Taxi charges

Treora

Currently under the Office of the Director of Traffic within Dublin City Council area the taxi charges are:

€ :eek:

First 5/9ths of a mile
08:00 - 22:00 2.75
22:00 - 08:00 3
& Public holidays, Sundays

Next 1/9th of mile or 30 secs
08:00 - 22:00 .15
22:00 - 08:00 .2
& Public holidays, Sundays

Extras
hiring charge ! .5
/+1 passanger
/2 items of luggage
/per animal
Radio pick up 1.5
& Airport
Soilage 75

Complaints to the garda carriage office in Dublin Castle: suptt@iol.ie http://www.garda.ie/angarda/trafdiv/caroff.html

Refund requests are dealt directly by the carriage office. Requests to refuse renewal of licences (reckless driving etc) have to be first made to the closest garda station and then the details copied to the carriage office.

Hagar

Am I the only one who thinks a "hiring charge" is a bit mad?
After all what is the purpose of a taxi except to be hired?
It's a wonder there isn't a "driver charge" or a "sitting on the seat charge"
:eek:

vector

What is the luggage thing, is that if you use the boot or the driver has to lift something, I mean if a customer has say a laptop bag and holds it himself does that cost?

sliabh

What other rights do you have when using a taxi. I know you can tell them to take the route you suggest, but:

- If the first taxi in a rank is filthy can you refuse to get in (I have had trouble with other taxi drivers telling me I have to take the one at the head of the queue)?

- Can you tell the driver to turn off his god-awful-country-music/late-night-every-moron-call-in radio programs?

- Actually can you tell them to STFU when you are sick of listening to them explain why the smoking ban is actually secret plot by the PDs to make Ireland made a provence of the UK again

John R

sliabh wrote:

What other rights do you have when using a taxi. I know you can tell them to take the route you suggest, but:

- If the first taxi in a rank is filthy can you refuse to get in (I have had trouble with other taxi drivers telling me I have to take the one at the head of the queue)?

Of course you can refuse to get in, all that crap is made up by the drivers for their own benefit, threatening to report them usually ends that discussion.

sliabh wrote:

- Can you tell the driver to turn off his god-awful-country-music/late-night-every-moron-call-in radio programs?

- Actually can you tell them to STFU when you are sick of listening to them explain why the smoking ban is actually secret plot by the PDs to make Ireland made a provence of the UK again

Good luck with that :rolleyes:

vector

Of course you can refuse to get in toa taxi, but I think what the poster was asking is would another taxi, further down the queue take you or is the queue order of empty taxis unbreakable (for internal union type reasons)

PBC_1966

For anyone who's interested in international comparison, here are the fares in my area of rural England, as set by North Norfolk Council.

Sterling followed by current Euro equivalent in parentheses.

First mile: £2.50 (3.75)
Each subsequent 1/13th mile: 0.10 (0.15)
Waiting time: 0.10 (0.15) per 30 seconds after first 2 mins.

Baggage: 0.10 (0.15) per item.
Each extra passenger beyond two: 0.10 (0.15)

Sundays: All fares +25%
Journeys 11pm - 7am: +50%
Public holidays: +100%

Soilage: £40 (e60)

The local outfit doesn't bother to add the baggage and extra passenger charges, nor do they use the higher rates on Sundays and holidays or for jobs after 11pm. They just use the +25% meter rate for jobs before 7am.

(No, I don't take taxis enough to have memorized all this -- One of my jobs is maintaining the software for my local cab company!)

jlang

vector wrote:

Of course you can refuse to get in toa taxi, but I think what the poster was asking is would another taxi, further down the queue take you or is the queue order of empty taxis unbreakable (for internal union type reasons)

A girlfriend of mine was taking a taxi on her own and didn't like the look of the first cabbie in the queue (or his car or something) so she went to the second. He wouldn't let her in but told her to wait till someone else got the first one and then come back to him. Nuts!