If i am TransCab , after 8pm , i will have a $2 net surcharge
anywhere in Singapore up to 11pm .
TransCab do not practise $3 City Surcharge .
This is to benefit those passengers waiting outside CBD .
It's $2 or you need to wait .
That will certainly help customers from outside CBD .
$2 dun pay , need to wait , or need to call for a cab ($3.50) ,
your choice .
The key word is "if", unfortunately, taxi companies and LTA do
not work by our "if", they work in the first priorty of their
shareholders pocket, which is natural in every organisation, then
the customer, which is the paxs and public, then it comes to us,
the TD. This you got to get it clear first.
IF whatever you suggested is toward the benefits of TD,
which I think you did, they will not listen, but if you can come up
with an idea that benefits the shareholders first, then the pax,
then the drivers, it may then sell well, however, you can hardly
satisfy all.
More worst is when Taxi drivers themselves do not get
united and start to differentiate themselves between red,
blue, silver, white or whatever colors in an issue that
concern all our rice bowl, we are just putting ourselves further
down the pecking order for them, the LTA, taxi companies and Pax to
exploit us further.
Just like Man United, once not united, City bashed them. So, to
think of it, whether you are red, blue, white or whatsoever, we
should bring up suggestion and issue in a holistic approach,
meaning, talk for all TD, not just if red or if blue or if
silver...if so, then we just fall into their trap, the diversity of
Taxis companies here does not imply a diversity of cabbies, we are
the one who drives and pedals be it red, silver, or blue or so on.
So, brothers and sisters of Taxi drivers, Unite.