Newbird have 3 questions for experts
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1st question, can put sign in front say CITY but top is green light for hire? i see before
2nd question, if queuing MBS after midnight, then after the last traffic light turning left into the small lane, the car facing the casino exit glass doors, pax walk over ask for directions or recommendations for places to go, then after explaining, he believe you and want you to take him there and want to board your car, can or not? the official taxi stand is still about 50m in front.
3rd question,same after midnight, passenger drop right in front of Orchard Towers Orchard KTV, you press vacant, and then when you keeping the change, someone come and board your taxi, can or not. behind you outside long taxi queue for the main taxi stand.
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1) Can. Just don't get caught.
2) Can. Just don't get caught. This case sure get caught because lots of Taxi Uncles will horn loudly.
3) Can. Just don't get caught. This case sure get caught because lots of Taxi Uncles will horn loudly.
All I can say is you are a very daring Newbird! Take care of your bird as it won't last long with your attitude.
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Originally posted by O771303:
1st question, can put sign in front say CITY but top is green light for hire? i see before
Solid la bro ... so u are the one ???
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Originally posted by O771303:
2nd question, if queuing MBS after midnight, then after the last traffic light turning left into the small lane, the car facing the casino exit glass doors, pax walk over ask for directions or recommendations for places to go, then after explaining, he believe you and want you to take him there and want to board your car, can or not? the official taxi stand is still about 50m in front.
Anyway , interview say interview hahahahaha .
Woodlands leh ? Throw them back to the front ? hahahahah
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Originally posted by O771303:
3rd question,same after midnight, passenger drop right in front of Orchard Towers Orchard KTV, you press vacant, and then when you keeping the change, someone come and board your taxi, can or not. behind you outside long taxi queue for the main taxi stand.
For me , i will point to the taxi stand .
Cos i not so yao .....
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Just ask yourself : " if others do that infront of me , i song meh ?"
Of course buay song la , so why do ?
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1st the CITY sign not me, but some Crown i think
2nd really the pax ownself walk over ask to lower windows and lean inside to talk, talk until happy, then open door board in. driver fault? not interview.
3rd same thing, the pax ownself board in before car drive away. then pax gesture driver to drive off to destination.
i dont understand, please explain driver fault
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Pool, you are contradicting yourself between question 2 and 3. Correct answer is call police.
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Originally posted by O771303:
1st the CITY sign not me, but some Crown i think
2nd really the pax ownself walk over ask to lower windows and lean inside to talk, talk until happy, then open door board in. driver fault? not interview.
3rd same thing, the pax ownself board in before car drive away. then pax gesture driver to drive off to destination.
i dont understand, please explain driver fault
1st. No comment
2nd. No complaint, no problem. If TU behind horn, carry pax to TU taxi behind.
3rd. No complaint, no problem. If TU behind horn, carry pax to TU taxi behind.
TU = Taxi Uncle.
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simple lah brother .....
If taxi many Q-ing ...... let those who Q get the pax lah ...
There is no short cut to success .
U need rewards , u must Q , no short cuts .
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I for one do not entertain cut Q paxes .
They have to Q for taxis .
I for one also never entertain cutting taxi Q ..... cos i believe such trip buay gan one , tai ko one .
Good trips must find one , sky dropped one cannot make it one .
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My counterpart they Q for it , they deserved more than i do .
I don't deserve it .
Cos i am never a tai ko .
I also scared people got camera shot my antics infront of taxi stand and post on youtube .
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I also dun practise cut lane in and out , or three lanes across for paxes .
Unless that pax flagging a $100 notes infront of me , i will jam brake , hahahaha
If nothing , i just drive on .
Every pax press meter also $3.50 nia , so what ?
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Your thread name :
Newbird have 3 questions for experts
U dun need an expert to answer you that , any goondu cabby also can answer that .
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Originally posted by O771303:
1st question, can put sign in front say CITY but top is green light for hire? i see before
2nd question, if queuing MBS after midnight, then after the last traffic light turning left into the small lane, the car facing the casino exit glass doors, pax walk over ask for directions or recommendations for places to go, then after explaining, he believe you and want you to take him there and want to board your car, can or not? the official taxi stand is still about 50m in front.
3rd question,same after midnight, passenger drop right in front of Orchard Towers Orchard KTV, you press vacant, and then when you keeping the change, someone come and board your taxi, can or not. behind you outside long taxi queue for the main taxi stand.
Let's look at the official stance:
1) You cannot put any sign up if you have the electronic one on the roof. Only the roof must be activated to show busy/change shift.
You can put change anywhere provided you are changing shift there. If not you can't. You are only allowed to change shift if you're actually changing shift. If you're OMO, you are NEVER allowed to put change shift, because you have no relief - you can only put busy and return to base.
I'm not joking this told to me by LTA officer who investigated me for putting CS and then not doing so, instead continuing to drive and of course la, later after midnight back to normal.
A pax complained, but I somehow gave a reason for putting CS because I had to go to a certain place to do something. He then explained the rules. This offence carries a 2 wk suspension with $200 fine plus demerit points (cant remember how many).
I was fortunate because no further action was taken. However CDG damn bastard one, in the first place they never will give you advance notice that a complaint has been lodged against you, instead they will themselves cooperate fully with LTA - they will retrieve all the data and submit to LTA even before you're called up.
Ok never mind, drive for them must expect all this, then what happened some time later, I fuck care la, carry on as usual. Then out of the blue, 1 day when I put CS in around 7-8 pm, as usual the MDT will beep but I normally don't bother, suddenly the operator can call me and ask me whether I can take up the job which I just ignored? She put very nicely, sir you changing shift ar, but can fetch this pax or not from this place to this place (Ollan one la, what to expect from their calls, inside CBD expect you go outside to take call, me clark quay, pax at Robertson then go far away from city centre)?
1st of all it wasn't a busy day in CBD area, got many CDG cabs with green signs driving up and down, even beside me when I reject, why doesn't the system automatically go to the next one? Somemore where got operator actually call you to offer a booking job?
So I suspected that CDG even before LTA ask again if in future got complain, already began to monitor my daily activities to some degree. So this 1 was test case, see how I react.
After that I rarely put CS, instead do my own interview or second guess pax based on experience. So far so good, touch wood.
2) You are not allowed to pick up pax at the drop area of a taxi stand - I think this is obvious. However if a pax boards your cab and refuses to budge, then you have an excuse to perform the trip. But this you can only use once la, keep doing it nobody is gonna believe you.
However ethically as a TD, think about those who are lining up, wouldn't you be upset if this was to happen to you. To be really fair, if the pax insists on taking your cab, ask him to go out to the main road away from the stand and you drive there and pick him from there.
3) Orchard KTV is a side lane, not part of the taxi stand at OT (I think only 1 maybe 2 cabs can wait there (taxi stand), although the queue will have more than 10 at times, maybe more). So drop off there and pick up, is not wrong under LTA rules. You must pick up from the stand if it is within view, near and has pax waiting there. Here there no pax at the stand, only a queue of cabs exceeding the prescribed number. You can also say the stand is not within view depending on your position, thus even it's near, you can't see it.
Here you pick from a side road, not in bus lane, or near bus stop etc. No offence. Ethically also not wrong, you are waiting at a separate area from the queue, doesn't mean you wait there pax will take your cab anyway, plus how long can you wait there, eventually you'll be blocking traffic.
I dunno what some drivers may or may not think, in the past (90s) as long as you don't stop infront of a queue of waiting cabs wherever it may be(usually happens after midnight) and poach pax away from that queue, this one not salah. You wait opposite side, different angle as long not cutting into the queue, this is okay. But some like to park slightly further ahead, say 30-50m away, where pax can see both yours and the queue and some will then take you. This one not ethical lah - you a lot of this outside St James, instead of joining the queue at the carpark exit's right, they park slightly ahead to exit's left, pax coming out to the main road will see both and depending where they walking from, some will board the taxis ahead.
But if you drove into the carpark itself and waited isnide, this one not wrong, but beware of parking charges if you stay too long inside.
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Originally posted by O771303:
1st question, can put sign in front say CITY but top is green light for hire? i see before
2nd question, if queuing MBS after midnight, then after the last traffic light turning left into the small lane, the car facing the casino exit glass doors, pax walk over ask for directions or recommendations for places to go, then after explaining, he believe you and want you to take him there and want to board your car, can or not? the official taxi stand is still about 50m in front.
3rd question,same after midnight, passenger drop right in front of Orchard Towers Orchard KTV, you press vacant, and then when you keeping the change, someone come and board your taxi, can or not. behind you outside long taxi queue for the main taxi stand.
2nd question > If a lot of people waiting for taxi at taxi Q. tell he/she go Q up. Pax can choose which taxi he/she want to take but have to be his/her turn.
3rd question > Everybody does that. That's why whenever you turn in to Orchard Towers Man Entrance there's always two to three taxis waiting. Just pick and go if have. No, just move of don't block the way.
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for a while i thought bowah so early posted his usual theories . eh sekali see . . . joeraj leh . . . seldom see joeraj so long winded , hahahahahah
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1) cannot.do dont get caught.
2)you must advise him taxi stand is infront (best is use hand point ,wayang purposes),he should take a taxi from there but if he insist on taking your cab,you can take him.
3)can that small road is not the Queue for the taxi stand.if it is the taxi stand Q do as point number 2.
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After midnight before turn into mbs, 4 ang mo flag and boarded my cab.. Lucky taxi driver behind never horn... Before that saw another pax boarded another cab near same spot as me... How to reject... Take la!
Like wat my hirer say at night no law one... Just take pax lor...
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Originally posted by Poolman:
for a while i thought bowah so early posted his usual theories . eh sekali see . . . joeraj leh . . . seldom see joeraj so long winded , hahahahahah
nabei chief, that mean you said we both long long type..
but JR post is quite enlightening for newbies or those who still think OMO can put CS. -
Originally posted by Ohyaitsme:
After midnight before turn into mbs, 4 ang mo flag and boarded my cab.. Lucky taxi driver behind never horn... Before that saw another pax boarded another cab near same spot as me... How to reject... Take la!
Like wat my hirer say at night no law one... Just take pax lor...
Well brother, no offence, monkey see, monkey do is not going to help much, for me, that fare earned is not worth the call up. -
It has been ages i last pick paxes from Orchard Tower .
I have got a funny strategy , once hit 12mn , i will run away from town when others came charging in .
I cruise slowly back West side .
Or go makan ,,,,, or wash taxi ..... or go Geylang see new imports .
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Many old birds and new birds always think after 12mn , became lawless .
But LTA if want to nail you ....... it's in 24 hours basis .
My friend just got a summon ticket for parking at Cineleisure wait for pax at 11.40pm .
knn he kena until blur blur , no LTA , no attendant , no police , nothing .
I believe LTA in non-uniform ambush at one corner write down taxi numbers ..... sent one by one .
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Originally posted by Poolman:
It has been ages i last pick paxes from Orchard Tower .
I have got a funny strategy , once hit 12mn , i will run away from town when others came charging in .
I cruise slowly back West side .
Or go makan ,,,,, or wash taxi ..... or go Geylang see new imports .
NBzzz go see imports bo jio
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see imports must go Lone Ranger one .....
If swee , on .... ON THE SPOT deal .