Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: The Liffey Lip on September 19, 2017, 09:40:52 am
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Since when did Dub taxi people have to do the "Knowledge"?
http://www.beat102103.com/news/fears-taxi-shortages-fifth-new-entrants-pass-exam/ (http://www.beat102103.com/news/fears-taxi-shortages-fifth-new-entrants-pass-exam/)
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They have a shortage of morons willing to pass full fare street work and chase app work.I don't think there's been a christmas when there hasn't been trouble finding a taxi.Bunch of cnuts in Mount street.The sooner yis cut the cord the quicker they'll be gone.
To answer yer question the new exam came in around August 2009.It's not as tough as the London exam by any means but just hard enough to keep out the chancers and Ambassadors of the future...Any driver covering Mytaxi app work is begging for more drivers by supporting them.
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Most of the new entries are new irish
Not a easy place to learn about if you are not from here.
To many complaints about driver's not knowing where they were going
What Tim Arnold failed to realise the amount of drivers that cannot afford insurance being forced out of the game buy insurance scum
Maybe Tim could organise insurance for drivers. Start up his own insurance company
Some drivers paying €9,000
Life is for living.
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They have a shortage of morons willing to pass full fare street work and chase app work.I don't think there's been a christmas when there hasn't been trouble finding a taxi.Bunch of cnuts in Mount street.The sooner yis cut the cord the quicker they'll be gone.
To answer yer question the new exam came in around August 2009.It's not as tough as the London exam by any means but just hard enough to keep out the chancers and Ambassadors of the future...Any driver covering Mytaxi app work is begging for more drivers by supporting them.
I know the test is tougher but the Knowledge? Seems to me there's another bit of govt interference coming here. Edited this...one fellow on facebook explained Tim's tactics it very well. I'm not on it any more but my mate is and he showed it to me.
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Most of the new entries are new irish
Not a easy place to learn about if you are not from here.
To many complaints about driver's not knowing where they were going
What Tim Arnold failed to realise the amount of drivers that cannot afford insurance being forced out of the game buy insurance scum
Maybe Tim could organise insurance for drivers. Start up his own insurance company
Some drivers paying €9,000
Life is for living.
Totally agree there. One man over 50 was on Joe Duffy ages ago talking about quotes of over 10 grand for a Peugeot Expert. He could afford it but it's crazy.
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He just incorrectly used the London test to describe the Dublin test.I doubt it is as tough.But then again I never sat the London test.If I sat it tommorow I'd fail.I've only ever been there once for a weekend and can't remember much because I was rubber.
What do ya mean by Government interference?They wanted less drivers now they have less drivers. We've yet to see the impact of the Cabra luas and the new metro north to the airport.I wouldn't be so quick to call for more taxis.Plenty around compared to most countries.
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I know there's plenty of taxis Mercenary. And govt interference could be to listen to those who have their ear. They have interfered in the recent past. The "tough" test wasn't so tough back in the 90's. The NTA and NRA are Govt bodies. Such bodies can alter everything as it stands. Not in their interests if so many failing now as they're making a fortune but an election might change that when Donal from the Naul can't get a job because he keeps failing and the local Shinner gunning for office brings it to the attention of of another fellow shitting he's going to lose his seat.
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Tim is a highly skilled communicator. If he takes a seat on TAC he'll arrive armed with slick reports prepared by marketing professionals using data collected by his firm. mytaxi sees itself as representative of the trade as a whole. Make no mistake, it will convince NTA et al that it's data is Gospel.
The unions should take immediate action to secure the Kathleen Doyle entrance exam. They should insist that all drivers be required to pass the test every five years to ensure that incumbents offer as good a service as new entrants.
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The cops having to take fitness tests every few yrs type of thing? That'll all become part of every day life for every worker. Dublin Bus, allegedly, has serious fitness and health screenings for their many drivers. In fact, I'd say only half of them are any way overweight now. The problem with taximen taking 5 yrly tests is that it would involve a governing body for all aspects of same which could open up a Kilimanjaro's Box as one wag commented...no doubt ending in health screening and suchlike.
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Health screening should be introduced. Our cars are subject to a plethora of tests while no attention is paid to the men operating the cars... lunacy.
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Yeah fukk all the fat cunts out of the game.
That should reduce the fleet by 50% at least.
A few on here would give the doctor a good laff.
But not me.
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If the gimps are worried about cunts being stranded at crimbo why don't they take the test and get plated up themselves.
As a famous gangster once said "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
Could it be a case that they have'nt a clue how a taxi works in the real world.
I can eat a steak, that means I know how to run a restaurant scenario.
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The geography test would get you, SC...
I don't think Christmas has a whole lot to do with it, Doc. They obviously struggle to cover demand all the time. Of course, you and I know that Christmas is a myth, one busy week offset by a quiet week before payday in January.
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Probably a lot of people fail the test because they don't study for it. They assume because they know Dublin because they've lived here all their lives.
Having said that, my recent vehicle suitability test co-incided with a group of lads doing the entry test. One guy said he'd failed it 5 times already. He hinted the tester at the other centre was a bollox who somehow failed him (despite the test being computerized). So he chose a new test centre with, hopefully, a better outcome!
Anyways, an easier test won't solve the other perceived problems... insurance and vehicle costs.
“It’s not the only thing, you also need to have a vehicle that has high insurance costs and all new taxis must be wheelchair accessible.
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I wonder what the Irish wheelchair assosiation folks think about a multi billion euro car company moaning about new drivers having to provide wheelchair accessible vehicles?.The very fact that they're using Limos to circumvent the wheely requirement is an absolute scumbag move.The new wheely regs are working and the are still trying to torpedo them.Cnuts.
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I think they offered to match Govt grants for WAVs... I recall reading something to that effect on Roy's a while back, not sure what T&Cs were proposed but one would imagine Daimler would like to restrict it's subsidies to Vitos?
They did seem keen on the idea of bringing back cosies when I spoke with them, that'd suit existing drivers better than limousines or new WAVs and fits the broader vehicle utilisation agenda. If Gett have a go at Dublin I'd expect them to push finance deals on Caddys for new entrants with VW taking the risk. To date, of all the motor manufacturers to invest in rideshare firms VW have been most aggressive in seeking immediate returns by selling cars/finance to the hundreds of thousands of drivers that use the apps. In Russia it has used finance deals on Polos, Rapids and Octavias to encourage new entrants.
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Vitos are huge money I can't see them following through on that.They would have no way of restricting the driver to app work once they're on the road.They need to be more realistic and understand that they'll never get the levels of coverage they had 3 years ago.Trying to flood the place with taxis will only end up in tears for Tim and his gang of typing monkeys.
Finance isn't that difficult to get in the current economy.The difference between an entry level wheely and a cheap saloon isn't huge.I think the unions should be informing their members what exactly mytaxi are up to.I'm met two drivers yesterday who cover a good ammount of work on the app and neither knew who the hell Tim Arnold was.They weren't happy to learn what the folks on Mount street are up to.
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And why dont we have more cosies?I've wondered this for a while too is it insurance?They use cosies all over the UK why are we so different.
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The minicab giant, Addison Lee, in London had serious issues with the Vitos, if I remember correctly. Or maybe it was the London cabbies moaning about them...something to do with turning and wheelbase problems.
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They were the only alternative to the Black Cab as no other WAV met the accommodation and turning cycle requirements, not sure if that's still the case.
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And why dont we have more cosies?I've wondered this for a while too is it insurance?They use cosies all over the UK why are we so different.
Might be something drivers could work with mytaxi on. We whinge about insurance but, in reality, it's just come full circle. When I started as a Cosy over twenty years ago my insurance cost the guts of £5,000. Rates dropped significantly when Quinn Direct entered the taxi market and started allowing private NCB against PSV policies, what happened to Quinn Direct?
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Ah yes you are right. But they were as popular as testicular warts if I remember.
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And why dont we have more cosies?I've wondered this for a while too is it insurance?They use cosies all over the UK why are we so different.
Might be something drivers could work with mytaxi on. We whinge about insurance but, in reality, it's just come full circle. When I started as a Cosy over twenty years ago my insurance cost the guts of £5,000. Rates dropped significantly when Quinn Direct entered the taxi market and started allowing private NCB against PSV policies, what happened to Quinn Direct?
Once upon a time, PMPA/Axa would start all new entrants off at 0% NCB until a clever lad realised that by doing that, the policy would get smaller as the NCB grew. So instead of £1,000.00 policy with 0% NCB, they sold £1,000.00 policies with full NCB`s . Great stroke. I raised the issue back then but....................
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Nobody listened? Loads heard you though? Passive and Active..?
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Nobody listened? Loads heard you though? Passive and Active..?
lol
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Lads, I can tell you first hand that the knowledge test for the SPSV is very difficult and tricky.
I'm no fool and would consider myself to be smarter than the average bear, yet I had to sit the test 6 times to pass it as did another 2 chaps I know who are very switched on, the test has a very high failure rate, up around 90% I was told.
I don't know when you lads did your tests but if you did it at any time over the last 2 to 3 years you'd know how hard it is.
Standards better not be fecking lowered, I passed it after 6 attempts and still hadn't a notion where I was going half the time lol
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Those of us that were motorcycle couriers blew through that test....legends in our own undercrackers we are!!
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Those of us that were motorcycle couriers blew through that test....legends in our own undercrackers we are!!
Not the way it's set up. Heard it's a money racket altogether and that some of their required answers are entirely wrong but if computer says No.....Longford tce that old chestnut.
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Believe it or not I was one if the first gimps to sit the new test back in 09.When I got me badge the bloke in the carriage office said only 1 in 100 were successfull.It was my second attempt after getting 78% out of 80% in the first exam.I passed about a week after.And I was a courier for 12 or 13 years.Can't remember properly all a blur now.
I've was told recemtly that lads were allowed to bring their smartphones into one of the Aplus test centers without supervison.
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I've was told recemtly that lads were allowed to bring their smartphones into one of the Aplus test centers without supervison.
This must be a new thing as I tried to bring mine in sellotaped to my arm and was told I couldn't go in with it lol
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Those A plus centers are a bit laid back compared to the test center on Barrow street. Especially the one in Ballymun north point. Great for getting yer car passed out though.
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Not the way it's set up. Heard it's a money racket altogether and that some of their required answers are entirely wrong but if computer says No.....Longford tce that old chestnut.
What about Longford Tce?
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Think he means Longford street little...oddly enough I got a job to there today from the Airport to an Air bnb.It's one of the more unusual questions on the test.Even though I've never needed to go there until today.
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Funnily enough, I've driven by there several times and said to myself, 'must remember that street name'. Never do!
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Not the way it's set up. Heard it's a money racket altogether and that some of their required answers are entirely wrong but if computer says No.....Longford tce that old chestnut.
What about Longford Tce?
40 coats..
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Got a job to an Airbnb on Lad Lane a while back, couldn't resist asking what the hourly rent was.
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Linkedin have brand new offices beside Lad lane now.Busy spot.
I'm wondering if Airbnb is responsible for many of the extra tourists we are seeing in town.Probably explains the apartment shortage too.