Do you the Singapore Government will allow foreigners to drive taxi in Singapore?.?

Question

In Singapore there are many taxis without drivers! Why?

because many Singaporean shun being a taxi driver as there better jobs available elsewhere. Also because being a taxi driver is a tough job with uncertain income.

Some Government linked taxi companies are laden with very large number of taxis that are idle assests. Faced with this situation, do you think the Government will allow foreigners to drive taxi?. If yes, don't you think that the

Government is making life even harder for the existing taxi drivers who are already having a hard time earning a decent living?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

As this question is an opinionated one, I'll give my 5 cents worth.

1. Is taxi fares raised solely to help the existing drivers?

    Yes & No. Yes, because the taxi drivers enjoy an

     immediate increase in their income. No, because the

     taxi companies had difficulties in recruiting drivers,

     therefore, they had to make driving taxi a more

     attractive vocation with an increase income through

     fare increase. Any job that offers a higher income

     would attract more applicants. If taxi companies had

     no difficulties in get drivers, then why are there almost

     daily advertisements for taxi drivers with lots of

     incentives offered. Also why are there frequent job

     recruitment fair at shopping malls, MRT, CC. etc.?

     Even "wise-one" place one here!!!!

2. In any business, wrong anticipation of market demand

    is a calculated risk. Hence, excess inventories do

    happen just like having excess taxi without drivers.  

    

3. Similarly, when more taxi companies join the fray it

    inadvertently creates competition for labour &

    passengers.  

4. I believe that any reasonably educated person with

    a valid driving licence should be able to quite easily

    qualified as a taxi driver in Singapore.

5. I believe too that there are many taxi drivers licence

    holders who are not driving taxi for a living.

6. If it's true that getting Singaporean to drive taxi is that\

    tough, should the Government allow qualified

    Malaysian to fill the gap?. They have done it for other

    industries with labour shortage, why not taxi driving?

    

I think they will do it only as a last resort. Maybe my points

are based on a "misinformed" mind.

Answer 3

I don't think any foreigners would be stupid enough to come all the way here to drive a cab, when the local cabbies (most) are already finding it hard to cope with the living standards here with the income they are receiving.

However, I am seeing the possibility of Malaysians joining in the queue to be one as it is logical for them to sustain their living if they are mainly residing in JB or parts of Malaysia.

Answer 4

First of all, if you want to become a taxi driver, you should understand about the unstable income. If the government didn't want to help, the Land Transport Authority wouldn't have raised prices this year. A recent news report shows that the average cab driver can make between $1.5K to $3K a month.

And none of the companies have a high rate of unhired taxis like you claim. They must have a certain quota of cars on the road to qualify as a taxi company, and the extra cars are for if they recruit more drivers or if one of their cars has to be scrapped. Since their source of income is from people renting these taxis, there is no reason for them to keep a large number unused.

Thirdly, there are more taxis on the road now than ever - with 2 new companies joining the fray a few years back. If there were people "shunning" the jobs do you think the companies would open? Furthermore, do you know what it takes to become a taxi driver in Singapore? There is a rigorous selection that takes place, and a person has to sign up sometimes months in advance to become one, even going through several interviews sometimes.

I hope you are not Singaporean, because if you are, you are very misinformed.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

should allow

Answer 7

I dun think i wan to be driven around town by someone who doesn't know the S'pore roads well....transports costs r high enough....no need to pay extra by going in circles....esp by someone who is unfamiliar with local road regulations...(my Little life is too precious)....

By the way, the amount of taxis idling in the "govt linked" taxi companies...is not a clear inidcation of S'porean refusing to be taxi drivers (it could be 1 possibility)....it could also mean tat:

1) there r too many taxi companies on the road...so taxi drivers can "job-hop".

2) making a decent living out of driving taxi in S'pore is impossible now, due to high costs (e.g. ERP, Fuel, Maintenance / Repairs, Insurance, taxes, rental)....so i dun think giving foreigners a chance to suffer in place of s'poreans is a good idea...

3) the rental in"govt-linked" taxi companies r too high, as compared to other taxi companies...so "why pay more??"

Hmmm...(on a personal note): when the s'pore govt says they wan "foreign talents", I dun tink "Taxi-Driver" or "Good Driving skills" is one of the talents their looking for....unless ur name is "Michael / Ralf Schumacher"...or .."Fernando Alonso"

Cheers...

P/S: marchcalf ...chill out...