Taxis & TDs in the news/stomp
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Burnt also good for both driver and company. Driver can go find other job Company can claim insurance and no need to park at their warehouse, which is already very full.
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Man calls for taxi -- only for it to arrive 31 hours later
Submitted by Stomper Benedict
This story was submitted via Web contribution form.
Stomper Benedict was surprised to find a taxi that he had called for on Sunday (Jan 22) to arrive 31 hours later today (Jan 23) at around 1am.
Said the puzzled Stomper:
"I contacted Comfort & CityCab via text message for a taxi on Sunday at around 5.24pm, only to find that there were no cabs available.
"However, I woke up today to receive two text messages from Comfort & CityCab.
"Apparently, while I was asleep at home, at 12.49am, a CityCab Maxi Cab with a booking fee of $2.30 was scheduled to pick me up from my workplace.
"In other words, the cab that I had called for arrived 31 hours later!"
The Stomper has since sent Comfort & CityCab an e-mail with regards to the rather strange incident, and has also texted the taxi driver who showed up at his workplace to apologise.
"Poor taxi driver who travelled all the way there and waited in vain. I felt like I owed him an apology," added Benedict.
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Originally posted by luckycabby:
I am aiming for this day to come soon.... hopefully by year end. Wish me luck.
Problem is when you aim, it dun come, when you dun aim, out of nothing it come, best is let nature take it course. -
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/taxi-driver-drives-into-pillar-of-serangoon-hdb-block-void-deck?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&xtor=CS1-10#link_time=1485513723
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comfort taxi bang wall
driver too tired is it
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Maybe too excited, taking booking is a stress.
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Cabbies sign up for flexi-rental scheme
More than 1,000 cabbies from ComfortDelGro have opted for a new flexi-rental programme to help lighten the burden of paying their full rental fees daily.
The scheme, launched by the island's biggest taxi firm last September, is aimed at fighting the trend of cabbies exiting the industry in the face of competition from private-hire services.
Under the "25CJ" initiative, taxi drivers can pay a reduced rental fee - of as much as half - every day, The Straits Times learnt recently from the scheme's participants.
In return, they must complete at least 25 booking jobs - also called current jobs - in a week, and the fare earnings from these trips will be retained by ComfortDelGro, as a form of rebate for the reduced daily rentals.
The amount collected, however, will be capped in a way that allows most cabbies to enjoy some net savings in their rental costs. Other flexi-rental schemes being rolled out by the firm include a pay-as-you-drive system, in which cabbies pay rentals according to their mileage.
ComfortDelGro, which owns more than 16,700 taxis - accounting for about 60 per cent of the market - declined to reveal details when asked.
Its group corporate communications officer Tammy Tan said that "in a competitive environment, it is not unusual for companies to introduce schemes and promotions", and the firm will continue to do so.
Cabbies under the 25CJ scheme, such as Mr Choo Joo Cheng, 59, said he used to pay about $100 a day to rent his Hyundai Sonata, but it is now $85 to $90.
He said in Mandarin: "Competition is very intense from the private-hire car services. My income has dropped by about 20 per cent compared to a few years back. So these savings help."
Mr Tan Ah Suay, 63, another driver on the scheme, said he saves between $40 to $80 in rentals each week.
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16,700 taxis with relief is about 30,000 drivers driving for cdg, only 1000 took up their lanjiao scheme, that is only 3%...aiyo even gong kia also know...cannot work one lah, limpek put money in structured bond can earn more than 3% liao...knn cdg
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she is driving for which taxi company?
SINGAPORE - Almost every passenger who takes her taxi wonders why Ms Annie Lim, an attractive 41-year-old, drives a taxi for a living.
- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/meet-most-beautiful-taxi-driver-singapore#sthash.FxVyjVRx.dpuf
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I thot Uber and grab lady drivers more chio..and young.
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Stomper Peter saw a taxi driver who had crashed his vehicle into a lamp pole and mounted the kerb earlier today (Feb 10) at around 1pm.
A photo he sent in shows the damaged cab and a law enforcement officer at the scene.
It is unclear how the accident happened,
Peter added, "This happened just before turning into Potong Pasir Avenue 1. No other vehicles were involved."
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Tio toto, must be
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SHC 6821 in a fight?
http://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/watch-brawl-erupts-at-one-raffles-quay-over-honk-on-horn/ar-AAmUs8N?li=BBr8Cnr&ocid=U270DHP
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Cabby who repeatedly reversed and rammed into several cars at Old Airport Rd claims his vehicle was faulty
The Straits Times
Feb 14, 2017A taxi driver who damaged four cars after repeatedly ramming into them said that mechanical failure was to blame and that he had no control of the vehicle.
The 69-year-old driver was seen on video over the weekend driving his vehicle back and forth into the cars in front and behind his taxi at parallel parking lots outside the Old Airport Road Food Centre on Saturday (Feb 11) morning.
Based on preliminary investigations, the police ruled out drink driving or dispute as the cause of accident.
The driver, who refused to be named, told Lianhe Wanbao: "Of course the taxi broke down, why else would this happen?"
According to his account to the Chinese evening daily, he was trying to be considerate when the accident occurred.
He said he wanted to stop at the food centre to get a cup of coffee and to use the toilet.
After parking the vehicle, he thought he was too near the car in front, so he tried to reverse a little.
When he put the car in reverse, nothing happened, but when he put the gear in neutral, the taxi suddenly rushed forward.
He had no control of the car when the accident occurred, he said.
"I was already parked, if I hadn't been so considerate, none of this would have happened," he told Wanbao.
The driver, who has decades of experience, said it's the first time this has ever happened to him.
He felt guilty at damaging the cars and has apologised to the car owners, he said. He added that the taxi was serviced three or four times in the last few months.
Taxi operator ComfortDelGro told The Straits Times that all taxis are sent for preventive maintenance every month.
"This is important given the mileage that our taxis clock on a daily basis. The taxi in questioned has been regularly serviced and was last checked just three weeks ago," said a spokesman.
Police investigations into the incident are still ongoing.
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knn, server bo upgrade si bo...never treat yr loyal customer as beggar, they can be your next Pee member.
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Taxi driver reverses into parking lot, mounts kerb then crashes into two cars at Marine Terrace
Stomper T alerted Stomp to an accident involving a taxi and two cars that had occurred at Blk 52 Marine Terrace carpark this morning (Feb 22).
According to the Stomper, the taxi driver was reversing into a lot when the vehicle mounted the kerb and crashed into two parked cars nearby.
The Stomper said that traffic police arrived and conducted a breathalyzer test on the driver.
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HDT Singapore Taxi to double its taxi fleet this year
There will be more taxi options this year, once newcomer HDT Singapore Taxi doubles its fleet of electric taxis to 100 cars by June.
And the company said it isn't planning to stop there.
It has set its sights on a more ambitious target: To operate up to 800 taxis after acquiring a full Taxi Service Operator's Licence by the middle of next year, said managing director James Ng at the official launch of the company on Friday (Feb 24).
Mr Ng also announced a tie-up with Grab, under which commuters can book an electric taxi through the private hire car app.
The electric taxi service is part of an Electric Vehicle project by the Land Transport Authority and the Economic Development Board, which looks into the viability of electric transportation here,.
Since hitting the roads in October last year, HDT has set itself apart from competitors by offering drivers full employment benefits, alongside a basic gross monthly salary of S$1,600. A driver's income can go up to S$4,300 per month — provided the drivers can meet their ride targets.
All drivers have to go through a structured training programme comprising a work trial programme and on-the-job training, in a tie-up with the National Taxi Association and the NTUC's Employment and Employability Institute.
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Hahaha...from a freelance job back to company employee job again...dunno wtf they will do later. If you going back to work for a company, I suggest you go work in a company better, why go work as a driver for taxi company??? Where is the progression model, wages, benefits? 10 years later, still driver, still pathetic wages, still same old benefit??? Even you security guard get upgrade to become security supervisor, wages move up in tandem with standard of living, benefits get better in higher position...even annual leaves also increased... Drive taxis as worker??? please lah
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See other thread...
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Well, let rock and rolls...!
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Well, market consolidating. Becoming monopoly liao.
Transcab will become more and more like grabcar. Surge pricing is fixed pricing, no surcharge nothing. Exactly like grabcar.
I won't be surprised Transcab will be SOLD to Grab in one or two years time. Then the 108 heroes must find another Liang Shan.
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tia kong a few of those 108 already passed away, I personally sent one of them, now I think left with 99 of them. Grab will never buy any organization, especially so, TC, a chicken farm SME company, always remember that Grab is an apps run by young punks just like facebook, twitter or our shopping and eating apps like honeybee, Ninjavan, Pandafoods, groupon, lazada which all are doing internet consignment business, they own the apps, all others thing that is connected to them, are just partners. So for grab to take over a taxi companies, I think is it a reverse backward business, which is not and never in their dictionary of innovative disruption thru digital and technology.
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Many internet companies start off well with their initial product and idea. They get plenty of investor funds. But then, many failed to continue to innovate after that and keen competition after the initial startup forced many to close shop.
Grab has to continue to innovate because after a while, the PHV market becomes saturated and their original idea of booking app becomes stale. That's why they have grabhitch, grabshare, grabcoach etc.. They need to make real profits and have started their own fleet of PHVs.
Taking over a medium size taxi fleet will allow them to find ways to streamline both the taxi biz and phvs. Uber has yet to do it. They have already started with common platform for surge pricing.
And it makes sense for Ah Teo to exit the sunset taxi business whilst still profitable.
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Most taxi companies are actually in car rental and transport business, ah teo will find his own niche in the market, recently tia kong he just got a third mistress...opps
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Yellow taxis have fewer accidents than blue ones, says study
The next time you hail a taxi, take note of its colour, for it might mean a safer ride.
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that taxis painted yellow, a colour that stands out, were involved in significantly fewer traffic accidents than taxis painted blue.
Their results were based on analysing three years' worth of detailed taxi, driver and accident data from a large fleet of over 4,000 yellow taxis and 12,500 blue taxis locally.
Yellow taxis were found to have about 6.1 fewer accidents per 1,000 taxis every month than their blue counterparts.
It meant an individual was about 9 per cent less likely to be in an accident in one of those.
Professor Ho Teck Hua, NUS deputy president of research and technology and lead investigator of the study, told The Straits Times that the study accounted for a majority - 60 per cent - of taxis in Singapore.
It was conducted in collaboration with Associate Professor Chong Juin Kuan from the NUS Business School and Assistant Professor Xia Xiaoyu from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School.
Their findings were published in the scientific journal Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences on Monday.
On the results, Prof Ho said that yellow taxis were more noticeable than blue taxis in both daylight and under street lighting.
"The difference in the accident rate between yellow and blue was highest in street lighting because the difference in visibility of the two colours was most pronounced against the dark background of night."
The study also highlighted the potential economic savings of repainting all the blue taxis in the study yellow. It would cause 917 fewer accidents per year, generating over two million dollars worth of savings.
Studies into the link between vehicle colour and accident rates were previously conducted in 2007 by Monash University in Australia, which found that cars painted in lower-visibility colours such as black, blue and grey, tended to be involved in more accidents.
Singapore's biggest taxi operator, with a fleet of blue cabs, ComfortDelGro told ST that the results of the study were "very interesting" and that the company would take a closer look at them.
Correction note: In our earlier story, we said the results were based on 1½ years' worth of data. It should be three years' worth of data. We are sorry for the error.