Started at 7am this morning.
There was a lot of booking call and advance booking but rejected
all. Not confidence of route yet. Turn MDT to Busy.Got a lot of you
know what make advance booking.
3mins into start, I pick up my first pax. Told pax it is my
first day and if she could guide me with the best route to her
destination. She say ok.
She kept hurrying me to go faster but I did not. There is only
so much a person can do in morning traffic. She was grumbling a
lot.
Ahhhh..halfway thru, I realised I forget to turn on the Taxi
Meter...shit. Immediately turn it on.
I missed a turn near her destination..end up giving her a
discount on top of what I have lost out earlier......a 2 digit fare
to single digit :(
She say I will not last long as a taxi driver :( she say taxi
driver must drive fast and I keep giving way to people is not going
to cut it.
Find that Sonata has a lot of blind spot.....
Thing I will do feeder services in, estate by estate to learn
the neighbourhood first...
From the rate I am going..I doubt can hit my rental and diesel
cost.
without going far into your post, best is ask pax to guide u if
you are unsure of the route
try to have a list of checklist in your mind each time u move
off after picking a pax, door closed, meter on, then move off
safely.
drive pax to destination
reached, stop safely, stop meter, prepare for payment and return
right change
earlier first one week or two may end up with giving pax
discounts, but some pax are nice enough if they know u are new and
will not take your discounts, of course, there are always nasty and
stingy pax
