10 o’clock Thursday harcourt street for the protest to nta gardai notified

[Rat Catcher]

With respect, DM how do you expect reps to do their job when you refuse to support them? Time and time again you complain that there are too many taxis while NPHTA and ITDF complain that 20,000 drivers have abandoned the trade and that entry costs are too high. Free Now controls TAC and hence the taxi trade... money might not sing and dance but it sure as hell talks.

[john m]

With respect, DM how do you expect reps to do their job when you refuse to support them? Time and time again you complain that there are too many taxis while NPHTA and ITDF complain that 20,000 drivers have abandoned the trade and that entry costs are too high. Free Now controls TAC and hence the taxi trade... money might not sing and dance but it sure as hell talks.

Dont tell me thats a coded message .You want us all forever in Blue Jeans and possibly matching shirts .

[mercenary for hire]

It's interesting that not one single poster or taxi driver I've met has asked for the taxi test pass mark to be returned to 80%.Currently I think it's at 75%.That was the only thing keeping drivers from entering the industry.Now they're coming in faster than they used to.Nothing to do with more taxi plates.

Nobody has clarified do the protesters want EV chargers or not?Hard to tell from the post above.

[Rat Catcher]

Had a lad in the car over the weekend who told me he passed the Geography section but failed the Industry section by a couple of points... all in extremely broken ENGLISH.

[mercenary for hire]

That's supposed to be the easy part.Maybe he underestimated it and didn't study for it.

[john m]

Back on topic I posted about the protest here but has anybody heard from anyone else about it .or is it a private event ?

[Rat Catcher]

Possibly, MfH. He studied with Free Now... maybe some of it got lost in translation.

I think it's by invitation only, erm. No doubt they're not expecting a big turnout...

[john m]

Possibly, MfH. He studied with Free Now... maybe some of it got lost in translation.

I think it's by invitation only, erm. No doubt they're not expecting a big turnout...

Are the Drogheda Men still on the way down or have the reached the Gresh they were expected 9 years ago .

[Rat Catcher]

Is it 9 years... where does the time go?

[dalymount]

Strange thing about it is,this acrually COULD  be a very vibrant, professional,well paying indistry,if drivers on here would only treat it as such.all I ever hear on here is drivers making a laugh of the industry,pointing out how bad it is,and that it is something we should not take seriously.well I think thats bollox.this industry has a great chance of survival if people stop saying things like ah its only a part time gig etc.this industry can be a great fully professional,full time,full time,fully respected part of the transport industry,but it has to start with the people who are part of it (the drivers) demanding that professionalism

[Rat Catcher]

There you go again... having a go at TTNH now... assuming you don't consider licensing convicted drug dealers as an essential part of that aspirational "profession".

[john m]

Dalymount have you ever heard of anybody leaving school to become a taxi driver .Its not an Industry its a safety net for unemployables most drivers are refugees from Courier or site work or badly paid factory work .Taxi driving all over the world is minimum wage low skilled work we are down there with other street workers who ply their trade on the streets .Irish taxi drivers from the pre dereg days lived in a guilded cage todays drivers are just low paid casual labour when there is work we work when its quiet we moan .

[Rat Catcher]

The only way to fix the trade is a compulsory buy back of all plates issued since entry liberalisation and a return to Bertie's forum.... even at that it'd still be a trade not a profession.

[Rat Catcher]

What do we want?

[all] Implementation of as many of the proposals outlined within our circulated literature as reasonably possible.

When do we want it?

[all] As soon a practicable having due regard for such constraints as regulatory and/or consultancy processes may reasonably impose.

[dalymount]

Well im afraid we will have to agree toto differ lads,I just happen to believe ANY industry can be turned around to be fully professional,but I also believe it has to start with the stakeholders in it ,the drivers