Cheap taxi insurance if you part of TDORA

[dalymount]

To all drivers.I sincerely appeal to you to let these radio scumbags sink.please dont save them by joining their underhanded method of getting you to insure with these people.let this be pay back time for the way they have treated you over the years. A lot  of the drivers who currently work under their banner,are absolute bullies and scumbags who seem to think independent drivers have no right to operate.this is your chance now.the fact that they have resorted to this,shows the basrards are in real trouble

[The Liffey Lip]

Jaysus, 200% loading for those working the app? That might have a serious impact on many people....making liars out of them.

[dublin2018]

Assuming you don't live in Clare Halll the odds of your car getting torched are extremely low, DD. This crowd seems to specialise in delivery drivers. I'll reserve judgment 'till we hear back from BS but it doesn't strike me as suitable for taxi drivers who aren't necessarily hired through a dispatch firm. Insurance rates have decreased in recent times. However, those of us who work for mytaxi ought to be concerned about what the future may hold. We have all witnessed taxis meandering out of control while drivers are fixated on their telephone screens and the one insurer that does ask if you work for mytaxi (Liberty) seems to apply penalties of up to 200% for those that do. How long before the others follow suit?

Liberty are right charging penalties on Mytaxi, as drivers are doing serious amount of jobs of it and are at high risk of of road traffic accidents as risk at driving to the job and completing the job is 50% more then a street driver FACT .TDORA are offering full-time insurance not just delivery driver insurance

[Rat Catcher]

(€20,000 freight/12%)*100=€167,000p.a.

€167k/365 days = €458 per day, every day?

Really? Or is my maths wrong?

There's a few ways of working it out, WD.

First, about 5 years ago Hail0 told us it's best drivers pay €240/week. That was before drivers working for the firm were allowed charge PUC and before hospitality charges were introduced. I get offered at least one hospitality job per hour so, if we assume the best drivers work 60 hours and accept half of those fares that's an additional €60/week. If we assume they cover 60 jobs/week that's an additional €15 commission on PUCs. Allowing for an 18% increase in mytaxi's business since it published the €240 freight figure we end up with €361/week or €18,045/year based on a 50 week year.

Second, my freight always exceeds €3/hour. I'm not an ambassador and the only time I might have priority is Sunday/Monday where the whole fleet has it. I don't cover pre-bookings, Airport pick ups, hospitality jobs or anything south of Collins Ave or west of Ballymun Rd - unless it has a destination north of Collins Ave and East of Ballymun Rd. I guess it's safe to assume mytaxi's best drivers are ambassadors, always have priority, maximise their takings (i.e. work anywhere regardless of licences held) and cover pre-bookings, hospitality jobs and Airport pick ups. Based on that assumption they have to be paying significantly more than me. Even at €5/hour they'd be paying €300 for a 60 hour week. Add in €60 hospitality charges and you're back to €360/week.

Third, DM reported no bother averaging in excess of €40/hour over 6 hours on a Thursday. It's safe to assume mytaxi's best drivers are trousering more than him as a non aligned driver.  However, to match DMs rate and trouser €2,400 over a 60 hour week they'd have to take €2,727 excluding hospitality fees. That'd put freight at €327.24. Add in €60 hospitality charge and you get €387.24/week or €19,362/year.

[dublin2018]

To all drivers.I sincerely appeal to you to let these radio scumbags sink.please dont save them by joining their underhanded method of getting you to insure with these people.let this be pay back time for the way they have treated you over the years. A lot  of the drivers who currently work under their banner,are absolute bullies and scumbags who seem to think independent drivers have no right to operate.this is your chance now.the fact that they have resorted to this,shows the basrards are in real trouble

100% TDORA know that Mytaxi  are going to flood the taxi industry with Bread van Taxis as they make the Bread vans and makes sense as Mytaxi are Mercedes BMW .

[dublin2018]

(€20,000 freight/12%)*100=€167,000p.a.

€167k/365 days = €458 per day, every day?

Really? Or is my maths wrong?

There's a few ways of working it out, WD.

First, about 5 years ago Hail0 told us it's best drivers pay €240/week. That was before drivers working for the firm were allowed charge PUC and before hospitality charges were introduced. I get offered at least one hospitality job per hour so, if we assume the best drivers work 60 hours and accept half of those fares that's an additional €60/week. If we assume they cover 60 jobs/week that's an additional €15 commission on PUCs. Allowing for an 18% increase in mytaxi's business since it published the €240 freight figure we end up with €361/week or €18,045/year based on a 50 week year.

Second, my freight always exceeds €3/hour. I'm not an ambassador and the only time I might have priority is Sunday/Monday where the whole fleet has it. I don't cover pre-bookings, Airport pick ups, hospitality jobs or anything south of Collins Ave or west of Ballymun Rd - unless it has a destination north of Collins Ave and East of Ballymun Rd. I guess it's safe to assume mytaxi's best drivers are ambassadors, always have priority, maximise their takings (i.e. work anywhere regardless of licences held) and cover pre-bookings, hospitality jobs and Airport pick ups. Based on that assumption they have to be paying significantly more than me. Even at €5/hour they'd be paying €300 for a 60 hour week. Add in €60 hospitality charge and you're back to €360/week.

Third, DM reported no bother averaging in excess of €40/hour over 6 hours on a Thursday. It's safe to assume mytaxi's best drivers are trousering more than him as a non aligned driver.  However, to match DMs rate and trouser €2,400 over a 60 hour week they'd have to take €2,727 excluding hospitality fees. That'd put fright at €327.24. Add in €60 hospitality charge and you get €387.24/week or €19,362/year.

Bottomline Mytaxi and Cab Companies are Fleecing the drivers and they care about one thing is money not the drivers .If a cab company was competitive and charged realistic prices id consider it.But there all greedy and pick away at drivers minimum income

[Rat Catcher]

No its just rat stirring it up against mytaxi in favour of his buddy in swords main street

Anthony isn't a buddy of mine. I don't even work for him these days, I work for mytaxi. However, when I did work for C2K I always found him to be decent, honest and fair. During the Celtic Tiger years we were paying €80/week including all bribes to hotels, pubs, car hire return sheds, etc... and we could work as many hours as we wanted. The work was all full-fare including PUC on base pick ups. In short, we were paying a damn sight less than drivers are now paying mytaxi and we were taking a damn sight more. We even got free uniforms... decent quality shirts (Fruit Of The Loom) included.

[vandriver]

'If I do 60 jobs on Mytaxi after commission  its always in and around €400 after commission less fuel '
Either you're driving a V8,or your sums are wrong.
60 jobs going nowhere pays you over 300.

[The Liffey Lip]

  This is a lively aul place at times.

[dalymount]

Here rat ,what do you mean you could work as many hours as you like ,? Of  course you could work as many hours as you like,your self employed aint ya ? or are you telling me these radio scumbags also regulate drivers hours

[Rat Catcher]

So, the best drivers are probably doing closer to 240 jobs/week, VD? In that case the first computation would need to be modified to add €58 instead of €15 to account for PUC. That'd make weekly freight €402.

I mean you could work as many hours as you wanted for the same price i.e. €80/week, DM. Working for  mytaxi you pay a % of every fare (12%) plus a €2 surcharge on "hospitality" jobs so, while it might suit part-timers like myself, the full-time professionals who need the job to feed their families and all are paying through the nose.

[dalymount]

Come on now rat,tell us ffs how much is Kelly paying ya to keep on singing his praises ?

[Rat Catcher]

It's all fact, DM... nothing the men don't already know.

[dublin2018]

'If I do 60 jobs on Mytaxi after commission  its always in and around €400 after commission less fuel '
Either you're driving a V8,or your sums are wrong.
60 jobs going nowhere pays you over 300.

Fuel is a major factor .I drive 1.5 diesel ,but yes i never factored in insurance and wear and tear 60 jobs at say over 500 less fuel and there 12% commission its right.Im being honest i couldn't afford to do Mytaxi as i was making less money.Ive tried and tested it.Maximum id do a week off it would be 5 jobs turn on when going home.Id rather hunt my full fare work that i paid to seal a meter for and massive insurance.

[vandriver]

I average 15 euro per mytaxi job.What are you doing wrong?