Govt to review Taxi industry

Did anyone watch primetime last night? Do you think this industry is corrupt?

Seen it they need to review the NCT as well , in every other E.U country there is more than one test body so if you are not happy with one you can go to the other, I think what ever credibility the NCT had was lost after the revelations on prime time

Yeah I saw it queenie. All the death trap taxies out there and how they bribe the nct inspectors to pass their cars.

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Originally Posted by QueenBee

Do you think this industry is corrupt?

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The NCT process is definately corrupt.

The taxi industry has people walking over each other and taking whatever cost saving measures they can to try and make a living out of it. It also has people using it as a cover for other illegitimate activities. So it's difficult to call it corrupt but it definately contains a very bad element.

just another case of an industry littered with dodgy cunts not doing their job scamming lying fraud dont u really get sick at times watching the widespread wrongdoings in this very very corrupt country...

there was a time when a taxi plate cost €50k+ and a good
living could be made. then 1000s of people entered the business
because of what they called 'deregulation'. theres far too many at it
and there is great tension in that industry already...

I have seen newer classics on the street.

the show brought so much to the forefront that needs to be investigated more thoroughly. I think they should of separated this in to two shows out of the investigation, one just on the taxi industry and the other on the NCT. I wonder if they dug a little further would they be able to get away without paying the correct VRT on imported cars.

Nothing most of us knew already, I know a guy that knows a guy (usually thing in Ireland) that can get a car NCT pass for as little as double the test fee, 1 for them 1 for me system, you just book it in the normal way so everything is ligit, then give him the headup your car is being done and he makes sure he's the guy testing it..

At the moment the taxi industry is a joke half the drivers don't know where they are going I got into a taxi a month ago told the driver where I wanted to go his reply you direct I drive ffs it takes half an hour to get from georges street up to Camden street on a Saturday night it like the carlsberg add on a saturday night. But on a serious note there should be an investigation into the nct giving a licence to a car that is not roadworthy is playing around with lives.

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Originally Posted by Fitzy

At the moment the taxi industry is a joke half the drivers don't know where they are going I got into a taxi a month ago told the driver where I wanted to go his reply you direct I drive ffs it takes half an hour to get from georges street up to Camden street on a Saturday night it like the carlsberg add on a saturday night. But on a serious note there should be an investigation into the nct giving a licence to a car that is not roadworthy is playing around with lives.

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Ahh yeah happened with me and maybe all of us....once in my early days took a cab and told the the adress to the driver....he asked me where is this??????i was like ok I have no clue thats why I took a cab, at the end he was nice and gave me few eur discount, but still Dublin is not Paris or New York!!!!

It's worth noting that as a customer we have the right to choose the taxi we travel in (Link to Taxi Regulator). So if don't like the look of the first taxi in the rank for any reason (I refuse to get into a taxi more than 4 years old - I know, I'm a prick) don't be afraid to skip it and get into a car of your choice. OK, it may cause a little bit of agro at the rank between the drivers but at the end of the day I don't want to be stuck in some untidy banger with the smell of stale cigarette smoke.

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Originally Posted by monster_monster

It's worth noting that as a customer we have the right to choose the taxi we travel in (Link to Taxi Regulator). So if don't like the look of the first taxi in the rank for any reason (I refuse to get into a taxi more than 4 years old - I know, I'm a prick) don't be afraid to skip it and get into a car of your choice. OK, it may cause a little bit of agro at the rank between the drivers but at the end of the day I don't want to be stuck in some untidy banger with the smell of stale cigarette smoke.

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Very true but a lot off people don't know that and feel they have to get into the first car on the rank.

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Originally Posted by Fitzy

Very true but a lot off people don't know that and feel they have to get into the first car on the rank.

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Hopefully as more people hear about it, it will spur taxi drivers in pieces of junk to update them.