Wasted Time.

On Wednesday 29th Feb, I was lucky not to be caught in the very long taxi queue at Rumah Tinggi Road for all Premier taxis to have taximeters re-adjusted. I was unaware of the compulsory call to go to our Company's workshop as I was still asleep. A message was sent to me at 10.30am and by the time I saw it, it was already past the dateline time at 12pm. Anyway, when I call the office, they told me that the time had been extended to 6.00pm and so I quickly made my way there but by then, no queue was in sight. I had my meter properly adjusted and all was back to normal.

The Company overlooked the change of date because this year was a Leap year and every one of us were caught unawares, eventually causing traffic jams and worst of all, loss of incomes for taxi drivers for time wasted in the long queues.

The rest of the day remained quiet and uneventful. It was a dull and slow workday.

New Taximeter Fares.

Today Premier Taxis, all Silver Cabs will be on the roads with their taximeters fully adjusted to the new fare structures similar to Comfort Delgo and SMRT present fares.  All Taxi Companies have raised their fares except for Prime Taxi who are still awaiting their Taxi Drivers' discussions and opinions before deciding on making any changes.

Today, I will be looking forward to experience passengers awareness and comments for my new taximeter fares. I feel that the impact of the Fare Hikes have subsided somewhat and business have continued to be like what it was before. Strangely enough though, for the past two weeks, I did have some queries and gripes about the increases but they number less than ten questions or so and that too, from rather mild statements of acceptances and feelings about being comfortable or not when paying their revised fares.

This is the last Friday and Saturday of year 2011 and I am excited and rearing to go. Its going to be hard work and I expect non-stop ferrying of passengers as well as a long awaited year end bonus.