WTFï¼ Electric Taxi @ $78+GST
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Time to go full time casket driving.
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This 'Taxi' is for grab and uber lah ...
nowadays private hire like to call themselves taxi ... dunno why
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Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:
This 'Taxi' is for grab and uber lah ...
nowadays private hire like to call themselves taxi ... dunno why
Authority only know to collect money from taxi industry but cannot differentiate wat is taxi.
Taxi companies worst. Pay money dont know to complain to authority why private car no pay money also can called taxi.
All lies with authority that never enforce the correct understanding to the public. Taxi companies know to collect rental from td but dont know to complain ti authority why pay money while other no pay money eat into their shares.
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Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:
This 'Taxi' is for grab and uber lah ...
nowadays private hire like to call themselves taxi ... dunno why
Bro Teksi La, Not Pa Ong Chai La.
HDT申请若�功�我国将出现电动德士�
http://mypaper.sg/chinese-news/hdtshen-qing-ruo-cheng-gong-wo-guo-jiang-chu-xian-dian-dong-de-shi-20160613
Firm eyeing electric taxis woos drivers with fixed salar。
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/firm-eyeing-electric-taxis-woos-drivers-with-fixed-salary
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Originally posted by peterpan212:
Authority only know to collect money from taxi industry but cannot differentiate wat is taxi.
Taxi companies worst. Pay money dont know to complain to authority why private car no pay money also can called taxi.
All lies with authority that never enforce the correct understanding to the public. Taxi companies know to collect rental from td but dont know to complain ti authority why pay money while other no pay money eat into their shares.
Reason is, taxi industry is the only industry where the customer calls the shots. You take all the other businesses. It is their various associations that decide on the prices and terms and conditions. Look at our Taxi Association. Do they have the rights to determine taxi fares? Who decides? It is those who are taking taxis and they don't want to pay market rate, so they try to keep the fares cheapo by bringing in all these cheapo drivers. No need licence also can drive. The taxi driver who pull the pax out of the taxi already know he no need to worry. His VL kena gantung he got "alternatives"
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Originally posted by Ct2220:
Bro Teksi La, Not Pa Ong Chai La.
HDT申请若�功�我国将出现电动德士�
http://mypaper.sg/chinese-news/hdtshen-qing-ruo-cheng-gong-wo-guo-jiang-chu-xian-dian-dong-de-shi-20160613
Firm eyeing electric taxis woos drivers with fixed salar。
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/firm-eyeing-electric-taxis-woos-drivers-with-fixed-salary
I think it is a good idea to join this firm, but first must go see the terms and conditions. They may say if you don't meet TA standards then you only get the minimum salary. If that is the condition then better to do taxi OMO than to be"employed"
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My main concern with an employed cabby is not so much the terms n conditions. It is more about 'moving goal posts'. Imagine they now say you need 12 fares a day. Then when more people sign up, they get cocky like grab or comfort, and roti prata say need 21 trips a day.
I would suggest to stay put. Grab shifted their goal posts countless times from the start, and prata until chao ta liao. Are u sure u want to start all over again with another new player? Employed cabby is so moronic. As a 'free' cabby life is already tough. Now become employed cabby and must follow rules and working hours? People like bowah sure run road. We want happy happy stop driving and become a tour guide for the deceased. Or suka suka go jalan suka and see bak bak.
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Cabby get employed as employee is the same like working as a delivery driver and other monthly salary paid job, there will be managers, supervisors, HR, directors etc etc on top of you. Better go drive bus
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This week mon to wed...closed shop around 5am. Yesterday midnight closed shop. Coz not many ppl. This is the flexibility I liked abt driving taxi. As a relief, I can choose to work 3 weeks a month and go for holiday one week per month. Still nett income OK. Dun work pay hirer a bit... Why need to be employed as a taxi driver. Think take up rate will be low
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Originally posted by f1taxidriver:
My main concern with an employed cabby is not so much the terms n conditions. It is more about 'moving goal posts'. Imagine they now say you need 12 fares a day. Then when more people sign up, they get cocky like grab or comfort, and roti prata say need 21 trips a day.
I would suggest to stay put. Grab shifted their goal posts countless times from the start, and prata until chao ta liao. Are u sure u want to start all over again with another new player? Employed cabby is so moronic. As a 'free' cabby life is already tough. Now become employed cabby and must follow rules and working hours? People like bowah sure run road. We want happy happy stop driving and become a tour guide for the deceased. Or suka suka go jalan suka and see bak bak.
Talking about tour guide. How come the Taxi Tour Guide course got scraapped? With TTG license, at least even if taxi become driverless we still can use these taxis to guide small groups of tourists. How come govt don't want to "level" this "playing field" for taxi drivers? I remember when MBCC newly opened, there were 2 huge passenger liners landed, and there was a shortage of tour guides. I am sure STB kept this information under wraps, because if MIW know about it, they would see the need to revive the TTG to ensure this is not repeated. Moreover, taxis doing tours will not affect the rice bowl of those full fledged tour guides, because I am sure they already were all fully booked way before the ships landed. But those small groups. like couples or families, they would prefer to come here and tour on their owm,
So why did STB get their way in refusing the Singapore Taxi Academy to conduct a revised tour guide course that was suitable for taxi drivers, but can allow UG to have a revised vocational taxi license course? That day the demand for taxis were really high. There was the case of a TD who picked up an angmo couple, and they requested that he take them around to see Singapore. He obliged and took them to Mt Faber. There at the top where there are arrows pointing to different landmarks and countries, he showed them the way to Bird Park. One tour guide saw this and reported to an enforcement officer who was at the parking area.
When the TD came back to his vehicle the officer approached the TD and asked him who are the passengers. The TD told him the truth. He asked the TD if he has a tour guide license and the TD replied negative. He then told the TD that this is a grey area and that STB is looking at ways to address the issue. He told te TD to go to the Tourism building at Orchard Spring Lane to" discuss the matter with his colleague" and see how they can "work things out together". The TD accepted the appointment letter and thought nothing of it.
Guess what! The letter was an apppointment to attend Tourism Court for TOUTING!
If the TD was touting, how come the officer didn't say it on the spot but had to goreng another story to the TD? Was he afraid the TD would not accept the letter if he told the truth? What is touting? According to dictionary it means:
attempt to sell (something), typically by a direct or persistent approach.
Was this a case of "direct or persistent approach"? Also, there were 2 passengers in the taxi. If the TD had committed an offence, shouldn't these be treated as witnesses, and their statements taken to support the case? So why did the officer neglect to take statements from the witnesses? Was it because he knew these "witnesses" would not help to strengthen his case but weaken it instead, because he knew the TD was telling te truth? Was this guy just trying to trump up a case to frame the TD to make TDs look bad, so that STB can have a strong case to disapprove of the TTG? So, how about "levelling" the TTG 'playing field" as well, so TDs can make up for the lost income they are encountering with the introduction of PH taxis?
When the TD went to meet the officer's "colleague". he just produced some documents and pointed to a section about touting and that it has been decided that it is an offence, and gave the TD a warning not to repeat the "offence". One of the reasons he gave was that unlicensed tour guides tend to give "wrong Information" to the tourists and this is bad for Singapore's image.
Talking about giving "wrong Information". Are TDs the real culprits? Or is it the FTs who come here, spend a few months, and then think they are"qualified" to take their friends/relatives around? I had encountered a number of instances where these "giude" were feeding the wrong information to their visitong friends/relatives. One classic case is of this guy who picked his parents up from the airport, and was talking about our transport system and mentioned the MRT. When his father asked him what MRT stands for, he replied "Metro Railway Transport"!
So, are TDs the real culprits? We were born in this country and we know the landmarks and transport systems and other information far better than these FTs. So if the STB is really concerned about "wrong information" being given to visitors, shouldn't they also be arresting these "touts" as well? Or s the real reason they are afraid their own tour guides would also experience what we are experiencing now, which is, a loss of earnings?
What if we have another occasion where we have a similar situation of shortage of tour guides? Are we going to have these people going into the city, meet a fellow countryman who volunteers to take them around, and then have these people returning home and telling all their friends and neighbours about how efficient our "Metro Railway Transport" is?Or better still, even find this information printed on their tourist magazines when they write about Singapore? It would be interesting to hear what the minister or STB has to say about this.
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Salaried taxi drivers in Singapore would not work out as well as our current independent taxi drivers.... if it would work out, all 5 taxi companies would have adopted this business model.
Salaried also means max of 44 hours per week per week or company must pay OT (at 1.5 to 2 times the normal rate). Also must pay for holidays and sick days + other benefits. Most taxi drivers in Singapore drive at least 60-72 hrs per week; the OMOs drive longer hours.
If taxi drivers are salaried taxi drivers, they would love to drive to Tuas, Jurong Island. Lim Chu Kang and queue at Changi Airport.
Developed countries that have salaried taxi drivers all charge very high taxi fares.
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True, wage earner taxi driver will have less motivation, however, they will be more slow and will not cut Q or lanes or chiong in front and hijack my paxs like the current TDs do..nabey
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The best way to make employed cabby schemes to work is to state clearly that there will be progression into office environment. So every driver if they did well, will be promoted to become caller, then call room supervisor and then ops manager.
Just like our bus captains. If really good, then no need hold steering wheel anymore.
Since HDT never said anything about this, I believe its a trap. Their employed cabby scheme will not gain traction.
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The way up a corporate ladder is always in a triangle shape, as you climb, the ladder become less and less, and finally, it is left with one ladder, and because of the struggling to go up the corporate ladder, you hv to be cunning, skrew and dirty inorder to kick the one behind you down the ladder, and that is why corporate dirty politic come into the picture. Singapore TDs become TDs is also partially affected by dirty corporate politics, many left the corporate and become self employed as TDs so as to evade all these nonsense, and that is why sometime I term Taxi driving as entering a monastery and become a monk, careless about the corporate world, no stress, no back stabbing and no harming of others. So, if you got 2000 wage earner drivers and one of them will be promoted to manager, you might just start World war 3.
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Originally posted by bowah:
The way up a corporate ladder is always in a triangle shape, as you climb, the ladder become less and less, and finally, it is left with one ladder, and because of the struggling to go up the corporate ladder, you hv to be cunning, skrew and dirty inorder to kick the one behind you down the ladder, and that is why corporate dirty politic come into the picture.
Singapore TDs become TDs is also partially affected by dirty corporate politics, many left the corporate and become self employed as TDs so as to evade all these nonsense, and that is why sometime I term Taxi driving as entering a monastery and become a monk, careless about the corporate world, no stress, no back stabbing and no harming of others.
So, if you got 2000 wage earner drivers and one of them will be promoted to manager, you might just start World war 3.
No promotion to managers but old hirers would get better rental rates and they would know where to find customers.
The only possible "promotion" is got chance to become Academy Instructor when one reaches 60+. Maybe some also got chance to work as employees in Comfort (eg, Complains Department got ex-taxi drivers working there....maybe other departments also got).
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look at it as another choice, out of no choice (to drive taxi)
Do you remember how taxi company treated us, how they keep increasing our cost and take away our life and return us with only bread and butter on the table.
Today, when there are new choices (uber, grab and now electric taxi), there are taxi driver complaining......... competition........ unfairness.........
Do they prefer back then when comfort delgo make the call to decide your income?
Changes, it's happen. Face it and accept it.
Select, the same job driving. We got to select which is best for you
Competition, let those company compete amount themselves to attract you
Isn't it is a brighter future?
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Their usual explanation is simple "Uncle, we know your problem, but we simply cannot please everyone"
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Taxi Drivers always say, you think drive taxi easy ar? No CPF, No leave, No increment, No Bonus, Sick also must drive, No OT.
Then when someone offer all these as employed taxi drivers, everybody kpkb.
That's why taxi drivers always kena condemned..Ten mouths, Ten A**holes.
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New taxi operator with all-electric fleet to hit Singapore's roads in September
SINGAPORE - A new taxi company with an all-electric fleet is set to hit the road in two months' time.HDT Singapore Taxi said on Monday (July 25) that it plans to roll out operations in the first week of September, after getting approval from the Land Transport Authority (LTA).The firm is expected to start with more than 10 vehicles, before progressively ramping up its fleet to 100 by the first quarter of 2017.Its managing director James Ng told The Straits Times that fares will be be "competitive and tagged to the market rate", adding that more details will be announced when the Public Transport Council has approved its pricing structure.Registered as a company here in April, HDT Singapore Taxi will join a market with five other taxi companies which run a total of more than 28,000 cabs here.The e-taxi trial ties in with the Government's plans to widen the testing of the viability of electric vehicles (EV), from individual corporate usage to fleet-based, shared-car operations.A LTA spokesman said: "HDT will run a fleet of 100 EVs commercially as part of an eight-year trial, so that the relevant agencies can collect the necessary data under real-life conditions to study the feasibility of EV fleet business models."HDT Singapore Taxi will use electric vehicles from BYD (Build Your Dreams), a Shenzhen-based auto and battery manufacturer that has United States investment guru Warren Buffett as a shareholder.It will use BYD's e6 model, which has a range of about 350km, and a battery that requires only 90 minutes to be fully charged.While other taxi operators lease out their taxis to hirers, HDT Singapore Taxi will be the first to employ their cabbies full-time.-- ST -
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Low cost more savings for uncle aunty teksi drivers!
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A LTA spokesman said: "HDT will run a fleet of 100 EVs commercially as part of an eight-year trial, so that the relevant agencies can collect the necessary data under real-life conditions to study the feasibility of EV fleet business models."
Just electric vehicle nia still need 8 years trial when other countries have already implemented for so many years.
So, anyone still thinks fully driverless taxis will start next year?
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Electric taxi project in Hong Kong goes belly up: China’s BYD brands 2-year campaign a ‘failure’
Automaker also struggling to sell e-buses in city and has only received orders for 14 so far, it says
PUBLISHED : Friday, 06 November, 2015, 7:07pm
Chinese automaker BYD, which is partly owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, officially branded its two-year trial run of electric taxis in Hong Kong as a failure on Friday.
“I’m the one to take charge of BYD’s e-taxi project in Hong Kong,” said Ding Haimiao,assistant to the general manager at the carmaker.
“I have to say it’s a failure,” he added.
Ding made the comments to a group of academic and technology industry figures from Hong Kong during a speech in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
In 2013, BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu said he expected the company to launch dozens of e6 electric car taxis in Hong Kong by the end of that year.
He predicted the number would grow to 1,000 by 2014 and 3,000 this year.
That didn’t happen.
BYD has still only launched 45 e6 cabs and three charging stations in Hong Kong - enough to cover 150 electric cabs, it said.
Ding insisted that the firm has proved to the local government that electric cabs can greatly benefit the city by saving energy costs and better protecting the environment
“I’m calling it a failure because we lost so much money from this project,” he said.
The automaker has made a series of investments to support this programme, for example covering the cost of charging stations and vehicle maintenance, he added.
He said the model fits the local market but has nonetheless met with resistance from a number of industry figures, especially established taxi drivers.
“The Hong Kong government already knows [all] the figures and results, like the energy cost savings. But it really depends on the government [to see] how far it will go in moving forward this e-taxi plan,” he said.
It is normal for new policies from the government to inspire a backlash until doubts are cleared up, he said.
In another part of its electric push, BYD has also made slow progress in pressing ahead with electric buses in Hong Kong, Ding said.
The company has so far received orders for 14 of these in Hong Kong, but the number of orders pales compared to other traffic-heavy markets in which it operates, he added.
BYD said last week it plans to sell 15,000 electric taxis and 6,000 electric buses this year.
Analysts say 95 per cent of these are likely destined for China.
In April, the company won an order from the state of California to deliver 60 electric buses.
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Originally posted by Taxilim88:
Taxi Drivers always say, you think drive taxi easy ar? No CPF, No leave, No increment, No Bonus, Sick also must drive, No OT.
Then when someone offer all these as employed taxi drivers, everybody kpkb.
That's why taxi drivers always kena condemned..Ten mouths, Ten A**holes.
Aiyo, Mr Lim, how long you been driving taxi leh, you dunno taxi drivers meh, if they don't twist and turn in their talking, Singapore koptiams will be very quiet, peaceful with ample car park liao.
