Temp job as TD
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hi all,
gonna quit my job and then take up lessons after getting TVL. wat is the average income of taxi drivers? let's say i take income.
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average $22 per hour before rental and fuel cost .
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$22 if u chose become a lone ranger , just drive with no friends .
For 6 months down the road , still will be $22 per hour , for lone ranger .
No life lone ranger , no friends , no kakis , just drive .
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$28 per hour in 6 months if u blanja Poolman Lavender Kopi and Bugis Beef Noodles
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$35 per hour if Komade bring you around Singapore to hunt for paxes during midnight .
If day shift , i appoint Khoon or JLKL to show you the REAL way of driving .
If u are those blur like f*ck sotong type of driver , i get Jade to bring you go Hoy Fatt Road eat Nasi Padang . Jade N you can be tag-team , name Team Sotong .
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Originally posted by Poolman:
$35 per hour if Komade bring you around Singapore to hunt for paxes during midnight .
If day shift , i appoint Khoon or JLKL to show you the REAL way of driving .
If u are those blur like f*ck sotong type of driver , i get Jade to bring you go Hoy Fatt Road eat Nasi Padang . Jade N you can be tag-team , name Team Sotong .
eh dun say so much wait later big sis jade fly her heels at u then u knoe......... :P
midnite?? ok lar me juz plain lucky lar....... BCL also ask me which god
i pray to?? i juz say maybe taxi god like me lor............ :P
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i still waiting for letter to come for medical checkup then can start TVL lessons asap liao. so poolman and komade, how long have you been a TD and age?
i am 34 this year. so will be pretty young to be a TD..i not sure want i would be sharing relief or not...but likely hood is will share to minimize cost.
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At 34yo, you are still a very needed in the economy, I believe there are jobs that can suit you better than being a TD, please look for other alternative before you really decide to embark on TD, taking a Taxi licence for raining days is good, to put it into a full time job. Think twice.
Of course people tends to look at the own time, own target kind of lifestyle job, that is natural, being a TD is one of those kind of job. You manage yourself without having to report to anyone or face the same ugly boss and colleague faces everyday. In exchange, you forgo CPF contribution, Medical benefit, bonuses, promotion, increment, annual leaves and many other benefits and perks such as transport claim, dental, overtime, allowances and so on. You need to focus on all these before you truly decided to be a TD, this trade command self discipline, business and quality service mind, which from day to day, you also will face road, paxs, traffic, authority and other cabbies problem.
For example let look at earning power, drive cab on mean average can take in 3k per month net, cold hard cash without CPF deduction. In working life, you get 20% CPF deduction meaning you are left with $2.4k, however company will have to contribute another 16% for you, which is about $460, total money go into CPF $1060 which is further distributed into SA and medisave. In total wage concern, company pay you $3460 base on the basic of 3k, and if you work overtime with allowances, you get more base on the above percentage.
I am saying you cannot be come a TD, but by asking the rate of pay of TD, you are actually comparing with working life pay, and if that is the case, I can tell you that if you are earning $2,500 and above, please do serious consideration, if you are below $2000, TD can be an option, but if you are $3K and above, better stick to working life. That's my opinon. At your age, you economy value to the industrial is still very high and worthy, try to find a job, do some partime upgrading and by 40+yo, you could be a someone on top looking down. A man by 40+yo is at his peak of his career, by that time, whatever he is doing will be more or less permanent, like we, as TD, die die TD until the end, no return, who would want to employ a 40+yo singaporean now a day, and especially so a former cab driver, sure like to argue and do his own way. On the other hand, as a TD for so many years, you simply cannot be able to adapt to working life anymore, what 8am punch card or sign in, 6pm go back, rush mrt, buses...tomorrow must complete the job, office politics, work base on bosses mood and not yours...fcuk lah.
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Originally posted by bowah:
you simply cannot be able to adapt to working life anymore, what 8am punch card or sign in, 6pm go back, rush mrt, buses...tomorrow must complete the job, office politics, work base on bosses mood and not yours...fcuk lah.
You hit the nail on the head! I am presently lookin to come back to the taxi life. -
isn't mention of our income is prohibited here.
and poolman, you break it first somemore.
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Originally posted by Poolman:
$28 per hour in 6 months if u blanja Poolman Lavender Kopi and Bugis Beef Noodles
No wonder there are 26,073 taxis on the road......
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Originally posted by Poolman:
$35 per hour if Komade bring you around Singapore to hunt for paxes during midnight .
With this sentence, the Public Transports will increase the taxis population to 30,000....
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Originally posted by bowah:
At 34yo, you are still a very needed in the economy, I believe there are jobs that can suit you better than being a TD, please look for other alternative before you really decide to embark on TD, taking a Taxi licence for raining days is good, to put it into a full time job. Think twice.
Of course people tends to look at the own time, own target kind of lifestyle job, that is natural, being a TD is one of those kind of job. You manage yourself without having to report to anyone or face the same ugly boss and colleague faces everyday. In exchange, you forgo CPF contribution, Medical benefit, bonuses, promotion, increment, annual leaves and many other benefits and perks such as transport claim, dental, overtime, allowances and so on. You need to focus on all these before you truly decided to be a TD, this trade command self discipline, business and quality service mind, which from day to day, you also will face road, paxs, traffic, authority and other cabbies problem.
For example let look at earning power, drive cab on mean average can take in 3k per month net, cold hard cash without CPF deduction. In working life, you get 20% CPF deduction meaning you are left with $2.4k, however company will have to contribute another 16% for you, which is about $460, total money go into CPF $1060 which is further distributed into SA and medisave. In total wage concern, company pay you $3460 base on the basic of 3k, and if you work overtime with allowances, you get more base on the above percentage.
I am saying you cannot be come a TD, but by asking the rate of pay of TD, you are actually comparing with working life pay, and if that is the case, I can tell you that if you are earning $2,500 and above, please do serious consideration, if you are below $2000, TD can be an option, but if you are $3K and above, better stick to working life. That's my opinon. At your age, you economy value to the industrial is still very high and worthy, try to find a job, do some partime upgrading and by 40+yo, you could be a someone on top looking down. A man by 40+yo is at his peak of his career, by that time, whatever he is doing will be more or less permanent, like we, as TD, die die TD until the end, no return, who would want to employ a 40+yo singaporean now a day, and especially so a former cab driver, sure like to argue and do his own way. On the other hand, as a TD for so many years, you simply cannot be able to adapt to working life anymore, what 8am punch card or sign in, 6pm go back, rush mrt, buses...tomorrow must complete the job, office politics, work base on bosses mood and not yours...fcuk lah.
Yah man like bowah said try to remain in ur present job. Who knows
when u leave they will bring in another FT to replace u.......... then the
situation will escalate until all locals become TD then all FT work in
the offices..........
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Originally posted by komade:
all locals become TD then all FT work in the offices..........
Better than all FTs becums TDs....
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Hi Bro Pentux, I am also interested in joining as TD and have been reading up this forum and doing all the necessary cost/profit calculations. Bro Poolman's and Bowah's estimated earning is realistic. Do your math based on our seniors experience.
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The LTA is going to reduce private car on the road as much as 1.5% per year in the coming years till abt 2015, with about more than 1/2 a million private cars on the road, let give a figure of 600,000 base on below datas, a 1.5 % decrease per year is 9,000 cars gone and in about 4 years, 36,000 cars will be off the road. So, Taxi driver should not worry about the increases in cab population, it is to compensate those who give up car driving, take cab instead, and with a family of 4, the potential pax on the road by 2015 could increase by 100,000 over. So, if by 2015, cab population goes up to 30,000, it is still able to make a living out of cab driving. 100,000 paxs verus a 4000 cab increase. You said ho say bo.
And also remember, there will be more opening of shopping and casinos and many other entertaining places coming up, the aging population where people will take taxis more after working so hard all their life, you ask old people go squeeze MRT ar?
Make Total Car Population as at 31 December 2010
270 0.01%
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Sorry, i post the data again
Make Total Car Population as at 31 December 2010
TOYOTA 162,125 27.12%
HONDA 91,494 15.31%
NISSAN 58,442 9.78%
HYUNDAI 44,031 7.37%
MITSUBISHI 36,412 6.09%
MERCEDES BENZ 30,467 5.10%
B.M.W. 26,411 4.42%
MAZDA 22,527 3.77%
KIA 22,285 3.73%
SUZUKI 14,863 2.49%
SUBARU 13,929 2.33%
CHEVROLET 10,653 1.78%
VOLKSWAGEN 10,123 1.69%
AUDI 7,645 1.28%
VOLVO 6,607 1.11%
PROTON 4,467 0.75%
FORD 3,762 0.63%
PEUGEOT 2,739 0.46%
RENAULT 2,574 0.43%
DAIHATSU 2,557 0.43%
PERODUA 2,535 0.42%
PORSCHE 2,250 0.38%
FIAT 2,246 0.38%
JAGUAR 2,062 0.34%
OPEL 1,794 0.30%
CHERY 1,759 0.29%
MINI 1,656 0.28%
CITROEN 1,275 0.21%
SAAB 1,250 0.21%
ALFA ROMEO 924 0.15%
GEELY 770 0.13%
CHRYSLER 661 0.11%
SKODA 424 0.07%
LAND ROVER 392 0.07%
MASERATI 382 0.06%
FERRARI 360 0.06%
SSANGYONG 358 0.06%
HAFEI 333 0.06%
BENTLEY 268 0.04%
LAMBORGHINI 250 0.04%
ROLLS ROYCE 172 0.03%
AUSTIN 152 0.03%
ASTON MARTIN 134 0.02%
JEEP 132 0.02%
M.G. 121 0.02%
LOTUS 115 0.02%
DONGFENG 103 0.02%
MORRIS 98 0.02%
DAEWOO 77 0.01%
CHANA 66 0.01%
WULING 60 0.01%
ZOTYE 52 0.01%
DODGE 51 0.01%
ROVER 39 0.01%
MITSUOKA 38 0.01%
TRIUMPH 33 0.01%
NAZA 31 0.01%
HUMMER 23 0.00%
DAIMLER 20 0.00%
SEAT 14 0.00%
DATSUN 13 0.00%
ISUZU 9 0.00%
SUNBEAM 8 0.00%
MORGAN 8 0.00%
MG-F 8 0.00%
HOLDEN 7 0.00%
PANTHER 7 0.00%
TD CARS 7 0.00%
GOLDEN DRAGON 6 0.00%
LANCIA 5 0.00%
MINI MAYFAIR 5 0.00%
Others
270 0.01%
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Originally posted by Poolman:
$35 per hour if Komade bring you around Singapore to hunt for paxes during midnight .
If day shift , i appoint Khoon or JLKL to show you the REAL way of driving .
If u are those blur like f*ck sotong type of driver , i get Jade to bring you go Hoy Fatt Road eat Nasi Padang . Jade N you can be tag-team , name Team Sotong .
o.o got real and un-real way of driving one ah?
khoon veri simple one... got pax flag juz take lor... but when pax tell the destination and decided on the route liao... already muz think when drop liao wil hav conection? got png taxi stand? is it a hot zone for red calls? if not... den where will the next pax be flagging for khoon's red ferrari?
hoy fatt rd kopi tiam nice lei... jade bring khoon der before... on the day she kenan the giant wave... hee hee...
pool... khoon blanja u Lim Kee Beef Noodles (the original stall at old old old bugis - my grandfather - pass on to my uncle - at golden mile hawker centre now)... can my income up abit more? hee hee...
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Originally posted by bowah:
The LTA is going to reduce private car on the road as much as 1.5% per year in the coming years till abt 2015, with about more than 1/2 a million private cars on the road, let give a figure of 600,000 base on below datas, a 1.5 % decrease per year is 9,000 cars gone and in about 4 years, 36,000 cars will be off the road. So, Taxi driver should not worry about the increases in cab population, it is to compensate those who give up car driving, take cab instead, and with a family of 4, the potential pax on the road by 2015 could increase by 100,000 over. So, if by 2015, cab population goes up to 30,000, it is still able to make a living out of cab driving. 100,000 paxs verus a 4000 cab increase. You said ho say bo.
And also remember, there will be more opening of shopping and casinos and many other entertaining places coming up, the aging population where people will take taxis more after working so hard all their life, you ask old people go squeeze MRT ar?
Well, with a higher prevailing COE (to renew 10 yo vehicles), there are a very high chance that the older cars will be taken off the road. Not being realistic paying high premiums on OLD CARs.
Bro Bowah, what you had mentioned can be true... nothing but the truth...
.If the taxis' fares remains constant... There are a high chance of passengers (used to be drivers) will be shifting into Taxis as an alternative...
From my understanding... the taxi fares will be raising soon....(hopefully not much)....
Hence there will be a big shift to the Public Transports....
The Cycle line makes it more convenient to some....
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
Better than all FTs becums TDs....
yah man then i worry when my wife/gf/mistress wan to take a taxi....... :P
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Originally posted by Khoon2580:
o.o got real and un-real way of driving one ah?
khoon veri simple one... got pax flag juz take lor... but when pax tell the destination and decided on the route liao... already muz think when drop liao wil hav conection? got png taxi stand? is it a hot zone for red calls? if not... den where will the next pax be flagging for khoon's red ferrari?
hoy fatt rd kopi tiam nice lei... jade bring khoon der before... on the day she kenan the giant wave... hee hee...
pool... khoon blanja u Lim Kee Beef Noodles (the original stall at old old old bugis - my grandfather - pass on to my uncle - at golden mile hawker centre now)... can my income up abit more? hee hee...
wah Khoon tat 1 ur grandfather open 1 ah?? the beef noodles nice leh~~~~
hoy fatt rd inside got 1 kopitiam they call it the "car dealers starbucks"
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
Well, with a higher prevailing COE (to renew 10 yo vehicles), there are a very high chance that the older cars will be taken off the road. Not being realistic paying high premiums on OLD CARs.
Bro Bowah, what you had mentioned can be true... nothing but the truth...
.If the taxis' fares remains constant... There are a high chance of passengers (used to be drivers) will be shifting into Taxis as an alternative...
From my understanding... the taxi fares will be raising soon....(hopefully not much)....
Hence there will be a big shift to the Public Transports....
The Cycle line makes it more convenient to some....
dun worry bro those wan to take taxi 1 still take taxi 1.........
like at vivo knn got NEL but still so many punggol/sengkang etc..........
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Originally posted by komade:
dun worry bro those wan to take taxi 1 still take taxi 1.........
like at vivo knn got NEL but still so many punggol/sengkang etc..........
@ Vivo City, Pax 90% go west.....
.Damn scared going there (when I was a TD)... becos, Go west after 10pm, Tuas also no call...
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Originally posted by komade:
dun worry bro those wan to take taxi 1 still take taxi 1.........
like at vivo knn got NEL but still so many punggol/sengkang etc..........
If the Taxi fares remain constant... then Pax don't feel the pinch...
If Taxi fares will to go up & adapt to Chrysler's 30 cents meter jump, then it will definitely be a turn-off for the pax.
There are discussions by the Taxi companies that there is a possibility that it may happen (new meter jumps).... only when will it happen... (the timing must be right so as the consumers can absorb the hike in fares).
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Cannot talk about income here leh. Later school principal scold you all again