Tag: taxi

  • Berpantang Maut Sebelum Ajal, Wanita Tercampak Dan Terduduk Atas Bumbung Teksi

    Berpantang Maut Sebelum Ajal, Wanita Tercampak Dan Terduduk Atas Bumbung Teksi

    Berpantang maut sebelum ajal. Nasib menyebelahi seorang wanita yang terlibat dalam kemalangan dengan sebuah teksi.

    Beliau bukan saja terselamat, malah lebih menakjubkan lagi, wanita berusia 50an tahun itu tercampak dan terduduk di atas teksi yang turut terlibat dalam kemalangan tersebut, lapor Harian Metro (31 Okt).

    Encik Rajendran, pemandu teksi yang terbabit berkata: “Saya hairan di mana penunggang motosikal itu, namun ketika menoleh ke atas saya terpandang seorang wanita terduduk dia atas bumbung teksi saya.”

    “Saya kemudian pergi ke arah wanita itu dan membantunya turun dari bumbung teksi selain melihat jika ada sebarang kecederaan yang dialami, namun wanita itu hanya memaklumkan sakit pada bahagian tangan dan kaki serta masih trauma,” kata pemandu teksi itu, 48 tahun, kepada Harian Metro.

    Menurut laporan akhbar berkenaan, kejadian yang turut mengejutkan para pengguna jalan raya yang lain itu berlaku di persimpangan lampu isyarat Lebuh Raya Butterworth-Kulim, petang semalam.

    Ramai juga yang merakam gambar mangsa dan memuat naiknya ke laman media sosial sehingga menjadi viral.

    Encik Rajendran berkata, insiden itu paling mengejutkan, namun beliau lega kerana tiada yang cedera atau mati.

    “Selepas terdengar bunyi dentuman kuat saya terus memberhentikan teksi dan bergegas keluar untuk mencari mangsa kemalangan.

    “Ketika itu saya ternampak sebuah motosikal terbalik di belakang teksi dan cuba mencari penunggangnya, sebelum terkejut apabila melihat seorang wanita dalam keadaan terduduk di atas bumbung teksi,” beliau memberitahu Harian Metro ketika ditemui selepas membuat aduan di Bahagian Trafik Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Kulim, semalam.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Another Foreigner Refuses To Pay $5.40 Taxi Fare

    Another Foreigner Refuses To Pay $5.40 Taxi Fare

    This fuking drunk amg mo which i pick up at geylang lor 16 to lor 8.

    When reach the destination the fare was just $5.40 and he just alighted from my car without thinking of paying it and show me his duno wat card telling me he was from new zealand embassy..

    at 1st i just thought just my luck and wanted to take his luggage down and ask him to fuck off but after the behaviour and words make me HOT..and these are partial of what happen..

    Sorry of the vulgar language that i use..i really cannot tolerate it

     

    At 1st i just wanna fuck it and go off,but he dun allow me to unload n touch his luggage bag and told me i be sorry if i did..and challenge me to fight with him ..Thats trigger me off..i alway tell myself to tolerate with pax but so sorry this time i cant

    Anyway the fare is not an issue,i will not report to police as i seen alot of cases online that police cant help us with these..i only just cant stand the behaviour and the words he said that we are low iq..as if like we Sporean have to follow and do what they say

    Source: RichArd Hao Koh

  • Condo Resident Cheats Taxi Driver Of Fare, Threatens To Lodge Complain With Taxi Company

    Condo Resident Cheats Taxi Driver Of Fare, Threatens To Lodge Complain With Taxi Company

    All taxi drivers. Please beware of this lady.

    She took taxi from Clifford center to a condo in Tanjong Rhu and left without paying the fare. She complained that the driver took long route and want to lodge a complain and refuse to pay and tried to run away.

    The driver asked the security guard at the condo about her and he said she does not stay there.

    Checked with the taxi company and the reply was no complain was lodged and obviously she is trying to take a free ride. Tried to make a police report and the police said they cannot do anything about it unless she repeats many times.

    There is nothing that can be done so just want to make this post to warn other taxi fellows and also shame her. It’s sad that there are such people taking advantage of others.

     

    Source: David Phang

  • Young Punks The Bane Of Taxi Drivers

    Young Punks The Bane Of Taxi Drivers

    Instead, the easy-going veteran cabby prefers to take everything in his stride.

    He told The New Paper: “To tell you the truth, the bad overrides the good most of the time (in this industry). Perhaps it is my nature to forget them and not take them to heart.

    “The day is still long, tomorrow will be a better day. So as far as possible, I try to make it easier on myself so that the job is less stressful.

    “We give and take, we cannot take things too hard to survive in this world.”

    So how does he deal with difficult passengers or bad days?

    Mr Gan takes coffee breaks, sometimes with his ‘kakis’ to recharge. TNP PHOTO: Noor Ashikin Abdul Rahman

     

    “If I can sense that the passengers are (up to no good) and purposely making me drive all around the island, I will advise them to split cabs as that is more cost-effective for them. Usually, I’m pretty successful,” he said.

    And if passengers end up evading the fare, he let it slide.

    “If it’s only $10 or $20 then it’s not a big bomb. Is it worth making you so unhappy? Forget it,” said Mr Gan, who drives a Trans-Cab taxi.

    Mr Gan, who does the early shift, became a taxi driver in 1990 after his renovation business failed.

    The sole breadwinner and father of three grown children has been with multiple taxi companies over the years, including Comfort and CityCab.

    On weekdays, he usually starts at about 6.30am and ends at 5.30pm.

    Mr Gan with some of his fellow cabby buddies at lunch. TNP PHOTO: NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN

     

    He might be in his 60s and has been in the trade for far longer than his younger counterparts but he is far from “jaded”.

    Eager to learn and improve himself, Mr Gan signed up as a driver-partner with ride-hailing service GrabCar in 2013.

    He had initial reservations about the service but was eager to try it out for himself.

    He admitted that many of his friends – both taxi drivers and non-taxi drivers alike – constantly debated the pros and cons of ride-hailing services like GrabCar.

    “There was even quarrelling among ourselves, with some saying that it was stealing their rice bowl. I told them, ‘If you can’t beat them, join them. Why not?” he said.

    According to Mr Gan, he has enjoyed a 15 per cent increase in income since joining GrabCar.

    Before this, he earned anything from $20 to $100 daily.

    But a steady income is little comfort for some of his cabby friends within his age group.

    “Some of them are not willing to learn, some are also stubborn. But I always tell them that is they are not willing to change or upgrade, they will become obsolete one day,” he said.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • German CEO Of DB Schenker Logistics (Asia Pacific) Jailed 2 Weeks And Fined For Slapping Taxi Driver

    German CEO Of DB Schenker Logistics (Asia Pacific) Jailed 2 Weeks And Fined For Slapping Taxi Driver

    A drunk German chief executive was given two weeks’ jail and fined $1,000 for slapping a taxi driver and kicking his vehicle after the cabby had declined to pick him up.

    Jochen Thewes, 45, of DB Schenker Logistics (Asia Pacific), had earlier paid $2,950 in compensation to the driver and apologised to him in court. He also paid $250 for repair work on the damaged cab.

    Thewes, who was fined $1,000 for causing damage to the taxi, is appealing against the conviction and sentence over the charge of causing hurt by slapping.

    At about 3.50am on Sept 24 last year, cab driver Malcolm Xu, 33, was at a taxi stand at Tan Tye Place, Club Street, when he declined to pick up a drunk-looking Thewes. Thewes then walked over to the driver’s side and kicked the locked door.

    When Mr Xu opened his door to check the damage, Thewes pushed him and slapped him on his left cheek. Mr Xu suffered a bruised and bleeding nose, and was treated at a private clinic the next day.

    Mr Xu testified in court that he thought Thewes was drunk, which was why the cab ahead of his vehicle at the taxi stand did not want to pick him up and had driven away .

    Thewes appeared unhappy and frustrated, and hurled vulgarities at him when Mr Xu explained he could not pick him up as he was headed east to change shift and not to the destination sought by Thewes.

    Deputy Public Prosecutor Stephanie Koh argued that Mr Xu’s evidence was consistent with video footage in the area and that Thewes was inebriated after a night of drinking and had approached cabs intending to go to another place.

    Mr Xu did not ” exaggerate or embellish” his account, which was supported by other evidence, she said.

    District Judge Salina Ishak was convinced, noting in judgment grounds released yesterday, among other things, that closed-circuit television footage showed Thewes behaving in a “drunken and unruly manner”. She ruled that Thewes lacked credibility in court when his defence was simply that he was too intoxicated to remember what had happened.

    In mitigation, Thewes, through his lawyer Selva K. Naidu, acknowledged that it was shameful for him to have behaved in the way he did and said he had learnt his lesson.

    Mr Naidu added that this was a brief incident and there was early compensation paid for the victim’s injury and damage to the car.

    The judge, in finding Thewes guilty, pointed to aggravating factors which warranted a two-week jail term.

    “This was a case of an unprovoked assault by an intoxicated offender on a public transport worker in the course of his duty in the wee hours of the morning,” she said.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com