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Vanishing Taxi Driver
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05-12-2010 3:58pm#1
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For what it`s worth I`d recommend that anybody using a Taxi in Dublin these days make sure to note the Roof Sign number as u enter...even write it down..it`ll only take seconds.....It is the only way you can be sure of traceability should anything happen.
The absolute and total abdication of the Taxi Regulator from her duties and responsibilities has left us with a dangerous shambles,which is acting against the genuine Taxi Drivers as much as the Customers interests.
I would suggest the dismissal of the Regulator and several other public transport related administrators on the grounds of incompetence and/or negligence as a good starting point to achieve meaningful reform of a seriously broken system.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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That would explain why some of them can't make a decent few quid for a nights work. What other business would trade with out having change of a €50
No business is actually obliged to carry change; it's on the customers onus to have the correct money for whatever it is that they are paying for and it's their loss if you don't have it
Offering change is taken as read but at times it's not as practical as you make out. In the case of a taxi driver (And this is first hand info speaking from my time as one) you can only carry so much of a float at any one time and this is cash that can be eaten into in no time.
Even a few €20 notes tendered over a few hours can clean out your float, never mind a €50 note; 5 fares under €10 would clear a float of €60 in no time. When I was driving, I had an unwritten rule not to break a €50 note for a fare under a €10 if possible; only twice in five years did the passenger not have smaller cash on hand to pay the fare. If I was low on change I'd say it ahead of the time and not once was a passenger awkward about running into a shop to get some if need be
The lounge boy in my local can even manage that:D
No he doesn't manage it; his employer manages that for him but it's a lot easier to find €20 (That's all bar staff usually have as a float) from a five figure a week cash takings than from the takings from your previous night in a taxi which is where your float usually comes from.The taxi drivers are the only self employed people know who seem to look down on the customer.In these hard times the customer is king & you need to look after them more than ever.
While there are some misery guts in the trade, I have to say that this contempt works both ways to be honest.0 -
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I won't waste my time getting into tit and tat with you as you don't seem willing to take on board my points which are, as I said, first hand. But to finally clarify....Ehh. NO. Its the business loss.
With this type of attitude its no wonder taxi drivers are finding things hard.
That's actually the Law as it stands; it's up to a customer to have the means to pay.And whats to prevent you taking a minute out to pop into a shop or garage when you see you are low.?
Nothing but that's actually irrelevant what I said and occasionally impractical; try pulling up to a shop in the city centre at rush hour. The point I made was that you can see your float go quicker than you seem to think through no fault of anybody.Thank god other business men (Including the self employed) have better business sense than this.
I don't know what business you work in but those in the not too many businesses that carry small amounts of change for what are generally small transactions at any one time know what I am talking aboutMost business have difficult or rude customers. I get my fair share but I don't slate them or complain. I look after their needs & treat them with respect. After all they are paying my wages. This is the bit most taxi men can't seem to grasp. You bring people home, thats the job you choose. If you feel the customer is so beneath you its time to change profession..
Very much a generalisation. And sure all bouncers are thugs, all waiters are gay, all hairdressers are bimbos; need I go on with fruitless stereotypes? :rolleyes:Times are hard we all need all the custom we can get. I would never come on complaining over a customer having no change. I don't think any sensible business would these days.
Yes we all do but you will find I wasn't the one complaining about it 0 -
Losty Dublin wrote: »No business is actually obliged to carry change; it's on the customers onus to have the correct money for whatever it is that they are paying for and it's their loss if you don't have it Offering change is taken as read but at times it's not as practical as you make out. In the case of a taxi driver (And this is first hand info speaking from my time as one) you can only carry so much of a float at any one time and this is cash that can be eaten into in no time.
Even a few €20 notes tendered over a few hours can clean out your float, never mind a €50 note; 5 fares under €10 would clear a float of €60 in no time. When I was driving, I had an unwritten rule not to break a €50 note for a fare under a €10 if possible; only twice in five years did the passenger not have smaller cash on hand to pay the fare. If I was low on change I'd say it ahead of the time and not once was a passenger awkward about running into a shop to get some if need be
No he doesn't manage it; his employer manages that for him but it's a lot easier to find €20 (That's all bar staff usually have as a float) from a five figure a week cash takings than from the takings from your previous night in a taxi which is where your float usually comes from.
While there are some misery guts in the trade, I have to say that this contempt works both ways to be honest.
Taking on board your points
I would have to say that no business in Ireland will susvive very long if they refuse to give change to customers paying cash, no matter what the lawbooks tell you about how legal it is!
Just as shops and business are obliged by a desire to survive in business to have change in their tills or risk losing all their customers taxi drivers are obliged surely by that same sense of survival to look after their bread and butter, the travelling public?
How long would it take a taxi driver to go into a bank and get a few hundred euros in 5 and 10 euro notes to last them over a good weekend? they could then easily find a good spot in their car to install a small safe to deposit this money and access it when needed and they could also use this safe for all the money they make from their customers!
In any pub i have been in with lounge boys/girls they are given their wages for the night as a float and have to manage this throughout the night as most bar staff will refuse or be too busy to give them change from the till.
There are miseries in every trade but the ones that stick out the most in peoples minds are the taxi drivers probably because of the misery they caused in the past with strikes blockades of the city etc where they caused untold misery to the travelling public.
But 95% of them are sound honest people just doing a job the same as everyone else!0 -
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Pineapple stu wrote: »So he says. Personally i think there was more to it than that .
What has gave you the idea there is more to it ?
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robbie1977 wrote: »What has gave you the idea there is more to it ?
There usually is in these type of threads that has a go at taxis. Im no fan of taxis but keep an open mind in these type of threads. Would you leave an expensive jacket in a car with someone you dont know?0 -
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