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foggy i managed to see some of last nights prime time and i dear say that spanish crowd have to go. it's seems to be riddled with corruption.
i think as a whole the public service providers needs to be cleaned up and out. we ( bus drivers) had our time on prime time a while back and got a bashing over it. theres to much going on within the taxi industry for it to be ignored but alas we forget we live in this debt and corrupt country where anything goes. it doesn't matter who we have running this state nothing will be done about it. as for those working in the public sector. i often see a soldier in uniform driving his taxi down bus lanes to get to work and as soon as he hit the barracks the roof sign comes off. another guy i know of had more than 24 penalty points driving a taxi but was using a false drivers license un-surprisingly it was a non national.lost marbles wrote: »@alex look lets not nit pick on how many "loads" can be . the fact is that its going on .one taxi four passengers ,one bus fifty passengers . one person to be killed from either because of the disreguard of said driver .not good .
i done a nine hour shift last night in my taxi ,and i was in no fit state to drive a doubledecker bus by the end of it .
im sure management of DB would,nt be too pleased to be paying me a wage the same as the guy who uses his rest off properly .if they knew i was after doing a shift in a taxi before i logged on .
lets be real here .its going on in "loads" of public service areas and the blind eye mentality has to stop .
as for what should be done. anyone with a full time job should be disqualified from applying for a taxi/ hackey license, more so if you drive for a living. the criminality end of it should be stamped out immediately,more stricter sentences applied than the ordinary job public. we all know about the drugs mules driving taxi's. at the moment only truck drivers and bus drivers are required by law to do a C.P.C. course.this should be also applied to taxi/ hackey license holders. a way of logging how many hours a taxi driver does per day. someone mentioned a taco-graph on one of the programmes. at moment theres nothing in place for this. stricter guide lines of anyone entering or already within the taxi industry.if the guards cant do a criminal back gorund check then you dont get in to it either. jasus you could write a book on what needs to be overhauled within the industry.0 -
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lost marbles wrote: »@alex look lets not nit pick on how many "loads" can be . the fact is that its going on .one taxi four passengers ,one bus fifty passengers . one person to be killed from either because of the disreguard of said driver .not good .:(
i done a nine hour shift last night in my taxi ,and i was in no fit state to drive a doubledecker bus by the end of it .
im sure management of DB would,nt be too pleased to be paying me a wage the same as the guy who uses his rest off properly .if they knew i was after doing a shift in a taxi before i logged on .
lets be real here .its going on in "loads" of public service areas and the blind eye mentality has to stop .
Very good Lost Marbles,however I'm not nitpicking on the definition of "loads" but once again I have to state that in my experience it is a very small number of DB staff rather than a significant number.Dirtynosebeps Theres to much going on within the taxi industry for it to be ignored but alas we forget we live in this debt and corrupt country where anything goes. it doesn't matter who we have running this state nothing will be done about it. as for those working in the public sector. i often see a soldier in uniform driving his taxi down bus lanes to get to work and as soon as he hit the barracks the roof sign comes off. another guy i know of had more than 24 penalty points driving a taxi but was using a false drivers license un-surprisingly it was a non national.
as for what should be done. anyone with a full time job should be disqualified from applying for a taxi/ hackey license, more so if you drive for a living. the criminality end of it should be stamped out immediately,more stricter sentences applied than the ordinary job public. we all know about the drugs mules driving taxi's. at the moment only truck drivers and bus drivers are required by law to do a C.P.C. course.this should be also applied to taxi/ hackey license holders. a way of logging how many hours a taxi driver does per day. someone mentioned a taco-graph on one of the programmes. at moment theres nothing in place for this. stricter guide lines of anyone entering or already within the taxi industry.
It's interesting that the views of former Garda Commissioner Donnellan,which recommended the fingerprinting of ALL Taxi Drivers as a means of making a positive identity confirmation
,appear to have been disregarded in the flurry of activity surrounding the Busdriver issue.
When one hears this type of recommendation from such a high-profile figure then it's time to take careful note.
However,disregarding all of the Prime Time content the fact remains that the Taxi Regulator in particular has quite literally been found asleep at the wheel with her on-air responses consisting of attempts to lay-off the blame against any other entity unlucky enough to be within her range.
A truly pathetic performance and reasaon enough to disband the Taxi Directorate and return the operational supervision of Taxi's directly to the Gardai.
Give the Garda Carriage Offices the resources and let them at it.
The ability of a Garda to take immediate action far outweighs the mountain of form filling and administrative nonsense which surrounds the Regulators so called actions.
As for the associated sub-plot of the A++ NCT scenario,Dirtynosebeps has it well sussed here ......foggy i managed to see some of last nights prime time and i dare say that Spanish crowd have to go. it's seems to be riddled with corruption.
What I'm particularly interested in is the reasoning and mechanism behind the loss of the original NCT contract by the Swiss based SGDS group....this was/is a ten year contract reportedly worth €400 Million...That is SERIOUS money and it appears to have changed hands very quietly indeed.
The numbers of so-called whistle-blowers now emerging after the Prime-Time programme is now into double figures,why this sudden explosion of concern ?...is it new ?...was there a pre-existing level of disaffection or is it only since the A++ company took over..?
So many questions....
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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maybe this crowd put in much lower quote in the tender process and now must skimp and cut corners to get the job done to the targets they agreed toVery good Lost Marbles,however I'm not nitpicking on the definition of "loads" but once again I have to state that in my experience it is a very small number of DB staff rather than a significant number.
It's interesting that the views of former Garda Commissioner Donnellan,which recommended the fingerprinting of ALL Taxi Drivers as a means of making a positive identity confirmation
,appear to have been disregarded in the flurry of activity surrounding the Busdriver issue.
When one hears this type of recommendation from such a high-profile figure then it's time to take careful note.
However,disregarding all of the Prime Time content the fact remains that the Taxi Regulator in particular has quite literally been found asleep at the wheel with her on-air responses consisting of attempts to lay-off the blame against any other entity unlucky enough to be within her range.
A truly pathetic performance and reasaon enough to disband the Taxi Directorate and return the operational supervision of Taxi's directly to the Gardai.
Give the Garda Carriage Offices the resources and let them at it.
The ability of a Garda to take immediate action far outweighs the mountain of form filling and administrative nonsense which surrounds the Regulators so called actions.
As for the associated sub-plot of the A++ NCT scenario,Dirtynosebeps has it well sussed here ......
What I'm particularly interested in is the reasoning and mechanism behind the loss of the original NCT contract by the Swiss based SGDS group....this was/is a ten year contract reportedly worth €400 Million...That is SERIOUS money and it appears to have changed hands very quietly indeed.
The numbers of so-called whistle-blowers now emerging after the Prime-Time programme is now into double figures,why this sudden explosion of concern ?...is it new ?...was there a pre-existing level of disaffection or is it only since the A++ company took over..?
So many questions....0 -
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