Taxi - 9 year rule

Gary ITR · 25-02-2011 03:31PM

This thread has gone way off topic so I see it being closed up very soon.

Spook_ie · 25-02-2011 03:49PM

murphyebass wrote: »

No. Just no.

A punter should absolutely have the right to choose the taxi. No matter how short the trip is.

A Taxi person imo should not have the right to choose a punter other than the obvious alcohol, drugs, etc because at the end of the day a fares a fare.

As I have already said earlier in this thread...

You will not necessarily get a larger fare by waiting. You could be waiting for an hour for example in said que when it would have been better utilised taking said fair and maybe pickin up another on the way back to the que.

IMO its the taxi people being picky. And when you have as many of ye out there I really dont get the reason why. :rolleyes:

EDIT... Just saw someone posted that its 30km as the shortest trip that they can refuse. Sure thats not short at all. Why would they decline a run of that distance??!

A punter has the right but they shouldn't, too many times you see the scenarios,

1. Punter walks upto cab , doesn't like the look of the driver ( yeah racism rears it's head again ) and takes the next cab 2 or 3 down, take the 1st car = no racism

2. Punter walks up to cab and picks the old guy who can't chase after him if he runs, chance plays it's part if punters have to take the car at the front, but if you see someone holding back, you get a chance to assess the risk situation.

3. Punter walks past all the cars on the rank and hails a taxi in the middle of the street, taxi then stops in the middle of the street to take the fair and causes mayhem for people behind, you have to see it to believe it.

The rights of the customer should not be allowed to cloud common sense and decency

murphyebass · 25-02-2011 04:12PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

A punter has the right but they shouldn't, too many times you see the scenarios,

1. Punter walks upto cab , doesn't like the look of the driver ( yeah racism rears it's head again ) and takes the next cab 2 or 3 down, take the 1st car = no racism

2. Punter walks up to cab and picks the old guy who can't chase after him if he runs, chance plays it's part if punters have to take the car at the front, but if you see someone holding back, you get a chance to assess the risk situation.

3. Punter walks past all the cars on the rank and hails a taxi in the middle of the street, taxi then stops in the middle of the street to take the fair and causes mayhem for people behind, you have to see it to believe it.

The rights of the customer should not be allowed to cloud common sense and decency

oh come on are you really playin the race / elderly card? :rolleyes:

1. Also means that the client in your scenario would have to take what they're given. ie no choice of car. No thanks. I'm not being lumbered with a ancient corolla or god knows what.

2. Should the lads who are as you put it "the old guy" be driving a cab in the first place if they have a problem with either takin the hit knowing they cant chase the rare occasion some runs. Or more likely they factor this in to be a chance they're willing to take. I reckon the second part.

3. Choice, why shouldnt that person wave down the cab?!

I think I'll have to stop this thread angers me. The crooks of it is the 9 year rule is stupid and thankfully hasnt been implemented. The problem is that there are absolutely pathetic cars on the road that shouldnt be taxis.

It needs to looked at in a different way than 9 year rule no doubt, BUT something has to be done so that customers wouldnt have move to a different car becuase its an poor excuse for a taxi.

I dont know what way it should be done. What I would like to see though is cars should have to be safe (NCAP Rating), should have to big, ie Avenis, Mondeo, Passat, A6 type size not Corolla, Mazda 323 or something equally rediculous, and the simple things like clean and tidy etc etc...

Anyway wasting our breath cause it looks like it'll all just get brushed under the carpet with new goverments with bigger issues to deal with.

mikemac · 25-02-2011 04:17PM

Possibly offtopic.
Even with the supposed oversupply of taxis it can still be difficult to get wheelchair accessible taxis.

I've often had to book these through work and even with our account they are desperately hard to book at decent notice.
I reckon we need a better taxi firm.

Maybe drivers can be given some sort of incentive, no VRT or a fuel rebate or something to encourage an uptake.

CabanasBoy · 25-02-2011 04:30PM

Alan70 wrote: »

If said journey is less than thirty kilometres

I have never refused (or moaned about) a job based on the distance, my shortest job was 250yds and got €20 for it from a very grateful customer in heels and my longest has been 320km which I got a little bit more than €20 for. Point is, never refuse a job (unless its a threat to you or your vehicle) because 1 job always leads to the next.:)

Esel · 25-02-2011 11:36PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

Experience and if you walk past the 1st car or two and get into mine and give a destination thats a short fare why shouldn't I send you to back the 1st car,

As others have said - because you are obliged to take me, all other things being equal.

At this stage, I've witnessed enough hard chaw PSV licence holders telling potential customers, in a very gruff manner, to go to a particular car that I sometimes wonder if their only previous interaction with the publlic was as a lock-hard.

Any, back on topic. I think it was wrong to bring the 9 year rule forward and that it was wrong (never mind crazy) to subsequently cancel the rule. There is definitely a need for some regulation on vehicle age, purely from a health and safety point of view.

steph1 · 27-02-2011 06:00AM

9 year rule or not the NCT and SGS are responsible for passing out the vehicles and making sure that they are suitable for use as a taxi. Obviously the nct in previous years has not been doing its job properly otherwise why are there so many heaps of rubbish out there on the roads. The owner-driver and independent driver is being lumped in with all the rentals that are out day and night on the road and driven into the ground. On the nights that I work my car is out say for 8 to 10 hours and as I live in the west where the roads are crap any extra hours take its toll on the car.
A few years ago I had a driver on during the day and the car was never out of the garage or the tyre place. It was being wrecked, partly from the way it was being driven as a person driving a car that is not there own does not care less what happens it.
Owner drivers should not be discriminated against just because of a few owners who have a heap of plates and have them plonked on what I would term rubbish cars. Cars that are driven round the clock are going to be in bits.

Taxi - 9 year rule

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