TIM ARNOLD ON THE MOVE

[john m]

A 30-year-old Irish man has been appointed general manager of a major new driverless car initiative unit from Renault and Nissan.
Tim Arnold, who has been general manager for MyTaxi in Ireland (formerly Hailo) for the past five years, is to take up the role of head of ride hailing with the Renault-Nissan Alliance in the New Year. He will be based in Paris.
The alliance and Transdev agreed a deal earlier this year to develop mobility services with fleets of electric driverless vehicles for public and on-demand transportation. The move comes as the carmakers look for new revenues streams as ride-hailing services come to the fore.
Goldman Sachs estimates the ride-hailing market will grow eight-fold by 2030 and could be as much as five times the size of the taxi market.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance is a strategic partnership between Groupe Renault of France and Japan-based Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors. The carmakers combined sold 9.96 million vehicles in nearly 200 countries in 2016 - more than one in nine vehicles worldwide.
The alliance is one of a number of carmakers to enter the ride-hailing market. MyTaxi, which is itself exploring driverless cars, is ultimately owned by Daimler.
“I am extremely fortunate to have been with MyTaxi from day one in Ireland. I am immensely proud of what has been achieved by the Irish team in that time to completely change how Ireland gets taxis,” said Mr Arnold.
He is to maintain a non-executive director role with MyTaxi, which has initiated a search for his successor.
“Tim Arnold is leaving mytaxi having made a significant contribution to both the local business and the wider company” said Jonas Gumny, chief operating officer of MyTaxi “During his tenure, he and his team have driven consistent growth from the Irish market by offering an industry leading service. We wish him all the best in the future”.

MyTaxi, which rebranded from Hailo locally in March, said recently it expects to carry four million people in Ireland during the fourth quarter. This is despite the company being the source of frustration for some users, who have experienced issues during the transition to MyTaxi’s technology platform.
It is Europe’s largest e-hailing company with some 10 million registered users across 70 cities in 11 countries.

[Rat Catcher]

Shame from our perspective, nice guy and seemed genuinely interested in working with drivers.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

interested in not working with drivers now.

[Rat Catcher]

The erm suggests his new role will be "head of ride hailing" with the Renault-Nissan Alliance - I guess that may involve using cars with drivers in the short-medium term.

[john m]

The erm suggests his new role will be "head of ride hailing" with the Renault-Nissan Alliance - I guess that may involve using cars with drivers in the short-medium term.

 So is Nissan/Renault going to launch a counter app to Daimlers much maligned Mytaxi effort .It does refer to ( "head of ride hailing" with the Renault-Nissan Alliance ) Im expecting my phone to ring and a possible invitation to interview if Tim is to head up such a venture .

[john m]

Let me run this one by you Rodent .A company that has access to fleets of brand new motors offers them to SPSV licence holders .The deal is they provide the vehicle and possibly service it .You provide the licence and driver and you split the takings .You would need to undertake a contract to be exclusive and work certain shifts .If that company had work capture plus vehicles it might be the only play in town .Bit like bus driving Dublin bus have the busses and the passengers we just do what we are told and drive the cab .

[The Liffey Lip]

Shame from our perspective, nice guy and seemed genuinely interested in working with drivers.

He would have known he was on the up or the move at that stage...he would have promised an xmas beano with tranny lap dancers if it had come to it.

[john m]

On the two occasions I spoke to him he seemed ok .Didnt have a clue about the taxi industry I told him his PR  was to use my technical description SHITE .I dont think he was in control Pennington was running the show from the UK and he also has no clue about the zeitgeist of taxi drivers To be fair to Tim he did build the Hailo brand in Dublin into the most profitable franchise ,one of his big mistakes was not to pay me my 40 euro Christmas bonus 2014 that was pure folly as it allowed me post and rant against their brand .I KNEW IT BOTHERED THEM WHEN I GOT A PHONECALL FROM THE DUNGEON ASKING ME TO TONE IT DOWN WHEN WHAT WAS REQUIRED WAS A CHECK FOR 40 EURO .Anyhoo now there is a vacancy in My taxi for a general manager ..........I wish him well in his new job dont hate the messenger hate the message MYTAXI AND ALL OTHER DISPATCHERS WANT TO PREDICATE ON YOUR EARNINGS ITS JUST A MATTER OF MAKING SURE THEY OFFER MORE IN RETURN FOR WHAT THEY TAKE .

[The Liffey Lip]

Hating is a waste of time and energy...hatred is a pill we swallow hoping it will kill another.

[john m]

Hating is a waste of time and energy...hatred is a pill we swallow hoping it will kill another.

im stealing this

[The Liffey Lip]

You need Buddha's permission...him or one of the Hindu Gods was supposed to have said it...

[john m]

Back to Arnold can see why he is jumping ship .The next taxi dispatch app that comes along and charges smaller commission the drivers willmigrate .Mytaxi is as strong as a fart in a phonebox .The only way they can stay relevent is workcapture married with vehicle ownership .This is why I can only see a future for them if they offer their cars to taxi licence holders on a revenue sharing basis .ie they own a fleet of modern cars they say to us .We will supply the car and the maintainance and the work You supply the licence fuel and driver and we split the takings but you must hit an acceptance % on an agreed shift .You would then as the car licence holder be able to earn a bit extra per week by allowing a second driver operate your taxi licence on behalf of the company .Lets say the driver company split is 60/40 in favour of the owner driver and 50/50 for the second driver with the extra 10% of second driver  revenue being split between the plate owner and the company .Now there is an extra possibility created by this system that would allow a plate owner put that plate on a company car not drive and get 5% of revenue earned by that vehicles two drivers . This would be the short term vision the long term vision is to replace the driver with a computer .

[Taxi driver42]

Or buy a load of wheelchair cars and form a fleet

[john m]

Or buy a load of wheelchair cars and form a fleet

No that would only be short term ,Yes it would allow them build a brand but the objective long term is driverless .The problem with a full wheelchair fleet as I suggested in my submission to the review is you cannot remove the man from the WAT as there must be somebody on board to supervise and guarantee that the passenger is securely on board and with the wide range of disabilities there would not be a one size fits all option .Even the DART have to supply manualhandlers for wheelchair users if requested .

[The Liffey Lip]

Back to Arnold can see why he is jumping ship .The next taxi dispatch app that comes along and charges smaller commission the drivers willmigrate .Mytaxi is as strong as a fart in a phonebox .The only way they can stay relevent is workcapture married with vehicle ownership .This is why I can only see a future for them if they offer their cars to taxi licence holders on a revenue sharing basis .ie they own a fleet of modern cars they say to us .We will supply the car and the maintainance and the work You supply the licence fuel and driver and we split the takings but you must hit an acceptance % on an agreed shift .You would then as the car licence holder be able to earn a bit extra per week by allowing a second driver operate your taxi licence on behalf of the company .Lets say the driver company split is 60/40 in favour of the owner driver and 50/50 for the second driver with the extra 10% of second driver  revenue being split between the plate owner and the company .Now there is an extra possibility created by this system that would allow a plate owner put that plate on a company car not drive and get 5% of revenue earned by that vehicles two drivers . This would be the short term vision the long term vision is to replace the driver with a computer .

More likely is that the long term view is to replace man altogether, and if the forum for wimmin in politics gets off the ground, we have bigger problems than Tim Arnold's scattering from the Titanic.