Ugly pax and their dirty tactics

• bowah

  16 Jan 17, 09:43

  Singapore is 24hrs 7/11 one lah, sure got paxs, but whether pax takes your cab or car or not...I not sure
• Jasonlkl

  17 Jan 17, 07:16

  Oh... Still depends on luck. Prefers start early and end early.

• bowah

  17 Jan 17, 14:29

  Of cos lah, I dun call it luck, but in economic term, we call it Opportunity cost of Pax. Today, pax got many opportunities, take a cab, book a phv, book a cab or take MRT and bus, so it is up to the pax spending power, preference, liking, promotion...once pax make a decision, who ever is going to take he or her will be the pax regardless of time.
• Jasonlkl

  18 Jan 17, 10:59

  If can get lobangs to do sidelines with taxi / phv will be good.

• bowah

  19 Jan 17, 14:10

  Life also have a so call opportunity time, every individual alive, be it you are a billionaires or a beggar, a President or a prostitute, you have 24hrs per day, 7 days per week and so on. Yes, you can do partime on anything to earn more..but do you have the time, or do you want to spend more quality time with family or your own life or sloggin on the road serving others...just like me, a casket driver cum taxi driving...that utterly took most of my own time away. Therefore, for opportunity time and cost, you decide. But dun end up on your dying bed and tell your family that you feel like never lived before hor.
• Jasonlkl

  19 Jan 17, 14:17

  That's why i am looking for a job with more 'Me Time'

  Money is not everything. 

• bowah

  21 Jan 17, 11:27

  Money is a must lah, especially in the context of Singapore, which is kampongless, no money have to go back and face the HDB wall one hor. However, be moderate and earn your honest money, otherwise, self guiltiness will crawl upon you. As long as got 2 times eating per day, 1 bottle of ang di kau, 2 kopi, I very happy liao, then once a while, go call bak bak happy happy abit. In Singapore, want to die of hunger also difficult
• Taxilim88

  23 Jan 17, 11:01

  Originally posted by Jasonlkl:

  That's why i am looking for a job with more 'Me Time'

  Money is not everything. 

  When you start driving taxi, everything will be about money.

• bowah

  23 Jan 17, 15:18

  No lah, there is still some humanity within us, sometime, I see old people, I also take lesser, sometime, if got good family local paxs with many childrens going to city or zoo or parks, we also know they are from poor family, also never go bother much about the fare, just adjust to the lowest, but somehow, all these average peoples are the one who would not allow us to lower the fares, instead, asked us to keep the change, they understand our hardship and life.
• Jasonlkl

  23 Jan 17, 16:24

  One td shared a story with me abt another td boasting abt being able to save up $16k after just 4months of driving. He just replied him " è¦�你能æŒ�ä¹… “

• bowah

  23 Jan 17, 16:40

  Not impossible, 1 month $4k, sound reasonable, but hv to drive long with less spending, no holiday, no buy this and that, just simple foods and dress...can be done. Anyway, we also got 7k.......................................what is 4k per month, no standard. Now a day, earning 10k per month is nothing.
• Jasonlkl

  23 Jan 17, 18:58

  Ever dozed off while driving ? I once had. Lucky just for a very short moment. 

• T0oty

  24 Jan 17, 14:29

  need to balance between money and family. dont work till you no time for family and friends. ^^ what is money when everyone leaves you

• Jasonlkl

  24 Jan 17, 15:36

  Ya. Need to know when to stop.

• bowah

  24 Jan 17, 18:48

  But also, need to go and drive, dun stop too long...the more you stop, the more you want to stop.
• Jasonlkl

  25 Jan 17, 00:03

  Best is not to have too many taxi kakis to avoid frequent coffee breaks.

• Taxilim88

  25 Jan 17, 09:00

  Originally posted by Jasonlkl:

  Best is not to have too many taxi kakis to avoid frequent coffee breaks.

  You need to have taxi kakis and communicate via palringo or zello.  Get useful info on airport, traffic jams etc.

• Jasonlkl

  25 Jan 17, 14:34

  Ok thks! Downloaded both apps.

• bowah

  26 Jan 17, 13:02

  No need kakis lah, kakis is only for TCSS, past time and talk about our daily jobs and 10 cannon stories, drive taxis still listen to those kong wu kong bo??? they will sent you to Holland one... After driving sometimes, best is to have an instinct of where are the paxs, given the time and day and location, you agar agar will create that instinct..mai gong gong go listen to those stupid people talking...more cocks than infos. If their info is good, would not end up Q 1 hr at T3 and T1 is p n g. Or that all chiong Raffles Q whereby Pan pacific full of paxs...use your sixth sense
• Jasonlkl

  26 Jan 17, 14:54

  I believe TCSS is unavoidable esp for Tds. Quite good to have a few gd kakis. Exchange reliable info and update one another. 

• bowah

  27 Jan 17, 09:58

  TCSS is everywhere, not only taxi driving, it is a social norm in human interaction and in way, stress relieving, just like this forum. Problem with taxi drivers is, they like to TCSS until so serious, end up chio one by one outside kopitiam..they just dun understand what is TCSS?
• Jasonlkl

  28 Jan 17, 17:31

  Enjoyed $8 comfort promo discount today. Hopefully tomorrow still available.

• bowah

  29 Jan 17, 13:54

  Street already pick buay hu liao..lai lai mbs, rws, zoo, ap... Must always learn to do the reverse thinking in everything, people go take call or grab for incentives, I do the street pick lor. Bo eng to go wait for those ladies making up ...then slowly come down.
• Jasonlkl

  30 Jan 17, 11:47

  More promo to attract more CDG apps downloading. Benefit tds in long term.

• bowah

  31 Jan 17, 11:47

  Benefit what??? if not for the $8 promo, who would give a damn on cdg apps??