Taxi drivers quit union.....

[GoldenDragon]

UBER is known as what is called a industry game changer,Comfort del gro and the others are known as sinkie losers who prefer the old monopolistic model......if comfort and city cab was anywhere as smart as the guys at Uber they would be worth 50 billion by now.

agree. uber has revolutionised public transportation. comfort delgro is merely a follower.

 

[shittypore]

Name one Company that under the PAP flag cud do well in an enviroment where there is free Competition?

 

[Debonerman]

agree. uber has revolutionised public transportation. comfort delgro is merely a follower.

I hope to see the day when there will be an alternative choice of a Uber or Grab government.

 

[Debonerman]

The existing cab companies such as Comfort etc surely must have seen Uber and the like making strides nearly 2 years ago in the US and later in the UK. Central to the popularity is their app and customer preferring to use these app not only to hail the cabs but also to keep a record. Why did they not jump on the bandwagon and create these apps. Why did they wait until it was too late. We have one of the best and reliable and certainly affordable cab service compared to many other countries. Gone are the days where people call up and wait for the bookings.

I heard from taxi drivers Comfort is working double time to duplicate the successful interloping apps. Apps or no apps it is not going to change the attitude of customers of a Comfort taxi. Never showing up and complaining at the slightest excuse to.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

The cabbies should quit their companies and join uber or grabcar.
Already I heard cab calling centers are suffering due to the new call cab apps.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

The existing cab companies such as Comfort etc surely must have seen Uber and the like making strides nearly 2 years ago in the US and later in the UK. Central to the popularity is their app and customer preferring to use these app not only to hail the cabs but also to keep a record. Why did they not jump on the bandwagon and create these apps. Why did they wait until it was too late. We have one of the best and reliable and certainly affordable cab service compared to many other countries. Gone are the days where people call up and wait for the bookings.

Good point. In fact both sinkie and Malaysian companies were slow to react or did not react at all. People at the top must have been asleep. And how much are we paying comfortdelgro's CEO each year? For his salary you'd think he'd bother to actually keep his eyes open and anticipate challenges. In a normal corporation it is conceivable such a CEO would have been given the boot by now

 

[shittypore]

Remembered few yrs back how they boast tat their call center made 6 million in 3mths on surcharge.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

I heard from taxi drivers Comfort is working double time to duplicate the successful interloping apps. Apps or no apps it is not going to change the attitude of customers of a Comfort taxi. Never showing up and complaining at the slightest excuse to.

It's going to be useless and the money spent will just benefit some crony again....like the stupid LTA cab monitoring app.
Grabtaxi already is the best.....comfort can't beat it as they can't include rival taxi companies like grabtaxi.
They should just count themselves lucky as they still can get a cut from grabtaxi. Better close down their call centers.

 

[mojito]

The existing cab companies such as Comfort etc surely must have seen Uber and the like making strides nearly 2 years ago in the US and later in the UK. Central to the popularity is their app and customer preferring to use these app not only to hail the cabs but also to keep a record. Why did they not jump on the bandwagon and create these apps. Why did they wait until it was too late. We have one of the best and reliable and certainly affordable cab service compared to many other countries. Gone are the days where people call up and wait for the bookings.

These are unnecessary overheads that will eat into profits. More effort should be spent expanding the fleet more cheaply.

 

[mojito]

Good point. In fact both sinkie and Malaysian companies were slow to react or did not react at all. People at the top must have been asleep. And how much are we paying comfortdelgro's CEO each year? For his salary you'd think he'd bother to actually keep his eyes open and anticipate challenges. In a normal corporation it is conceivable such a CEO would have been given the boot by now

It is but one of many business units, one of many daily responsinilities of a CEO of a GLC. Even if i explain, you won't understand lah.

 

[glockman]

I do not pity those taxi companies. I pity the hirers/drivers. The companies should've looked out for them and foresee the rise of Grab and Uber. Don't they have highly paid Directors and strategic planners? These drivers are focused on covering their daily taxi rental and eking out a living. As always, the little guys always suffer more.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Taxi companies aren't happy with Uber and Grab for many reasons. One of the most jialat for them is the many taxis that aren't rented out!

 

[GoldenDragon]

I do not pity those taxi companies. I pity the hirers/drivers. The companies should've looked out for them and foresee the rise of Grab and Uber. Don't they have highly paid Directors and strategic planners? These drivers are focused on covering their daily taxi rental and eking out a living. As always, the little guys always suffer more.

Agree. These fuckers saw the storm coming but decided to do nothing. Useless bastards.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Agree. These fuckers saw the storm coming but decided to do nothing. Useless bastards.

They thot govt will simply protect them with outright ban.
They din count on uber roping in mdn ho.

 

[glockman]

Agree. These fuckers saw the storm coming but decided to do nothing. Useless bastards.

As much as we love and support capitalism, when it loses it soul, it can become the worst thing ever.

 

[frenchbriefs]

I heard from taxi drivers Comfort is working double time to duplicate the successful interloping apps. Apps or no apps it is not going to change the attitude of customers of a Comfort taxi. Never showing up and complaining at the slightest excuse to.

its not the apps that matter,the apps are only secondary,a conduit for business......UBER is a game changer,it takes the current business model turns it upside down and changes it completely.....Uber is the anti thesis of what comfort and other traditional taxi companies is and represents,decades old monopolies that have grown stale,old and fat on its own complacency......Uber enables a city to expand its fleet of taxis and taxi drivers exponentially,essentially anyone with a private vehicle can be a taxi driver......this brings the cost of doing business down to mere fraction of its former cost and bringing the benefits of scale of economy to customers.becoming Uber isnt simply as installing a app that helps u find taxis,becoming UBER means Comfort must first destroy itself as a business model,only then can the new takes its place.

 

[scroobal]

Customers can't be bothered what happens behind the scenes. All they want is a service that is on call, has automated payment service, a sense of security and accountability. All that resides in the app on their handphone. From the start to the end there is an easily accessible audit trail that cannot be tampered with. The GPS on the cab and the customer's side helps tremendously. The app made all this take place with the customer in mind.

Nobody takes a taxi because the taxi company's business model is better.

its not the apps that matter,the apps are only secondary,a conduit for business......UBER is a game changer,it takes the current business model turns it upside down and changes it completely.....Uber is the anti thesis of what comfort and other traditional taxi companies is and represents,decades old monopolies that have grown stale,old and fat on its own complacency......Uber enables a city to expand its fleet of taxis and taxi drivers exponentially,essentially anyone with a private vehicle can be a taxi driver......this brings the cost of doing business down to mere fraction of its former cost and bringing the benefits of scale of economy to customers.becoming Uber isnt simply as installing a app that helps u find taxis,becoming UBER means Comfort must first destroy itself as a business model,only then can the new takes its place.

 

[scroobal]

Agree, they have let down the very people that bring their companies the revenue. Corporate and staff negligence.

I do not pity those taxi companies. I pity the hirers/drivers. The companies should've looked out for them and foresee the rise of Grab and Uber. Don't they have highly paid Directors and strategic planners? These drivers are focused on covering their daily taxi rental and eking out a living. As always, the little guys always suffer more.

 

[frenchbriefs]

Garmen like to complain about Singapore not being productive,but when opportunities and innovations like this appear to make businesses more productive,they balk and shrink away from it......instead they focus on worthless procedures like increasing prices and fare hikes to make up for their lack of competence and inefficiency in business........isnt the reason why everything is so goddam expensive in singapore a sign that there are massive unproductivity and incompetence in singapore?that massive amounts of money and resources is being wasted or siphoned away in the process of manufacturing or doing business????why the hell does it cost 5b to construct a 5km highway in singapore when china can build thousands of km of highway even across oceans for a fraction of that????why does it cost billions upon billions to expand the mrt line????why does garden by the bays cost a billion to build and 50 million every year to maintain?why does a pigeon hole cost 399k in singapore when everything is build by chinese and made of substandard materials and construction?why does it cost 10 bucks just to fry 3 pieces of chicken in singapore and the chicken is so poor quality compared to australia and the wages are three times lower in singapore than ozzieland????

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Garmen like to complain about Singapore not being productive,but when opportunities and innovations like this appear to make businesses more productive,they balk and shrink away from it......instead they focus on worthless procedures like increasing prices and fare hikes to make up for their lack of competence and inefficiency in business........isnt the reason why everything is so goddam expensive in singapore a sign that there are massive unproductivity and incompetence in singapore?that massive amounts of money and resources is being wasted or siphoned away in the process of manufacturing or doing business????why the hell does it cost 5b to construct a 5km highway in singapore when china can build thousands of km of highway even across oceans for a fraction of that????why does it cost billions upon billions to expand the mrt line????why does garden by the bays cost a billion to build and 50 million every year to maintain?why does a pigeon hole cost 399k in singapore when everything is build by chinese and made of substandard materials and construction?why does it cost 10 bucks just to fry 3 pieces of chicken in singapore?

Because pap wants a cut out of everything.
Suharto's wife was called tien percent.....pap is even more vile than 10%