I just saw a line of taxis 40 cabs long...

OldmanMondeo · 04-09-2011 03:42PM

OP, to coin a phrase from AH, Blast them with piss and tell the to get a real job....

Tar.Aldarion · 04-09-2011 03:44PM

Alessandra wrote: »

Might be a funny concept to you, but there is a Market for taxis in some rural towns.

sometimes you wait a few hours, its only after drinking it happens, during the day the drivers be screwed

Alessandra · 04-09-2011 03:48PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

sometimes you wait a few hours, its only after drinking it happens, during the day the drivers be screwed

That's a fair point.

oppenheimer1 · 04-09-2011 03:51PM

The Scientician wrote: »

at the top of my street. I wouldn't wanna be in that industry these days. Although there seemed to enough inebriated souls locally to avail of them. Must be **** being in a queue for an hour or more and the patron going around the corner!

I have more than once counted a queue of over 70 taxis outside Heuston Station

mikemac · 04-09-2011 04:15PM

Yes and those taxis block the road where it narrows so the buses gets blocked :mad:

The Traffic Corps are very active though, constantly down there shifting drivers, handing out tickets and sometimes parking their bike where the taxi rank begins

It's clear there is not enough rank space that doesn't mean anyone can park up by that pinch point in the bus lane so buses get backed up

Double the fines imo
Our maybe the council can mark the road again

bucketybuck · 04-09-2011 04:28PM

Jadiel Low Ration wrote: »

And THAT to you equates a better service?.

Its already been acknowledge through the Prime Time programme that the race to the bottom has resulted in hundreds of unroadworthy car's passing through the NCT and through the hands of people who are willing to rent out the same vehicles to ferry you and me about.

Its also been acknowledged through the same programme and here on boards.ie many, many times that drivers are working seven day weeks and upwards of 12-15 hour days to earn a living.

But to you the availabilty of taxi's takes precedence above these concerns.

Quantity over quality is just greedy & self centered.

I am sorry, but your obvious bias is really showing here. What do you think the consumer wants from their taxis? Generally we don't care about the personal life of the drivers, all we want is to easily find a taxi and go home, and so, emphatically YES, the service is better these days.

Telling sob stories about how hard it is to retrain out of the industry, well, that sucks and all but doesn't change the fact that all I want when I leave the pub is to hop into an available taxi and go home. The fact that I no longer have to wait like a spare prick for a taxi is fantastic service, no question about it.

I grew up in an area where you could easily have to wait until the next morning to get a taxi, I couldn't care how many taxis are double shifting as long as I don't have to go back to that ****e.

Market forces rule the world I am afraid, its neither my fault nor my problem that Taxi drivers are finally having to survive in a free market.

Monty Burnz · 04-09-2011 04:33PM

Jadiel Low Ration wrote: »

And THAT to you equates a better service?.

Yes. It's the only noticeable difference to the customer experience when using taxis. Perhaps there was a time when odourless, shiny new Rolls Royces used to ferry lucky passengers around, but I honestly can't remember it.

Jadiel Low Ration wrote: »

But to you the availabilty of taxi's takes precedence above these concerns.

Quantity over quality is just greedy & self centered.

Greedy and self-centred is pretending that your concern is for the customers. The customers are fine. If the taxi-drivers aren't, then they will leave the industry until there's a balance between the available work and the available taxis. You can't do a job with no barriers to entry beyond a driving license (which almost anyone with a pulse can get) and expect to get well paid for it. Working the clamshells in McDonalds is bloody hard work too, but requires a similar level of talent. Hence it is not well paid.

Deal with it.

Tar.Aldarion · 04-09-2011 04:47PM

Naos wrote: »

I never said it wasn't difficult to get the work nor did I say leaving the industry is easy.

My point is this: They are in competition. Like all businesses, if they want to survive then they need to offer a better service/product than their competitors.

There may be hundreds of taxis but I can say the same about anything, for example there being hundreds of pubs all competing for the same punter.

No one is going to just give it to them and those that expect that are the ones that will, unfortunately, struggle.

I know of one taximan who printed and delivered 100 leaflets around his area (Dublin 15) stating 15e collection and drop off to town / 20e to the airport for a max of 4 people.

Someone showed me the leaflet and I took the number down and used him a few times. As we got talking he was telling me how business has never been so good, he's booked up the whole time. There were occassions where I'd call him and he had to apologise stating he already had a full schedule.

Lanzarote was a bit tongue in cheek. Obviously they don't all own one and those that do fair play they'd have worked hard. I said it because that conversation did actually take place in a taxi last night

noticed that around and said id use that person if i needed it, fair play to him, Offering deals like most businesses = money

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 04-09-2011 04:54PM

chucken1 wrote: »

....and you think this is of interest to the rest of the country???

He was answering a question, read the thread like a good chap...

LighterGuy · 04-09-2011 05:00PM

phasers wrote: »

They can't, they're self employed and thus entitled to no help from the state.

Being a taxi driver is like being trapped really, most have no other skills or education and are at an age where getting another job would be pretty difficult, and they probably have mortgages and families so can't afford to retrain. People say that the taxi industry will "level out" because people will leave the game because they earn so little, but what little they earn they really need and in reality they have no alternative.

And for the record, my Dad is a taxi driver and has regularly made less than 20 euro in 6 hours of working. And he puts more than that into the feckin car in diesel.

It's frustrating when people like you act like taxi drivers are raking it in. They're really, really not.

The industry is crying out for regulation but it's not coming. There has to be a balance between having no taxis on the road like in the old days and what we have now. All those yellow signs in Town on a Saturday night is just beyond ridiculous.

Wastes fuel, and there's no guarantee that in 6 hours of driving you'll find anything. at least on a rank you are guaranteed some work at the end of it.

You know, I was actually agreeing with what you said while reading. Then the bold bit .... i hate the way if someone doesnt buy the "poor mouth" out of taxi drivers they are automatically people who think "the taxis are raking it in"

Maybe i am just a cynic. But taxi drivers back in the day when making good money played the poor mouth. Even up until 2008 they were playing the poor mouth. Now things changed. Obviously things arent as good. We both agree. But taxi drivers go on like you get money on the social welfare. That they are barely making anything. I aint saying they are still making 600 euro a week. But at the same time I dont buy into the crap that they're making less than 188 euro a week (social welfare)

LightningBolt · 04-09-2011 05:25PM

LighterGuy wrote: »

Theres so many taxi's on the road these days. Its harder to make a living out of it.

But logic is a brilliant concept. If your average taxi driver wasnt making anything much he would jack it there and go on the social. But yet there are still so many taxis around. Im not being a dick. But I refuse to believe the poor mouth of the taxi drivers. Like yeah things are bad. yes you gotta work more, work harder for the money. But lots of them go on like they only make 40 quid a shift.

Eh some of them do.

beerbuddy · 27-09-2011 01:09PM

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I just saw a line of taxis 40 cabs long...

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