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Why is it so hard to bargain with Taxi Drivers?

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  • #32
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    They may well lose business but drivers like you are so well off anyway ye can afford to pick and choose your customers. You don't want the people only going out to cork st or ballybough but don't want to discount those going further like bray or balbriggan


  • #33
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    I'll give anyone triple the discount that they can get me from a garage for my fuel, you get me 10% off I'll give you 30% off the fare, but if you can't get me a discount then no discount for you, can't be any fairer than that


  • #34
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    I'll give anyone triple the discount that they can get me from a garage for my fuel, you get me 10% off I'll give you 30% off the fare, but if you can't get me a discount then no discount for you, can't be any fairer than that

    Contact Topaz.ie

    http://topaz.ie/en/business/fuel-cards/

    If you get a fuel card through them you'll be able to qualify for a rebate. If you order fuel cards as a group (maybe the NTDU should approach them) you'll probably get a rebate in the region of €0.15 per liter.

    I'd guess that that's a saving in excess of 10% on your fuel costs.


    Now... do you want to PM me your contact details and plate number so I can avail of my 30% discount, or will my discount apply to every journey I take with a driver who avails of the rebate scheme?


  • #35
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,627 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    hmmm 3 pages and no-one has yet said:

    "cos they're tight ****ers" :D

    But seriously though as many have said on such small fairs <10-12 it's not really worth their time, losing a rank space etc.

    That said nearly all of my few taxi journeys are in the 8-12 quid range and nearly always they round it down at least to the nearest 50c. I think that's fair enough tbh.


  • #36
    seanw7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭seanw7


    i know a guy that his taxi is €40 from city, and he walks down as far as the river and hails a taxi that is heading that way and asks if he will leave him home for €20 (as thats all he has) works everytime as the tazi driver is not loosing out to much as he was heading that way anyway...


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  • #37
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Are there still people employed in the airport moving taxis off the rank if they refused a local or other small paying fare?


  • #38
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I would have thought that small fares would suit the taxi driver at night, since I'd imagine most fares run from the city centre outwards, and with small fares they're not left off in the middle of nowhere. You could quite easily pick up another fare in Ranelagh.


  • #39
    Yourwellcum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Yourwellcum


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    I'll give anyone triple the discount that they can get me from a garage for my fuel, you get me 10% off I'll give you 30% off the fare, but if you can't get me a discount then no discount for you, can't be any fairer than that

    Big difference. Fuel is still in major demand and there is not an oversupply. Taxis are everywhere with very little demand. Its your choice not to discount, but with so many cheaper fares on offer you will lose out in the long run


  • #40
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,021 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    -Chris- wrote: »
    Contact Topaz.ie

    http://topaz.ie/en/business/fuel-cards/

    If you get a fuel card through them you'll be able to qualify for a rebate. If you order fuel cards as a group (maybe the NTDU should approach them) you'll probably get a rebate in the region of €0.15 per liter.

    I'd guess that that's a saving in excess of 10% on your fuel costs.


    Now... do you want to PM me your contact details and plate number so I can avail of my 30% discount, or will my discount apply to every journey I take with a driver who avails of the rebate scheme?


    Even for a fleet the size of the entire NTDU you'd get closer to 0.015 a litre off not 0.15 Chris. The margin does not exist to give 0.15, they'd be losing money on the raw fuel let alone other costs.


  • #41
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    We'll have to agree to disagree. ;)


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  • #42
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,021 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    -Chris- wrote: »
    We'll have to agree to disagree. ;)

    I know what we're getting as a bulk discount off Topaz a middling size, high usage fleet by Irish standards (work) and what the profit margins are in the fuel business (uncle's station).

    I *know* there isn't 15c a litre to give. Taxi drivers are not VAT registered, which is where the massive cost savings of corporate fleet cards come in.


  • #43
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    -Chris- wrote: »
    Contact Topaz.ie

    http://topaz.ie/en/business/fuel-cards/

    If you get a fuel card through them you'll be able to qualify for a rebate. If you order fuel cards as a group (maybe the NTDU should approach them) you'll probably get a rebate in the region of €0.15 per liter.

    I'd guess that that's a saving in excess of 10% on your fuel costs.


    Now... do you want to PM me your contact details and plate number so I can avail of my 30% discount, or will my discount apply to every journey I take with a driver who avails of the rebate scheme?

    You're not saving me anything as I already have a fuel card, no discount for you this time but nice try


  • #44
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Fair nuff... I'll keep thinking! :D:D


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