What do you do when you do not know how to go?
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LTA position, Use street directory. In TDVL regulation, your taxi need to have a latest copy of street directory, therefore, there is no such thing call you dont know.
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Originally posted by peterpan212:
LTA position, Use street directory. In TDVL regulation, your taxi need to have a latest copy of street directory, therefore, there is no such thing call you dont know.
**there is no such thing call you dont know**
Wah ur post v garang leh
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Street directory are not update as per se, Singapore, as you all know, change it landscape fastest than most other asian nation. Therefore, there are new roads, new small roads that may not be stated..so in such circumstances, if the paxs also dunno, and the TD also dunno, it is best to tell the truth, nevermind the complaint as long as there is no fare taken, nor any distance travelled. Today, we hv lots of different nationality in Singapore, rivervale alone, some foreigners pronounced as river valley, some, like the japanese prounounced it as deepavali, and the famous FT ah Neh all prounounce it as Levis V, and when you come to vietcong, khmer rouge and some ulu china provinces accents...god bless you. That is one hazard driver face, can talk for 10 minutes in the cab, but still cannot get the road right... Recently took 3 vietcong chio bu...up cab at Joo Chiat said...Samulu....for me, there is a pulau semulu..jurong shipyard is there, talk and talk until they call their friend and pass the hp to me, and their friend also talk to be in viet language...alamak, tell them to fark off...until one of them show sign of praying...then I come to know, it is Si mah road kwanyin temple...
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SG although very small, certain area maybe after driving for 10, 20 years also no chance to go in, nobody bring mah.....
Is understandable if don't know.....
But if famous landmarks or icon also don't know how to go, than got to be shot liao......
Put in some effort to learn all those landmarks and new buildings.....
As for roads, the longer hour you drive, the more expert you will be, no easy way out.....
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Chase down lah...Lol
My ah tiong TD friend dunno hokkien dunno simple malay. So those old uncle and auntie say pek kio, orh kio, chap lao, chap liak lao all kanna chase down..Lol
good idea, act blur, live longer
tell u jurong island. also say don't know
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Ya lor the more u drive the faster u learn
My frn omo less than 6mths nia "expert" liao
No need use gps somemore sub sub water
Me still blur wahaha
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Originally posted by getcarter:
Ya lor the more u drive the faster u learn
My frn omo less than 6mths nia "expert" liao
No need use gps somemore sub sub water
Me still blur wahaha
I drive 10 months still need GPS leh. But not full time OMO, only nights.
So many many small streets, roads, buildings,etc, etc, how to remember all? Only can remember those places you always go to and major roads and expressways. know most places in CBD because always go there but other areas definitely need GPS.
For example, Woodlands got so many aves, drives, streets, it is still a maze to me. One-north simi polis completely blurr also.Bukit batok is totally confusing, tuas & jurong west also bewildering. So many other areas, buildings and roads never heard of one.
I think a TD will need at least 5 years to 10 years experience to know most of the places and buildings in SG.
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Ya depends on individual. My tiong TD from day one blur blur and I have to teach him some basic hokkien and places with old times name. After half a year his road knowledge almost 80% liao
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In singapore its quite impossible because their is lots of traffic signals you can easily find out your way still if it happen with me than i'll use GPS
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With good road knowledge is the best, save you lots of stress and anxiety and time. Therefore, if can try not to depend on yr GPS too much, it can become an addict of it, and when that happen, nearly every place also use it, even place you been there thrice before. On the other hands, singapore got lots of one way street, if you are able to learn it by your finger tips, you can move around without much problem, for this, some GPS also never tell you, you might end up unable to turn due to no Entry and therefore, need to make a detour, which might waste yr time and stress u up...furthermore, pax may not be happy.
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Easy if u take wrong road just stop meter and tell psx ur not charging them reach correct road then only start meter. Pax also happy u also happy.cos although meter stop the waiting time still running!
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That is a good way, but some pax said, i wasted their time, missed their important meeting and ruined their business...nabey,...seibei jialat, so many lj excuses..end up, give free trip lor
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Non peak time, if nearby, go explore the road you not familiar with.....
Like currently, Seletar Aerospace a lot of new road in use liao, go drive a few round.....
This is what we call anticipation of situation, in case next pax want to go SA, ho seh, very familiar liao, won't kan the wrong hole.....
How I master Bukit Timah/Holland area last time, go in round and round and explored la, who will teach you?.....
Explored all the short cut and at the same time, read the road name by hard.....
ok, exercise time, From Greenwood, how to short cut to Watten Estate without coming out to main road? From Sixth Ave, how to short cut to Empress Market to jiak kopi without using main road?......
Still got many, can pass this 2 question meaning you are thinking hard, good......
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Greenwood easy lah. Should ask from Eng Neo to Greenwood without touching main road. That one then tricky lah. Lol
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Or from Kovan cut through Simon Road out YCK Road. This one I eyes close close can cos my old kampung inside. Da Silva Lane anyone heard before? Inside alot of ways to cut de
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Ya depends on individual. My tiong TD from day one blur blur and I have to teach him some basic hokkien and places with old times name. After half a year his road knowledge almost 80% liao
Are you sure 80% after 6 months? I think after 10 years, then maybe 80% lah. Simply too many roads & buildings to remember. Not to say the route to get from one place to another.
Worse still some pax expect you to know where their specific block is! If don't use GPS or street directory, how to find?
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Greenwood easy lah. Should ask from Eng Neo to Greenwood without touching main road. That one then tricky lah. Lol
Dar Vadar I heard before, Da Silva...never entertain one...Uncle, Da Silva, La Sussie, smlj Da or la, limpek only know how La kopi -
Some places like la suisse or even Greenleaf or greenbank could be a gold mine cos some td don't bother to find out
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yalor, that is why most cabbies like me will alway say...I never entertain one, so complicated...but actually, I go there and wait for call one, only trying to tell other cabbies off..this one my ex chief teach me one.
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Or from Kovan cut through Simon Road out YCK Road. This one I eyes close close can cos my old kampung inside. Da Silva Lane anyone heard before? Inside alot of ways to cut de
This huan I noe..I used to stay there...back when still got simon camp and serangoon sec and teo kwang lee.
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Ah...any Newbie here..learning time hor. Our master hammer and fifufu seldom teach one hor, but when they teach, you better listen and look up at yr GPS or map
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Originally posted by bowah:
Ah…any Newbie here..learning time hor.
Our master hammer and fifufu seldom teach one hor, but when they teach, you better listen and look up at yr GPS or map
fifufu teach simi ley...my buddies say I make money by bringing my pax to horlan!
Like pick Collyer quay can use Fullerton to turn into ACM...I go to North Bridge Rd then turn in....today then I know no need to go into NBR! lol
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Greenwood easy lah. Should ask from Eng Neo to Greenwood without touching main road. That one then tricky lah. Lol
Haha, let them go figure out ba.....
All this can't teach one, must keep driving and keep knocking.....
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Originally posted by luckycabby:
Are you sure 80% after 6 months? I think after 10 years, then maybe 80% lah. Simply too many roads & buildings to remember. Not to say the route to get from one place to another.
Worse still some pax expect you to know where their specific block is! If don't use GPS or street directory, how to find?
Aiyo, if need to use GPS or street directory, just do so la.....
As we drive along, slowly, bit by bit, whole SG will be within our finger tip.....
Pax close door, say location, off we go, in split second, like computer like that, si beh boring one.....
Many times, so yawn that, I don't even want to acknowledge, pax scare and double confirm again, I still lazy to acknowledge.....than reach liao, collect money, off I go, still never acknowledge the pax......
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Today all these new si gina drivers good life, got google, mdt map, gps, hp search...last time, where got all these, can end up road side fighting with pax one..talk about last time,...haiz, my bro KTC knows the best