Cork TD leading the Uber charge in rural areas.

[vandriver]

this TD reckons this will be used in towns with a population of less than 5000. i know of towns with populations under 5000 where they have any amount of hackneys, taxis and buses so what he is saying is rubbish. he mentions that people will work for uber as a way to make extra money. what about the drivers it will put out of business?

Most likely the insurance companies will insist that they be insured fer Hire and Reward, because they are Hired and are being Rewarded the same as us. And probably that will Kill it off before the starting gates even open. A First time rural uber driver may be looking at at 7K insurance bill with 0% NCD on a Hire and Reward policy.

The 7 grand is hard enough to pay in Dublin!

[vandriver]

this TD reckons this will be used in towns with a population of less than 5000. i know of towns with populations under 5000 where they have any amount of hackneys, taxis and buses so what he is saying is rubbish. he mentions that people will work for uber as a way to make extra money. what about the drivers it will put out of business?

Most likely the insurance companies will insist that they be insured fer Hire and Reward, because they are Hired and are being Rewarded the same as us. And probably that will Kill it off before the starting gates even open. A First time rural uber driver may be looking at at 7K insurance bill with 0% NCD on a Hire and Reward policy.

The 7 grand is hard enough to pay in Dublin!

[Rat Catcher]

Possible, I guess, LL... but strange that he registered his Surrey address with CRO when he was on the board of Hailo Network Ireland Ltd, subsequently renamed Mytaxi Network Ireland Ltd. To be best of my knowledge he was never based in the Dublin depot... he became CEO of all the subsidiaries that operated under the mytaxi brand when Hail0 was bailed out by Daimler so head office would have been in Moovel's HQ in Germany but I suspect he worked mostly out of the UK depot.

[The Liffey Lip]

Not familiar enough with fiduciary shenanigans meself........... Anyway, Mr Berg is the new Kong. If you've ever a spare 10 mins after a a fare to Bray/Shankill.....check out Rathmichael.....the Bel Air of County Dublin/Wicklow.....never mind Vico Rd or castles in the air a la Enya or Bono. Remember Phil Coulter was sniffing around there before he decided on Greystones.

[Belker]

I would jave no problem accepting  cc work,in fact id welcome it.but if it ever becomes the case that drivers cannot make a living because they are not with an app,or dispatcher,this will be because drivers willingly gave up the righe NOT to be aligned.they sold out their colleagues who wished to remain independent in favour of allowing middle mem into the industry

But it's the middlemen/women who provide the work, on a usual mid week shift fer me, say starting at 8pm unless I want to join the back of a long rank then the only work available is through the MyTaxi app and the work is generally plentiful and I will work it till Midnight or maybe even 1.30am depending on how busy or quiet the town is, after 2am I have little interest but I will turn it on if'n I am out in the Burbs or Sticks after dropping hoping to get something real close. At 4am Cork is a ghost town but yet the app still hops constantly and I work on till usually 6am seldom stopping. Granted it costs me 12% but I do get the PUC and very seldom have to rank.
What you must remember DM is that MyTaxi and all the radio companies have bills to pay too, like staff wages, rent, lecky, Etc..

[Rat Catcher]

Could you be mixing him up with Colm O'Cuilleanain who is/was also on the board? His address only came up as Dublin 18 on solocheck.ie (pulled from CRO) but a full address in Rathmichael appears on some other registrations, including that of Mytaxi Network France... if memory serves. Pinnington's postcode came up on solocheck.ie - a gaff near Guilford. None of them come up anymore, solocheck.ie have made directors info part of the premium reports now so you have to pay a couple of euros for it... doesn't interest me enough to part with hard earned!

[john m]

......If I could get 3 days on the cards mon to wed id take it just to get out of the house .

What job would you do John M ?

I would consider anything Ken that didnt include hard graft .I had a number lined up Driving a LWB van to Cork on Monday .Belfast Tuesday Galway WEdnesday 120 a day it took as long as it tookno OT or lunch money just 120 a day but someone else got it they done it for 80
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[The Liffey Lip]

Are they all listed under family names up there, Rats?....as I said, not familiar with the aul fiduciary games....wasn't the house in Gorsehill transferred to some private trust name at some stage?

[Rat Catcher]

But it's the middlemen/women who provide the work

Only 'cos we gave them the work...

[Rat Catcher]

Are they all listed under family names up there, Rats?....as I said, not familiar with the aul fiduciary games....wasn't the house in Gorsehill transferred to some private trust name at some stage?

Not sure what you mean by "up there". Director's names and addresses are always listed or available in CRO reports. I tend to use solocheck.ie where they'd generally give a vague enough area for director's address (e.g. Dublin 18 for O'Cuilleanain), just happened in Pinnington's case it gave his postcode. I think full addresses are given in the reports you can buy from CRO.... and, as mentioned above, solocheck.ie have started charging for even the vague info they generally supply. However, directors aren't necessarily (directly) shareholders e.g. in the case of Mytaxi Network Ireland Ltd there is only one shareholder which is a UK body corporate.

[Belker]

But it's the middlemen/women who provide the work

Only 'cos we gave them the work...

Spilt Milk !

[The Liffey Lip]

Solocheck....ok. Doesn't matter anyway....just asking. My cynicism leads me to think half the gaffs in these areas are owned by private companies.

[Rat Catcher]

Quite possibly... one doesn't have to own the gaff one resides in... You can probably get that information from Land Registry... but, again, there's probably a fee to be paid.

[Belker]

......If I could get 3 days on the cards mon to wed id take it just to get out of the house .

What job would you do John M ?

I would consider anything Ken that didnt include hard graft .I had a number lined up Driving a LWB van to Cork on Monday .Belfast Tuesday Galway WEdnesday 120 a day it took as long as it tookno OT or lunch money just 120 a day but someone else got it they done it for 80
#

Wow ! 80 !
I don't think I could ever do any other job, I would be good at training greyhounds but that is much too much like hard graft, the Bookie game after 35 years in it I could never face again, even at that the game has changed so much in the last Ten years, If'n I was interviewed fer a Bookie job and the interviewer asked me; "How much is a Fiver @ 15/8 ?", then I would reply; "It's 5 + 5 + a half + a half + a half which equals 14.38" the interviewer would probably be mystified and say; "No, you type Five Euro at 15/8 in to this machine here" !

[Belker]

Most likely the insurance companies will insist that they be insured fer Hire and Reward, because they are Hired and are being Rewarded the same as us. And probably that will Kill it off before the starting gates even open. A First time rural uber driver may be looking at at 7K insurance bill with 0% NCD on a Hire and Reward policy.

The 7 grand is hard enough to pay in Dublin!

Unlikely that the insurance companies will do as Mr Daly asks, 7K will be their bill too.