To the MVP guy,
Putting about my own judgement about SMRT aside. Since you have
already collected SSangYeong, it is as you said too late to blakang
puseng.
Rest assure that MPV is not as bad as some has described. It is
heavy and bulky and fuel consuming. MPV nonetheless is a good
vehicle to earn good money. Just that as a new driver, you will be
struggling (a lot!!!) for the first 3-6months or so. Largely due to
the fact that you may not be experience enough to find location to
pick up pax and not familiar with routes.
The only advice I can give you now is drive it like a normal cab
but having a mentality of a Limousine driver. Be prepared to have
pple getting up ur cab and only to get down again when they see a
normal cab coming up behind. (be prepared to bang balls all the
time)
MPV driver must target specific kind of passenger. Eg, Pax that
does air travelling a lot, big family etc. Be bold to charge
booking fee of $16 or flat fee $45/$50 (+$12 midnight) to pple who
called you personally in private to ask for your service.
Do not waste time on pple who cry expensive. Concentrate to
serve pple who willing to pay for YOUR service. One week 2-3
airport transfer will make your life very easy. Got hourly booking
even better.
So go study about the geographical information and tourist
information on Singapore. Go print yourself a copy of all the
airline in which terminal info from the Changi Airport website.
know all tourist attractions. All these will be your "tanjia"
ammo.
Dress well cause pple will pay for your looks. Learn to sell
yourself and your taxi. There is this young taxi driver 531 who
looks like those F4 or Jay Chou singer. Bugger, at Vivo City ($40
per trip $7 levy) got even rich auntie want to take photograph
with him.
And O, dun waste time on SMRT limo counter. Most of the time, it
is a waste of your precious time. If u wan to go Limo, go it when
you are more experience or only during June/Dec holiday to be
safe.
Below are the pricing for my service :
Hourly Booking $40-45
Airport Transfer $45 (departure) $50 (arrival)
Sentosa/Vivo/Habourfront $40 or $16 plus metered fare
You are your own boss. So set what you think is best for you. I
know some driver charge $50 for hourly booking. All the best
BTW FT stands for wad?