Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Cool Boola on May 20, 2020, 07:39:29 pm
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Died Oct.6..2016..Famous for
Founder member of Progressive Democrats...also signed into law..Deregulation of Irish Taxis in Nov.2000..Died of Alzheimers in 2016....Never regretted what he did in one swipe of the pen to so many hard done by Taxi drivers...He destroyed so many lives and it could have been sorted in a fair way..The rot started here..Any memories?
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Twenty years since deregulation.Two recessions later and it's still dead out there...
Still drivers on here don't see the benefit of harder tests and cheap vehicle/plate costs.They think somehow if drivers have bigger overheads like pre-deregulation they'll make more money.Feckin gobshites.
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That would be so...if it was true!
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Bobby says no...to anything!!!
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If memory services me correctly Christy Humphries and the Private Hire union took a Court Case re the Closed Shop situation and he won so it was a free for all --Molloy just signed the Bill as directed by Court decision !
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There were more taxis needed at that time,lets be honest about it,but its gone from one extreme to the other now,there are far to many now.wait till were all back in work and nothing out there .it should be fun
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Technically, that's how it happened but Molloy was the man that broke the unions. For weeks the men chanted "we're not going back" to no avail, he told them to please themselves and they eventually returned with no concessions.
As the founder of Dublin Taxi Cosies Association I met Minister Molloy around that time. He sat between two officials, one private and one Dept who answered every question we posed between them. He only spoke himself to exchange greetings and pleasantries and, at the end off the meeting, to suggest that "it mightn't be as bad as you think lads". To be fair, he wasn't wrong. Trade improved steadily year on year for 8 years... until recession hit. Also, pre deregulation plate owners were allowed write off the purchase price of their plates against income tax - over 8 years, if memory serves.
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I keep telling you never ask a question if you dont already know the answer .
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Jeez ratzer,I never knew ya were a rep
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Briefly, DM... very briefly. I formed DTCA in 1999 to provide a platform for cosies when Minister Molloy proposed doubling the number of taxis by giving every plate holder another plate for every plate he held... deregulation followed within months rendering cosies and our association surplus to requirements.
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In 94 it was 120 ponds for nights and 90 for days to rent a shit heap--plate owners only have themselves to blame the State would have settled for staged release of 100 plates a year for a couple of years but Unions baulked --Humphries took case as he had all hacks on board similer to taxi unions--couldn't get Hack insurance with membership !
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To be fair, Bertie's Forum was addressing the situation. There had already been a couple of rounds of WAT issues and another was imminent.
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Better quality of taxi plate owner back then also.
Any scumbag can own a plate now.
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Better quality of taxi plate owner back then also.
Any scumbag can own a plate now.
Jaysus...that's debateable Jack.
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Better quality of taxi plate owner back then also.
Any scumbag can own a plate now.
Jaysus...that's debateable Jack.
Banks didn’t give out 80k and more to anyone to buy a plate.
Most blokes had to re mortgage their homes to get finance.
Good solid workers that had to graft hard to pay back the loan.
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80k in punts would have bought a mansion in Dublin in the 80/90s.
Spending that much money on a piece of paper to drive around pissheads doesn't sound like a bright idea at all.
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Think the most expensive plate sold was in Ennis for 100k.
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The Brother in law was cosying in the early 90s...Went to collect the car one night...Yer man says no I'm using it early in the morning but I will still be charging you rent for 2night..A lot of scummers held taxi plates back then too....
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laffin.
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The Brother in law wasn't....he told him to stick it up his ass...and packed it in...
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Better quality of taxi plate owner back then also.
Any scumbag can own a plate now.
Jaysus...that's debateable Jack.
Banks didn’t give out 80k and more to anyone to buy a plate.
Most blokes had to re mortgage their homes to get finance.
Good solid workers that had to graft hard to pay back the loan.
That's at the end of the gravy train. I remember them being IR£10,000 plus IR£3,000 to the Corpo in the 1980's.
They were about £1 or thereabouts in the late 60s early 70s.
Clever feckers like Terry Rogers and various solicitors bought them and rented them out. Back when there was little oversight and the driver could sign on AND drive a cab.
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Taxi business has had its day...Changes were...Huge demand from young punters and technology....Every business adaps or looses the gravy train....Simularities to the Painting Art business.....You could spend weeks painting with oils and canvas with the hope of a 200 euro sale.......Now you have Amazon offering any pic you want ( Using Epson quality inks) with a ink jet printer on canvas for 35 euro...framed extra 20 euro....Lots of people doing it in their garage in Ireland and not paying the artist a cent.....Leo is happy to pay them start up business grants ...looks very familiar to me....
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Better quality of taxi plate owner back then also.
Any scumbag can own a plate now.
Jaysus...that's debateable Jack.
Banks didn’t give out 80k and more to anyone to buy a plate.
Most blokes had to re mortgage their homes to get finance.
Good solid workers that had to graft hard to pay back the loan.
A good few were rented out by Gardai up above in Dublin.