I still prefer Geylang one ...... Lor 27 Thai masssage .
Also Sentosa @ JB .
JB one really good .
And of course cheaper than Sgp .
But troublesome .
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Mr Lau said CDG Taxi not fair to TD. replied by Poolman @ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:19:20 +0800
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Problems of new Taxi Drivers replied by Poolman @ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:04:17 +0800
Drivers with better route knowledge ..... normally they will drive with confidence .
Paxes love drivers who drive with confidence .
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Problems of new Taxi Drivers replied by Poolman @ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:05:48 +0800
Drive with confidence .... pax won't fuck you up one .
They will respect you even more .
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A $1500/mth job is still better than TD drawing $3000/mth. replied by Poolman @ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:09:18 +0800
Yes so better grap those $1500 jobs while stocks last .
Leave taxi driving to us .
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Same surcharge $3,but for wrong reason can complaint ? replied by Poolman @ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:11:46 +0800
Yes surely will kena .
Cos what u pressed will reflect on the receipt .
receipt for what ? See and throw away ?
No lah receipt to make a claim ..... let's say their nasty boss ask them "why got location surcharge ?"
How u want the pax to explain to his/her company ?
But if u hit correctly , CDB means straight forward is CBD , $3 is a compulsory surcharge .
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Same surcharge $3,but for wrong reason can complaint ? replied by Poolman @ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:13:04 +0800
It's logic , right ?
Why there is separate surcharge code ?
If can whack anyhow , why must there be so many code ?
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Same surcharge $3,but for wrong reason can complaint ? replied by Poolman @ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:14:10 +0800
Sometimes members must anaylse leh ..... after so long , sometimes i felt some members need to be better ....
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A $1500/mth job is still better than TD drawing $3000/mth. replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:30:07 +0800
For me ..... i drive a cab cos i have many priorities .
Those priorities , working level i cannot get one .
Everyone here know i love soccer , eg World Cup , Euro Cup etc .... UCL ...
Telecast all midnight one . How to fulfill my wish to watch all , MC next day ?
I love badminton ..... every Tuesday and Thursday .
Take leave to play badminton ? No lah fuck , drive taxi i can do that .
Woman ? I can find new darling everynight if i want ..... working can ?
I need a car to buy grocery every fortnight ..... working can buy me a car ? No lah fuck , i dun want to be slave to LTA ( R/Tax ) , and Insurance company .
The most important , i only work for one objective ( HDB flat ) .
Now i got one ..... so work for fuck ? Self employ better .
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A $1500/mth job is still better than TD drawing $3000/mth. replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:30:45 +0800
I stopped working cos i hate to contribute CPF where i cannot see the money even when i am dead .
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A $1500/mth job is still better than TD drawing $3000/mth. replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:31:49 +0800
I hate to say , contribute CPF one person contribute is enough in a family .
The other half must earn cold hard cash .
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A $1500/mth job is still better than TD drawing $3000/mth. replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:33:48 +0800
i was lucky to be born at 1969 .
Cos now those HDB flat's the prices is ridiculous , now young couples both must work until die to finance the flat .
Those born in the 80's , now steam to buy a decent flat .
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[DataBase] Super Relief Listing replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:38:18 +0800
I would like to see any Taxi hirer here stay near sembawang area want to get relief driver during weekend or only on Sat
I have a full time job at weekday but not much salary, would like to get extra income by pt driving Taxi
I have taxi license since last year.
Please call or sms me if not answer for your phone
My contact is 85522445. Thank you
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Newbie here replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:15:29 +0800
Originally posted by Z/Fiction:Hello Br Pool....where is the approval letter from u....
Oh ...... thought u coming back to me ?
hhahaha miscommunication .
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A $1500/mth job is still better than TD drawing $3000/mth. replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:18:50 +0800
All to say ..... life is not all about money .
Be it $1500 or $3000 .
This money earned , life enriching or not ? Happy or not ?
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National Day Story replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:21:19 +0800
knn u two too free ..... LOL
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Taxi should go 100% cashless replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:36:05 +0800
The best is all taxis to be cashless euqipped .
Cash also can , cashless also can .
Flexible mode of payment .
I also take US dollars , @ $1.20 .
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2 news in the industry, take with pinch salt but still.. replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:37:15 +0800
interesting to read ...... didn't know chaochao ang mor also quite solid one . hahahah
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Newbie here replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:41:03 +0800
PatrickPoh , i am not saying u are not entitle to become a hirer .
But goodwill advice , wait until u finished Primary 3 then say n decide .... now u just finished K2 , not even P1 , so let's get into life in school , then u slowly see what u can do .
Dun shoot yourself to P3 , without bypassing the learning stages .
Yes P1 and P2 is a important learning stage for PSLE .
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Newbie here replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:42:10 +0800
Sometimes i dislike SMRT cos they just want to lease out their taxis , never think for newbies can tahan or not .
Just push push , hopefully some durian drop .
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[News] Address root cause to fix COE woes replied by Poolman @ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:45:21 +0800
Linking taxi availability to COE availability may only complicate matters further
The Straits Times - August 2, 2012
By: Christopher Tan
IS THE Government mixing up two separate objectives in its latest move to remove taxi bids from Category A of certificates of entitlement (COEs) - long the staple of buyers of bread-and-butter cars?
Or is it trying to kill two birds with one stone?
In an announcement with few details last week, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew said that taxi companies will no longer have to compete with mainstream car buyers for COEs. Instead, their certificates will be drawn from the Open Category, currently the domain of big-car buyers.
As a concession, cab operators will not have to pay Open Category prices, but a three-month average of Category A prices. The latter are usually 10 per cent to 50 per cent lower than the former.
Exactly how many COEs will be drawn from the Open Category for taxis will hinge on how available the cabs are to commuters.
Despite having one of the highest number of cabs per 1,000 residents among developed cities, Singapore, it seems, remains one of the hardest places for someone to get a cab.
So the Government's decision to remove taxi bids from Category A, and tying how many COEs cab companies can have to a basic service standard, appears to be a double-barrelled strategy.
First, it aims to remove an upward pressure on Category A premiums by taking taxis out of this category. This will have a profound effect on the affordability of cars, as well as on Singapore's worrying inflation rate.
Category A accounts for more than half of all COEs that car buyers bid for.
Second, it is putting the onus of ensuring taxi availability on the cab companies. If they want more COEs to expand their fleets, they will have to meet this service standard somehow.
Seems like a neat cure-all solution. But is it?
Let's examine the issues at hand. Singapore has 5.2 cabs per 1,000 residents, compared with 3.3 in London, 2.6 in Hong Kong and 1.5 in New York.
Since the Government liberalised the taxi industry in 2003, the cab population has ballooned by nearly 40 per cent to more than 27,000 last year. Yet, commuters constantly gripe that hailing a cab is a chore.
Taxi ridership grew merely 16 per cent from 2003 to last year.
It is clear that cab companies currently have no direct incentive to improve taxi availability. Their primary objective is to collect rental from hirers (cabbies), with as big a fleet as they can muster.
So, pegging an operator's expansion to taxi availability is ingenious, no?
But this is what could well happen: Taxi companies will come out to support the Government's initiative, but their efforts to raise taxi availability will fizzle out.
Taxi availability (or the lack of it) is largely a function of the current business model and fare structure. Driving a cab is not a career choice for most people. For many drivers, it is often the last resort.
Another cohort is made up of drivers who are not "career cabbies". It is estimated that up to one-third of cabbies today are folks like retirees or small business owners, who will ply the streets just long enough to cover their daily rental, and use their cabs as their personal transport for the rest of the day.
Cabbies will naturally drive when the yield is highest. Thus they will drive when and where surcharges apply. They will also wait for call bookings.
As long as this status quo remains, it will be hard for taxi availability to improve.
In fact, taxi companies will, in all likelihood, rush to expand their fleets before the new rules kick in in 2014.
The authorities could of course mandate a minimum mileage a cabby has to clock a day. But this will have an environmental cost, with no guarantee that the extra mileage will be "occupied mileage". In other words, cabbies may be forced to cruise empty.
The second issue at hand is COE premium spikes. While the current Category A price spiral is fuelled by taxi bids, the underlying cause is a record supply shortage.
If the COE supply had not plunged to less than a third of what it was just four years ago, the influence of taxi bids would not have been so strong.
What accounts for the supply shortage has been well documented. The COE system suffers from a feast-and-famine supply phenomenon that the authorities have long ignored. Until now.
But instead of a bold overhaul of the 22-year-old system to improve equity, we are going to see yet another tweak. The latest one, to remove taxi bids from Category A, will remove further upward pressure on premiums, but it is unlikely to send premiums to saner levels.
This is because Category A COE supply for the current six-month period is nearly 40 per cent lower than that of the last six months.
So, even without bids from taxi companies - which account for around 25 per cent to 30 per cent of total bids - COEs in this segment will probably remain firm.
What car buyers and sellers have been clamouring for is a more stable and predictable supply pattern: one that does not see premiums at $5,000 in one year and $90,000 in another.
Mr Lui has said that he is likely to "save" some certificates during the next bonanza period from 2014 to 2018 for future years.
But how many? And how will the "saved" COEs be dispersed later?
Even before clarity dawns upon those issues, we now have yet another uncertainty: how the supply of Open Category COEs will be affected by taxi bids post-2014.
It is admirable that the Government admits things are not working as well as they should, and is looking to fix the system.
But linking taxi availability to COE availability may only complicate matters further.
As with all problems, it is better to go right to the root cause for a permanent fix. In both cases, the root causes are not unknown.
But, to reiterate, taxi driving has to be made more attractive as a career choice; cabbies need to be incentivised to pick up more fares as and when they appear, rather than face disincentives if they don't meet a quota.
Next, the vehicle quota system should contribute to a more sustainable vehicle population growth pattern, with as little social, economic and political cost as possible.
If it is unable to do that, a complete rethink is probably the thing to do.
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