Times a changing...

[U Wha]

The world and times are changing....

To survive you need to be flexible and able to quickly adapt. If you look at nature, species that specialise and depend on a particular food source or environment are at risk of extinction. Same rules apply to the modern world. If you get set in your ways you will be left behind. That is a risk for taxi drivers who don't like change. The apps have disrupted the traditional dispatchers, drivers need to follow the trends or get left behind lamenting the old days.

Maybe taxi drivers need to look beyond passengers. We are insured to carry people and goods for hire or reward. The high street retailers are fecked, more and more closing down every day. Sales are virtual, payments are virtual but the products are real and have to be delivered in the real world.

An Post are closing post offices and their snail mail business has been decimated but they have adapted and their parcel delivery business is growing exponentially.

Amazon want to control everything and now they have, they want to set up and run their own delivery fleet and cut out the middleman. Remains to see if that will work.

Lynk are adapting too with 'Lynk Delivers'. They are partnering up with the big multinational private parcel companies as local service providers and utiliising any drivers on the existing taxi fleet that are interested and recruiting extra car/van drivers to supplement the delivery fleet.

I am doing agency HGV truck driver work and one of the contracts I was working on recently had half a dozen taxis in the warehouse loading up with parcel deliveries every morning. Drivers adapting to the situation and it is less risky during Covid as they are carrying no passengers. It is different but still a living to be made until the taxi game picks up.

Stand still and you are History!

[mercenary for hire]

Can you tell us how much they're earning per day doing deliveries.Generally speaking delivery work is poorly paid.

Why aren't you using your taxi to do deliveries?

[Octavia1]

Can you tell us how much they're earning per day doing deliveries.Generally speaking delivery work is poorly paid.

Why aren't you using your taxi to do deliveries?

Tink hes delivering a truck merc .....uwha  cud do well at journalism aswell ...

[mercenary for hire]

It's a little bit too articulate for a truck driver...there was a time we'd tear this chap a new bumhole.Times a changing alright.Double jobbers are cool, except Hal he's gonna cut his finger off in some oulwan's kitchen.

Where's that word a day LL queer fella anyway?

[john m]

Parcel drops are available for a Euro a drop you have to have a tax clearance cert .The Man who hires casual labour says that revenue will be seeking information on all self employed contractors from employers to decide on tax liabilities on earnings and to check that people receiving Pandemic UNEMPLOYMENT Payments were not in fact WORKING .Also heard a story A lad in Inchicore who fits alarms took a contract to deliver parcels and when his job reopened tried to give up the deliveries only to be told he signed a contract and if he welched on it they would assign the work to somebody else and sue him for breaking his contract .

[mercenary for hire]

There are experienced couriers out there struggling to make a decent living.If the work is being sub contacted then it's shite and underpaid.

I was getting a tenner a drop as a subcontractor form UPS in Santry 15 years ago.Only got it sometimes but that's what they paid.

[john m]

Lad use to have all of Clondalkin had two others working for him he was telling me they are giving his work to others he was contracted on the old rate the new rate is a euro a drop  and plenty of takers but the companies are returning the pay sheets to revenue as you are a contractor not an employee so they have no tax liability for your earnings once they disclose them to revenue .

[Octavia1]

1 euro a drop is only running costs .......crazy small money and apparently plenty to do it ......sounds like the uber model wer yur earnings only cover your car expenses.....
Gas the way the world is going into slavery..we all working for peanuts ...whites an blacks ....an bezos earns 2500 $ a second .....welcome to America land of the free

[markmiwurdz]

Euro a drop,no where to park,6th floor,large heavy box,lift broken,ages trying to get in the hall door,package slightly incorrectly addressed-should have been 15 not 115,nobody home,parking ticket when you come back down.

[Jonno]

Euro a drop,no where to park,6th floor,large heavy box,lift broken,ages trying to get in the hall door,package slightly incorrectly addressed-should have been 15 not 115,nobody home,parking ticket when you come back down.

On the bright side.....a package won't puke or piss on your back seat, pull a needle on you, give you lip, leg it, accuse you of sexual assault (maybe that was just me ) change your radio without asking, want you to take it on a Coke run, or offer you a BJ for a lift- unfortunately.

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[dalymount]

So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?

[Jonno]

I see the good Justice Wolf got his ass covered by his buddies.

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[Jonno]

So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?

Better off asking Leo Burdock if he wants a few chips delivered

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[markmiwurdz]

So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?

Imagine the wear and tear on your motor,15 drops an hour and your still only on minimum wage with a vehicle to keep road worthy.

[Jonno]

So are ya saying if ya do 10 drops ya get a tenner ? How the hell could that pay you to do that ?

Imagine the wear and tear on your motor,15 drops an hour and your still only on minimum wage with a vehicle to keep road worthy.

An hour wasted going back to the depot and loading up again. Probably a couple of times a day

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