non viable towns to operate a taxi/hackney business

[taxi1990]

Is it illegal to transport somebody for reward if you are not a licenced taxi or hack ? The answer is No it is not illegal .Thats the problem If you drop your mates kids to school along with your kids and he throws you a few quid that is not illegal .Thats the problem with proving he is operating illegal .If they ask him it might not be illegal .If he touts for business that is illegal .Its not as simple as it looks .

If you work on the sly as a carpenter every day, cash in hand. Try explaining that to Revenue when they catch up to you. Same goes if you are working 7 days a week as an illegal hackney dropping people to different places.

Anyway the thread is about these "non viable" towns and villages.

The answer is...build apartments over the pubs.

You might be better off working a rural town with no competition than working in a city like Dublin. You will know 90% of your customers which is always a positive, you don't have to give 15% of the fare to Freenow, more easy going pace of life etc etc

[John m]

Is it illegal to transport somebody for reward if you are not a licenced taxi or hack ? The answer is No it is not illegal .Thats the problem If you drop your mates kids to school along with your kids and he throws you a few quid that is not illegal .Thats the problem with proving he is operating illegal .If they ask him it might not be illegal .If he touts for business that is illegal .Its not as simple as it looks .

If you work on the sly as a carpenter every day, cash in hand. Try explaining that to Revenue when they catch up to you. Same goes if you are working 7 days a week as an illegal hackney dropping people to different places.

Anyway the thread is about these "non viable" towns and villages.

You need to understand economics .If there was money to be made full time there would be taxis .If there was money to be made in pubs they would open pub hours .Most pubs in rural Ireland would not open before noon and most not before 6pm .You always intrigue me .You want more Legal taxis to compete against you .This lad is taking up the slack and making sure that there is not enough work available for somebody else to plate up a car to compete against you .

[taxi1990]

Is it illegal to transport somebody for reward if you are not a licenced taxi or hack ? The answer is No it is not illegal .Thats the problem If you drop your mates kids to school along with your kids and he throws you a few quid that is not illegal .Thats the problem with proving he is operating illegal .If they ask him it might not be illegal .If he touts for business that is illegal .Its not as simple as it looks .

If you work on the sly as a carpenter every day, cash in hand. Try explaining that to Revenue when they catch up to you. Same goes if you are working 7 days a week as an illegal hackney dropping people to different places.

Anyway the thread is about these "non viable" towns and villages.

You need to understand economics .If there was money to be made full time there would be taxis .If there was money to be made in pubs they would open pub hours .Most pubs in rural Ireland would not open before noon and most not before 6pm .You always intrigue me .You want more Legal taxis to compete against you .This lad is taking up the slack and making sure that there is not enough work available for somebody else to plate up a car to compete against you .

I don't want legit taxis in these towns and villages (it doesn't bother me if they do start up either), im just pointing out the fact that I think these towns are actually viable.

[John m]

Good hopefully somebody from your town reads this and gets a licence so they can help you out .

[taxi1990]

Good hopefully somebody from your town reads this and gets a licence so they can help you out .

Im not talking about my town, my town has loads of taxis and hackneys, its a busy town. we wont be part of this new scheme.

[Belker]

I would imagine that city driving and rural town driving are 2 completely different games 1990 ?
Your asking the opinion of city drivers who are mostly mature and have no idea of how rural town driving works.

[taxi1990]

I would imagine that city driving and rural town driving are 2 completely different games 1990 ?
Your asking the opinion of city drivers who are mostly mature and have no idea of how rural town driving works.

True but surely there are some rural taxi drivers on this forum? Id say new entrants in these non viable towns would be more likely to take up this job if they were allowed drive a saloon with no restrictions on how they operate, the restrictions in this new scheme might put them off, time will tell.

Was there talk of the NTA allowing new entrants drive saloons? or was that just a rumor on this forum?

[John m]

1090 They do not want cars on the road .Its unlikely they will ever issue more saloon plates if they did there would be a call for compensation from plate owners who had them lapse on them .

[taxi1990]

1090 They do not want cars on the road .Its unlikely they will ever issue more saloon plates if they did there would be a call for compensation from plate owners who had them lapse on them .

Who is they?

So it was just a rumor on here about the NTA allowing saloon licences again?

[John m]

1090 They do not want cars on the road .Its unlikely they will ever issue more saloon plates if they did there would be a call for compensation from plate owners who had them lapse on them .

Who is they?

So it was just a rumor on here about them allowing saloon licences again?

They is Government .Listen to onion head he said more chargers AND staging for rent a car .Thats why FN have a teck Charge .The future for transport is electric you will be able to rent a Bike,Scooter or Car by the hour .By reducing the 4 seater taxi fleet they are encouraging more bus use .They might relax the rules for smaller multi passenger vehicles 8 to 14 seater that will create more school transport and they can also provide more local link to join up with regular bus routes .When I was a Kid we didnt have a car none of my mates had cars we used the Bus ,Walked ,Cycled .Took the train if you were going down the Country .It all worked perfectly well .Twenty minutes from College Green to Inchicore by bus in 1977 today its double that time .Car ownership was only a tax creating operation by Governments now they realize the only big winners were the Arabs Look at all the New buildings in Dubai or Abu Dabi Saudi arabia are foing to build a new City twice the size of Dublin in the Desert and the rest of the World has a housing Shortage .Every car on the Road means more money being given to Russia and the Arabs for Petrol and Oil .Its really an Economic problem not an Environment Problem but they have to sell you the Big fear to take away the Arab Money Maker .

[taxi1990]

1090 They do not want cars on the road .Its unlikely they will ever issue more saloon plates if they did there would be a call for compensation from plate owners who had them lapse on them .

Who is they?

So it was just a rumor on here about them allowing saloon licences again?

They is Government .Listen to onion head he said more chargers AND staging for rent a car .Thats why FN have a teck Charge .The future for transport is electric you will be able to rent a Bike,Scooter or Car by the hour .By reducing the 4 seater taxi fleet they are encouraging more bus use .They might relax the rules for smaller multi passenger vehicles 8 to 14 seater that will create more school transport and they can also provide more local link to join up with regular bus routes .When I was a Kid we didnt have a car none of my mates had cars we used the Bus ,Walked ,Cycled .Took the train if you were going down the Country .It all worked perfectly well .Twenty minutes from College Green to Inchicore by bus in 1977 today its double that time .Car ownership was only a tax creating operation by Governments now they realize the only big winners were the Arabs Look at all the New buildings in Dubai or Abu Dabi Saudi arabia are foing to build a new City twice the size of Dublin in the Desert and the rest of the World has a housing Shortage .Every car on the Road means more money being given to Russia and the Arabs for Petrol and Oil .Its really an Economic problem not an Environment Problem but they have to sell you the Big fear to take away the Arab Money Maker .

How long more do the Green party have in Government though? its not like they are in for the next 10 years.

[John m]

@1990 Its not the Green Party calling the Shots .The new World Order is Climate Change .Look at the Cuntology .Irish Government going to give a British Landowner over two Billion in grants to plant trees to capture carbon .In time places like Leitrim or Longford will be forests .There are long term plans to change everything .We wont be affected its a 50 year plan but just look back to the Last 50 .Mobile Phones ,Appartment  Women with Tattoos ,Same sex marriage ,Cheap air travel .Internet . The Greens will be part of every government in Ireland they give the others cover to change things .Whatever you think might not happen will probably happen .ALCOHOL FREE GARGLE ?We use to call that Lemonade and when I was 10 we had Glass money ,bring back the bottles .By 2030 Cash will be gone everything will be digital currency .Imagine a Kid is born educated from home over the internet take exams on line get a job work from home shop on line never has to leave Home .If you watch Futerama they keep heads in jars .Thats a Metaphor for the future the only part of you that will be needed is your brain .


PS if you think that sounds far fetched .Think Covid we all stayed in because they told us to.

[watty]

How long more do the Green party have in Government though? its not like they are in for the next 10 years.

I think the max for the current Govt in Q1/2 in 2023.  Vlad says he wants an election this year before it gets 'too dark' so presumably Autumn 2022?

Our love for coaltions Govts means the Greens could be in the next Govt if they're not wiped out electorally.  Sinn Fein is the known unknown.  They could easily be the biggest party but not have enough seats to form a Govt.  So who'll 'do their duty for their country' and go in with dem terrorists/left wing socialists.  Or could some other combo with the Greens get in?

Remember - vote early and vote often!  They all count 

[John m]

How long more do the Green party have in Government though? its not like they are in for the next 10 years.

I think the max for the current Govt in Q1/2 in 2023.  Vlad says he wants an election this year before it gets 'too dark' so presumably Autumn 2022?

Our love for coaltions Govts means the Greens could be in the next Govt if they're not wiped out electorally.  Sinn Fein is the known unknown.  They could easily be the biggest party but not have enough seats to form a Govt.  So who'll 'do their duty for their country' and go in with dem terrorists/left wing socialists.  Or could some other combo with the Greens get in?

Remember - vote early and vote often!  They all count 

Here is one for you Watty .After the Next election everything is different but nothing Changes ?? Shinners get a load but cannot form a Government the others cannot form a Government .Under the Constitution the Present Government stay in Power until a new Government can be formed so the Losers Win .

[watty]

They might not want the job.  Can't see Vlad and Pascal hanging around - Ireland is too small for them and Europe is surely calling.  M.Martin is getting on a bit and he'll need to make his pension money on various boards etc before it gets too late.

Who'd want the job anyways?  We're going to be the laughing stock of Europe.  We're coming up to crunch time via Climate Change and all the agreements we signed (even we had our fingers crossed behind our backs).  Someone is gonna have to confront the farmers and tell them to cop on.  And the current Govt has fukked up big time on the power grid, general power supply & electric vehicles - they're will be fined to hell and back for their lack of planning.  FFS, data centres using the power of a small town but only supplying 10 or 20 jobs...