SPSV test

mark2000ie

Howyadoing wrote: »

Pass :):):)

Congrats well done, about time. Will you pm me what u got.

blahblah06

well done howya be sure to let us know how u feel about the taxi industry when u get out there to show were not all talking ****

mark2000ie

blahblah06 wrote: »

well done howya be sure to let us know how u feel about the taxi industry when u get out there to show were not all talking ****

Maybe there wont be as many people in the industry if the regulator ever makes it compulsory for all drivers to pass the new knowledge test that Howya has just passed. Plus with the new identification system you wont have people doing it for other people as so many have done in the old test.

nedthered

well done

Canarygold

done the test today, failed. just went through the questions and can only find 4 wrong, something going on or what. not cribbing but with everyone saying they are failing it makes you wonder. By the way, well done HOWAYA.

Canarygold

by the way where is dunsink observatory, maps say castleknock so mayby i got 5 wrong

mark2000ie

Canarygold wrote: »

by the way where is dunsink observatory, maps say castleknock so mayby i got 5 wrong

Yep it is Castleknock

Taxipete29

mark2000ie wrote: »

Yep it is Castleknock

While I know this is technically correct, I would never describe it as being in Castleknock.

Howyadoing

info91, also passed today.
well done.;);)

mark2000ie

well done info91, hopefully I will join you both on 19th Aug

mark2000ie

Taxipete29 wrote: »

While I know this is technically correct, I would never describe it as being in Castleknock.

Where would you describe it as being?

goodimpra

Howyadoing wrote: »

Pass :):):)

good man

goodimpra

Dunsink Lane,
Castleknock,
Dublin 15,
Ireland. that's the address. but to be honest so far i thought it belongs to finglas area

mark2000ie

goodimpra wrote: »

good man

When are you doing it goodimpra?

goodimpra

now i think about my holidays, but when i come back i will sit it again. it will be in the middle of September i believe. i haven't checked yet free days on prometric site.

Taxipete29

mark2000ie wrote: »

Where would you describe it as being?

I would probably of classed it as Finglas.

Volvoboy

Taxipete29 wrote: »

I would probably of classed it as Finglas.

As would i.

Howyadoing

Thanks lads,

is there any taxi drivers out there that would
give me some proper advice on taxi driving.
I would like to know what u think about renting
a full taxi or spending 10 or 12 grand on a second
hand car and plate. I have been out of work for about
4 months now getting nothing of social and down to bones
of my savings. I would have to borrow about €10000
to buy something and don't fancy getting any more loans
as i have one at the minute. Any advice wood be very
well appreciated.
Thanks:
Martin:
also advice about working airport.

mark2000ie

Volvoboy wrote: »

As would i.

Just aswell you two experienced taxi drivers were not sitting this new test then, that would have been one wrong for both of you and that was one of the easier tricky ones

Taxipete29

mark2000ie wrote: »

Just aswell you two experienced taxi drivers were not sitting this new test then, that would have been one wrong for both of you and that was one of the easier tricky ones

Well what were the harder ones??

Volvoboy

Howyadoing wrote: »

Thanks lads,

is there any taxi drivers out there that would
give me some proper advice on taxi driving.
I would like to know what u think about renting
a full taxi or spending 10 or 12 grand on a second
hand car and plate. I have been out of work for about
4 months now getting nothing of social and down to bones
of my savings. I would have to borrow about €10000
to buy something and don't fancy getting any more loans
as i have one at the minute. Any advice wood be very
well appreciated.
Thanks:
Martin:
also advice about working airport.

You'd be doing well to get finance on a car, start off by renting basic for a week costs €120 ex ins.

Ya have to be wide to all types who get in the car, ya pick up 4 ''lads'' in a dodgy area ya have to be tough skinned. In my few years driving a taxi i've had pikeys punch the living day lights outa each another. People getting sick, spilling drink, verbal abuse, some physical abuse, girls pissing in the back of the car, i also know a fella who has had 3 incidents of people taking a **** on the back seat, women are ALWAYS the worst customers. People doing lines of coke in broad daylight, you also have to have a heart made of stone.

One important factor to remember is ya have to know somones story before even attemping to pull in, i remember one night at about 4.30am i was passing the airport roundabout and there was 3 lads at the side of the road hailing a taxi you got to take into fact that they:

Have been kicked out of a taxi, because there's no way they'd hail a taxi there if they've just come out of a pub as they've been closed 3 hours previous, and there's no way they've come from the airport WITH NO BAGS and beside at anygiven time there's 200 taxi's in the Kesh.

And the Kesh another beaut, i've never worked the Kesh but i can tell you that for €400 a year they give ya the privelage to wait upto 2 1/2 hours for a fare, that could be worth €10?

And ya got to be a good actor too, ya dont act the same way in front of a elderly couple as ya would a druggie.

Also beware of high-class whores, these are weapons a friend of mine dropped 2 from Raheny to Ashbourne and when they didnt like the price on the meter they went to strangle him with a pair of tights.


Some of this is second nature to me now but hopefully it will put ya wide to some facts i had to learn the hard way.

Best of luck!

mark2000ie

Volvoboy wrote: »

You'd be doing well to get finance on a car, start off by renting basic for a week costs €120 ex ins.

Ya have to be wide to all types who get in the car, ya pick up 4 ''lads'' in a dodgy area ya have to be tough skinned. In my few years driving a taxi i've had pikeys punch the living day lights outa each another. People getting sick, spilling drink, verbal abuse, some physical abuse, girls pissing in the back of the car, i also know a fella who has had 3 incidents of people taking a **** on the back seat, women are ALWAYS the worst customers. People doing lines of coke in broad daylight, you also have to have a heart made of stone.

One important factor to remember is ya have to know somones story before even attemping to pull in, i remember one night at about 4.30am i was passing the airport roundabout and there was 3 lads at the side of the road hailing a taxi you got to take into fact that they:

Have been kicked out of a taxi, because there's no way they'd hail a taxi there if they've just come out of a pub as they've been closed 3 hours previous, and there's no way they've come from the airport WITH NO BAGS and beside at anygiven time there's 200 taxi's in the Kesh.

And the Kesh another beaut, i've never worked the Kesh but i can tell you that for €400 a year they give ya the privelage to wait upto 2 1/2 hours for a fare, that could be worth €10?

And ya got to be a good actor too, ya dont act the same way in front of a elderly couple as ya would a druggie.

Also beware of high-class whores, these are weapons a friend of mine dropped 2 from Raheny to Ashbourne and when they didnt like the price on the meter they went to strangle him with a pair of tights.


Some of this is second nature to me now but hopefully it will put ya wide to some facts i had to learn the hard way.

Best of luck!

Are you looking for a new line of work Volvoboy or are you happy with what you are doing?:)
Would it be fair in saying you would go months without any of the above incidents happening to you? especially when your "wide to all types who get in the car"

Volvoboy

mark2000ie wrote: »

Are you looking for a new line of work Volvoboy or are you happy with what you are doing?:)
Would it be fair in saying you would go months without any of the above incidents happening to you? especially when your "wide to all types who get in the car"

No i'm happy with my job only thing that gets to me when i'm waiting for 2 hours for my 1st job of the nite and i can scrape by.

Last week;
H
ad a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats

A extremly abusive woman who informed i was a ****, scumbag, prick and knocked one of the airels off the boot of the car.

And a traveler woman coverd in blood after her fella was beating her trying to hailed me, he seen pulled over and tryed to pull me out of the car.

mark2000ie

Volvoboy wrote: »

No i'm happy with my job only thing that gets to me when i'm waiting for 2 hours for my 1st job of the nite and i can scrape by.

Last week;
H
ad a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats

A extremly abusive woman who informed i was a ****, scumbag, prick and knocked one of the airels off the boot of the car.

And a traveler woman coverd in blood after her fella was beating her trying to hailed me, he seen pulled over and tryed to pull me out of the car.

Are you sitting in your car now on your lap top waiting for your first job?

"Had a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats" why you let someone eat in the back of your car?

Volvoboy

mark2000ie wrote: »

Are you sitting in your car now on your lap top waiting for your first job?

"Had a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats" why you let someone eat in the back of your car?

It was in a bag but he was spannerd drunk and left if on the back seats, thats another thing invest in leather seat covers, €50 for cheepy jobs or €400 for a complete refit from CUC on ushers island.

mark2000ie

Volvoboy wrote: »

It was in a bag but he was spannerd drunk and left if on the back seats, thats another thing invest in leather seat covers, €50 for cheepy jobs or €400 for a complete refit from CUC on ushers island.

Is that complete refit a good job?

blahblah06

mark you will find out for yourself that you will never know whats around the corner

blahblah06

Panel you heading out tonight

blahblah06

mark2000ie wrote: »

Is that complete refit a good job?

i seen a fitting in a skoda today and i have to say I was not impressed

mark2000ie

blahblah06 wrote: »

mark you will find out for yourself that you will never know whats around the corner

I know blahblah I did it from 1995 - 2000