All taxi companies except Prime had raised their taxi fares by
1st week of 2012.
every 1 is saying the economy in 2012 wil b very bad. Europe n
USA wil tk more time 2 recover. Many ple wil b
retrench in Spore….........
with the new fare increase, some Sporeans MAY THINK
tat TDs can earn more n therefore more wil surely join the
trade…....
n many more may have no choice n drive taxi temporary b4 they
can find a job…....... dun forget, abt 200,000 Sporeans aged 30
above had a taxi vocational licences…..... even my friends who had
nice high paying jobs n stay in condos have standby their licences
jus in case they lose their jobs…..............
dun u all feel tat nowadays, u all can see more women TDs on the
roads…..... some of them r only in their early 30s n pretty
somemore….......
looking at some of the lousy behaviours of TDs on the roads, i
strongly believed tat they r super reliefs or new chaps who jus wan
2 earn as much as they can, they dun care abt traffic rules or
cutting other taxis queue etc etc….........
hmmmmm…..... wil 2012 b a better year for us TDs
?
As BCL said, there will be cowboys and mickey mouses, if got
Minnie mouse, better.
If the young do not enter this industry, foreigner will come in,
most of you are taxi driver since young, how do the old people of
that time think, same, but yesterday young are today oldies, and
the new wave of young ones coming, be it relief or hirer, like it
or not, we should be blessed that this trade still can attract true
blue Singaporean.
Taxi fares adjustment or changes is the right phrase to use
instead of saying taxi fares rises, as I explained before, for the
past 4 years since the last adjustment, TDs have no increase in
their income base on a average day hard work, but peoples working
are having annual increment, variable payout bonuses and promotion,
so, I hope that TDs, just like me, when asked upon by pax on fares
increases, either you keep quiet or tell them it is fares
adjustment so as to reflect the real market worthy of a TD and at
the same time, to align the timing, places and condition of paxs
and taxis frequency in a more management way. We had been short
changed from the past 3 years, out of 28000 TDs, I bet that if you
are the sole breadwinner of 4 as a TDs, you cannot even make a
family tour to NZ, not to mention buying a condo after driving for
10 to 15years. For some, daily intake is already not enough. So,
brothers and sisters, do not be overly whelmed by the changes in
fares, it is just to make us able to breathe above the water for a
while. If you look at last quarter singapore inflation 5.7%, you
can imagine what 2012 will be like. formerly, inflation is only 1
to 1.5%.
Young ones can never mix up with older ones, in TD, older ones
is also TD, not some GM or become MD, what the young does and act,
it is entirely different, same goes to the corporate world.
Anything that renew or changes attract new blood, then it start to
subside into norm after about few months to a year, after 2 years,
you see those got stuck drive on, those lucky ones who can find a
better jobs, throw keys and moved out, the situation will come into
a straight line graph, when the 3rd year arrive, it is more or less
standardised, people still throw keys, and the Q for newer cab get
shorter and shorter, rental become higher and higher, and by the
4th year, some may not tarhan anymore, and the Q get even shorter,
then finally, announce fares adjustment again. It cyclical,
for TD is the same, only the fleet get newer and newer with higher
rental, and the same old cut Q, cut lane, pax complain this and
that will be the same old stories day in and day out. By middle of
next years, nobody will give a fark about these changes
