Aiyah, these kind of things are not uncommon on the road. I
noticed you like to highlight misdeeds by CDG drivers, but let me
also share that over the past month, I too have been 'victimised'
by SMRT and Transcab.
In the SMRT epica case, both of us waiting at the traffic light
at a junction (red). A pax was waiting barely 20 m ahead of the
lights. I on extreme left, in fact I arrived at the lights 1st and
the pax flagged. Then came the Epica, lights turn green guess what,
the epica speeded up and cut into my lane just to pick the pax.
Transcab even worse cut across 4 lanes to pick a pax.
So these things happen, it has Noting to do with the company a
driver drives but the attitude and his conduct. These type of
drivers could easily do the same thing in whatever cab they
drive.
Obviously we will see more CDG cases simply because they have
the largest fleet. But these kind of behaviour can be seen across
all companies, in fact even among private cars. Bad drivers are bad
drivers ful stop, doesn't matter what vehicle they drive or
company.
Heck even Skoda I have seen because of th enormous turbo power.
Just because you and I don't do this doesn't mean, everyone will be
like that.
But on a personal note, I think we shouldnt be the ones
highlighting all the mistakes these monkeys do, eventually they
will get caught and pay the price, like a Malay saying goes ' No
matter how well the squirrel jumps eventually it will fall to the
ground'. Unless they affect you personally enough and persist in
the agressive behaviour like your Sonata video, then make a
complaint or highlight.
If just routine mistakes that even we are guilty of, let it fly.
We shouldn't be doing TP's job, ours is already hard as it is.
Rather we should empatises as much as possible with our fellow
cabbies irrespective of the car or company they drive for.
They wear slipper, smoke in cab, wrong attire, beat traffic
rules, let all this slide unless you are the recipient/victim of
these tactics and feel angry enough about it. But if it's a small
matter and doesn't really bother you, let it slide.
Let the stompers or whoever elsewhere do this. We side with our
fellow cabbies as far as possible.
