20% fails

[dalymount]

 :: yes thats true ,I do have a certain area I work.I got belfast from the fleetwood mac concert last week,and navan the next night.but the point im making is,I dont see it lasting. Street work is becoming ever harder to aquire because most drivers are aligned,and most customers are signed up to a dispatcher. When I say in not going anywhere,I mean I wont be taking on another job outside of the taxi industry.Ken I have said before many times,my problem with dispatchers is,they treat the drivers like employees when in fact the drivers actually employ them.the only function of a dispatcher is to provide work to the drivers who pay them to do so.it is not to tell drivers what to wear,how much to charge,and the one I REALLY cannot get my head around is disciplining drivers for certain things.a fella was telling me recently that a certain cab company in Dublin whos drivers ILLEGALLY stand for hire in hotel car parks has this fukking henchman called James who regularly visits the hotels to check that the drivers are doing what their told.what kind of fukkin self employed idiots agree to this kind of shite ?

[dalymount]

I do agree that mytaxi operate in a way where the driver calls the shots,so for that reason I would not be opposed to their success if dispatchers must be part of the game.I personally do not believe that dispatchers are nessesary,but I am glad they recognize the driver is king

[Bob Shillin]

"but I am glad they recognize the driver is king"

Life must be good on your home planet. their sole objective is our redundancy, unlike traditional despatchers for as long as it lasts.

[Bob Shillin]

Despatcher's commission is at the very least 3% less, and could be as high as 5% less if they kept the work.

[dalymount]

Bob I keep saying my gripe with dispatchers has never been anything to do with commision,it. has ALWAYS been to do with the fact that they treat drivers like their employees.is it not also the case,that in addition to the 100 plus a week for the radio,that you have to give them a percentage of each nnob as well.also do you not have to pay for a uniform to advertise THEIR company ??

[Bob Shillin]

"100 plus a week for the radio,that you have to give them a percentage of each nnob as well.also do you not have to pay for a uniform to advertise THEIR company"

All incorrect. Base fee is a fraction of €100, a 10% discount is the biggest discounted job that I have been offered with no obligation to do it, and that was off one of the few of their remaining very big accounts. Discounts are largely gone. Never worn a uniform, never seen another driver wear one. I would need a salary, 5 weeks paid holidays, pension, shares, and free health insurance to even consider wearing a uniform.

[silverbullet]

NEC were giving HSE 42% discount.
Blue cabs were giving 37% discount to HSE.

[Bob Shillin]

Michaels Dunlaoire to Vincent's Merrion fixed fare €15, metered at €15.30 on tariff 2

[Vikkiz]

Lynk,
€79 base fee
€2 on account jobs
€2 on hospitality jobs
10% on account jobs
7.9% on credit card jobs

I worked it out that I WAS paying €120 a week and I certainly wasn’t making €1000 from them

[Bob Shillin]

Lynk,
€79 base fee
€2 on account jobs
€2 on hospitality jobs
10% on account jobs
7.9% on credit card jobs

I worked it out that I WAS paying €120 a week and I certainly wasn’t making €1000 from them

Never, ever considered employing the EBBssssss. Guessing that the majority of the fleet would be package renters not born in Europe?

[silverbullet]

Lynk,
€79 base fee
€2 on account jobs
€2 on hospitality jobs
10% on account jobs
7.9% on credit card jobs

I worked it out that I WAS paying €120 a week and I certainly wasn’t making €1000 from them

Ebbs always has his favourites.
The clincher for me was him telling the Bluecab drivers that his App was autonomous, but if a country job came in then they would get a phone call?
Not very autonomous.
An App would throw the job into the Piranha pool.

[Jack Meoff]

Michaels Dunlaoire to Vincent's Merrion fixed fare €15, metered at €15.30 on tariff 2

No discounts on HSE work now, well in Cork anyway.
Full metered fare.

[Belker]

Base fee fer me fer many years in Cork was 110, Satelitte charge circa 135 and all the rest are about the 110 mark or at least they were about Two years back.
Only Two (of the top 3 ) cab companies require uniforms Co-op and Satelitte, Co-op hand out the uniform shirts, jumper and jackets fer Free.
My last base had a lorra staff jobs at up to 50% discount and a lot of set fares at a lesser rate. Cork to Dublin airport was a set of 300 fer hotels even though on the meter it would be about 500.
No PUC allowed on any job (which was largely ignored).

[Belker]

With MyTaxi I usually pay about 60 a week in freight and hover around the 50'ish job mark, I don't do Bed logos so no hospitality charges and I turn it on and off when I like, and save about a Tenner a week in fuel and car wash discounts.
When your with a base you have to 'Hide' every night when the streets are busy.

[watty]

With MyTaxi I usually pay about 60 a week in freight and hover around the 50'ish job mark, I don't do Bed logos so no hospitality charges and I turn it on and off when I like, and save about a Tenner a week in fuel and car wash discounts.
When your with a base you have to 'Hide' every night when the streets are busy.

I pay around 50-60/week as well but I never even get to bronze status!  Just checked - I did less than 35 MT jobs last week.
What percentage commission are you paying?  You're an ambassador IIRC?  Is an ambassador basically full-time on MT?