Best way to handle illegal taxi?

[taxi1990]

What is the best way to deal with these guys using their private car as taxis? Transport authority? Guards? Revenue? Social welfare?

[john m]

What is the best way to deal with these guys using their private car as taxis? Transport authority? Guards? Revenue? Social welfare?

None of the above are illegaltaxies an illegal taxi would be a vehicle with decals and a roofsign that was not licenced to carry passengers for reward .So when you contact any of the authorities they will dismiss your complaint unless it is ACTUALLY an ILLEGAL TAXI .

[taxi1990]

I should have been clearer, I am talking about people who don't have a spsv licence but use their private car to drive people from A to B for financial reward.

[Tony]

The cops will tell you it's a NTA problem,
The NTA will tell you is out of their remit as they are private cars so tell the cops.

[Rat Catcher]

I should have been clearer, I am talking about people who don't have a spsv licence but use their private car to drive people from A to B for financial reward.

Sounds more like an unlicensed hackney than an unlicensed taxi. I don't think anyone cares these days, taxi/hackney firms are struggling to meet demand.

[taxi1990]

well I think people should care. these guys are usually driving heaps of scrap, driven by god knows who., who are paying a few hundred euro insurance, paying zero tax on what they take in, while we pay thousands in insurance and fees to the transport authority. And people think using uber is not safe.

[Rat Catcher]

People just want to get from A to B. Who thinks Uber is not safe, the 500 Million users? As far as Ireland is concerned, we know that taking a taxi is extremely dangerous. As SC used to remind us, a huge proportion of drivers have serious criminal records... not to mention drivers whose records are unverifiable. We've all heard countless anecdotes of immigrant taxi drivers raping and/or murdering their clients. Just because the mainstream media don't report these crimes it doesn't mean they aren't happening. Rape is a notoriously under-reported crime and murder victims never file reports.

[taxi1990]

Anything bad you usually hear about foreigners is made up by racists, examples, foreigners get everything free so they leave buggies at bus stops and just ask the social welfare for another free one. foreign taxi drivers only have to get 40% to pass the spsv entry test. Badgers/foxes/rats etc found in every local Chinese restaurant in the country. All a load of $hite.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

you never see a bald knacker.

[U Wha]

you never see a bald knacker.

 

[Billy boy]

What is the best way to deal with these guys using their private car as taxis? Transport authority? Guards? Revenue? Social welfare?

I sent an email into the nta about the illegal lads picking up and dropping off up at keelings. Got a phone call from them about 2 weeks later telling me that they are investigating it. That was about 4 months ago. It's still going on.

[Jack Meoff]

Is it the same car all the time ?

[taxi1990]

yes, same car all the time.

[Jack Meoff]

yes, same car all the time.

And money exchanging hands

[taxi1990]

yes, guy is flat out all night.