HEY DICKHEADS

[Shallowhal]

To be fair Dalyer....ye can't just expect drivers to sit on ranks and wait for punters to pull their suitcases to the nearest one or business people heading to the airport to stand outside an office block in the hope a taxi drives by to get them there.....we're in the 21st century(minus Buck Rogers) and Ireland and particularly Dublin is a changed place(whether for good or bad?)...i might be taking you up wrong but the impression you give is that there shouldn't be taxi despatchers/apps at all and drivers should be left to their own devices to secure work?

[dalymount]

You got it in one.if their were no dispatchers or apps of any kind do you seriously think this would stop people using taxis the ranks would be surplas to requirements .the drivers would be constantly working.

[Shallowhal]

Oh...right so!!

[Vikkiz]

Seriously considering whether or not to buy a new car..I do realize im fighting a lone loosing battle regarding dispatchers,but while I accept that the way things are going,it will become ether compulsory,or necessary to align myself,my hatred for being told what to do as a self employed person ,and bowing the knee to radio company bullys,is greater then my desire to carry on ,well I will go on for another while yet,and see how it pand out

Frankie once said its a part time gig .Get what you need out of it if you can .Im 57 and I would jump at a job with no work for small coin and taxi at the weekend .I was out visiting a friend on Tuesday ranks of cars at Christchurch and Clondalkin Villlage and about 30 cars on Heuston at 110c .WHAT FOR ? Think of any other industry where your licence fee is paid out to your competition with WAT grants and now subsidized insurance .

You’re full of shite John, you said before you were offered a job but you wouldn’t take it as it was a mundane job with some 20 something kid bossing you around

[Shallowhal]

Nobody put baby Ermy in the corner!!

[Jack Meoff]

John is a firm believer of work in the bed sleep on the floor.

[silverbullet]

John is a firm believer of work in the bed sleep on the floor.

He paid for that ranch in Foxrock somehow...or is it Foxrock Erm?

[john m]

John is a firm believer of work in the bed sleep on the floor.

He paid for that ranch in Foxrock somehow...or is it Foxrock Erm?

I own where I live can put me hand on cash in the morning while you are out working to pay for your x corpo Gaff in Coolock .

[Jack Meoff]

John is a firm believer of work in the bed sleep on the floor.

He paid for that ranch in Foxrock somehow...or is it Foxrock Erm?

I own where I live can put me hand on cash in the morning while you are out working to pay for your x corpo Gaff in Coolock .

Thought you had a corpo gaff also John.
Didn’t you get a mortgage of 11.5k from the corpo to be repaid over 30 years.

[Belker]

Seriously considering whether or not to buy a new car..I do realize im fighting a lone loosing battle regarding dispatchers,but while I accept that the way things are going,it will become ether compulsory,or necessary to align myself,my hatred for being told what to do as a self employed person ,and bowing the knee to radio company bullys,is greater then my desire to carry on ,well I will go on for another while yet,and see how it pand out

My advice FWIW DM, buy the new car (Silver in colour as it hides the dirt best and the stickers are not so obvious), sign up with MyTaxi, go Ambassador. No one TELLS you what to do, you are offered jobs via the app on a take or leave basis. As an Ambassador (which half of this forum are) you get a 2 or 3 second advantage on instant hails, you also get 8 cent off per liter of fuel in Circle K, half price car washes and a 100Euro fuel voucher starting off. Korky talked me in to joining last year and I have never looked back, my usual working week back then was about 45 hours, today it is about 35 and fer the same dough

[john m]

John is a firm believer of work in the bed sleep on the floor.

He paid for that ranch in Foxrock somehow...or is it Foxrock Erm?

I own where I live can put me hand on cash in the morning while you are out working to pay for your x corpo Gaff in Coolock .

Thought you had a corpo gaff also John.
Didn’t you get a mortgage of 11.5k from the corpo to be repaid over 30 years.

10400 Corpo Gaff bought and paid for .As Silver refers to it as a litter strewn  area and him from the upmarket Estate of Kilmore West Coolock Dublin 5 .In case you dont know it thats the big Corpo Estate off the Oscar Traynor Road .

[Rat Catcher]

I wouldn't buy new, DM. I picked my shitebox up for 12 large, if it lasts four years it owes me nothing. I wouldn't go ambassador either. As a non ambassador working for mytaxi with no priority I paid the guts of €150 freight for a 39 hour week a few weeks ago. Imagine what an ambassador with priority would have paid, particularly the ones that cover the "hospitality" jobs with the €2/job surcharge on commission.

[stonethecrows]

I wouldn't buy new, DM. I picked my shitebox up for 12 large, if it lasts four years it owes me nothing. I wouldn't go ambassador either. As a non ambassador working for mytaxi with no priority I paid the guts of €150 freight for a 39 hour week a few weeks ago. Imagine what an ambassador with priority would have paid, particularly the ones that cover the "hospitality" jobs with the €2/job surcharge on commission.

Rat I'm not an ambassador either in me 2007 Avensis shitebox, but if an when I have to change its worth considering.
More Freight charge means more Take Home Lolly

[dalymount]

Rat .firstly I do not know what an ambassador is in the context ofof taxi driving ? Secondly the pointpeople I was making was ,there are no circumstances in which I would EVER join a dispatcher,but I do acknowledge that because of a lot of drivers inability to work on their own initiative,they might bring about a situation where it becomes compulsory to align with a company.in those circumstances,I would be forced to leave the industry,because my hatred for dispatchers is greater then my desire to remain within the industry.if that situation became a reality whereby you HAD  to join one,I would be down 20 k on a car that would never be a taxi

[Jack Meoff]

John is a firm believer of work in the bed sleep on the floor.

He paid for that ranch in Foxrock somehow...or is it Foxrock Erm?

I own where I live can put me hand on cash in the morning while you are out working to pay for your x corpo Gaff in Coolock .

Thought you had a corpo gaff also John.
Didn’t you get a mortgage of 11.5k from the corpo to be repaid over 30 years.

10400 Corpo Gaff bought and paid for .As Silver refers to it as a litter strewn  area and him from the upmarket Estate of Kilmore West Coolock Dublin 5 .In case you dont know it thats the big Corpo Estate off the Oscar Traynor Road .

Thought it was August you were out the gap.
Did you pay it off a few months early ?