Congrats! A new record with 6% increase in complaints

[Rat Catcher]

Dis a airport in traffic last week
39 on clock
24.80 off uber

Fixed fares that are not fixed fares....you couldn't make it up....Airport jobs are poison off that app and 95% chance of coming back empty.

It's probably not as mad as it sounds. Back in the days of (unofficial) taxi ranks I'd occasionally accept fixed fares and in doing so would generally tell the client that I'll run the meter to keep us legal and only charge the metered fare if that was lower than the agreed amount - of course they'd always give you the agreed amount regardless. I remember working for Swords Cabs in the few years after entry liberalisation and it was that sort of thing that was instrumental in converting Swords to a largely metered service albeit still controlled by C2K. Mad really folk would queue at the depot for tens of minutes rather than ride with the beggars at the bus stops back in those early days... and some still do!

I didn't bother renewing my Zone 18 permit because I never got anything off DAP from any of the apps - bar during one single week that Uber gave me 3 jobs off it - and then, yesterday, two remarkable things happened. First I got a job off Bolt immediately after dropping at T2... which I covered thanks to TD42 recently letting me know that the permit is optional in practice... Then later on I dropped an Uber ride at T1 and as I was driving down the old airport road - heading for mummy's house in Coolock but prepared to take anything along the way - the Uber app told me to drive to the front of the queue, presumably the Z18 car park. As I was essentially finished work I didn't follow the instruction and just pressed the dismiss button... then it said I have some sort of pass that I could use any time before 18:00 to skip the queue or some such. I never used it and, as I was driving, I'm not even sure what it was all about... but how odd is that... I get rid of the permit cos I've had no use for it in the last 46-48 weeks and within a week - all on one short shift - I'm confronted with two potential scenarios in which I could use the damn thing!

[Punter]

Wouldn't it be if there was a audit of complaints against NTA with satisfaction pieces supplied !!!!!

[Rat Catcher]

 Laffin. You're one man who doesn't need convincing that NTA is just about the most inept quango ever created. How the fuck they're allowed run anything more complex than a tap defies belief... IIRC they offered you an EV grant one day and wrote to you the next day to withdraw the offer, apologizing for the fact that counting was beyond their capabilities. In my case they refused my application on two grounds, one of which was inapplicable and the other simply incorrect before changing their mind and offering me the used notes when I pointed out their errors.

Ifn I was told they were having their Christmas party in the Guinness Storehouse up above in Dublin I'd find it difficult to believe they could organize such an event.

[markmiwurdz]

Dis a airport in traffic last week
39 on clock
24.80 off uber

Fixed fares that are not fixed fares....you couldn't make it up....Airport jobs are poison off that app and 95% chance of coming back empty.

It's probably not as mad as it sounds. Back in the days of (unofficial) taxi ranks I'd occasionally accept fixed fares and in doing so would generally tell the client that I'll run the meter to keep us legal and only charge the metered fare if that was lower than the agreed amount - of course they'd always give you the agreed amount regardless. I remember working for Swords Cabs in the few years after entry liberalisation and it was that sort of thing that was instrumental in converting Swords to a largely metered service albeit still controlled by C2K. Mad really folk would queue at the depot for tens of minutes rather than ride with the beggars at the bus stops back in those early days... and some still do!

I didn't bother renewing my Zone 18 permit because I never got anything off DAP from any of the apps - bar during one single week that Uber gave me 3 jobs off it - and then, yesterday, two remarkable things happened. First I got a job off Bolt immediately after dropping at T2... which I covered thanks to TD42 recently letting me know that the permit is optional in practice... Then later on I dropped an Uber ride at T1 and as I was driving down the old airport road - heading for mummy's house in Coolock but prepared to take anything along the way - the Uber app told me to drive to the front of the queue, presumably the Z18 car park. As I was essentially finished work I didn't follow the instruction and just pressed the dismiss button... then it said I have some sort of pass that I could use any time before 18:00 to skip the queue or some such. I never used it and, as I was driving, I'm not even sure what it was all about... but how odd is that... I get rid of the permit cos I've had no use for it in the last 46-48 weeks and within a week - all on one short shift - I'm confronted with two potential scenarios in which I could use the damn thing!

It's a frikkin tenner Rats for 12 months,why risk the hassle?

[Rat Catcher]

For the last tenner I got 3 jobs totalling a little under €250... That equates to an extra 4% commission!

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

i'm like cliff richard on heroin. i never ever get any compliments from the public or recognition off the nta in their mickey mouse newsletter.

[Bob Shillin]

Resist!