What happened to Priority?

[Belker]

................Only thing that annoyed me was not taking a family that put there hand out at departures..... Ain't they hailing so is that not legal to pick them up? 

If not then sumone has an awful lot to answer for.. Absolute spastic bureaucractic bullshite

YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS !!

It's seldom that I work by day but if I do get to Knack a job at the Airport/Train station/Bus station after dropping off, then I will take it every time, I have never been questioned by any other driver about it but if I was then I would have one of my excuse's ready;
"It's a Booking".
"It's me Mother/Brother/Daughter, Etc"
"It's going ta de Fookin Travel Lodge, do ya want it ?".

[Belker]

I got Two in one day a few weeks back, the First was a fella coming out with his son's hurley which was seemingly an inch too big to be allowed, he paid me a Pony to drop the hurley back to his home which I did the next time I was in his area.
The Second was a Dutchman with limited English who approached me after dropping off and asking; "Arz youz available ?", he was on his phone, so I said; "Yea, Jump in dere Bey" and then I pulled out my phone to look at the blank screen to make it look like it was a booking !

[Tony]

Now reverse the situation with you sitting on a rank, yis would be on social media calling for his/her head to roll

[Belker]

My favourite one was a few years back when I was with a base, I was on a base job going to the train station and with another job hanging in Ballincollig coming back to town, as I drop off at the train station the cab dropping off in front of me drives off to join or be the only cab at the train station rank.
A fella comes out of the train station (before the other driver had reached the train station rank) asking to go to Ovens which is just 2km beyond Ballincollig where my next job is lined up fer;"Jump in Bey" sez I.
I see the other driver out of his cab and storming towards me as I drive off, I roll down the window and tell him; "He's only going as far as the Clarion !" which was a birra of a lie, Ovens is a 25 to 30Euro job and my next job from Ballincollig to home was another 25Euro.

Either way the other Taxi driver was Not ON THE RANK when I took the fare, even if he was I would of had some other excuse made up !

[Belker]

Now reverse the situation with you sitting on a rank, yis would be on social media calling for his/her head to roll

Fook 'em !
In the grand scheme of things, I would reckon that I have been Knacked or Wronged to a ratio of 5 to 1 against me in the last Ten years.

[mercenary for hire]

The airport taxi ranks are nowhere near the drop off zones.Especially if yer dragging suitcases with a few brats.Next time you get off a flight see how long your prepared to wait for a taxi.I fukking hate the airport as a passenger and a driver.The customers aren't being served well out there.I regularly see a queue out there on T2 and ten cars in the kesh.It's great that the lads are busy but I'm not leaving empty if there are customers looking for taxis.

Sending the passengers to an empty airport rank from departures is like asking them to walk from college green to Baggot Street to see if there's any taxis on the rank.

Plenty of lads from the Kesh hanging around the city center in front of official stands during the bad years.Hungry cunts.

[Belker]

That all seems strange MFH, in Cork the start of the Taxi rank is 10 meters from the Departures door.
Kerry airport which is really tiny is the same, the rank only holds about 5 Taxies.
Shannon have a Hackney only service again available at the departure door.

Why is Dublin airport so complicated ?

[mercenary for hire]

You can see the airport rank on Terminal 2 departures(probably 30 meters too) but the DAA spent a lot of money putting up expensive steel barriers to make sure the queing passengers can't easily cross the street to hop in a taxi dropping off.They're charging the airport lads for permits so understandably need to be seen to keep the work just for them.The net result is keshies heading to the airport empty and non keshies leaving empty.

Terminal one departures is slightly different.The taxi rank is on the floor below so they're separated enough to confuse the passengers.Sometimes you'll see 100/150 people waiting down there and loads of empty taxis leaving the airport.Seems very inefficient.

[Belker]

There is money involved in Dublin airport Taxi ranks which kinda Fooks up everything !

In Cork airport which is also under the jurisdiction of DAA taxi regulations, there is no money at stake and not policed by the DAA.
So everything moves smoothly, the drivers regulate themselves, the main rank runs along the terminal building with a holding bay (Pebble beach) located about 200 meters away.

[mercenary for hire]

It's not a big deal as I'm only dropping out there 5/10 times a week.But when I do drop I make sure to take whatever is going.

[Belker]

It's not a big deal as I'm only dropping out there 5/10 times a week.But when I do drop I make sure to take whatever is going.

I can go along with that, I'm sure the 'Snow Whites' will be along soon to tell us off !

[Tony]

Im no snow white Kenneth but i actually believe snatching / robbing jobs  is wrong.

[stonethecrows]

Im no snow white Kenneth but i actually believe snatching / robbing jobs  is wrong.

An Eye for an Eye, let him who has not sinned throw the 1st stone

[Tony]

Im no snow white Kenneth but i actually believe snatching / robbing jobs  is wrong.

An Eye for an Eye, let him who has not sinned throw the 1st stone

An eye for an  eye and soon the whole world is blind

[mercenary for hire]

The rules changed during the recession.I used to try to do the right thing but got a pain in me rocks getting fukked over.A significant portion of the fleet are immigrants who don't go to ranks and don't talk to other drivers.Back where they come from it's normal to take jobs wherever you feel like it.Now we all do it.

All them elephant jockies drive like fukking idiots because they know no different.You can't just put the toothpaste back in the tube..