whenever the paliament looking into Taxi issue...... nothing
good will come out from them except good reason to make us PAY
MORE.
Blame all the Taxi company, punish them, fine them....etc. When
the company running cost increase due to it, Taxi company will
recover it from the Driver.
Usually, the blame will somehow divert to us Taxi Driver, from
the goverment, from the media and then from the public. So, no one
will shown any sympathetic over our increase in cost. Always, it is
so successful that we Taxi Driver even feel we deserve it.
About Booking
There is obviously a flaw in the booking system. It seem that we
have a "state of the art" booking system, but......
1) Despatching of Job - to the nearest Taxi base on Radius
of location. What a lazy programming job done here, properly that
the best the so called foreign talent can do. My GPS brought 4
years ago, can do calculation on distance and est timing base
on the actually route. It just shown how lazy our booking programme
is written, and worst is, it is still using and non of our "Talent"
notice the incompetent of this Lazy Programming.
2) Advance Job Booking - Again, it is despatch to the nearest
Taxi. Who the hell want such booking, for a 30 minutes and more
waiting with merely that $8 extra? Maybe there is, but still the
minority. So, the system can only serve the minority, how
successful can it be?
3) No Show - This area had been seriously abuse by commuter.
Commuter are not made to show their commitment, that discourage
Taxi Driver to take up their booking and affect those who are
genuine.
4) Booking Fees - For $2.30, it only worth 3 mins of my time,
For $3.30, it only worth 5 mins of my time. What are the chances i
will accept a booking, esp. when there are good connection
around.
Overall, the Taxi Booking system do not serve us well enough.
When the business operator are not interested, keep pushing for
higher demand are resulting in more unhappiness to the general
public.
