Very true, we taxi driver not hungry enough very choosy, selfish
etc.
But dont forget we also got take taxi. We also got experience
all 'these problem', but I dont wait until 11.30pm to take taxi
back to CCK or Woodlands, outside the CBD, send 3 or 4 my friend
home and then pay by card.
At least i got the courtesy to go home earlier or after
midnight, I am not stupid to be waiting at the end of a 1 way
street just meters fromt he CBD zone so to save money. If I want to
save money then I take a train or bus home.
I am not an idiot to wait 30 mins or more for a cab and then
grumble, write to press, blog or stomp. I wait 15-20 min, no cab,
take a bus somewhere further get down and take a cab where it's
easier.
Very easy to criticise until you go drive yourself or ask your
family member who drive. See if it's fun to always get passenger
who book a cab, somemore outside CBD then hop on the 1st 1 they see
and not cancel, make you wait like a fool. See if it's fun to get 3
or 4 pax who wait until 11.25pm to catch a cab and then say
uncle we go hougang, sengkang 2 place and finally punggol, then
reach at 11.50pm, they say can pay by Nets!
Yes, 1 time 2 time, 3, 4, 5, 6 time you do this it's ok but
becomes an everyday event, and you drive back all the way empty to
town and reach at 12.30 am on a weekday, town got no more pax, you
drive and drive maybe lucky get 1 midnight pax. Everyday, you do,
see fun or not, see easy or not.
You see very easy or not when you need to roll your daily
expenses, pay for your kids, wife and yourself, pay diesel and
rent, all by cash but end of the shift, you only end up with $10 or
$20 in hand, the rest you wait for 3 day to collect.
On top of that pax eat in your cab, leave droppings for you to
clean or for cockroaches to come, pax drunk go and vomit, argue the
slightest when they never say which way to go, cough in your cab
burp in your cab or fart in your cab, all these we must
tolerate.
You want to take a cab, use some common sense. Dont wait at the
end of a 1 way street or simply 1 way streets are the worse place
to hail a cab in evenings. You just outside the CBD, call a cab,
state your destination, surely got some driver who wants to go
there, dont make it like a lottery never state your location, taxi
driver will also play lottery and not take the risk. You go
shopping got a lot of stuff, call for advance booking and wait for
your cab, not hop on the 1st available one.
If raining, just too bad, we also drive in the rain and get
stuck in jams, we complain to who? You got money in the bank, atms
are everywhere now, you too lazy to go and withdraw, why must we
suffer? Tell the companies to give better compensation for card
payment, surely got more drivers willing to take.
You say HK and Bangkok taxi very good, yes but do they pay by
nets, credit card for journeys less than $10? You go there, you get
inside in the cab you shut up and let the driver send you, here you
act like king and treat the drivers like low class servants, you
expect drivers to reciprocate with a smile on their face?
Lots of steam-venting here. I need to let off some too!
1. It's not courteous to hop on another cab after booking one
without cancelling the booking. Neither it is for them to dirty the
cab without cleaning up after themselves. That, I agree.
2. The midnight surcharge should set in mid-trip once it's 0000
hours even if the passenger boards before midnight. If this is not
the case, cab drivers should be suggesting this to the management
and not blame the passengers for not "choosing the right time to go
home" (which sounds ridiculous, by the way).
3. I don't see why shouldn't a group of passengers share a cab.
More so if cabs are not readily available for service. I'm not here
to tell you to be more green, but really, getting them to split up
and take separate cabs is just wasting more fuel to achieve the
same objective.
4. There are various reasons why someone would happen not to
have sufficient cash with them. If a cab driver is unhappy with
NETS payments whether it's because of the processing fees, or the
processing time before he sees the money in his account, he can
either:
a. Inform the passenger upfront that he only accepts cash payment
(doing so may or may not violate the transport company's
regulations)
b. After (a), suggest to the passengers that he'll drive them to
the nearest ATM for cash withdrawal
c. Bring this up to the management to see if they can make
arrangements to reduce the processing fee/time.
If a cab driver can't even take the initiative to take this
issue up to the management level, I don't see what position he has
to even complain about a passenger's right (not privilege) to pay
via whichever payment method allowed by the transport company his
cab belongs to.
5. If passengers are trying to hail a cab on the street in the
rain, and all you can comment is "too bad", then you shouldn't be
in the service sector. Do you prefer getting stuck in the jam
in a vehicle or to be out in the rain for half an hour?
6. It's a vicious cycle. If cab drivers in general continue to
provide bad service, then don't be surprised when consumers respond
poorly towards them, and worst still, push all the blame onto
consumers as if none of it has to do with how they conduct
themselves.
