mytaxi Hospitality Guidelines

[Swir]

What about the star logo on a booking job ?

The Star is fer 'Regular customer' (without VIP 'Reliable customer' status) see below.

I'm pretty sure it's a customer that added you to his favourite drivers.

[Belker]

The Hospitality charge was introduced by Hailo back when there was no PUC so it didn't actually make any difference at all to the total fare back then. MyTaxi gave us back our legally entitled PUC fer the simple reason that they knew we wouldn't do a whole lot of work fer them without it. The Hospitality charge should have been killed off then too, drivers simply won't work if they have to pay Hospitality charges, the sooner MyTaxi see their error the better.  If the drivers won't work the hotels because of the Hospitality charge then the hotel's won't be long going back to the traditional Taxi base's.

And to add, the traditional Taxi base's offered the hotel staff discounted rates, MyTaxi does not.

[Jack Meoff]

It’s a nice little touch the hotels get from the kickback they get from mytaxi.
Could be up to 15k a year.

[Rat Catcher]

... drivers simply won't work if they have to pay Hospitality charges, the sooner MyTaxi see their error the better.  If the drivers won't work the hotels because of the Hospitality charge then the hotel's won't be long going back to the traditional Taxi base's.

And to add, the traditional Taxi base's offered the hotel staff discounted rates, MyTaxi does not.

If that was the case the number of hotels/bars/car hire return sheds using mytaxi would be decreasing, not increasing as it is.

mytaxi could charge the €2 on every job if it wanted to. Drivers would still cover the work and most would be paying in excess of €300/week freight.

[silverbullet]

... drivers simply won't work if they have to pay Hospitality charges, the sooner MyTaxi see their error the better.  If the drivers won't work the hotels because of the Hospitality charge then the hotel's won't be long going back to the traditional Taxi base's.

And to add, the traditional Taxi base's offered the hotel staff discounted rates, MyTaxi does not.

If that was the case the number of hotels/bars/car hire return sheds using mytaxi would be decreasing, not increasing as it is.

mytaxi could charge the €2 on every job if it wanted to. Drivers would still cover the work and most would be paying in excess of €300/week freight.

I'll be paying €240 a week, just as soon as I have two cosies, sure who's looking ?

[Belker]

If that was the case the number of hotels/bars/car hire return sheds using mytaxi would be decreasing, not increasing as it is.

mytaxi could charge the €2 on every job if it wanted to. Drivers would still cover the work and most would be paying in excess of €300/week freight.

The chances are that the drivers haven't yet fully copped on to the Hospitality charges as most of the hotels (in Cork) are NEW customers. The drivers will cop on pretty soon and won't do double discounted work at peak times, when that happens the hotels will get a shitty service at peak times and revert back to the traditional bases.

Most hotel reception staff have a few private taxi drivers they ring themselves to cover any juicy long jobs and get a Circa 10% kickback fer themselves fer it, that has been a bugbear of mine fer many years.

[Belker]

It’s a nice little touch the hotels get from the kickback they get from mytaxi.
Could be up to 15k a year.

That all sounds great in theory Deboy, but when the taxi drivers stop turning up
fer double discounted work at peak times, the hotels may change their tune !

[Rat Catcher]

We've had hospitality charges in Dublin since before we were allowed charge PUC. Drivers up here are well aware of the enhanced freight charges and are still covering the work.

[Billy boy]

Why not just put in €6 on all hotel work. All hotel work comes through as cash, my taxi don't know where your dropping and don't know how many people are in your car. Might do alright on most jobs.

[Rat Catcher]

That's the Irish solution. I prefer to simply reject the work, the more drivers that do that the less reliable the service will be.

[Tony]

That's the Irish solution. I prefer to simply reject the work, the more drivers that do that the less reliable the service will be.

+1

[Tony]

Why not just put in €6 on all hotel work. All hotel work comes through as cash, my taxi don't know where your dropping and don't know how many people are in your car. Might do alright on most jobs.

The hotels don't care if you only bring them around the corner or to Cork they still get their hard earned €2

Simple solution is to reject them all especially if your close by then you just snatch the fare and charge the Puc

[Belker]

I got a flag down outside a city hotel last weekend, it was a chungwan hotel staff member who I knew well as I had brought her home many times over the years fer her usual Tenner fare.
I asked her; "How is the hotel getting on with MyTaxi ?".
Off she goes; "MyTaxi ! Don't even start me ! I called one last week, 17 Fookin Euro he charged me !  You know me Ken, I get 5 Taxies home per week every night after work and it's always been a Tenner, so why now is it Fookin 17 ?  I can't afford that, It's cheaper to get a cab off the street than MyTaxi !".
I try to explain to her that the hotel take 2Euro from it and MyTaxi take 12% of the fare, but it was all falling on Deaf Ears, she was really Pissed off. I told her her journey home tonight would be 'On the House' but she is a decent lass and she forced her usual Tenner upon me.