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Despite what the cabby might have said or done, her FB's unwarranted comments on this taxi driver was really hitting below the belt and downright insulting.. [shakehead] From STOMP: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg..._a_failure.html Posted on 13 Jun 2012 Woman calls cabbies a failure and tells them: 'Know your place in society' STOMPer Fran said her friend came across these posts on Facebook, in which a woman rants about a taxi driver, and how he should know his place in society. The STOMPer's friend felt that this woman should not be so rude to the cabby. Said the STOMPer: "My friend spotted this on Facebook and sent it to me. "She said,' Who is she to call the cabby a failure when he is the one doing a service to her? It does not matter whether the cabby actually 'talked back' to her, she shouldn't be so rude to him. Moreover, she had to say he lacked education and skill. Well, at least he has a decent job to support his family'."

ST Forum Jun 20, 2011 Cabbies here can learn from South Koreans WHEN I was in Seoul, South Korea, recently for a holiday, I took a taxi from the hotel I stayed in to the Namdaemun area. Once I gave the cabby the address I wanted to go to, which my tour guide had written in Korean, he keyed the details into the cab's Global Positioning System (GPS) and followed the directions given after pressing the meter. When I wanted to head back from Namdaemun, I showed the hotel name card to the taxi driver. Without delay, he keyed the details into the GPS and followed the route given. I think cabbies in Singapore should learn from the South Korean taxi drivers. In the event of any uncertainty on any routes in Singapore, if a passenger notes that the taxi driver followed the GPS, arguments could be avoided. I think the authorities should look into this as a way to make things easier for tourists in Singapore. Tan Shao Ken

Sorry, just to vent some frustration..... I always kana cabbies who seems to drive as if they are some F1 drivers or if they own the road but then when it comes to some twists and turns, they have to slow down to a crawl just to negotiate them. If you have so much skills to zigzag between traffic or cut in front of me when the gap is so small, then apply some of these skills when cornering. Don't keep braking and forcing me to brake with you and slow myself down and others behind me. On straight roads, the accelerate so fast and drive so hiong but come to corners they chicken out and got not balls? Wet roads even worse....... drive like ladies man.... (no offense to female drivers)..... Stupid cabbies!! :angry:

Any bros have any experiences with cabbies from hell? I know the Anti-Sonata cab thread is already there but im wondering if anyone has had any bad experiences not as a driver but as a passenger I for one had last week. Was in CBD took a cab from Marina Square, cabby drove round and round and round because he was new and refused to give me a discount. What would've cost $5 ended up at $10 for me its not the money but the principle

I thought cabbies are the most experienced, daring, ferocious drivers on the road? When they drive, they are the king of the road. Now when it rains, their balls shrunk till till they have to hog lane 1 and travel at 50KM/H and brake at every bend on the road? Just kana today on ECP one stupid white colour Toyota Crown cab hogging lane 1 and travel at barely 50KM/H creating a train of cars behind......

Again, Singaporean only know how to kpkb when price increase but in the end they will just get used to it over time. Nothing change and hence these people can anyhow increase their price as and when they like and we still buy . I am not refering to taxi alone, many thing in our daily life increase but we will not make alternative plan even when it is increase. April 25, 2008 FOUR MONTHS AFTER FARE HIKE Cabbies' earnings up despite initial fears Ridership also up as commuters return to taking taxis By Maria Almenoar THE chorus of complaints that came from the taxi industry after fares were raised in December last year seems to have died down. Although some customers initially stayed away from taxis, there has been a turnaround, and with it fears that the earnings of cabbies would drop seem to have eased, according to surveys done by the country's two biggest taxi companies. ComfortDelgro, the largest taxi operator here with about 15,000 of the country's 24,000 taxis, saw a 16 per cent increase in takings for a cabby's full day of work. For a full-day shift, cabbies are earning $187.92, up from $162 before the fare revision, after deducting the cost of fuel and renting the cab. SMRT, which has about 3,000 cabs on the road, said cabbies saw a 20 per cent increase in gross income in the first quarter of this year, compared with the last quarter of last year. The data came from a survey of about 300 taxi drivers. In a bid to alleviate a taxi shortage and raise the drivers' earnings, the six taxi companies increased their starting metered fare from $2.50 to $2.80 in December. The meter was also adjusted to tick faster, with 20 cents charged for every 385m up to 10km travelled, instead of 10 cents for every 210m. However, commuters were most peeved by a revised peak-hour surcharge which was tweaked from a flat $2 to 35 per cent of the metered fare. The surcharge for picking up passengers in the city centre also went up from $1 to $3. After first avoiding taxis in favour of public transport, more commuters seem to be going back to them. The average daily ridership for taxis for January was 855,000 while February's went up to 934,000. Last year, the average daily ridership was 945,000. Said 55-year-old cabby Haniff Mahbob, who has been on the job for 20 years: 'After fares went up, we had few customers. But luckily the new fares offset our lost business. Now, business is definitely picking up. I'm sure more drivers have bigger smiles on their faces.' Call bookings are also on the rise this year, according to ComfortDelgro. The company will also soon offer a service which allows passengers to book a cab by sending an SMS message with their postal code and pick-up location. The Taxi Operators' Associations, which represents drivers' associations of five of the six taxi companies, said: 'The situation seems to have stabilised and improved, but we are still quite concerned that rising fuel cost may eat into our drivers' income.' Oil prices hit a record US$117.50 (S$160) a barrel this week. On average, taxi drivers on a full-day shift spend close to $40 on diesel and about $90 on cab rental.

Cabbies who cause accidents up 30% April 06, 2008 YOU'VE probably seen them speeding down the highway, suddenly cutting into your lane on the road, and abruptly stopping in front of you, forcing you to stomp hard on your brake. Cabbies have also been making headlines, knocking down pedestrians, slamming into road dividers, and creating road hazards. Yes, on top of having to deal with the recent fare hikes and rules on picking up passengers in the CBD, taxi drivers are now increasingly being accused of being reckless drivers. The New Paper polled 100Singaporeans over 18 years of age, and found that an overwhelming eight out of 10 perceived taxi drivers as being more reckless than the average motorist. OFFICIAL FIGURES And official figures seem to back this up. Statistics from the Land Transport Authority show that from 2005 to 2007, the overall number of accidents where taxis were deemed at fault rose from 749 to 972 - a jump of almost 30per cent. However, the number of taxis grew just 9 per cent - from 22,383 to 24,446 - during that period. Of these accidents, the number that involved fatalities rose by more than half, from 13 in 2005 and 2006 to21 in 2007. Some Singaporeans, like motorist Andrew Goh, 58, lamented that they see so many reckless acts by cabbies that they accept it as the norm. Mr Goh said motor workshop workers he has spoken to often nod understandingly upon finding out that the wreck they are working on was in an accident involving a taxi. 'It is as though they expect it. Taxis speeding, cutting into lanes and jamming their brakes suddenly to pick up passengers. These are all so common,' said the businessman. In the past month, eight in 10 of those polled had seen taxis both suddenly switching lanes and stopping for passengers without warning. And 65per cent had also witnessed speeding. Ms Valerie Tan Si Jie recounted one incident. The 20-year-old student's pleas for her taxi driver to slow down fell on deaf ears. He was barrelling down the road at 130kmh, she said. Reckless cabbies have also been making the news recently. Yesterday, The New Paper reported how taxis were creating a road hazard while queuing for passengers outside Orchard Cineleisure. Last month, a speeding taxi driver reportedly crashed into a divider on the ECP, then left his four passengers stranded on the highway while he drove off. Mr Abdul Mateen, 34, said one of the reasons for the increasingly reckless behaviour could be that taxi drivers may have become overconfident in their driving skills after years of experience on the road. 'They are generally impatient and like to tailgate. Even if you are driving at 100kmh on an expressway's right lane, they expect you to get out of their way,' he lamented. Arrogance on the road was also noted by 23-year-old student Tsai Jia Jia. She could only sit tight in her passenger seat when her taxi driver and another cabby refused to give way to each other on the road, resulting in a collision. However, the 10 taxi drivers The New Paper spoke to said it is unfair to say that all taxi drivers are reckless. PENALISED Like many of his fellow cabbies, MrJasni Ismail, 48, said taxi drivers have no reason to be reckless because they are heavily penalised if they get into accidents. 'One accident is enough to wipe out half our month's income,' he said, 'That itself is a reason for a more cautious attitude.' Some taxi drivers said that rising fuel and rental costs have increased pressure on them to make ends meet. Cabby Jeffery Lim, 55, said: 'The prices are killing now, we need to drive more to meet minimum requirements.' He lamented that the recent fare hikes have reduced passenger demand, especially during peak hours, making it even harder to offset costs. Regardless of the possible causes of recklessness, some argued that taxi drivers were no more inconsiderate than the 'typical ungracious Singaporean' driving a private car. Furthermore, customers are sometimes as much to blame for accidents as the taxi drivers. Some, like 19-year-old salesman Hazmi Gasli, ask drivers to go faster. He said he sometimes prefers the taxi driver to speed so that he isn't late for urgent appointments. Madam Yen Wong, 42, a technology service manager, added that it is sometimes the passenger's fault for flagging down taxis at the wrong place. Ms Wong said: 'The taxis will be tempted to stop. They are just trying to make a living, it is their bread and butter.' Still, Mr Ismail stressed: 'Being deliberately reckless is inexcusable even if it makes your rice bowl, because you are not only endangering yourself, but others.' - By Swan Tan, newsroom intern. Additional reporting by Cheryl Teo, Teo Chin Ghee, Charissa Yong and Aditi Shivaramakrishnan. http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,161237,00.html?

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singapor...nt.jsp?id=15710 You think this is true?

Once again, the $$gment is detach from the ground again and I read from papers yesterday that cabbies need to drive 24 hours non-stop to earn $318. Hey, if really 1 day can earn 300+ 1 mth is 9k. Like tat I will quit my job and be a cabby liao ... really stupid moron nonsense Like someone said earlier, maybe Lemon just read thru the script some others prepared.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../315687/1/.html Is it really seeking the views of the public or for their own interest. What's yr view on this?