Prime Taxi like to take the lead to standardise 。。。。。

Ct2220 SG

Prime Taxi like to take the lead to standardise the Flag down price.

百胜德士要带头，划一起程车资

本地规模最小的德士公司百胜德士要做“领头羊”，准备率先简化德士起程车资，把现有多达5种不同的收费率划一为3元6角。

百胜（Prime）德士公司老板梁南兴告诉《联合早报》，该公司正征询旗下德士司机的意见，只要有八成的司机同意划一起程车资，百胜将“立即”着手进行。

百胜德士目前共经营900多辆德士，虽然它的车队是所有业者中最小的，但车款种类却是最多的，约有20种。

百胜准备把普通德士和MPV德士的5种起程车资全部划一为3元6角，豪华德士的起程车资则维持不变。

目前，本地德士有多达10种起程车资，介于3元2角至5元，令人眼花缭乱。

其他较小的业者包括得运（Transcab）德士，老板张建安说：“德士收费要看拥车证走势，也要看车款。我们规模太小，起不了作用。”

消协：值得嘉许

新加坡消费者协会理事长谢成春受访时说：“百胜准备带头简化起程车资，减少德士收费率混乱的情况，值得嘉许。其他业者也应效仿，如果每家公司各自划一起程车资，至少市场上不会有如此多种收费，减少对消费者的混乱。”

不过他也呼吁百胜考虑调整起程车资对公众的影响，“既然百胜车队以3元4角的起程车资居多，公司应考虑把划一的收费率定在3元4角，这对消费者较公平”。

Ct2220 SG

Halo ! Halo ! Ah Wah WTF you are doing !

CDG is the 龙头老大，Why not CDG ????

bowah SG

Aiyo, Bro Ah CT, you long long already know that our taxi system already liberalised, cdg is not going to be stupid and lead, let others lead, then hide behind and see what happen, let me tell you one of CDG objective

To be the most affordable taxi fares in Singapore so as to cater to all peoples in Singapore and stay competitative.

Ct2220 SG

To be the most affordable taxi fares in Singapore so as to cater to all peoples in Singapore and stay competitative.

REALITY OF THINGS

The taxi companies work in tandem, led by ComfortDelgro- as can be seen in today's report (above). It would be pertinent to note that taxi companies DO NOT make a loss here and their profits increase continually, more or less. Profit is AFTER deduction of operating costs, so that means that compared to previous years, the taxi companies were able to make more money than ever even though their operational costs went up.

Even though the taxi industry is not regulated by the Public Transport Council (PTC), one taxi company is big enough to dictate the pattern for the rest. Essentially this means the industry is controlled by a single entity (sound familiar?) and pretty much able to raise prices as and when it wants.。。。。。。

Ct2220 SG

bowah SG

Please accept that Taxi industrial had liberated, like it or not, be it govt strategy of pushing responsible to operators by privatisation, it is an open market economy.

Each and every Taxi companies hv to right to adjust their fares as long as it justify their cost of operation and the public at large. It is not necessary to be someone taking the lead, although an oligarchy system is at play.

Fares adjustment, be it meter running or flag down fare must be make public and known to all, that is what LTA required.

Cdg which is build from a co operative under NTUC, a labour Union, must also need to be remind of their initial mission, and that is to make taxi fare affordable to residents living in Singapore rather than inflating it without any sustainable reason.

As the largest fleet here, cdg is alway being benchmarked, that is usual, just like NTUC fairprice, you benchmark them to compare with seng siong and giant and other local shops. But they are not the price taker, cdg, like fairprice, is only a price’fare guiding mechanism so that others do not exhibit large increment from the norm

Ct2220 SG

Please accept that Taxi industrial had liberated, like it or not, be it govt strategy of pushing responsible to operators by privatisation, it is an open market economy.

。。。。。。Taxi industrial had liberated, like it or not。。。。。。。。。。。

Yes, But what's the result of this liberation :

A) Close to 10 different flagdown fares

B) 3 different metered fare structures

C) More than 10 different types of surcharges.

Reliefdriver4u SG

where got standardize ?

Prime got surcharge at TMFT whereas all other companies dun have

bowah SG

It can be confusing, but let be fair, a pte company doing its business base on bottom line result, if consumer felt that they are overcharged, then they can alway avoid any goods, products or services provided by that particular company.

It just like you eat a bowl of wanton mee, here sell $3, there 3.50, there 4.00, some still 2.50, some already up to $5, and you as a consumer, judge it for yourselves the services, the taste, the portion and decide on evading which stalls and patronising which stall. But bear in mind that those stall selling at different prices are not going to adjust their prices to a standard just because you kpkb.

A consumer, ie the pax in taxi industrial, must read for him or herself and decide on it, it is all stated in nets, taxi stands, window panel of each taxis or for that matter, you can even question/ask the taxi driver. The matter is that these paxs do not wish to read, learn and understand the fare structure but only know how to complaint and complaint, so that is a totally different matter, and you then cannot blame that the fares and surcharges are confusing if you do not or not willing to read up