New Exec changes - interesting

[Vikkiz]

I'll agree that a Superb shouldn't be a limo, and I drove a few Superbs as a taxi, but it comes nowhere near the likes of Audi/Merc/BMW stuff.

If you want to tax your car cheaply as a limo, it has to be registered as a limo(logbook change) and pay the insurance which is higher.

it only needs to be insured for the day of Suitability as a PSV, can be cancelled the next day and insured privately

[vandriver]

There's a 181 black superb Laurin & Klement that parked outside the Merrion,that looks every inch a limo.

[Shallowhal]

There's a 181 black superb Laurin & Klement that parked outside the Merrion,that looks every inch a limo.

An L&K badge...expensive extra!!

[The Liffey Lip]

Yis are all walking into the loins den blindly. Has ANY of you given the slightest thought to what will happen when F/N get total control of the industry ? You really WILL be just like employees, but without the benefits of employees conditions. They will be able to bounce you around any which way they like, and there will be nothing you can do about it. You will eventually see I hope, the drastic mistake you made by making it compulsory in all but name to join a dispatcher. I can see them changing the goal posts when they get full control. I hope for your sakes in wrong, but we will wait and see

You're not wrong Dalyer. They only care about themselves though-: so no point trying to enlighten a leg of pork. Taxiing is the perfect entry point for our replacements. White hetero males here have the lowest sperm count in Europe....hard to believe we've gone from the most fertile to the most barren in such a short space of time.

[mercenary for hire]

Are yis counting yer sperms now?

[Shallowhal]

Only of a Sunday!!

[The Liffey Lip]

Get yourself a microscope and have a look Merc............you might not need to be strapped up when she's looking for the kitchen to be done again.

[Rat Catcher]

Superb is OK for Limo, IMO. I use Uber on the Costa Del Crime on occasion and they're always fairly new Mercs or Superbs... but priced as taxis not limos. I think I had a Superb on UberX (cheap as a minicab) in London, definitely had a Merc and a Prius or two.

[mercenary for hire]

The only problem I see with the Superb is they depreciate fairly dramatically.Meaning you could be in an eleven or twelve year old limo/hack superb quite cheap.In fact cheaper than we can buy our taxis due to the ten year rule.

[Rat Catcher]

I don't think Uber keep them that long... always in as new condition in my experience and generally with suited and booted drivers... for less than or equal to the price of a taxi one can't complain.

[dalymount]

Who do limos not have to be branded, and are they allowed use bus lanes

[silverbullet]

Who do limos not have to be branded, and are they allowed use bus lanes

Limos, like private cars can use bus lanes only where and at what time it's permitted, as displayed on the blue signs at the beginning of the bus lane.

[Rat Catcher]

Who do limos not have to be branded, and are they allowed use bus lanes

They're no allowed carry signage - aside from the licence disc. Same goes for hackneys... makes it more difficult for them too snatch taxi jobs off the street. You're probably old enough to remember when taxis didn't have roof signs, just a little plate that you'd never spot at night. Back then there wasn't really any such thing as street work. It was all wireless or rank.

[Vikkiz]

Who do limos not have to be branded, and are they allowed use bus lanes

They're no allowed carry signage - aside from the licence disc. Same goes for hackneys... makes it more difficult for them too snatch taxi jobs off the street. You're probably old enough to remember when taxis didn't have roof signs, just a little plate that you'd never spot at night. Back then there wasn't really any such thing as street work. It was all wireless or rank.

Don’t tell Dalymount

[Rat Catcher]

That was before you were born... there weren't many ranks either, no unofficial ones at all... your dad would probably remember!