Threats to the taxi industry

The obvious threat to the taxi industry in Ireland at present is covid 19. The business, along with many others, has been decimated. Driving a taxi for a living may never be the same as it was pre covid. Pubs and night clubs probably won't reopen til the end of the summer. Air travel has been reduced by 95%. Tourism for this season is non existent. Sporting events and concerts all cancelled for now. Without all of this, there is no taxi business.

It will probably be Christmas time before things start looking like they did pre covid, and that's a hopeful anticipation.

In recent times there have been a number of threats to the taxi industry:

1. Freenow, formerly Mytaxi, formerly Hailo. And to a certain extent, Uber.

2. The N.T.A., National transport authority.

3. The current minister for transport, Shane Ross.

4. Illegal taxi's, including social media ads re. airport pickups and drop offs.

5. Rickshaws.

6. 24 hour buses.

7. Violence, robbery and high jackings.

2016 saw 20,804 spsv,s operating in Ireland, that number probably hasn't changed a whole lot in the past 4 years. Of course a percentage of these are partimers, but it still leaves a lot of people dependent on the taxi industry for a living. In later blogs the individual threats will be discussed but for now the biggest threat to the industry is disharmony among drivers.

If you are a member of the taxi industry in Ireland and have any thoughts on what you have read here or if you have a contribution you wish to make please email taxisincrisis@gmail.com

Thanks for reading.

Taxi's in crisis

Hailo launched in Dublin 10 years ago to the delight of both taxi drivers and customers. A simpler, quicker way to order a taxi had customers downloading the app in their droves. Drivers, who had for decades been working with radio companys or working the streets signed up to Hailo in their thousands. The promise of no base fees, the ability to accept jobs from anywhere and only being charged a percentage of each job done was revolutionary. Hailo delivered on their promises and became the friend of taxi drivers and the taxi hailing public. Unfortunately this excellent company sold out to Europe's My taxi and things became a bit sinister. Customers and drivers complained about the new app. It wasn't as efficient as the Hailo app which had during it's time tweaked the model to suit all. A very sinister turn of events came about when My taxi sold out to Daimler and BMW. These motor giants invested heavily into a taxi app!!! The company had been reporting losses and still does...

Taxis for school runs

Anyone listening to Sarah McInerney yesterday morning on RTE radio one would have heard a 23 minute interview with minister for transport, Eamonn Ryan. By now everyone has watched the short video of minister Ryan caught sleeping during a vote in the Dail, seems he must have been sleeping again when he was informed of the McInerney interview because he was extremely ill prepared. If you need proof of a minister who is way out of his depth you only have to listen back to this 20 minute interview. Here, regarding School transport, is a short excerpt from the interview... Sarah . “School transport is a big one (Contradiction). Parents are very worried, piling kids onto buses where there is no social distancing. What is going to happen there?” Ryan . “Government accepted the recommendations of NPHET. The need for us to try and ensure safety in all our different transport systems...what is said is we'll have to look at that fu...

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Well written and short enough to not lose readers interest and good use of plain english, good first article.
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Which way to go. I am just confused.
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