[路边社] Taxi Fare adjustment after GE 2015
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Originally posted by Autorespond:
Yesterday went to sign up for TVDL, saw alot of red taxis cramming into a parking lot. Then alot of uncles in the classrooms taking lessons. All look damn sian like that. Signed up for the course, wah lau, classes are full and gotto wait for the next class a few weeks later. I must get ready for rainy days by having a taxi license.
There are so many potential TDs now... classes are full... if only govt reduce or waive COE for taxis, else there will be much less taxis on the road.
I saw this poster at STA looking for TDs for electric taxis "HDT GoElectric - www.hdt.com.sg, Call 67157868". Anybody got any advise on the pros and cons of driving an electric car? The website says "With 65 charging stations to be set up all over Singapore, going electric is easy;" Maybe now only very few power charging station...
Should be more likely electric car rental cheaper and possibly fuel cheaper but need to take longer time to charge up (as opposed to 3-5 minutes for diesel topping up + payment) and very likely one charged up cannot last for 12 hours of driving.
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fare adjustment, NATO.
i wait until neck long long
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Why wait...just add one more trip each day...ho say liao.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Why wait…just add one more trip each day…ho say liao.
This one is not within control.....I always stretch until maximum.
But unlikely for taxi fare to increase even though other employees get annual increment every year. It has been 4 years since last election, by this calculation, we should be getting at least 16% fare adjustments already (if count by increments for teachers method, it should be 36%). Fuel price went down so they defintely would treat it like annual increments. If increase taxi fares, voters would KPKB.
This is Comfort's media release to the public: https://www.cdgtaxi.com.sg/mediaviewer?mediaid=876 . Take note of how competitive our fares are compared to other major international cities (Annex 2).
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taxi companies and Govt need to balancing the situation, they certainly do not wish to do an increase publicily, it will definitely harm their trust and determination to hold cost down. Therefore, the advocacy is alway on surcharges rather than fare increases, and that also help and enable them to shift the nos of taxi at certain times and days of the week. The economic sense of Govt for taxi driver is simple, never make a taxi driver rich, just let them make enuf so that they will not die of hunger nor fat like an elephant, if you make them rich, they will stop and rest often leading to no hunger for pax on the road, if you make them too poor, most will throw keys, so agar agar tio ho...just make them floating above the water will do.
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Now, Malaysia and Singapore TD dulan Uber and GrabCar. Hope something will be done soon. And look at the so many onerous rules TDs in Sg got to go thru. And the lack of TDs and low earnings.
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Malaysian ones, they may take some action as TD there are more united, but Singapore...govt slowly slowly look, listen and see one, why, because they know Singapore cabbies are all dog eat dog one, not united, one or two complain here and there, so they will not entertain or be so focus on it, so to speak. You never notice govt only talk abt TDs during erection, from govt to president erection, only TDs are mentioned, other than that, they may treat us as wasting their time, the mentality is simple, want to drive, drive, if not happy to drive, can throw key
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SMRT drop rental by $20 first then come talk...
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Drop $20? if you become Prime Minister lor.
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As per topic, still no news on fare adjustment. Sibeh charm.
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Drop rental? They are all thinking never readjust taxi fares after oil price dropped very good already.
From the other perspective, taxi fares were last adjusted on a wide scale from Dec 2011 onwards. Ordinary employees in Singapore normally receive 3-5% increase in salary every year.....so from Dec2011-Dec2015, they would have received 12-20% increase in salary. So do not expect a taxi fare increase until our profits ( not counted as salary as we are like self-employed businessmen who do not receive CPF, bonuses, holidays and other benefits who have a contribute substantially to our medisave accounts ) deviate from this ratio by quite a lot.
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Let's be realistic, if sampan meter got to adjust again, rental sure adjust one, why? Go ask those Limbu eh TD lor........
I can say their meter jumping is superb but eat up by their high rental........
Mr L so gong, let sampan easy life meh?..........
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Currently, sampan meter is to let you jiak beh ba, Yao beh si type.......
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I say taxi price sure would not adjust back within 2 years unless oil price shoots back to high level.
If not right time to adjust taxi fares, election time sure got oppositions aspiring to become MPs 借題發� . Our country believes in affordable public transportation so that mass majority of citizens could be happy not like Japan, Australia, UK or USA.
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The point here is when oil price was at $140++ per barrel, everything went UP UP and Away..from powersupply bills, fuel, vehicle prices, COE, foods....and whatever you name it, all at the excuses of High Oil price...but today, Oil price at $28 per barrel....why thing never go down..and worst, still want think of going up, up rental, up fares, up powersupply, up cost of food...I think we might be heading for a big fall soon.
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Originally posted by Keepthechange666:
Currently, sampan meter is to let you jiak beh ba, Yao beh si type.......
Si ani kuan one lah, give you jiak ba ba..all go kopitiam TCSS and paxs cannot find taxis, give you too yao...all throw key..so it is like half death half alive and pass day lor. -
With grabcar, UberX and all the competition in the market, plus night drivers already finding their business dropping due to these competition...how to have fare increase now?
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Nothing will increase lah, now increase fare will only dig own grave deeper, but fuel prices are dropping, so taxi can gain abit from it, especially those using diesel, now you know why cdg want to use Pirus, so that you use petrol mah, support Jurong island mah. support govt tax mah, support and secure jobs from lost mah. It is after midnite, that Uber and Grab are cheaper..and in a right sense, even as a taxi driver cum casket driver, I also advice family members to take Uber if going to AP after midnite..
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If taxi fare is high, than amount of taxi on the road must reduce, than TDVL must be as difficult as the Knowledge test like UK.......
Taxi fare high high, taxi on the road many many, dui ka dui meh?.......
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NO lah, if taxi fare is high, taxi rental will also be high, so end up TD tio bian, pax tio carroted and Taxi companies and govt laugh all the way to temasek club. Remember, every taxi rental charge 7% Gst, rental high means Gst also higher. With 28,000 cab everyday paying 7% Gst of the rental price....some cabbies can still tell me, govt no tax my income...I told them, Tax your income kamlan, tax yr rental gst already huat liao