Blue Light Cabs

By now all taxi drivers on the Freenow app will be aware of the new "rule"......Only 2 passengers should be carried, with the front passenger seat kept free. In March they offered essential workers a 50% discount on taxi rides. Now they are promoting taxis with covid protection screens, while there is absolutely no proof  these screens are effective, that they had farmed out to another business, no doubt receiving a financial kick back. When are taxi drivers going to make a stand against this monster? As an Irish cabbie you are self employed ,  essentially running a small business. You make decisions that best serve YOUR needs in order to keep YOUR business afloat.  Freenow are there to serve taxi's, not the other way round. It should not be within their remit to give discounts on behalf of YOUR business, accepting these fares meant you were at a 50% loss but Freenow got the kudos, or to decide how many passengers you should carry, or whether or not you should fit an u...

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...