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Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« on: May 20, 2026, 02:52:13 pm »
My cousin has removed all TAT advertising from his vehicle in protest that he strongly believes that work is being stitched up, a sentiment felt by a lot of other drivers in an online social media platform.

Has anyone heard similar?

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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2026, 02:55:16 pm »
Interesting. That's the sort of stuff that could sink it before it gets going.


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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2026, 03:19:46 pm »
Any hints on how drivers might be getting more than others?

Surely all jobs are going out straight away for all to see/decline/accept?


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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2026, 05:00:06 pm »
EVIDENCE ??????????????

Thers more taxi drivers going around thar not only look like less Dawson in drag ..... but fukin talk an act like him .... emmmm her  ......

Fukin owlones  spreadin rumours cause ther freenow  licky lacky lick arse stickers aint doin it fir them anymore ...... in fact fuk now has gotten so bad now that we had a licky lacky  lick arse on here last week complaining thar he was forced  to doo 25% commission as if ther was a gun to his head  from  his former doughnut mates in Mount Street or watever fukin hole they crawl in .....


Now im a bit of a mad cunt an even me ma wud tell ya that .... an im inclined to exadurate stories an tings  on account ov me high iq  I ger bored very easily ...... bur im goin tell ya  yous oirish are the dopiest poor cnuts on earth .... an as me ma always said .... yis hate yur own .... particularly wen someone or something is a success ..... kinda like wen paddy across the road drives up the driveway in his new car an yur lookin tru the curtains .... an yur mot is sayin  why cant yu buy a new car  ya lazy cunt ..... so ya go round the pub that  nite tellin everyone ya saw paddy in the George suckin off a tranny .......


Poor cunts

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« Last Edit: May 20, 2026, 05:09:20 pm by Octavia1 »
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2026, 05:02:55 pm »


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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2026, 05:03:39 pm »
 O:-)
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2026, 07:00:07 pm »
Can't see the big deal, disillusionment with the biz has been an occupational hazard for as long as I have plied the trade.
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2026, 07:16:12 pm »
Its simple its Business .They do not have the Work simple as .This app was sold to Drivers as a Driver Led App exactly the same as Halo in London .Now answer me this why would a Passenger opt for a more expensive option than others .Free Now have Fucked up with excessive Booking Fees and Uber offer discounts to Passengers ..The Tap only appeals to drivers but its not drivers it needs its customers .It simply CANNOT Succeed .Look at Hailo Drivers probably gave then ONE HUNDRED MILLION in no PUC over the first few years it took it to get established .

 Its simple Business ,Passengers want the lowest fares they are exactly the same cars ,same ,drivers ,Same licence .Why would they pay more ..Imagine UBER and FUCK NOW laughing their bollox off at lads paying 300 to sign up then telling passengers use us because we charge full fares .Every mouth subliminally promoting UBER and Fuck Now .

Now somebody on here reported they spoke to Dave Knox he said they had covered 36,000 jobs .Now do the maths 2000 drivers thats an average of 16 jobs per driver since it started .Obvious some lads have got verry little or nothing at all .

Think of a lad working Tap branded for Uber or Fuck Now trying to tell a passenger .You could of booked me on any of the platforms .You dont believe enough in your project to commit to it .Imagine standing on the alter getting married and your girlfriend is giving you head .Who thinks that Marrage will last .

Fools and their Purse and all that .
« Last Edit: May 20, 2026, 07:19:25 pm by John m »
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2026, 07:54:47 pm »
I doubt that's true. The Estonians control the app but if you're not happy with what you get from it you're free to delete it or it's advertising, I guess.
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2026, 07:58:34 pm »
Can't see the big deal, disillusionment with the biz has been an occupational hazard for as long as I have plied the trade.
I was only talking about"Private Noel" from Foxrock Taxis today.

Plus the other guy who stitched up all the work from Design Partners!

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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2026, 08:02:43 pm »
Boxing off work is a different kettle of fish, I guess. As far as the commercial rideshare platforms go it's not something that'd bother me. We are self employed after all. However, with a co-op I guess it's likely to be against the rules of association or at least discouraged.... I don't know what TaTs rules are in that regard?
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2026, 09:54:13 pm »
Its simple its Business .They do not have the Work simple as .This app was sold to Drivers as a Driver Led App exactly the same as Halo in London .Now answer me this why would a Passenger opt for a more expensive option than others .Free Now have Fucked up with excessive Booking Fees and Uber offer discounts to Passengers ..The Tap only appeals to drivers but its not drivers it needs its customers .It simply CANNOT Succeed .Look at Hailo Drivers probably gave then ONE HUNDRED MILLION in no PUC over the first few years it took it to get established .

 Its simple Business ,Passengers want the lowest fares they are exactly the same cars ,same ,drivers ,Same licence .Why would they pay more ..Imagine UBER and FUCK NOW laughing their bollox off at lads paying 300 to sign up then telling passengers use us because we charge full fares .Every mouth subliminally promoting UBER and Fuck Now .

Now somebody on here reported they spoke to Dave Knox he said they had covered 36,000 jobs .Now do the maths 2000 drivers thats an average of 16 jobs per driver since it started .Obvious some lads have got verry little or nothing at all .

Think of a lad working Tap branded for Uber or Fuck Now trying to tell a passenger .You could of booked me on any of the platforms .You dont believe enough in your project to commit to it .Imagine standing on the alter getting married and your girlfriend is giving you head .Who thinks that Marrage will last .

Fools and their Purse and all that .

See ... this is the sort of misinformation  im talkin about johnny ... wer are ya gettin 16 jobs per  driver since it started ?  Utter nonsense.... I got 350 off it last week an I aint no grafter  I only do days to ger away from me ma  an less than 30 hours a week  .... I sent ya me figures for last week on all the apps.... tap is me biggest earner and the demand is growing .... I did 250 the week before an that was still me biggest earner out of 4 apps it was fukin dead out  ....

You are spectacularly wrong on this one .... yuv bean fuddin it from the start ...only you know why

Was it ever goin be any other way that some cunt /s  wer goin spread rumours ..... thers a number of reasons why tap is open for attack by cnuts ..... 1 I explained earlier .... the competition.... stickered up  freenow sociopaths drivers dont like the fact that
Apes are leaving fn and going to tap .... its fukin up ther priority....
Ill tell ya now  that bout 90% of passengers are tellin me they joined tap cause ther sick of bean overcharged  by fn ....

 Tap has taken a huge market share from freenow  you draw your own conclusions

Barring the real possibilities that some  paranoid coked up nut job ( thers alot them drivin taxis ) is spreadin lies cause hes havin a psychotic episode ..... this has all the hallmarks of a smear campaign coming from the competition.... ive absolutely zero evidence for that ..... but neither has anyone any evidence that tap is givin " the cream " as ken used to call it ... or given some drivers more than others  is  just rumours  with zero evidence....

The one fukin chance yis have of takin back your job from  these corporate blood suckers  an wat do ya do ?
Trow allegations and accusations  at it wit zero proof ....
The chance is very real....
The demand is there .... stop talking shoite about it and spreading lies on wat cud be the only chance we get  to save our  jobs

Join up and find out for yurself  and stop sittin on the sidelines shitting all over it hoping it fails .....
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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2026, 10:14:38 pm »
Could be propaganda
Could be true
Can't see how a app diverts work if its nearest driver
Hard to call
Would need more info

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Re: Disillusioned Tap A Taxi driver
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2026, 02:33:55 am »
If everyone waits, and won't join unless they're getting all they can handle it won't grow as quickly because if supply can't meet enough demand, some won't try it more than once, but hopefully enough will. Any driver who joins it will assist in the growth, and after 2 months only he will be doing better than on FN.
Who can't afford to come up with €350, and gamble €27.70 per week for at least a year? January will be a free month for all.
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