This is the financial proof that Uber is destroying taxi com
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This fake UberX driver quite stupid. If I were the pax and find out the driver is trying to cheat me, I very happy liao. End of trip, I will just walk out and thank him for the ride. If he ask for payment, I ask him go make police report. See who die first.
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Startups disrupt traditional industries and Uber is a living proof of that
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Originally posted by point1:
Startups disrupt traditional industries and Uber is a living proof of that
No leh, with the rising of the big 4 app call booking startup, CDG still say thank you, thank you, thank you very much , their call booking numbers have increased !
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Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:
No leh, with the rising of the big 4 app call booking startup, CDG still say thank you, thank you, thank you very much , their call booking numbers have increased !
Why? because the big 4 apps investors are also CDG big shareholders..so either you use apps or cdg calls, they still utong aka profit, and because of anti corruption laws in place if not, these shareholders may even reward those apps managements with monetary, not only just thank you very much. -
The only different is the ground works, the taxi drivers and the paxs go play cat and mouse game, and for this matter, these shareholders dun give a damn
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wow
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Amos cookies..opened the packet
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Sooner or later Uber will affect TDs earnings. Just be prepared for it. Not just uberx but grabcar & others will attract more & more pax. How long will it take? Who knows
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Affect, affect lor, the world is alway changing, last year limpek still driving crown hor. Sooner or later, we all have to go also, why worry so much, at our position, we cannot change the world much, because like I use to say, Taxi driver talk...who listen??? But we can change ourselve to suit and adapt to it, if cannot, throw key lor, then can fark care smlj uber, hailo.. incentives, benefits, i faulty or smlj KY
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Amos YEE!! was here
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Originally posted by michaelhuat:
i m more interested how make until the “meter” can $XX or even $XXX for short ride!
Can, DIY lah but be prepared to go Changi Chalet lol
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Mai lah, he go changi chalet, our tax sure to go up..to feed him
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Originally posted by luckycabby:
Sooner or later Uber will affect TDs earnings. Just be prepared for it. Not just uberx but grabcar & others will attract more & more pax. How long will it take? Who knows
I thought your earnings increased? Got $300 incentives per week, no?
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per week mon-fri rush hrs...hard to earn!!!
one hrs must take 2.5-3 booking!!!
REALLY RUSH HRS RUSH $!!!
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Originally posted by Taxilim88:
I thought your earnings increased? Got $300 incentives per week, no?
No lah, per 2 weeks, calculated wrongly, sorry. Read my other posts, these incentives are only temporary so we must make the best of it. Sooner or later they will remove them and uber style cars will eat into TDs earnings.
Of course TDs still can tan chiak but just beware of what's happening and be prepared to change and adapt.
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Originally posted by Alvin87a:
per week mon-fri rush hrs...hard to earn!!!
one hrs must take 2.5-3 booking!!!
REALLY RUSH HRS RUSH $!!!
Other apps, not GT
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The writing is on the wall - Uber & Uber clones will murder the taxi industry here..
Now we are at the first stage where Uber and copycat Grabtaxi tries to get as many customers as possible to try their taxi matching service. To do that, they also need to get taxi drivers and give them incentives.
Later when the customers get used to their platform, they will slowly shift them to the uber car service. They can do that by removing the TD incentives so customers will find it easier to use the car service instead. Why do they want to do that? 20% comm is a lot more than 30ct booking fee lah.
They will tweak the uber car pricing so that it can compete with taxi fares. But on the other hand, the drivers will get less earnings, right? That's why they are promoting to car owners who already have cars and any extra earnings they can make is good enough for them. Of course TDs won't be interested but they won't care less.
So it is a little like crowd funding - get lots & lots of part time car owners to be drivers. Each individual car owner might do only a few trips but when added together, it is a tremendous force.
So Uber & its clones will win (20% or maybe 10-15% also good), customers win with cheaper rides, pte car owners win with extra cash.... the loser? TDs lah.
It is a scary scenario to think that TDs may only have street hails to makan and then again, these street hails will also get smaller & smaller if the uber cars can be cheaper and more convenient.....
Think about it....
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Now the uber taxi has become the pirate taxis of yesteryear. But it's legal . government can't do anything.any body with a car can be uber taxi driver.no need tdvl.no age limit. No rental to pay. Best foreigners also can do.
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Then u throw key and go be one lor. Just ask yourself, is your daily profit taking affected? if yes, throw key, if not, drive on and let see how it turn out
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
Now the uber taxi has become the pirate taxis of yesteryear. But it’s legal . government can’t do anything.any body with a car can be uber taxi driver.no need tdvl.no age limit. No rental to pay. Best foreigners also can do.
Government can always change the law to make it illegal or more difficult. They are adopting a wait and see attitude. Not because they care about TDs' livelihood, but because of lost tax revenue from undeclared income.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Then u throw key and go be one lor. Just ask yourself, is your daily profit taking affected? if yes, throw key, if not, drive on and let see how it turn out
Said earlier already lah, joining the other side is not a solution also. Why? Because there are/will be lots of part time drivers (those agents, salesmen, etc) who already own cars and just need to earn a bit extra cash to cover costs. So they don't mind earning peanuts, how to compete with them? There are potentially thousands os such people around and that's the beauty of Uber's evil plot - making use of underutilised cars to make a killing for themselves.
Of course drive on lah and see how. That's what I said, enjoy this golden period while it lasts but be prepared for shocks ahead.
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Many years ago, I already wrote to many cabbies....to save for raining days, hopefully they did.
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Originally posted by Taxilim88:
Government can always change the law to make it illegal or more difficult. They are adopting a wait and see attitude. Not because they care about TDs' livelihood, but because of lost tax revenue from undeclared income.
I disagree that it is about lost tax revenue. Simply too small for them to bother. It is about public safety and backlash if anything goes wrong. But they are already embracing these mobile apps so very likely UberX and clones will prosper here, IMHO.
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Govt no need so troublesome to go tax on individual, as long as Uber get taxed under corporation taxation, that is more than enough. More companies, more tax mah Singapore resident companies are taxed on profits derived in Singapore, as well as on foreign soil, which are then remitted to Singapore. The corporate income tax rate since 2010 has been fixed at 17%. This one cannot run one hor