With much taxi companies to pick and choose, together with
new cabs and new term and conditions, there sure to be
keys throwing around, this is exactly what the govt wanted, to get
the taxi industry moving so as to attract new drivers, new apetite,
renew morale and motivation and also new higher rental fees with
Gst. Royalty to a company is certainly not the name of the game
anymore.
Like when you step into a new company, you tends to be motivated
and chiong type, then after a while you start to see the faults and
bad culture in it, slowly you look for better alternatives to
reboot your power. Pyschologically speaking, that is how
taxis companies manage to rejuvenate drivers, gone are the era
where one old driver drive a cab till he retire with the cab, at
the end of the day, he could just be driving 4 to 6 hrs per
day.
With the ever higher and higher rental fees, fuel prices and
cost of living, more new cabs on the road, its a different
ball game that each of us have to play to earn our living. High COE
tendered by taxi companies can only be recouped back from rental of
Taxi, and that cost will go down to TD who will need to struggle
more and perhap earn lesser.
By just increasing rental fees on existing cabs is going to make
TD complain and fed up altogether, but by getting new taxis (like
epica) which not much different from a sonata but with a higher
rental, they the taxi companies are able to increase rental fees
without a single protest or complain. That is how they worked, on
the other hand, by tender for so many new taxi, the private car COE
will skyrocket, and that will prevent people buying and ultimately
take taxis
