Taxi Drivers

whitesideOnside wrote: They're going around the airport now slowly in cavalcade, blocking buses and private cars. I respect their right to strike, even if I don't agree with them, but clocking up the airport is very poor form. Thankfully I have the bike with me so i'll not be held up getting out.

They have no right to strike and no right to picket. They are all independent operators. I guarantee you there are plenty of drivers who would love to be able to pick up fares at the airport right now but it is the bully boy operations of those lads out there stopping them from doing so. It's not a matter of taxi drivers' rights, it's one set of businessmen stopping other businessmen from running a business with little or no justification. I have no problem with unionisation and the right to strike but this is outrageous wildcat action. If they have a problem with it, fine, sit at home, drive your taxi elsewhere, but to bully lads and force them not to accept business is an absolute scandal.

The self-employed have no right to strike and sure as hell no right to picket.

Incidentally, DAA are also being gobsh*tes, but it's total w**kery by the drivers.


Edited by SuperDave84 - 23 Aug 2012 at 2:53pm

Town on Friday and Saturday nights have more heavy traffic then at 10am on a Tuesday, and it's all taxis. There should have been a cap on the number of taxi licenses when they rightly deregulated.

Agree 100% on having to listen to them sh*te on about their business. Imagine going to a restaurant or pub and the staff sat down beside you for 10minutes and whinged about the rules, and after their ten minutes asked you for €20

Baldrick wrote: What ever happened to people letting farts and saying Taxi No rebounds.

Just as an update to this. The taxi drivers are now deliberately pulling in front of buses (dangerously imo) and stopping or moving extremely slowly in front of them.

RogerMilla wrote: Bob Hoskins wrote: Town on Friday and Saturday nights have more heavy traffic then at 10am on a Tuesday, and it's all taxis. There should have been a cap on the number of taxi licenses when they rightly deregulated.     no fcuking way shoudl there, dublin is an absolute pleasure now , you walk out of a bar city centre and straight into a cab and home   try queuing for three hours in the pissing rain down at trinity college or accross form the USIT offices from about 2-5 on a sdunday morning in order to finally get a cab to lucan , f**k THAT

Come on now Roger, I remember the poxy days of walking half way home. This is about a realistic cap.

9fingers wrote: ****s of the highest order. Let away with murder in this country for years, all the while moaning about it and telling everyone who will listen, whether they want to or not. f**k off On a side note the condition of taxis in this country is an absolute farce as well, imagine getting off the plane from new York, first time in Ireland and your greeted by a fat moany prick in a 94 VW jetta with 400,000 miles on the clock. You'd be surprised some of them don't turn around and get back on the plane. FFS in Skopje last summer 90% of the taxis were brand new Renault fluences

Trapped wrote: The ones that jam on the brakes as soon as they see an orange light are the worst. Most of them do this when they have a passenger on board so I've no sympathy for them.

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SuperDave84 wrote: Trapped wrote: The ones that jam on the brakes as soon as they see an orange light are the worst. Most of them do this when they have a passenger on board so I've no sympathy for them. fixed

Exactly my point

Coonts the lot of them moanin all day, most of them smell like sh*te and they pick the busiest weekend in the city to go on strike ..and as for Joe Duffy? only reason that show is still on coz he has them muppets on and every gimp is listenin to it...they boil my piss.. have walked home from town on a few occasions ,so as not to get into a row with them ,and I,d,rather give the cash to Ladbrokes!