$3 Surcharge cannot solve CBD's taxi woo
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ya should charge 1000 so that can compensate all taxi drivers for their time wasted during their complain session
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Goverment took back? but just imagine other trades where they don't get any extras but yet still having to pay back to Goverment.. it was a stock to me while taking a cab to collect my car when the taxi driver told me about the nos. of extras that passengers need to pay these days.. i mean fuck me.. higher starting amount, meter charges changed, 25% from 6am to 10-1030am, 25% again from 6pm.. and here we have so many taxi drivers complaining that its still not enough.. for fuck sake.. is the Goverment or the rental company supposed to fucking give you 5000 a month after deducting all expenses, free school, free meals, free lodging to driver and their extended family and also provide you with at least an around the world trip every year end? wtf
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Actually erp whatever amount im also willing to pay.
It all depends on the amount of good connecting trips i get inside cbd if i were to decide to pay and go in
For example i get an advance booking inside cbd abd the next destination is also in cbd..
So why not pay? Its all depends on situation for me.
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Originally posted by Saltiga:
Goverment took back? but just imagine other trades where they don't get any extras but yet still having to pay back to Goverment.. it was a stock to me while taking a cab to collect my car when the taxi driver told me about the nos. of extras that passengers need to pay these days.. i mean fuck me.. higher starting amount, meter charges changed, 25% from 6am to 10-1030am, 25% again from 6pm.. and here we have so many taxi drivers complaining that its still not enough.. for fuck sake.. is the Goverment or the rental company supposed to fucking give you 5000 a month after deducting all expenses, free school, free meals, free lodging to driver and their extended family and also provide you with at least an around the world trip every year end? wtf
Before I became a taxi driver, I used to think like you. Now I understand the hardship taxi drivers face just to make ends meet. If you really think taxi drivers are a rich, spoilt bunch of complain kings, why not leave your other trades and become a taxi driver and help improve the service.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Gentlemen,
You see the above, these are call Condom.
If you want to truly understand our govt, they are like the above, representing Ministers, MPs, and so on.
Condom in a way is good, they protect you, make you safe from having a child, make you clean and free from any illness.
Our govt also the same, they said to have protected you, make you safe here make you clean and free from many kind of illnesses, but end up, they still screw you.
Knn.....LHL see this will ask you which 1 is his......
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Originally posted by PS2U:
Before I became a taxi driver, I used to think like you. Now I understand the hardship taxi drivers face just to make ends meet. If you really think taxi drivers are a rich, spoilt bunch of complain kings, why not leave your other trades and become a taxi driver and help improve the service.
i didn't said that taxi drivers are rich and neither did i mentioned they're spoilt but complain king yes and most excel on it, i'm not keen to be a taxi driver at all so your suggestion can't be accepted, what i'm saying and still standing by it is that any trade has got its own set of hardships and not just the taxi driver
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Originally posted by Saltiga:
i didn't said that taxi drivers are rich and neither did i mentioned they're spoilt but complain king yes and most excel on it, i'm not keen to be a taxi driver at all so your suggestion can't be accepted, what i'm saying and still standing by it is that any trade has got its own set of hardships and not just the taxi driver
I agree, every trade got its own set of hardships. Maybe your trade is not listed in sgforums. So why not go in and create a forum for your trade and complain there if you want. If you do not like to complain! fine.
This is Taxi Driver forum. A place where taxi drivers come in to discuss or complain as you like to call it, about their problems.
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Originally posted by Bingjames:
From the respones I gather here, the $3 CBD surcharge is just to compensate or reimbursed TD in a limited way after deducting all the ERP charges from them which can ended up usually more than that.
For the earlier part (5 to 8pm), this surcharge may ot be even enough to over the cost of the ERP and drivers still have to endure high traffic and long queue and what takes only 3 mins to get to in other time slot, might takes up to even 5 times to get to the pax.
With this, is it still worth it to enter the CBD zone at this time or as Poolman says, he can easily get the total net worth of his meter reading just queueing at LOT1 cos no ERP deductions.
That's the purpose of my thread cos if this is so, the $3 surcharge the government is "giving" us doesn't work to bring taxi in at that time when it's most needed.
On the other hand, after 8pm, more Taxi are available as no ERP charges by that time and the TD can get the maximum value of that "reward" for coming in. This make it worth the while for coming in.
The current scheme only serve to re-imburse TD, not fully, for the lost, I am thinking a incentive might works better.
Because of my more relax working habit, I used to enter the CBD around 7.30 or 8 but lately because of "money no enough" I start work a little bit earlier and instead of getting motivated by "early bird catches the worms" or higher earning, I really get pissed off by so much ERP charges which in the end, ended up LP-PL.
Now I just ply on the outskirt or wait to find pax to pay for my ERP charges.
Bingjames , u weren't in the trade yet to realized the importance of that 8pm to 12mn cbd surcharge .
Just make it simple ...... what will happened if now , cbd do not have $3 surcharge ?
The cbd will be like a town with zombies for taxis after 8pm .
The 8pm city surcharge was implemented to encourgae drivers to serve those people inside the cbd .
Back in the early 2000 , til 2008 , there weren't any $3 , the demand for taxi was so big ... call also no taxi one.
Complaints after complaints ..... we cdg drivers just want call only , no call no take one .
Others ? No perks , they dun come in one
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Originally posted by bowah:
Gentlemen,You see the above, these are call Condom.
If you want to truly understand our govt, they are like the above, representing Ministers, MPs, and so on.
Condom in a way is good, they protect you, make you safe from having a child, make you clean and free from any illness.
Our govt also the same, they said to have protected you, make you safe here make you clean and free from many kind of illnesses, but end up, they still screw you.
haha well said bro~~~~
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Originally posted by Saltiga:
ya should charge 1000 so that can compensate all taxi drivers for their time wasted during their complain session
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i think i am one of the newest drivers here and the least qualified to offer any insights onto the TS's point.
Its true that TS point does act as a "not so desirable" incentive to go in to the CBD for booking calls. I have been analysing the points:
You have to go through many gantries that may amount to more than $3 - I thought for the booking to come in, you should be in the vicinity and likely that you have already passed some if not all the gantries (either via touring around or via previous passenger drop offs?).
Besides, assuming you paid $3 to go in, in the end you get $3 CBD surcharge + $3.30 booking + Meter Fare, isnt that a good deal? even if you breakeven and dont earn any CBD surcharge and get $2.30 as booking fee (loss of $0.70) for a ready passenger just on the next few streets, is not so bad at all also right? or would you rather drive around with uncertainty and loss diesel and time?
seriously, if it was me, i wont mind just driving nearby to pick up and loss/gain abit of $ rather than tour around and waste time and diesel and maybe end up even no passenger for the next 20 min. Of course ideally is our previous passenger brings us in the ERP and bears all the charges and we soon soon take a booking nearby and hit jackpot but it doesnt happen this way all the time.
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the stupid Govt introduce these ERP has become a laughing stock for other countries!who in their right mind think of such useless method?
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But then, as a casket cum taxis driver, i get laughed by many, more than the govt.
So, am I consider a super laughing stock
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
the stupid Govt introduce these ERP has become a laughing stock for other countries!who in their right mind think of such useless method?
the laughing stock is not the gov, it's the people called Singaporean.
Singaporean allow such to be implemented
Singaporean follow such implementation
Singaporean appreciated such
Not all Singaporean, but at least 60.1%
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Originally posted by Saltiga:
i didn't said that taxi drivers are rich and neither did i mentioned they're spoilt but complain king yes and most excel on it, i'm not keen to be a taxi driver at all so your suggestion can't be accepted, what i'm saying and still standing by it is that any trade has got its own set of hardships and not just the taxi driver
Stupid fucker who got 10 workers is back.
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Last sun met one merc driver in T2 He feedbacked now 3.90 starting fare is not as good as his $2.20 starting fare His income better those days according to him.....non-stop bing bing biang biang up down up down paxs
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TD to TD is mostly OBK
TD to media is alway Huat big big
TD to outsider is alway ho tan
Now you believe on which one? I alway believe the one doing the same trade as me.
Limo Merc already declare in newspaper, per month $4k net plus plus normal, ...normal only.
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Originally posted by bowah:
TD to TD is mostly OBK
TD to media is alway Huat big big
TD to outsider is alway ho tan
Now you believe on which one? I alway believe the one doing the same trade as me.
Limo Merc already declare in newspaper, per month $4k net plus plus normal, ...normal only.
This merc driver I met during queue and we TCCS He told me he is a CDG banned Limo driver still driving a white cdg merc basicaly now he sweeps just like me (sonata) -
Originally posted by bowah:
TD to TD is mostly OBK
TD to media is alway Huat big big
TD to outsider is alway ho tan
Now you believe on which one? I alway believe the one doing the same trade as me.
Limo Merc already declare in newspaper, per month $4k net plus plus normal, ...normal only.
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bo 4K Liao hor..
gotto minus 1.2k recents new merc aka rantal $159..
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Originally posted by decent02:
This merc driver I met during queue and we TCCS He told me he is a CDG banned Limo driver still driving a white cdg merc basicaly now he sweeps just like me (sonata)u not meeting me hor?
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Originally posted by Red5xx:
u not meeting me hor?
You red chilli leh....not CDG lah....
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Originally posted by decent02:
Last sun met one merc driver in T2
He feedbacked now 3.90 starting fare is not as good as his $2.20 starting fare
His income better those days
according to him…..non-stop bing bing biang biang up down up down paxs
$2.20 hor tan? Lol....You should kopi with my neighbour....He will tell you last time $1.20 jump $0.10 more ho tan....Cos rental + diesel only $40++ nia....nett income $100++ daily when he buy his ang mo chu for only $100K++ nia....Lol
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wan to go in find pax pay ERP dun complain...............
dun wan to pay ERP outside cannot find pax also dun complain....................
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then if all do not want, go AP long Q, also dun complain, go town, do shopping centre shuttle run, also dun complain...
...eh...actually, most uncles never want to complain, just liam liam here and there only