No relief required policy does not imply no relief needed.
The crunch is that Prime said that their rental is the lowest,
together with pirus running at 20litre/km which ultimately helps to
lower the cost of the driver, Prime call them Master, and Master no
need relief, but what kind of master, is just a bogus.
Reliefs is a cost to admin which ultimately dig into the
operational cost, and they can change here and there, need to
employ more staffs and data entries, Prime may not want to do
that extra work and cost. Just one hirer, one deposit, one
insurance, and one master answer for it.
Companies like Prime and Silver are more private in a sense,
their initial business is not taxi, it is more on rental of private
cars, but since the liberation of taxi business, they tendered
successfully and diversify into taxi trade, but their core business
is still rental of Private vehicles. When govt liberalised taxi
business to a open one, you cannot expect just comfort, transcab or
Smrt to be the only market player, by giving some licencee to some
private players, its protray a liberalise market, otherwise people
will said, LPPL, all govt business.
From the above, Prime and Silver are not as serious as Transcab
or Comfort whose core business is Taxi. Therefore, those who joined
silver and Prime may not get as good as what other offered in terms
of benefits and earning, just like when you want to buy a good
camera, what brand will you choose, if you choose a Samsung or even
a Sony, I will said, it is good but not that good, cos Samsung core
business is in Galaxy, TVs, not camera, camera to them is just to
dilute the market to say, yes, we as a digital company produce
camera too, same goes to sony, more on TV and camcorder, HP they
failed miserably. You will choose a Nikon or Canon, because camera
are their core business, they pay full attention to it to produce
the best to suit all ages and budgets. Maybe except printer, You do
not see a Canon TV or a Canon refrigerator or a Nikon tab??