Thread: Reporting Taxi Drivers.

do pay attention at the back there .

BANGKOK, Feb 15 - Any Bangkok taxi driver found repeatedly shunning would-be passengers will soon be at risk having his/her driver’s license suspended or even revoked, the Department of Land Transport chief warned.
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The department is considering additional penalties against taxi drivers who turn down passengers as the agency has been flooded with complaints.

Land Transport Department Director General Somchai Siriwatanachoke said the department imposed a Bt1,000 fine on any taxi driver who refused to accept intending passengers since September. However, complaints from passengers over the issue account for over 60 per cent of all complaints regarding taxi services.

To solve the problem, he said, the department has prepared to take legal action against those who repeatedly reject passengers by suspending and revoking his/her public driving licences.

Moreover, Mr Somchai said, the department has invited managers of 35 leading department stores in Bangkok and adjacent areas where there are taxi stands nearby to discuss measures to solve the problem.

All department stores have been asked for cooperation to install signboards publicising regulations that taxi drivers are forbidden to refuse passengers.

He said that CCTV cameras will also be installed at the taxi stands to record the images and behaviour of taxi drivers who violate the regulations.

Call centre telephone number 1584 for receiving complaints will also be publicised, he said.

The Land Transport Department's passenger protection centre 1584 hotline is available around the clock. Passengers may lodge complaints by giving details on the registration number, time, date and place to make it easier for the authorities to track down violators. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2013-02-15

its called giving good customer service, and its the law.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I agree that fares are too low. But I don't think it's the minimum fare because they are very happy to do the shortest trips. It must be the stuck in traffic fares, along with the boredom of it, and also the chance of getting back to the depot in time at the end of their shift...

Outside of this.....taxi fares are still one of the best [and real] values found in the golden land. This is certainly true of "non-metered" variety.

Across the city or across the country.

Originally Posted by taxexile

its called giving good customer service, and its the law.

Maybe when the law mandates remotely fair pay for the work, the law will get the respect it deserves.

Just as you, your wife or anyone else will get the service they desire if they pay for it. Insist on paying the rates mandated by the corrupt bastards and you can wait for the next cab. And the next one.

And the next.

oh dear, the mad ramblings of the urban guerilla.

funny thing is, when we eventually did get a cab we spoke to the driver about this and he said that he never refused a fare and was happy enough with his income. he said those who refuse fares are usually unreliable, more likely to cheat and are generally despised by other cabdrivers as they give them a bad name.

of course you can see it as workers fighting for a fare wage, although how refusing work will swell their paypackets is beyond me, but you, as one of the forums more ridiculous characters, obviously know best.

Like a little convention of forelock tuggers! How thrilling for you that must have been.

Did you reminisce about your days "in service", you old cumguzzler, you?

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

Originally Posted by mao say dung

Just how fucking stupid are you? The "conditions of employment"?

That's what harrys boss tells him every time he smashes his back doors in.

Humour him dung - have a heart

p.s you're a bellend too

Shaggy you appear to have lost what little marbles you had.

Stuff a sock in it and go and bend over for some more of your mate ENT's wisdom.

Feed the meter

Originally Posted by taxexile

why?

they take the job agreeing not to refuse fares.

stopping for a passenger and then deciding yes or no is rather different to just driving by and not stopping at all.

Its their own business. They can pick their customers.

So quit your groaning and bitching

Its their own business. They can pick their customers.

So quit your groaning and bitching

yawn.

Originally Posted by chassamui

I have been mostly lucky with my limited experience of Bangkok taxi drivers

I don't think you have been lucky.

I use a minimum of 3 taxis a day and only occassionally from a 'touist area'.

I get in tell them where I am going and they drive me there at least 90% of the time.

That's a percentage that tells me you have not been lucky, you've just had a normal experience.

And how many of us have jumped out of a Bangkok taxi and onto a mocy leaving the poor cab driver stranded in traffic with 40 baht ?

can't just be me

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

taxis that are in ever deteriorating condition

Thailand's taxis are probably the best in S.E.A

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Originally Posted by chassamui

I have been mostly lucky with my limited experience of Bangkok taxi drivers

I don't think you have been lucky.

I use a minimum of 3 taxis a day and only occassionally from a 'touist area'.

I get in tell them where I am going and they drive me there at least 90% of the time.

That's a percentage that tells me you have not been lucky, you've just had a normal experience.

My experience exactly.

Which is why the whiners are just perpetual whiners rather than people with a point of view.

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

The minimum fare is far too low. That's why 50% won't pick up. It's 100% dependent on what time of the day it is and the corresponding traffic flow

Exactly.

If Thailand wants to eradicate bad service then it should ensure the taxi drivers can earn a realistic income. Fares have not been increased for at least five years, but costs have risen considerably in that time. Even the BTS fares have risen this year.

So what we get is drivers working 12 hour shifts with the aid of Red Bull, driving like a bat out of Hell to make their fare as fast as possible, refusing to take fares where the journey involves a traffic jam, and taxis that are in ever deteriorating condition.

Upping the fares won't stop them scamming, it will just increase the cost of the scams.

And better service won't shut the whining racist pigfuckers up... they'll just move on to another "condition of employment" to use to disguise their ugly sense of privilege and superiority.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

No one is forcing people to drive taxis in Bangkok and one can always phone for a taxi. Sure it costs 50 baht more which would suit the posters who think the drivers should be paid more!

it's 20 baht to call one

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

taxis that are in ever deteriorating condition

Thailand's taxis are probably the best in S.E.A

I think Singapore taxis are the best as they obey the law and will not even take tips- not allowed.

Originally Posted by mao say dung

And better service won't shut the whining racist pigfuckers up... they'll just move on to another "condition of employment" to use to disguise their ugly sense of privilege and superiority.

"racist pigfuckers"?

Are you one of these wankers who gets scammed constantly and doesn't have the balls to stand up for yourself except on an anonymous forum?

You fucking idiot.

No, not at all.

What other than wishful thinking makes you think that, o jizzmop's ballwiper?

I also hate most of these monkeys.

Sad for the good ones.

Good monkeys = the ones who suck up to you for cash?