Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on January 01, 2018, 02:58:00 pm
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Reports of robbery's in Tyrelstown Ongar ,Blanch Clonee by non natives .One report of a gun being produced so be careful.Had fun and games myself last night in Stepaside stopped for a family but he was a dickhead so I said sorry your not Tony Im booked he grabbed off the door and start trowing kicks in my direction last I saw of him was bouncing off the road as I accelerated away holding his leg .
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Erm that sounds like a hit and run..
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Asshole the minute I stopped I knew I fucked up .So I said you Tony that I was booked and without any notice a size 8 came in my direction cunt screaming he had a family young children with him who needed to get home .I was having a good night up till then If I had of been pissed off I might of reversed over the vile bastard .
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Holding his leg could be construed as utilising unreasonable force to detain him whereas, unless you made a citizens arrest, the appropriate course of action would arguably be to use reasonable force to remove him from the vehicle.
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Holding his leg could be construed as utilising unreasonable force to detain him whereas, unless you made a citizens arrest, the appropriate course of action would arguably be to use reasonable force to remove him from the vehicle.
I have a long handled lump hammer in the boot in case I need to use reasonable force to remove a wheel or the likes .
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I'd be more concerned about him claiming off your insurance.They're paying out for all sorts just so they don't need to go to court.With or without your consent or admission of liability.
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Anywaysanall, did you get the bonus erm?
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Anywaysanall, did you get the bonus erm?
yes and 4 scrubs ,a lot of dickheads 2 or 3 in a group all hailing and first car got the job had one on Station Road Raheney 3 of us turned up first car got the job the others didnt answer the phone so I waited 5 and scrubbed .App acting up as well freezing and taking an age to record fare .Noticed that they sorted the problem of giving directions to job you refused also got jobs I never accepted and just cancelled .
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What did I do?
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you get a lot of these cunts this time of year.
they have the hump because 10 cars have driven by them.
you're good enough to stop for them, and then they launch abuse at you over their tale of woe.
out you go ye cunt.
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Anywaysanall, did you get the bonus erm?
yes and 4 scrubs ,a lot of dickheads 2 or 3 in a group all hailing and first car got the job had one on Station Road Raheney 3 of us turned up first car got the job the others didnt answer the phone so I waited 5 and scrubbed .App acting up as well freezing and taking an age to record fare .Noticed that they sorted the problem of giving directions to job you refused also got jobs I never accepted and just cancelled .
Yeah, the app was shite last night, offering me jobs long after I had pressed busy, over a minute in 2 cases to accept the inputted fare, at one stage I turned it off and when I logged back on it showed me I was on a job 16km away!!! For Ireland’s largest dispatcher (by a country mile) this shite really shouldn’t be happening.
On a side note, I recently got a job at a hotel, guy came out, well pissed, said “we’ll be a few mins bud, start the meter”... I did, and pressed “passenger onboard “ a few mins later he returned with a fresh full pint and said “we’ll just be a few mins bud” I was pissed but waited as the meter was running, then he came back out and started getting sick in from one of my car, I took off, couldn’t cancel the job as I had pressed passenger onboard, couldn’t Claim scrub and had to input a few € to clear myself, that shite wouldn’t be long making you turn off when it’s busy.
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Totally agreed.
You can't cancel the job after the 'Passenger on board' has been pressed.
I had a fare going to a Debs or Grads last year where the young customers
kept opening bottles of beer within the cab.
I gave them Two warnings which they didn't heed and then I put them out of
the cab and had to cash it in fer a few Euro.
I did send in feedback and wasn't charged commission fer the fare.
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Had fun and games myself last night in Stepaside stopped for a family but he was a dickhead so I said sorry your not Tony Im booked he grabbed off the door and start trowing kicks in my direction last I saw of him was bouncing off the road as I accelerated away holding his leg .
Can you give us the full facts of what happened John M ?
No Drama or amateur speculation, just the facts.
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Anywaysanall, did you get the bonus erm?
yes
Nice one, how much did you get? I got the ton myself despite covering a fair bit of street work, worked 18:54 - 04:21.
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Only the minimum but 4 scrubs .A few jobs when I turned up there were other cars there so assumed if there were three people with the app they all hit it and first car got the job I rang but got no answer so waited 5 and requested scrub .
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Yeah, the app was shite last night, offering me jobs long after I had pressed busy, over a minute in 2 cases to accept the inputted fare, at one stage I turned it off and when I logged back on it showed me I was on a job 16km away!!! For Ireland’s largest dispatcher (by a country mile) this shite really shouldn’t be happening.
On a side note, I recently got a job at a hotel, guy came out, well pissed, said “we’ll be a few mins bud, start the meter”... I did, and pressed “passenger onboard “ a few mins later he returned with a fresh full pint and said “we’ll just be a few mins bud” I was pissed but waited as the meter was running, then he came back out and started getting sick in from one of my car, I took off, couldn’t cancel the job as I had pressed passenger onboard, couldn’t Claim scrub and had to input a few € to clear myself, that shite wouldn’t be long making you turn off when it’s busy.
€1 is the min input. You can use the Help->Incorrect Fare option to reclaim the commission and/or claim the no contact fee... although I had two no contact fees declined since they automated processing. In one case it was down to the slow server responses. The client side timer on my app started when I pressed arrived but it took another two minutes of watching a bouncing car before the arrived event was recorded on the server hence the job start time recorded suggested that I only waited 3 minutes yet the counter on the app displayed the correct 5 minutes. Therefore I tend to agree that it's not viable during peak times without bonus payments.
The server doesn't cope well at busy times. That's mainly down to inefficient programming with far too much client-server interaction. As you note the app needs a server response to perform the simple task of loading the fukking fare input screen, one example of completely unnecessary communication, another being the arrived event mentioned above... all that could be recorded client side and processed together in one server call in the background without endlessly tying up the UI with poxy bouncing cars.
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You never said .Do you Like the bouncing car icon or should they change it ?
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They should eliminate it. All that processing should be done in the background. When I press the take payment button it should record the time and location on my device and immediately display the fare input screen. When I complete that it should tell me I'm free and post the data to the server in the background without bothering me with how long or how many attempts it takes, I don't need to know.