Horse trading

[Shallowhal]

I'd say publicans are queuing up to become hackney drivers!!

[Jack Meoff]

Public liability insurance should do it.
I have a separate policy that covers me for 30 million euros.

[Shallowhal]

Public liability insurance should do it.
I have a separate policy that covers me for 30 million euros.

That's good to know!!

[watty]

Here is what was explained to me about the rural pubs .Publicans want to sell drink not drive taxies but they are worried if they give a lift home to a customer and have an accident can they be sued or their business be sued as you would need to be a customer of the pub ie bought drink to get a lift so what insurance covers you for the journey is it the car insurance or the pub insurance .As you had to make a purchase to get a lift is that lift considered to have been paid for by your purchase .

 If a publican purchases a separate van or car to drive his customers home does he need a hack or taxi licence ?What insurance ,road tax or capital depreciation can he claim .

Most publicans dont want to be bothered with driving customers home they want somebody else to do it but there are not enough taxies in rural Ireland or busses .The issue seems to be more  about liability than connectivity .

https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Guide_for_obtaining_a_local_area_hackney_licence1.pdf

It's €50 to apply, Local Hack driver licence is €20 and the 'suitability' test is fukking free.  If this was not enough to get pretend taxis operating in rural areas, then what will? 

The truth is that there probably isn't any consistent demand to taxis in rural areas. Nobody is gonna stay sober on a Sat night for a few fivers driving smelly drunks up and down boreens.

[Vikkiz]

The publican would most likely need to employ someone to drop all the drunks home at the end of the night. And every pub would need to do that. Who would like that job??

[Shallowhal]

It's €50 to apply, Local Hack driver licence is €20 and the 'suitability' test is fukking free.  If this was not enough to get pretend taxis operating in rural areas, then what will?

Why even give the €70...if the publican is gonna drop them home!!
The local bobby isn't gonna start checkin if the passengers are payin or not...as long as whoever is drivin is sober and as watty says there probably wouldn't be a consistent demand for a rural hack.

[Belker]

If Mytaxi was open fer the whole of Eire, then it would be a help.
Granted it would not be perfect and would probably work less
than 33% of the time, but it would be a help.

I know of some drivers who sit at home all day with the Mytaxi app
turned on and only go out when a job they fancy pops up on it.

Maybe some rural taxi or hack drivers if they had a Mytaxi app
might do the same ?

[Belker]

Here is what was explained to me about the rural pubs .Publicans want to sell drink not drive taxies but they are worried if they give a lift home to a customer and have an accident can they be sued or their business be sued as you would need to be a customer of the pub ie bought drink to get a lift so what insurance covers you for the journey is it the car insurance or the pub insurance .As you had to make a purchase to get a lift is that lift considered to have been paid for by your purchase .

 If a publican purchases a separate van or car to drive his customers home does he need a hack or taxi licence ?What insurance ,road tax or capital depreciation can he claim .

Most publicans dont want to be bothered with driving customers home they want somebody else to do it but there are not enough taxies in rural Ireland or busses .The issue seems to be more  about liability than connectivity .

I would agree with you on that John M, if Paddy the publican drops old Joe home a few times a week and old Joe pays him a Tenner fer the fare, then in practise he is driving fer 'Hire and Reward'. If they have an accident and old Joe gets injured and it becomes known to the insurance company that old Joe was actually paying fer his lift home, they will nulify the claim and most likely Paddy will be left with the bill fer old Joes injuries and Compo.

[Taxi driver42]

Anyway belker how much u getting off John this time
200 again

[john m]

Anyway belker how much u getting off John this time
200 again

unless there is a miracle and Ross does a huge u turn I owe KEN 202 euro and Will have no problem paying up .I lost the bet but won as I  still have a job .

[Belker]

To be fair to John M, he offered to pay up well in advance of the final outcome,
but I declined his generous offer.

Gamblers generally are a very superstitious lot and getting paid in advance is
not known fer good luck.

[Firewall]

It was my understanding that MyPoxi was already countrywide.
Also, wait until publics see their insurance quotes for the rural hacks, they will have to have public liability insurance. If not, you have a lot of taxi drivers asking why their insurance is so high paying for Public Liability, and what the Rural Hacks will only have private insurance?

[Belker]

It was my understanding that MyPoxi was already countrywide.

I don't think so, as far as I know it's just Dooblin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

[mercenary for hire]

It didn't get much traction outside the bigger cities.They tried though.

[Belker]

Did they ?

Maybe with the PUC reinstated, they should try again.