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    Ho sentito bene? Questo tassista si lamenta di prendere 50 sterline per un’ora di lavoro?

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    1. lifeandtimes89 on

      He says a fare from South City to Dublin Airport costs 70 euro (madness in its own right) and that it can take UP to an hour and if he uses uber he only gets 50 euro for it. That can be nearly a days wages for some people and its only an hour for him so that means he has the rest of the time to take more fares??

      This stunt is massively backfiring on the taxi drivers

    2. BestHoCoInBelfast on

      Cry a fucking river. 70 quid alone for the trip a lone is the most shocking part of that clip the rest is just some selfish prick having a moan 

    3. ignorantwat99 on

      Utter prick of a man.

      Ireland is ran under a that’ll do attitude and greed

    5. P319 on

      If the drivers don’t like the fare offered surely no one is asking them to accept them, and supply and demand kicks in?

    6. Nearby-Working-446 on

      Fuck the drivers, people want choice including the option to pay by card and not having to pay with cash because the driver wants to pocket it.

    7. UpperRutabaga6482 on

      A gentleman who thinks he is a lot cleverer than he is

    8. BakeParty5648 on

      That’s not an hourly wage. You think drivers clear 100k a year?

    9. Reddynever on

      Disrupting the public because of their relationship with a private company. They can go fuck themselves or just stop using them.

    10. Quebeth on

      They really need to be taken off the roads entirely, every other car is a taxi in Dublin. They should go and get an actual job.

    11. Difsdy on

      It’s not like he’s pocketing 50 euro though is it? He has to pay for fuel, insurance etc out of that and if course there’s the downtime when they are on their way to pick up the fare.

      So no, he’s not getting 50 quid for an hour’s work

    12. Ehermagerd on

      Taxi drivers in Ireland have no idea how lucky they have it.

      Good example is a 28km journey at night (including a run on the motorway) cost me €80.
      Recently, in Mallorca, a 29km journey cost me €39.90.

    13. Rennie_Burn on

      Supply and demand is it not? If you dont like it dont do the job, struggling to see what the issue is…

    14. LimerickLegend on

      This cunt and others like him are robbing the Irish public. I had an 8km fare in the UK for 11 pound with Uber. The same fare in Ireland is over 30 euro if you are lucky with non Uber drivers.

    15. Mindless-Delay-5727 on

      Your title is extremely misleading, I went in expecting to agree with you but was shocked you’re taking Ubers side. Taking 30-40% of taxi drivers money is pure corporate greed.

      They’re not making back to back trips exactly like this. This is an ideal trip, a lot of the trips will be short and much less, or just waiting around.

    16. josephTheOGCuck on

      They could also just… uninstall the app no? Like they aren’t employed by Uber right?

    18. Cuchullain99 on

      Taxi drivers are well paid for sure.. but they are not on anything like €70 and hour or even €50.. It’s a business, they have to have a young car tens of thousands of euro… fuel per week is in the hundreds of euro, insurance per week can be crippling, maintenance, breakdowns, and all the expensive hoops the NTA make them jump through, no paid holidays no paid sick. And if that fare was a booking, he cannot work during the previous hour and he may have to wait for another hour after… They make their best hourly wage on a Saturday night when they have to deal with drunks piss and puke.

    19. frustrated_homeowner on

      Imagine finishing the late shift in work, the last bus has long gone. You’ve 2 options, walk – but it’s far and raining and you are so, so tired. Or, get a you order a taxi, using an app, maybe even uber – you’ll be home in no time, it’s dry and warm and you’ve had a long day.

      And then this lad pulls up, telling you how hard it is to make money. I’d rather walk in tbe rain

    20. Lazy-Common4741 on

      Guarantee these lads moan endlessly when others delay traffic for any reason

    21. Bigbeast54 on

      I don’t understand this protest. No one is forcing the drivers to use Uber or any app. Loads of drivers have left them anyway as their fees are too high.

      I don’t use them either because I’m not paying a technology fee or whatever bollocks it is.

    22. Such_Technician_501 on

      These cunts signed up for Uber. Nobody forced them. How the fuck is this our problem?

    23. Difficult_Tea6136 on

      What Uber are trying to bring in here should absolutely be outlawed. Look what they’ve done in other countries with less regulation.

      Fuck Uber.

    24. bennyl10 on

      But.. uber take a portion of every fare?
      If you don’t want them taking a portion don’t use the app?

    25. frankand_beans on

      Those airport runs are handy. You’re not dealing with drunk pricks, only folks looking to get home from a holiday or get to their hotel. Im against this protest and I drive a cab

    27. R3turn_MAC on

      You can rent a taxi, including the car and plate, for about €300 per week. You need to have your own insurance on top of that, which would be at least another €100 per week, maybe €150. Add fuel and I suspect you’d need to be clearing €500 a week before making a profit.

      A single journey that this lad is talking about might be €70 for an hour of work, but no taxi driver is on the clock all day. Plenty of waiting around for fares and returning to the busier parts of town looking for business.

      If driving a taxi was lucrative, like it was when the number of plates was much more restricted years ago, then loads of people would be doing it.

    28. pjakma on

      That’s €50 in revenue though. So, you need to remove:
      – financing for and/or hire of the taxi (car, plate)
      – insurance, motor tax
      – fuel
      – maintenance

      Then you get gross profit, pre labour. He may want to set some money aside for future capital investment (e.g., buying his own car, so he doesn’t have to give thousands per month to someone else). After that, he can pay himself from what’s left. And that’s his gross income – pre-tax.

      I’m not sure what all those numbers will come to. It’s not insignificant.

      That said, I have heard from some that there are taxi drivers bringing in 5k to 10k a month, after their own living costs! Not sure how true that is though.

    30. Irishman4000 on

      I live in Swords and a taxi to the airport is €20+. Honestly its a 6 minute drive. Hard to feel sorry for the monopoly being busted.

    31. No_Donkey456 on

      To be fair there should be an NTA app offering what uber does. I don’t see why we are funnelling huge sums of money to a private corporation for an app that we could replicate domestically.

      Why not an EU owned alternative? I don’t like corporations.

    32. kewthewer on

      This comment section is a very good example of why we’ve never had a left-wing government in Ireland.

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