Taxi to numerous destinations

IsThisIt???

Sorry if this has been covered already.

What is the deal when you are getting a taxi from one destination and dropping several people off from it. I go out to my friends house often enough, just outside my town, and my friends and I get a taxi back in to our houses. Recently the cost of this taxi has shot up.

This seems to be because the taxi driver has taken to charging three different fares, each one starting in our friends house going to our homes i.e 1st fare: our friends house to destination 1; the 2nd fare: our friends house to destination 2. Surely this can't be the proceedure as we share the taxi and are going roughly the same direction.

(we have tried getting different taxis but on quiter nights it is the only place open)

KylieWyley

Doesn't tend to be, at least not on any journey I've split with people.

To ensure this doesn't happen, I think the trick is for the people getting dropped off first to hand you what they owe you on the sly and never have them enter into that whole "right, what do I owe you"-scenario with the taxi driver. That way the meter is left untouched

IsThisIt???

Thats my thinking, problem is no meter. Asked for a receipt tonight but he claimed since we made a deal ( got about 5e off the fair that was being about 20e overcharged) he couldn't give us one. I wish every taxi had had a meter, I know they do in Galway as I'm in college there and it works much better.

corktina

surely proper taxis HAVE to have a meter! I think this was not a legal taxi...

penexpers

What if it was a hackney?

foggy_lad

Fare should be from your friends house to the final destination plus a euro for each additional passenger then there is also a small charge afaik for additional stops and the late night charge which is a euro maybe two, but most taxis I get in Carlow would not charge this. Sounds like ye are getting the unlicensed drunks charges added on top of the fare!

foggy_lad

penexpers wrote: »

What if it was a hackney?

They are still required to have a meter afaik

penexpers

foggy_lad wrote: »

They are still required to have a meter afaik

They are not required to have a meter - however the fare should be agreed before the journey commences.

TestTransmission

foggy_lad wrote: »

They are still required to have a meter afaik

I don't think so somehow

robbie_998

foggy_lad wrote: »

They are still required to have a meter afaik

never seen one in my life.

i remember the mill in clondalkin used to be hackneys with no meters and the likes

used to be 6euro from the mill to my house with the shopping, my dad and myself... funny if it had being a taxi it would've being cheaper by about 90c

but they turned into taxis after a while then had meters and the lot installed.

not giving a receipt ? by law they have to do they not ?

Victor

IsThisIt??? wrote: »

Asked for a receipt tonight but he claimed since we made a deal ( got about 5e off the fair that was being about 20e overcharged) he couldn't give us one.

Bull.

oisindoyle

Only taxis have meters,Hackneys are NOT taxis,they are hackneys. Fares are usually fixed or you can negosiate a price BEFORE the journey begins .
As for someone above saying there is a small charge for various stops ect this is incorrect.

mikemac

Said already but sounds to me like you got a hackney

You should be agreeing the fares before you set off

Where To

And if it was a hackney there is absolutely no reason why he shouldn't have been able to give you a receipt