What if taxi companies decides to take back half of their

last SG · 2013-10-24T11:53:38+00:00

I attend? even send limos to take me, I also reject, attend his birthday for fark? waste my time on the road driving taxis, limpeh one day $30 net only hor.I...

hammerhammer8888 SG

KNN lah employ foreigner they know the road well or not? Service level comfirm drop lah. Imaging half of the taxi people take merry go round. You say they will kpkb bo? Lol

DriverDriver SG

if FT are employed by timing or travelling distance, then if take 1 pax merry go round whole singapore, they also can punch clock knock off ma..who cares if meter more or less, none of their business

if they are employed by number of pax or by meter, lesser than XXpax per day or $XXX meter means less pay, then you will see a lot of FT fight Local TD for pax, cut queues racing every pattern also have

so how to judge?

fifufu SG

Try before leow mah..a few yrs back.....I also took a taxi the driver is hired by the coy huan..he say no good...he want to go back to driving for himself.

Tcsaaa SG

i will want to drive for company.. at least i can eat on time, find a proper toilet n go back on time..

foolsh_2000 SG

yah,they have a scheme for fixed salary,only for locals.pay 1500,who wants

Diablo9898 SG

Most pax do not have very high expectations of TD service level:

1. Just bring from Point A to Point B safely. Go shortest route unless pax prefer another route.

2. Just drive. If pax want to talk, then TD can chat. Otherwise, keep quiet and just drive.

3. If make mistake and pax not happy, just apologise and drive on.

4. If pax guai lan, just keep quiet and drive on. Lun 20 mins nia.

So difficult to achieve meh? Then must bring in FT to improve service level?

Knn, some TDs must chut all kinds of pattern, scold pax, point finger, shout, fight. For what?

But, one thing I dun understand is. When cannot get cab or wait long long at taxi queue, why complain and blame TDs? Lazy lah, choosy lah blah blah...

When go see doctor in polyclinic, wait 1 hour, why neber complain?

When go ICA collect passport, wait 2 hours, why neber complain?

When go Malaysia,kena stuck at causeway for 3 hours, why neber complain?

When go and see MP at the MPS, wait 4 hours, why neber complain? Sometimes get to see MP kah kia oni.

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"Knn, some TDs must chut all kinds of pattern, scold pax, point finger, shout, fight. For what?"

Unquote.

This is what I'm waiting for. Some TDs really spoilt the image for the rest of those hardworking,honest type of Tds. then again, ppl might say just a small portion only.

But, just how this small portion can affect the rest of the Tds? All of us have the ans liao.

Diablo9898 SG

During YOG last time, we can say we are consider "employed" staff to met YOG transport requirement.....

Than for a short period of time, you already can see many pattern from different TD....

I still can remember, 1st day of reporting, already got 1 TD tio pok, reason, using YOG vehicle to pick up his own customers.....

Than we also can see, keng TD, jiak snake TD, hardworking TD, siao on TD (like me).....

Everybody was paid equally for the whole duration of YOG.....

So if coy next time want to start with employment of TD, I can be their CON-sultants.....

To CON them, sibo?

Diablo9898 SG

i pick one lady pax. she said Singaporean Men only good for 3 things..

One. Drive Taxi

Two. Join Hawker Training Programme

Three. Become Unemployed Statistics

.....

And did you reply her?

Diablo9898 SG

KNN lah employ foreigner they know the road well or not? Service level comfirm drop lah. Imaging half of the taxi people take merry go round. You say they will kpkb bo? Lol

How abt only for locals only?

Diablo9898 SG

if FT are employed by timing or travelling distance, then if take 1 pax merry go round whole singapore, they also can punch clock knock off ma..who cares if meter more or less, none of their business

so how to judge?

How abt for locals only?

I can really see that quite a lot are not against this idea.

Only thing is how to have a enticing pay package for the full time driver.

getcarter SG

Never underestimate the foreigners,they learn things very fast one

Ang-teck-si SG

Maybe, just maybe..

Since most of the older taxis are fully paid, they can take back half of the old taxis and employ driver based on incentives or commission based salary..with a minimum sum of basic salary say $500 to $600

But drivers need to hit a certain amount say example S$30 and the rest shall be 50/50 among the driver and company.. just an example only..

SMRT tried this in 2006 with their Nissan Cedrics.......Failed. The drivers who took up were the newbies , who after a very short time realised they were better off renting daily

hammerhammer8888 SG

Then later SMRT do this for their Azera. Nearly got con into it because I took my TDVL with them. Tell me no need deposit just take and drive. But pay own fuel. Takings deposit to them and need to download meter weekly or something like that. KNN siao ah, need to tong the fuel for them takings cannot take must bang in to their account. LOL

wsy1234 SG

how much is the commission? if any . earn a fix salary of $1500 the last time i know. but must take in at least $3000. I thought fuel SMRT can claim back?

bowah SG

The option here must be very clear, going into monthly salaried with a structured benefits as per all other jobs is not mend for Singaporeans.

As you all had put it that it cannot work for locals Singaporean, tried and failed, what is the option left?

Bus driver was once singaporean and malaysian trade, today, ah neh and ah tiong are all there, and we all laughed when they drive wrong road, drive into lampost, drive into drain, drive into expressway...but they still drive on, why? because there are 10 of billlions of young foreigners waiting outside with a very hungry stomach that will take anything without a blink of an eye as long as they can come and earn Sing dollars and stay in Singapore. So, end up who have the last laugh?

So, we are not going to talk about local TD get employed by taxi companies, same like buses, when they talk about employment, it is about foreigners, where to put them, how to treat them, how to tame them, all those technical and know how, know where to go can learn later. With a hungry stomach, what is there to lose to learn, get scolded, commented is perfect as long as in the end, they got a job.

And today, the truth is Taxi driving is the only trade left that need to be citizen, not even PR. Now, how long can this statement stand with a diminishing and aging Singapore taxi drivers?? think about it along this line.

Keepthechange666 SG

After employ, if taxi coy keep thinking that TD will eat snake or keng and start to implement rules to make you drive, than it will defy all the purpose.....

They got GPS tracking system mah, when this area piang, just keep assigning those TD to go and sweep lor.....

Than if no piang, close 1 eye lor.....

The main concern is to solve taxi woes mah, not to penalize on TD mah.....

With a good working environment, employ TD will work harder for you lor.....

Samsun SG

Companies can employ FTs. For call booking jobs lor. And the charges will be higher.

If no bookings, the FTs can lepak lor.....

getcarter SG

Maybe they test water with PRs 1st bcoz nowadays smji thing also must add PRs together

Diablo9898 SG

The option here must be very clear, going into monthly salaried with a structured benefits as per all other jobs is not mend for Singaporeans.

As you all had put it that it cannot work for locals Singaporean, tried and failed, what is the option left?

Well said.. It's not impossible for them to open up for PRS or FTs in this trade.

Min requirement for TDs is to have O level and a clean and valid lic. Now, can I say that if they are hardworking, TDs should have a reasonable amount of earnings for a O level education.

What TDs can do is how to protect and make it impossible for them to consider having to get PRs and FTs to get into this "protected" trade meant for citizens. Bearing in mind not only for us but future generations...

Understand that some may say Tds is not a respectable jobs lah.. I don't want my next generation to becum a TD lah an so on. But still, it's the only trade meant for citizens leh. How many graudates out there can't get jobs because of FTs???

Respect is to be earned not given. Just that some "bad apples" spoilt the market and gave TDs bad image. Of course, there are also bad paxs ard lah.

Then the key questions is how many of these "bad apples" think in this manner and help to protect the only trade meant for citizens?

bowah SG

We are the actually the last frontier of Locals having a rules that said, only for citizens.

We might hate and comment about govt, LTA and so on, but which country citizens dun hate and comment about their govt..so to be fair,

let us take a good look at our advantages, we hold our rice bowl, we ply the road and earn our living, we earn our honest living in a way of sending people from pts A to B and C, providing services with a honest mindset,

of course we can get cheapo pax, run fare pax, troublesome pax, but that is part n parcel of it, in any trades, there are sure to have disadvantages, so let us weight the balance and see for ourselves, are we better off as a Singapore Taxi driver than many other countries, than other jobs, than a job that take command from 10 places up the hierrachy who do not even know your existence not to say firing you or retrenching you as a number and not a human

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