It doesn't pay anymore

[mercenary for hire]

Some lads just want a day's pay regardless of the discounts.I know there's a lot more lads covering the Freenow taxi saver work than let on.Otherwise they wouldn't be still offering it on the passenger app.

[Octavia1]

Madness


 

[mercenary for hire]

I said this before, but if you're coming to Ireland from a poorer country to make a new life an extra 10% commission won't be the reason you go home a failure.
 

[watty]

Expensive business being a newcomer.  On top of the bills here (apt & taxi rent etc), I know a few and they go home for 1-2 months every 2 years or so.  Probably the guts of €10k to get the family home for that length of time, nevermind the time off work.  You'd think they'd be the very ones that would want to maximize their earnings & not give a quarter of their money to the apps?  And then income tax & VAT on top of that...

[mercenary for hire]

I dunno if the Indian lads have their own driver groups but most of us are on our own.

The options are work the ranks with the pensioners or work the apps with discounts.. Both US owned apps are pushing the prices down on fares and Bolt has very little work. I dunno about Hola.Tap is still relatively new.

Full fares are hard to find. For the newbies, they're hungry and will just keep going and doing more hours than the rest of us who can't be arsed anymore. The apps are designed to reward loyalty so even covering discounts they'll likely earn considerably more than the rankers as they're kept busy.

[watty]

I wonder has anyone graphed the cost of fuel vs. driving distance.  RC?

Is it better to rank (full price) & drive a little bit OR drive a lot & only get 75% fare?

[mercenary for hire]

Don't forget the PUC.

The ammount of people using apps right beside a rank is hard to believe until you see it. The ranks don't move like they used to.

[Taxi driver42]

2009
Out of date

Did uber grand canal st to airport today
28 fixed
Gort there 45.20

THEY ROBBING US

FFS !  Stop doing them !

I did stop
I did 2 to see what sundy rte 2 be like
Got offered 4 after refused
IL NEVER DO FIXED FARE AGAIN

This will be last yr taxi drivingni think
When car runs out of time im gonna rent the plate
Im looking at going part time work in building again few days a week

[John m]

There is another option in the Goodbody ??  Goodbody's position could be summarised as:

Long hours → potential safety risk → investigate and measure it first → don't impose a radical restriction without evidence.

[John m]

Chip the meter why should somebody willing to work over the time limit be allowed steal your share of the Work ?

[silverbullet]

One thing that seems to be forgotten. New drivers are invariably installed on the BTWEA scheme. Whether they ever worked here in the first place is a Mogadishu.

Now you're up against subsidised drivers.

Contact your local TD and see how much is being spent supporting your competition.

I asked Richard Bruton many years ago to ask, and he did.

A general factotum for Mary Hanafin said they didn't know how much  money was being spent through the BTWEA!

Taxpayers money going down a financial black hole...if you'll pardon the pun.

A question perhaps for the public accounts committee?

[watty]

One thing that seems to be forgotten. New drivers are invariably installed on the BTWEA scheme. Whether they ever worked here in the first place is a Mogadishu.

Might be deliberate to get them off the SW treadmill.  No more dole, rent allowance etc etc if they're self-employed? 

Most newcomers would probably be astonished that we reward the unemployed with a double bonus at Xmas if they're still unemployed!

[watty]

Aircoach increases capacity with new double-deckers

Aircoach is launching a fleet of double decker buses on one of its busiest Dublin routes due to what it calls a 'period of increased passenger demand'.

The new coaches will be rolled out across its 700X Dublin city centre route travelling between Dublin airport and Dublin city centre.

Aircoach said its existing fleet of single-deck coaches on the 700X route will all be replaced with double-deckers, increasing the operator's passenger capacity from 49 to 97 people on every journey.

Co-incidence?

The real kick in the teeth will be when the apps start offering €5 fares from someone's home to the Aircoach bus stop 

[silverbullet]

Aircoach increases capacity with new double-deckers

Aircoach is launching a fleet of double decker buses on one of its busiest Dublin routes due to what it calls a 'period of increased passenger demand'.

The new coaches will be rolled out across its 700X Dublin city centre route travelling between Dublin airport and Dublin city centre.

Aircoach said its existing fleet of single-deck coaches on the 700X route will all be replaced with double-deckers, increasing the operator's passenger capacity from 49 to 97 people on every journey.

Co-incidence?

The real kick in the teeth will be when the apps start offering €5 fares from someone's home to the Aircoach bus stop 

I see alot of jobs still going abegging for Foxrock/ Leopardstown to aircoach stops when I start in Coolock at 23.00. They can rightly fo f**k themselves.

[Taxi driver42]

Ah the rain and bad traffic

GGOD LUCK UBER GETTING AROUND A CITY GRIDLOCKED FOR NOTHING
LOTS.OF PEOPLE BE WAITING ON AIRPORT TRANSFER S
DO U THINK MANY WILL VOLUNTEER FOR JOBS 2 MILE AWAY AND HALF NOTHING??
LETS SEE IN SEPTEMBER WITH SCHOOL TRAFFIC