Did I hear this right? Is this taxi driver complaining about getting 50 quid for an hours work?



by lifeandtimes89

35 comments

  1. 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. 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. Utter prick of a man.

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

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

  5. 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.

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

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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

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

  11. 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.

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

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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.

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

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

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. Walked home from town many a night without managing to hail a taxi, got refused by some that did stop as they knew they wouldnt get a return fair when told where i wanted to go. So they can go take a giant leap.

  23. “Uber are charging them 70 euro, as the way it should be” Ask my fuckin’ ringpiece, man.
    No sympathy for this geebag.

  24. It’s not the taxi drivers that set the prices you know that? They have regulations to follow and overheads and expenses etc?

  25. How much of that 50 truly goes into your pocket when you have a vehicle to run?

  26. Thing that bothers me is people discussing whether 70 euro is enough or not. The main point is that it’s too much for the consumer. If there is a cheaper option we should introduce it immediately. This would improve people’s quality of life dramatically. If that means taxi drivers can no longer survive, then that just means that being a taxi driver is no longer a viable career. Maybe it’s a part time career alongside another job IF YOU WANT TO DO IT. We shouldn’t hold up progress or quality of life improvement so that some people can keep doing a job the way they want to for the amount they want to that fucks over the majority.

    I can’t wait for waymo or something to wipe out this discussion and allow us to go out for a few beers without thinking ah it’s not worth the 50 euro taxi..

  27. Jesus Christ, “I only make 50 quid an hour for a trip[ instead of 70” Cry me a fucking river. Driver in Ireland are one of the most overpaid and overprivileged bunch of people in the EU. A 5-minute trip from work to my house is 17 quid. Even getting paid half of it is insane if you consider how many customers they have per pay.

  28. When I was living in Baldoyle, people used think I was mad for driving to the airport and parking for a week when I was getting a flight. But it was cheaper for me to burn diesel and park in the airport for a week then it was to take a taxi instead. And I would book the car park fairly last minute.

    Think about that. North Dublin to North Dublin, on the M1. Still cheaper to park for a week.

    The way he nonchalantly quotes €70 to go up the M50.. prick..

  29. Put whatever you think about Uber or taxi drivers to one side for a second. 

    What in the name of holy feck are we allowing them to bring Dublin traffic to a standstill for?

    Imagine restaurant owners decided to slow drive their cars on mass accross the city in protest at Deliveroo commissions. Imagine Michael O’Leary blocked the M50 with a fleet of Boeings because he’s upset at the cut SkyScanner take selling flights. 

    It’s a complete farce. These are private businesses choosing to avail of another private business’s service and then inflicting their misery on an entire city because they’re  upset at the price. What the hell does it have to do with government and what right do they have to inconvenience the rest of us to make their point. 

    They should have their licences (taxi and drivers) revoked and see where that leaves them. 

  30. So often taxi drivers have tried to take me across the M50 or driven excruciatingly slow or tried to tell me that there is some stop and go traffic even though I told them to take me that way and there was nothing there, that I really can’t care less about them

  31. All the mouthbreathers in this thread calling taxi drivers thieving cunts etc should fucking walk wherever they want to go. Taxi drivers hands are tied by NTA regulations, they don’t just pull the fares out of their arses

  32. I’m with ya when it comes to corporate greed, but taxi drivers act like pricks on the road, to other drivers, bike users and pedestrians, break road rules in broad daylight and are far too expensive. I’d name more issues but I’ve had the pleasure of avoiding having to use them for many years now.
    I don’t think they’ll be getting much public support on this one. And I sorta hope it all crumbles for them. Absolutely a luxury service at this point.

  33. A race to the bottom. But it isn’t €50 per hour. It’s wear and tear on the vehicle. It the costs of keeping a vehicle to NTA regulations. Meters and printers validated. Taxi insurance is much higher than your runaround. PSV licences costs. Annual SPSV fees. This is not giving your friends a lift. It’s a professional service.

  34. Hold on a moment here. Whatever anyone thinks about taxi fares in Dublin there’s no way it’s reasonable that Uber takes almost 30% of a 70 euro fare.

    Let’s focus on that for a moment. 

    This is the same issue we have with farmers where the cost we pay as consumers for basics such as butter or milk largely goes to retailers and distributors.

    So have at the sole trader in the video here but he’s not the problem.

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