Brought a girl home earlier who operates one of the Eco cabs, she told me she is paid a €65 flat wage per day plus whatever tips she gets.
No Car repayments
No insurance
No CTR
No Fuel
No Insurance
No expenses whatsoever
9am – 5pm ……she even manages a social life!
The ecocabs have a small 12v self-charging battery-driven engine to help the driver power up hills and run the indicator lights, and can reach a maximum speed of 25 kilometers per hour (so even us fat lads could manage it)
More and more now tourists and photographers stop and take a picture of the hoards of Taxis ranked on the Green, I wonder how many photo albums around the globe are adorned with pictures of my Taxi?
The latest photographer shooting the St Stephen’s Green Taxi Rank
The popular Ireland By Taxi website has had a facelift, customers should find it easier to navigate and the booking system has been simplified, with three methods to choose from.
Pick customer up at the office in Dublin city centre, stop off at the house in Rathgar for a quick change and to pick up a bag, another stop in Tallaght to collect the Sister and then off to Kilkenny in time for the church service.
All this for the low low price of €1 per kilometer!
No other transport method can offer the flexibility and level of service provided by Ireland by Taxi at such a great value price.
If you happen to be the third sub €6 euro fare your driver has queued for over an hour to accept, please do not expect the driver to be full of the joys.
Please forgive him if he seems a little short fused.
Please accept that the cab may feel a little “lived in”.
Please accept that the brakes might seem a little “soft” and the shocks a little “hard”.
Fleet Connect fitted my Taxi out with wireless broadband this morning, thereby allowing my customers to acsess the internet in the cab during the course of their journey.
I was a little sceptical about just how fast the connection speed would be and as I have a 20mb connection here at home reckoned i’d be disapointed with the mobile version. However, I was very happy with it, even after putting it through it’s paces by watching You tube clips and a few image laden sites.
I’ll be posting regularly giving updates about customers reactions, both to the quality of the service and whether or not they would give preferred bookings to a WiFi enabled Taxi.
I think it will be of major benefit to customers of www.irelandbytaxi.com as the trips booked through that site tend to be of a longer duration and the capability of either getting some work done, or simply being entertained via the internet will be a huge selling point.
I had a couple of Hippies in the Taxi a few days ago who told me about this place: Seomra Spraoi
It used to be a squat, but nowadays they pay rent and it’s all legit, seemingly you can bring your six pack, sit around smoking and drinking all night while listening to some music and debating with some radical thinkers.
It’s located at 10 Belvidere Court, off Gardiner Street in Dublin 1.
