By July - Single telephone booking network

• Poolman

  27 Jan 08, 04:45

  Step A :Voice prompt system
  Please press 1 to book a comfort or citycab
  
  Please press 2 to book a smrt taxi
  
  Please press 3 to book a SilverCab
  
  Please press 4 to book a TransCab
  
  Please press 5 to book a Smart Cab
  
  Please press 6 to book a Private Yellow top
  
  Please press 7 to book a Prime cab
  
  Step B
  Please press 1 to book a normal cab
  
  Please press 2 to make an advance booking
  
  Please press 3 to book a white Mercedes
  
  Please press 4 to book a 7-seater
  
  Please press 5 to cancell a booking
  
  Please press 6 for Lost & Found
  
  Please press 0 to speak to a customer service consultant
  
  Step C
  Please hold .... *listen to music*
  
  Step D
  Sorry , no taxi available at your area . Please try again , thank you for calling 6xxx-xxxx . Good bye .

  Handphone low batt liao ....
  
  
• Poolman

  27 Jan 08, 04:48

  Then LTA draw lot for the sequence ?
  
  Or LTA fix Comfort first ?
  
  Or SMRT first ?
  
  Can't believe those private companies joing those hypocrites in this exercise . Damn .
  
  Cos i don't see this exercise to benefits the smaller companies .
  
  Hokkien people always say : " If not itchy , don't scratch , if scratch , the skin will peel ."
  
  Dunno which idiot who actually propose this .
  
• Poolman

  27 Jan 08, 05:02

  One of my booking specialist colleague actually said something very logical .
  
  He said .... ComfortDelgro after investing almost 53 million on a "State-of-the art" World Best Taxi booking System , after the fare hike , booking went down , system not fully utilised ,so Comfort now actually franchising out their network .
  
  To recoup those " losses " .
  
  Comfort already had the network software , what the rest need to do , it's to buy their software , and do a programme for their own booking network .
  
  Desperado liao Comfortdelgro .
  
  Sounds logic ??
• ALN

  27 Jan 08, 21:29

  really dont know what is going on... many changes in the taxi industry.... fare hike, taxi stand in CBD, now this booking....
  
  The effect of this new booking on comfort booking is still not certain.... luckily comfort still will retain number '1' in the call digit.
  
  and this taxi stand in CBD, i can foresee a major jam at evening peak around taxi stand....long q for taxis waiting, then taxi alighting pax will just drop off in second lane... then those on call taxi adding further to the mess..... well done to transport planners...