What has our NTA done for us taxi drivers besides collecting
money for nothing.
In the last few days I have been to 4 of the taxi companies. I
think in order to pressure the taxi companies to lower rental we
have to either sacrifice the weakest link. Here are the so call
promotions from each of the companies. I will start wt the worst
offer.
Premier. Their Optima K5 is offered at $120 per day. Incentive
is $300 discount per month. Isn't it the same as before when they
offer $119 per day and $10 fuel discount per day. LPPL. Deposit is
$1.5K. Relief allowed. Offer rent is for 6 months only.
Transcab. They have offer for Wish, Epica and Renault. According
to newspapers it claims that the Renault is $88 per day but on
Transcab sign up document it is $101. Deposit is $1.5k.
Incentive is $90 per month. Rental price has no expiry.
SMRT. The Prius is 2 weeks free rental and 5.5 months at $59 per
day. No relief driver allowed. Deposit is $1.5k.
Comfortdelgro. They offer 50% off standard rental rates
for 1st 3 months and 40% off for next 3 months. Deposit is $488.
Early termination is only $300.
So let's do a calculation for 6 months rental.
Premier K5 $120 x 30 day x 6 mths -$1800 incentives =
$19,800
Transcab Renault $101 x 30 day x 6 mths - $540 incentives =
$17,640
SMRT Prius $59 × 30 days x 5.5 mths = $9,375
CDG i40 $65×30 days x 3 mths + $75 × 30 days x 3 mths =
$12,600
So just by jumping to another company u potentially save $10,000
for the duration of 6 months. At the end of 6 months u can always
jump to another company and continue saving. There are 5 taxi
companies so u can keep jumping for 2.5 yrs. Best is to select the
smallest company with lousy rental price to jump to other company,
this will surely pressure them to drop price. This is time to unite
and fight back.
Cdg scheme allow relief? Is there rebate on down time?