dead out ....
You are spectacularly wrong on this one .... yuv bean fuddin it from the start ...only you know why
Was it ever goin be any other way that some cunt /s wer goin spread rumours ..... thers a number of reasons why tap is open for attack by cnuts ..... 1 I explained earlier .... the competition.... stickered up freenow sociopaths drivers dont like the fact that
Apes are leaving fn and going to tap .... its fukin up ther priority....
Ill tell ya now that bout 90% of passengers are tellin me they joined tap cause ther sick of bean overcharged by fn ....
Tap has taken a huge market share from freenow you draw your own conclusions
Barring the real possibilities that some paranoid coked up nut job ( thers alot them drivin taxis ) is spreadin lies cause hes havin a psychotic episode ..... this has all the hallmarks of a smear campaign coming from the competition.... ive absolutely zero evidence for that ..... but neither has anyone any evidence that tap is givin " the cream " as ken used to call it ... or given some drivers more than others is just rumours with zero evidence....
The one fukin chance yis have of takin back your job from these corporate blood suckers an wat do ya do ?
Trow allegations and accusations at it wit zero proof ....
The chance is very real....
The demand is there .... stop talking shoite about it and spreading lies on wat cud be the only chance we get to save our jobs
Join up and find out for yurself and stop sittin on the sidelines shitting all over it hoping it fails .....
-
Could be propaganda
Could be true
Can't see how a app diverts work if its nearest driver
Hard to call
Would need more info
-
If everyone waits, and won't join unless they're getting all they can handle it won't grow as quickly because if supply can't meet enough demand, some won't try it more than once, but hopefully enough will. Any driver who joins it will assist in the growth, and after 2 months only he will be doing better than on FN.
Who can't afford to come up with €350, and gamble €27.70 per week for at least a year? January will be a free month for all.
-
It was €300 initially. The only concern I'd have with it is that you're probably being counted as a paid up member of the union it's associated with. At the pre-launch meeting I attended one of the bosses explained to me and others that they'd told the Minister that they have over 2,000 men waiting to block up the city if he does anything they don't like. I know they're well intentioned but they're also very inexperienced as far as dealing with Govt goes, in fact the man that seems to be running the union side of things is only driving a taxi for 5 years. If we were any good at protesting he wouldn't be! It's no coincidence that the EV grant money was slashed within weeks of their threatening officials and Ministers and there's no limit to the damage they can do to the trade in that respect.
That said, the co-op itself seems to be a great success and in establishing that they have done the trade a great service and exceeded all expectations. I do think it should be totally separated from the union though so men are free to subscribe to any or no union as they see fit.
-
It was €300 initially. The only concern I'd have with it is that you're probably being counted as a paid up member of the union it's associated with. At the pre-launch meeting I attended one of the bosses explained to me and others that they'd told the Minister that they have over 2,000 men waiting to block up the city if he does anything they don't like. I know they're well intentioned but they're also very inexperienced as far as dealing with Govt goes, in fact the man that seems to be running the union side of things is only driving a taxi for 5 years. If we were any good at protesting he wouldn't be! It's no coincidence that the EV grant money was slashed within weeks of their threatening officials and Ministers and there's no limit to the damage they can do to the trade in that respect.
That said, the co-op itself seems to be a great success and in establishing that they have done the trade a great service and exceeded all expectations. I do think it should be totally separated from the union though so men are free to subscribe to any or no union as they see fit.
If Richard Branson, elon musk an Jeff bezos wer runnin tap an ya never stopped gettin jobs of it ...... youd still have cnuts given out fuk about it ....
.... yous oirish are a shower o bleedin halfwits......
Poor cnuts
::sleep
-
I'm not giving out about the app or co-op. On the contrary they've done a great job with that.
-
Their website claims 1400 drivers.Dunno how up to date that is but it's very good going. Any links to the unions should be monitored and scrutinised.Why any unions need to be involved at all should be queried.How can I know if the union wishes contradict mine.
Apart from obvious costs savings Tapataxi's unique selling point is the fair distribution of the work.Many of us have worked under bent base controllers long before we became taxi drivers.We're naturally a suspicious bunch.
-
What's going on with the 367 guests RC? Are they bots? Quiet in the kesh maybe..
-
I'm not giving out about the app or co-op. On the contrary they've done a great job with that.
I know yur not ... .... im jus pointin out how fuked in the head " yous oirish " are .....its all so predictable
-
What's going on with the 367 guests RC? Are they bots? Quiet in the kesh maybe..
Are we bean spied on ?
Probably a load o paddystinians lookin for sum poor cunt to write the rong word so they can report them for racism or anti transexualality or sumtin ..... or it cud be some ngo scamming the country pretendin they care about the nig nogs ......anyway the point bean .... fuck em
-
I'm not giving out about the app or co-op. On the contrary they've done a great job with that.
Please Explain .Done well in recruiting drivers @300 a pop to buy a share in what ? Last report was they covered 36,00 jobs since conception' .Uber probably do that on a Friday .In Ireland .
How do you define done a great Job ?
-
What's going on with the 367 guests RC? Are they bots? Quiet in the kesh maybe..
Probably bots. There's never much to read here.
-
I'm not giving out about the app or co-op. On the contrary they've done a great job with that.
Please Explain .Done well in recruiting drivers @300 a pop to buy a share in what ? Last report was they covered 36,00 jobs since conception' .Uber probably do that on a Friday .In Ireland .
How do you define done a great Job ?
Do you not believe me wen I tell you its my biggest earner since I joined over a month ago ?
-
Looking at the list when you click on guests from the home page they all seem to be viewing different topics, mostly topics that haven't been commented on for ages... Most likely search engine bots indexing pages.
-
"you're probably being counted as a paid up member of the union it's associated with". News to me, please explain further, ta.
-
I'm not giving out about the app or co-op. On the contrary they've done a great job with that.
Please Explain .Done well in recruiting drivers @300 a pop to buy a share in what ? Last report was they covered 36,00 jobs since conception' .Uber probably do that on a Friday .In Ireland .
How do you define done a great Job ?
Do you not believe me wen I tell you its my biggest earner since I joined over a month ago ?
On average how many jobs a week do you cover for Tap .Im not saying it has no work but not enough to commant loyalty from users .Its at best an addon another app to compete with the other 4 your running .
-
"On average how many jobs a week do you cover for Tap"
I answered that for you in another location, and believe that it's excellent for two months, my answer would align with Octy's, and I can see that at last, in the face of the evidence you are modifying your position. The biggest danger to any attempt at resistance is "the split", but it's worth chipping in the aforementioned small contributions to give it a decent try at least until the AGM.
-
When the Co Op is ratified, it will be a stand alone legal entity . There is no onus on members to join any particular association. The ICOS move at their speed .
-
I'm not giving out about the app or co-op. On the contrary they've done a great job with that.
Please Explain .Done well in recruiting drivers @300 a pop to buy a share in what ? Last report was they covered 36,00 jobs since conception' .Uber probably do that on a Friday .In Ireland .
How do you define done a great Job ?
Do you not believe me wen I tell you its my biggest earner since I joined over a month ago ?
On average how many jobs a week do you cover for Tap .Im not saying it has no work but not enough to commant loyalty from users .Its at best an addon another app to compete with the other 4 your running .
Im not taps pr manager ....... taps only hurdle is not being able to cover the the work ... the work for tap is surging ... ... for a a small investment you have the chance to take back your business from corporate america .... the evidence I see is overwhelmingly that passangers are crying out forthe alternative .....
Either join up or miss the opportunity....
Wats the point in us on here for years giving out about uber and fn an then kicking the bollix out of a driver app before its even been given a chance ...... madness
::sleep
-
Some people are malcontents.
-
Thanks for the updates.More information is always useful.
-
"On average how many jobs a week do you cover for Tap"
I answered that for you in another location, and believe that it's excellent for two months, my answer would align with Octy's, and I can see that at last, in the face of the evidence you are modifying your position. The biggest danger to any attempt at resistance is "the split", but it's worth chipping in the aforementioned small contributions to give it a decent try at least until the AGM.
I have not changed my opinion I will Never Join Simple .I dont believe it will succeed in its present quise .It will be Selling Bottles of Smoke telling Members we need to do fixed fares to compete .
-
"On average how many jobs a week do you cover for Tap"
I answered that for you in another location, and believe that it's excellent for two months, my answer would align with Octy's, and I can see that at last, in the face of the evidence you are modifying your position. The biggest danger to any attempt at resistance is "the split", but it's worth chipping in the aforementioned small contributions to give it a decent try at least until the AGM.
I have not changed my opinion I will Never Join Simple .I dont believe it will succeed in its present quise .It will be Selling Bottles of Smoke telling Members we need to do fixed fares to compete .
Thats all in yur imagination again johnny .... if they doo that itll fail cause blokes will leave ide imagine.... ..... the selling Point is no hidden fees and its working
Uber will up ther discounts because of tap hoping to bury them in my imagination..... as long as ya have fuking idiots willing to work for nothing then yes uber could have its way ..... in that case this job is finished anyway ... yis will end up drivin to the airport for less than a tenner an givin the uber ceo not 140 million a yer but double that .... bur ill be given the cunt fuck all .... thats not a part of a world i want any part of ..... fuck em ....
::sleep
-
I know lads paying to buy a share that are still working for Free Now discounted fares and 25% commission .Make that make sense .Virtue signaling but taking it large up the Gicker at the Same time .
-
I know lads paying to buy a share that are still working for Free Now discounted fares and 25% commission .Make that make sense .Virtue signaling but taking it large up the Gicker at the Same time .
Not everyone has the luxury of going solo, rented cars, kids, missus, rented accomodation, ah, as you say "fuck it"
-
I dunno John…it's not that difficult. I don't think you'd be dumping the other apps immediately after signing up to Tapataxi.Run them all together and take the jobs that pay the best.At the moment if I was signed up I'd be cancelling/rejecting jobs in favour of Tapataxi with the hope of making it into your main earner.
Doesn't have to happen overnight.None of our existing apps became successful immediately.
Earlier I posted 1400 sign ups on their website and now it's 1600.
-
There's ~10,000 drivers in Dublin so 1,400-1,600 is a big achievement after a month or two, esp given the buy-in. They're probably bigger than Bolt in terms of drivers now? How many drivers would the Irish apps like Lynk have?
On the flip side though, like the Irish Times article recently pointed out, it might persuade the taxi dispatcher review that no intervention is needed because 'the competition' is sorting itself out?
'One step forward, two steps back' perhaps?
-
Ya cant make a blind man see
Hole thread is a waste o time ..... join up or shur up ..... load o bleedin nonsense ...... if thers any tap drivers listenin in .... I need a hand in the clontarf penincilla.... I dont know if I spellt pinincilla proper an I dont giv a bollix ...
::sleep
-
I jus seen benny hill get ou of a Nissan micra ... I swear to fuk the image ov him .... Last week I seen Warren buffet drive a ford focus ... a blue one ... mad shit
-
I jus seen benny hill get ou of a Nissan micra ... I swear to fuk the image ov him .... Last week I seen Warren buffet drive a ford focus ... a blue one ... mad shit
This guy must be related to Panel:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ikea-founder-worth-60-billion-155744293.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADC-O0dS8rfl8-1teGGqXarnab68FB_5hnUv1ogQ1x9lXpcijJVmTUQwKKPZ4ycyNFz6vDEkCTF1ALl6U13C4BqQTYPixFJ9DziAi9orUoQkfU5KrXl3MNHCkl4_tj_CLytd9uqIkUZjIwagLZr9d-SRriHThARIySJpvCsYZGml 8)
-
When the Co Op is ratified, it will be a stand alone legal entity . There is no onus on members to join any particular association. The ICOS move at their speed .
That adequately addresses my, albeit minor, concerns.
-
Anyone more info on the unfair work distribution rumor?
Could be all lies by freenow 25% plus vat
-
My cousin has removed all TAT advertising from his vehicle in protest that he strongly believes that work is being stitched up, a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform.
Has anyone heard similar?
When you state above; "a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform".
Could you please post a link to that online social media platform ?
-
Some people are malcontents.
I reckon it's closer to 99.9% (myself excluded) in the Taxi world and don't forget about Misantropy and Lunacy both hovering in the high 90% of Irish Taxi drivers.
-
Some people are malcontents.
I reckon it's closer to 99.9% (myself excluded) in the Taxi world and don't forget about Misantropy and Lunacy both hovering in the high 90% of Irish Taxi drivers.
Guilty as charged ken ....apes are cnuts
-
My cousin has removed all TAT advertising from his vehicle in protest that he strongly believes that work is being stitched up, a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform.
Has anyone heard similar?
When you state above; "a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform".
Could you please post a link to that online social media platform ?
I'll ask him what chat group was involved Ken, back to you soon.
-
Lots of mud slinging
No evidence
-
My cousin has removed all TAT advertising from his vehicle in protest that he strongly believes that work is being stitched up, a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform.
Has anyone heard similar?
When you state above; "a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform".
Could you please post a link to that online social media platform ?
I'll ask him what chat group was involved Ken, back to you soon.
As requested:
(https://i.postimg.cc/85GfKnHc/TAT.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bG6vdg4f)
(https://i.postimg.cc/rynzxp7B/TAT2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PNDtkdXy)
I'm not a member of the chat group, or Tap a Taxi...yet.
Having used the app as a punter twice while the car was off the road I've no complaints. Good service.
-
Thats tap a taxi members wattsapp ... only admin can post on it .... I joined the Facebook page after this thread was started and cant see anyone giving out about anything ...
Can you be more specific?
-
Thats tap a taxi members wattsapp ... only admin can post on it .... I joined the Facebook page after this thread was started and cant see anyone giving out about anything ...
Can you be more specific?
The cuz tore off all his TAT decals having been convinced work was being stitched up.
It may be that he was impetuous, I don't know. But having drank the Kool Aid and joining TAT, posting up pictures of the vehicle and clothing branded materials, it appeared to be a quick turnaround to justifying his obvious dissatisfaction.
As Jack says "There'll always be malcontents".
TBH, €300 or so investment isn't that much in the grand scheme of things.
-
Thats tap a taxi members wattsapp ... only admin can post on it .... I joined the Facebook page after this thread was started and cant see anyone giving out about anything ...
Can you be more specific?
The cuz tore off all his TAT decals having been convinced work was being stitched up.
It may be that he was impetuous, I don't know. But having drank the Kool Aid and joining TAT, posting up pictures of the vehicle and clothing branded materials, it appeared to be a quick turnaround to justifying his obvious dissatisfaction.
As Jack says "There'll always be malcontents".
TBH, €300 or so investment isn't that much in the grand scheme of things.
Deciphering fact from fiction nowadays is almost impossible... Twitter is a lunatic asylum full o cnuts who cant spell propper or put a sentence together ... fakebook is exactly that .... full o fake ..... youtube is full o grifters , snake oil an conspiracy theorists .... crypto full o pump an dump merchants ... cnuts on x tellin ya that youl grow a gee if ya took the covid vac ... theres crazies sayin wer all bean sprayed up in the clouds to kill us all.... thats the new one in fashion ... ther takin pictures of clouds an sayin its bleedin arsenic or sum shoite .... the bbc is using ai to doctor trumps speeches ... the queers in rte an Doyle eireann lying tru ther teeth an waving terrorists scum flags an makin billions off o illegal human trafficking ... the United Nations is at it .... the Geebags in the eec are bigger liars than the bleedin nazis ffs now ther goin take control of your bank account and spending and rob your bleedin pensions ....
Ide an owlone in me car the other day talkin bout ghosts in her gaff ... very attractive bur a mad cnut ... you know ... one o them ...ya know the type ... yuv all met them ... some o yus may even have married one ... a bleedin fruit cake
simple ....make up yur own mind
-
How is tap a taxi going Octy ?
-
How is tap a taxi going Octy ?
Its flyin jack ... im payin 6-7% commission a week for the past month .... tho ide rather call it an investment...... a nite driver who isnt a lazy cnut like meself cud easily half that commission / investment rate .... . plus im takin " all the cream" off the licky lacky arse lickers who are volunteerin to pay 25% to fleecenow an the uber gobshites dancing to ubers tune an workin for peanuts ... its a no brainer
::sleep
-
Thought there was no commission.
Just a sub of 120 bucks a month.
They have ads on the local radio stations here.
-
a nite driver who isnt a lazy cnut like meself cud easily half that commission / investment rate
Maybe he means the €120 (or €30/week) = ~6% of his takings? So he's hinting he's making ~€500/week off TaT? And the harder you work, the smaller the €30/week becomes as a percentage of your takings?
-
How is tap a taxi going Octy ?
Its flyin jack ... im payin 6-7% commission a week for the past month .... tho ide rather call it an investment...... a nite driver who isnt a lazy cnut like meself cud easily half that commission / investment rate .... . plus im takin " all the cream" off the licky lacky arse lickers who are volunteerin to pay 25% to fleecenow an the uber gobshites dancing to ubers tune an workin for peanuts ... its a no brainer
::sleep
Then add in the cost of using A card machine on top of that Comission add at least another 1% .
-
Bolt down to 5% for the month of June.
-
Bolt down to 5% for the month of June.
its failed never got off the ground ...You got to get the app in users pockets not drivers signed up .If you have the Work the drivers will follow .
-
TaT my best performer for May, more than double any of the other 3 apps. TaT, and street together 1.5 times the total of the other 3 apps.
-
Thought there was no commission.
Just a sub of 120 bucks a month.
They have ads on the local radio stations here.
By commission i mean the 120 a month
-
Can the customer pay through the App ?
-
Can the customer pay through the App ?
Not yet jack .... in fact i hope its kept that way .... the tips that cash brings over in app payments is payin me 120 and some ....
-
Happy days getting tips.
Is it mostly cash or card ?
-
Happy days getting tips.
Is it mostly cash or card ?
I dont keep a record but I guess 50/ 50 ... maybe leaning more toward more cash than card ....