Rent a cab, what's not to like?

[Octavia1]

The difference between bean an owner driver or a renter for me is.... as a an owner driver  ( an a lazy cnut )  I can desend inta poverty at me own pace wit no outside pressure from some cunt tellin me to wear a uniform or tellin me I've 2 weeks holidays a yer ...
Thankfully me car is bollixed at the moment an  I hav a very good excuse for me nearest an dearest  not  to get out of bed in the mornin......( bout 2 o'clock in the afternoon) ....an  don't hav to pay some bloke who's on the radio sayin thers not enough taxi drivers an at the same time he's charging poor immigrant a fortune to drive his heaps of shite 80 hours a week to make minimum wage ....an the cunt knows the more them he has competin for his heaps o shite ...the more he can charge the poor cnuts .....
Call me mad but ...

[Octavia1]

That reminds me...I'm due zzz a zzz nap 

[silverbullet]

As I leave my Caddy in for a new Nox sensor tomorrow (€500+), I look back fondly on the days when €180 a week was the whole outlay possible .
You can't knock renting for the certainty it gives.

I remember Rentiers giving renters two weeks' holiday ONLY. The same renters who have to ask can they work during their holidays, an instance I  heard with my own ears when Bluecabs sold out to City cabs...sure, they were halcyon days!...not.

Imagine a driver who employs a Rentier being told how many weeks' holidays they can have? Tsk.

[silverbullet]

The difference between bean an owner driver or a renter for me is.... as a an owner driver  ( an a lazy cnut )  I can desend inta poverty at me own pace wit no outside pressure from some cunt tellin me to wear a uniform or tellin me I've 2 weeks holidays a yer ...
Thankfully me car is bollixed at the moment an  I hav a very good excuse for me nearest an dearest  not  to get out of bed in the mornin......( bout 2 o'clock in the afternoon) ....an  don't hav to pay some bloke who's on the radio sayin thers not enough taxi drivers an at the same time he's charging poor immigrant a fortune to drive his heaps of shite 80 hours a week to make minimum wage ....an the cunt knows the more them he has competin for his heaps o shite ...the more he can charge the poor cnuts .....
Call me mad but ...
The same renters who stick an extra euro on every account job to covers their freight and a little bit extra, but forget the guy who's riding them is also getting 23% commission on the theft.

The Rentier says nothing unless it's brought to their attention and the petty thief is given a stern warning to not get caught again...

[Rat Catcher]

Horses for courses, Octy. 80 hours for minimum wage sounds like something they might tell the wife and/or the taxman. In reality they'd pick up the incremental cost of renting in less than 6 hours.

As VD alludes to, owning a car isn't free. You have to buy the thing and maintain it. Throw COVID '19 anall into the equation and many (myself included) had cars parked up for the guts of two years with no entitlement to an extended PSV life.... and we still had to pay insurance and, at least in my case, pay for diesel to take the damn thing for a 13 minute drive once a week to keep the battery in serviceable condition and we only got free road tax for one of those two years.

I'm not sure who SB is paying 23% commission to. Free Now charge the highest commission at 15% for taxis and 25% for private hire on all work, cash and account. Bolt charge 13% on all work. I think Uber is 12% on all work. Lynk is 0% on cash work, 4.9% on card work and c.9% on corporate account work. C2K is 0% on cash work 12.5% account.

[Belker]

As I leave my Caddy in for a new Nox sensor tomorrow (€500+), I look back fondly on the days when €180 a week was the whole outlay possible .
You can't knock renting for the certainty it gives.

The 2 certanties of renting Van D are that firstly there are no major unforseen car trouble financial issues which is a big incentive, and secondly while renting you are paying another man's wages.

I had a troublesome car year just gone with the DPF and other things prob cost in the 5K region in total (tax deductable), add depreciation 2K, is still a long way short of the 13K fer renting.

[silverbullet]

*Comparison based on Lynk driver working 40 hours per week doing €300 in account/credit.
Freight €85 + booking fee €24 + account commission €27.50 = €136.50

Weekly Full Access Subcription(sic) €85
Weekends/Nights €43
Standard commission apply(sic)

If a gull earns 1250 a week for 40 hours I'd be amazed.
Firstly they would have to turn over €31+ per hour/every hour they work.
Lymp has mostly day work/i.e account work.
Paying a "booking" fee is akin to a "technology" fee on top of the €85 freight.
€1250 in account work amounts to circa €61.25 in commission on top of that.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

Anyway, I think I've recruited RC to the shrinking ranks of Lymp, every cloud anall.

Enjoy yizzer stickers!

[Rat Catcher]

If the "gulls" were taking less than that they'd work for Free Now and/or Bolt instead. It's not rocket science!

Busiest times for Lynk were 23:00-04:00 last year. Hardly a surprise for anybody looking to hire a taxi up above in Dublin during those hours.

[silverbullet]

If the "gulls" were taking less than that they'd work for Free Now and/or Bolt instead. It's not rocket science!

Busiest times for Lynk were 23:00-04:00 last year. Hardly a surprise for anybody looking to hire a taxi up above in Dublin during those hours.

Of that, how many jobs were completed?

Punters are calling all the Apps at the same time.

Actually, I don't think I've ever heard a punter say "So I Lymped a taxi"

Did ya join yet?

[silverbullet]

As I leave my Caddy in for a new Nox sensor tomorrow (€500+), I look back fondly on the days when €180 a week was the whole outlay possible .
You can't knock renting for the certainty it gives.

It's now €250 without insurance, and €360 with insurance.

[vandriver]

As I leave my Caddy in for a new Nox sensor tomorrow (€500+), I look back fondly on the days when €180 a week was the whole outlay possible .
You can't knock renting for the certainty it gives.

It's now €250 without insurance, and €360 with insurance.

When the guy I rented off put the rent back upmto 180 from 130,in the middle of the lockdown I realized that I should get my own jammer and be master of my own destiny.

[silverbullet]

Horses for courses, Octy. 80 hours for minimum wage sounds like something they might tell the wife and/or the taxman. In reality they'd pick up the incremental cost of renting in less than 6 hours.

As VD alludes to, owning a car isn't free. You have to buy the thing and maintain it. Throw COVID '19 anall into the equation and many (myself included) had cars parked up for the guts of two years with no entitlement to an extended PSV life.... and we still had to pay insurance and, at least in my case, pay for diesel to take the damn thing for a 13 minute drive once a week to keep the battery in serviceable condition and we only got free road tax for one of those two years.

I'm not sure who SB is paying 23% commission to. Free Now charge the highest commission at 15% for taxis and 25% for private hire on all work, cash and account. Bolt charge 13% on all work. I think Uber is 12% on all work. Lynk is 0% on cash work, 4.9% on card work and c.9% on corporate account work. C2K is 0% on cash work 12.5% account.

I'm not sure who SB is paying 23% commission to.
Not me, the nice man...keep up for christ's sake.

[Rat Catcher]

As I leave my Caddy in for a new Nox sensor tomorrow (€500+), I look back fondly on the days when €180 a week was the whole outlay possible .
You can't knock renting for the certainty it gives.

It's now €250 without insurance, and €360 with insurance.

When the guy I rented off put the rent back upmto 180 from 130,in the middle of the lockdown I realized that I should get my own jammer and be master of my own destiny.

To be fair, Free Now's income increased by 38% in the middle of the lockdown ( http://intaxi.org/forum/index.php?topic=15395.0 ) so perhaps he was in touch with what was happening on the street so to speak... and you always had the option to give the car back and pay nothing if you weren't working.

An acquaintance of mine was renting a plate for a grand a year and it jumped to two and a half grand in one go. His (1st world) problem is that he opted to buy a saloon car rather than go down the WAV route. Also, his platelord told him he'd be trousering 10% of any grant money if he opts for an EV going forward!

[Panel]

Seems perfectly reasonable for a platelord to require 10% of any grants, the legal and financial hoops one would have to jump through shouldn’t be done without some reimbursement for walking around money.

[silverbullet]

As I leave my Caddy in for a new Nox sensor tomorrow (€500+), I look back fondly on the days when €180 a week was the whole outlay possible .
You can't knock renting for the certainty it gives.

It's now €250 without insurance, and €360 with insurance.

When the guy I rented off put the rent back upmto 180 from 130,in the middle of the lockdown I realized that I should get my own jammer and be master of my own destiny.

To be fair, Free Now's income increased by 38% in the middle of the lockdown ( http://intaxi.org/forum/index.php?topic=15395.0 ) so perhaps he was in touch with what was happening on the street so to speak... and you always had the option to give the car back and pay nothing if you weren't working.

An acquaintance of mine was renting a plate for a grand a year and it jumped to two and a half grand in one go. His (1st world) problem is that he opted to buy a saloon car rather than go down the WAV route. Also, his platelord told him he'd be trousering 10% of any grant money if he opts for an EV going forward!

So he's renting the roof sign only?