Cork TD leading the Uber charge in rural areas.

[vandriver]

That's 50 a week more than I'm paying,and I have a one car policy with me as the only named driver.

[silverbullet]

That's 50 a week more than I'm paying,and I have a one car policy with me as the only named driver.

Is the insurance in your own name, and are you paying on the drip?
If so the car hire should be €150 or less.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

i remember when i started, i was put in touch with some guy,he wanted me to rent a plate from him but the way it worked i would have had to put my car into his name, as in he owned my car, seeing as i didn't even know him i obviously declined the offer.

SOP pre de reg. You transfer the car and get him to sign the transfer back to you . You hold the VRT cert.

[taxi1990]

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/taoiseach-open-to-liberalising-taxi-and-hackney-licensing-rules-901154.html


as one poster said here last week, they might just make the test for rural areas easier to pass or get rid of the test as the NTA were thinking about not that long ago.

Mr Healy Rae later told the Irish Examiner he does not believe liberalising taxi and hackney license rules will address the concerns of rural Ireland.

i have to agree with Mr Rae though, uber or easier tests wont solve the issue of people in rural areas getting to and from the pub at night.

[Rat Catcher]

mytaxi and easier tests might?

[taxi1990]

that wouldn't really bother me, But I don't think there are many people out there wishing they could become taxi drivers though and the only thing stopping them is a difficult test.

I would despise anyone working for Uber in their private car though, making a few extra quid on top of their other job while taking from us full time drivers.

[Rat Catcher]

mytaxi would be far more likely to employ private motorists if regulation permits simply because it already controls the customer base.... that OK with you?

[taxi1990]

I suppose the whole idea doesn't bother me as long as they keep out of towns and cities. let them work in the arse hole of nowhere if they like.

[Rat Catcher]

mytaxi will let them work anywhere. Hundreds of drivers with licences for rural counties come up to Dublin to work for mytaxi every night and it has offered me work outside of the counties covered by my SPSV driving licence. Uber insists that it's drivers are licensed for the counties they work... you still want mytaxi rideshare instead of Uber rideshare?

[taxi1990]

well if that is the case, these new drivers will just work the towns and cities like the rest of us, so that wont solve this supposed problem of people in rural areas stranded in their houses not able to get to the pub.


if it is uber who get the green light im sure it will be as bad for us as your mytaxi idea. uber wont care if they stick to the rural areas or not, they will probably prefer them to work the towns and cities.

you could get a licence for some rural village in Sligo but still work in Sligo town that has a population of 20,000

[Rat Catcher]

Currently Uber restricts it's drivers to the areas covered by their SPSV driving licences, mytaxi doesn't. Currently mytaxi allocates taxi fares to limousine drivers operating clapped out shiteboxes, Uber doesn't. More importantly mytaxi controls our customers, Uber doesn't.

[taxi1990]

if mytaxi hire people in their private cars to operate willy-nilly around any town or city they like, all hell will break loose you would imagine with all taxi drivers and companies in the country.

[john m]

if mytaxi hire people in their private cars to operate willy-nilly around any town or city they like, all hell will break loose you would imagine with all taxi drivers and companies in the country.

Will you write a strongly worded letter or what ?

[The Liffey Lip]

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/taoiseach-open-to-liberalising-taxi-and-hackney-licensing-rules-901154.html


as one poster said here last week, they might just make the test for rural areas easier to pass or get rid of the test as the NTA were thinking about not that long ago.

Mr Healy Rae later told the Irish Examiner he does not believe liberalising taxi and hackney license rules will address the concerns of rural Ireland.

i have to agree with Mr Rae though, uber or easier tests wont solve the issue of people in rural areas getting to and from the pub at night.

I'm always edgy when the Healy-Raes have been quiet.

[Belker]

I suppose the whole idea doesn't bother me as long as they keep out of towns and cities. let them work in the arse hole of nowhere if they like.

As regards Rural Rideshare or Rideshare in any form;
I remember once doing a bit of DIY work on a betting office that we were refurbishing, I was attempting unsuccessfully to drill a big hole in a wall with a large drill-bit, the old foreman builder on site walked over to me and said; "Drill a small hole First and then widen it !".

NO TO RIDESHARE IN ANY FORM !