Grab & Go-Jek driver lip lai - Part 6

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If tio cbd in morning peak go tanjong rhu pick up ceca.

Morning peak lei.

I do morning very sian one.

1 trip go in cbd mean waste time empty car out liao.

Also dont know where to go after drop cbd

now my pattern is cbd liao jiu nicole highway back to geylang then if no ping then to marine parade east coast rd there

Kana the mapletree business city lagi steam. :s22:

For me i not very skill like u all one ah. I most happy morning kana hdb to hdb. Usually that kind can b2b a lot


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If tio cbd in morning peak go tanjong rhu pick up ceca.

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Rowell go suntec. Thought go tanjong rhu try try.

I think when people suay ah give him what also become sai one :s13:
 

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Morning if end cbd don't go geylang, if can go orchard river valley better, sometimes get gd surge bring you to airport, drop le can go simei bedok kio surge.

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Hello everyone, gonna start driving grab soon..

Would be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction for the best rental company out there.

Looking at 6/12 months contract. Looked at grab rental for a prius it says 41/ day on their website, but I assume they are including the $100-150 weekly incentives and the completion bonus into this price? Are they the cheapest already?

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Hello everyone, gonna start driving grab soon..

Would be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction for the best rental company out there.

Looking at 6/12 months contract. Looked at grab rental for a prius it says 41/ day on their website, but I assume they are including the $100-150 weekly incentives and the completion bonus into this price? Are they the cheapest already?

Thanks thanks

Lion City Rental

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Morning if end cbd don't go geylang, if can go orchard river valley better, sometimes get gd surge bring you to airport, drop le can go simei bedok kio surge.

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Morning after cbd I only know where not to go. Don't go chinatown or bukit merah area. Sure dead zone.
 

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New superhero arriving on scheduled to take on incumbent superheroes Grab and ComfortDelgro. Shares of ComfortDelgro felt the heat, retreated over last two days.

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Go-Jek revs up to get going in Singapore
PUBLISHED OCT 10, 2018

Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek has roped in half a dozen car rental firms to supply vehicles and sign on drivers in preparation for a Singapore launch set for next month.

The Straits Times understands that the Grab rival - whose investors include state investment firm Temasek and Internet giant Google - will enter the market solo.

Previously, the Jakarta app start-up was in talks with local taxi giant ComfortDelGro to explore a tie-up.

The latter had earlier entered into an agreement to buy 12,500 cars from Uber's Lion City Rentals - a deal which was terminated after Uber's exit from the Singapore market early this year.

According to industry sources, six rental firms have been invited by Go-Jek to sign up private-hire drivers and supply vehicles to those who do not have their own.

Following the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore's (CCCS) non-exclusivity clause for private-hire players, Go-Jek is also free to contact the estimated 70,000 drivers who are using the Grab app.

Go-Jek has not been available for comment, but sources said the newcomer is expected to offer sweeteners to win over drivers and customers. "We hear that they will not charge any commission, at least initially," one said.

The rental firms working with Go-Jek refused to comment, citing non-disclosure agreements.

Observers said the firm had timed its entry so that it would be after the CCCS verdict on Grab's acquisition of Uber's South-east Asia operation. Go-Jek was founded in 2010 by Indonesian Nadiem Makarim, who - like Grab co-founders Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling - attended Harvard Business School.

The commission ruled last month that the acquisition was anti-competitive, and fined Grab and Uber a total of $13 million.

Immediately after the verdict was announced, Go-Jek issued a statement saying: "We are now confident that Singapore will have a robust, efficient and competitive market, and that our arrival will have a significantly positive impact on the lives of people in Singapore." It added that the CCCS' verdict had removed a "very high barrier to entry".

Like Grab, Go-Jek will adopt an asset-light strategy in Singapore - hence its move to rope in rental firms. Go-Jek, whose app in Indonesia extends to food delivery and massage services, is likely to offer more than ride-hailing services here.

Consumers are looking forward to Go-Jek's entry. Commuter Anthony Ng said: "It is a very good thing. More competition means more choices for consumers."

The 68-year-old retiree added that there have been times when he could not get a ride despite several attempts.

Former Grab driver Elliot Lin said Go-Jek's arrival will be welcomed by drivers who are unhappy with Grab. "I am sure many drivers are waiting to jump ship," the 33-year-old property agent said.

READY TO ENTER MARKET
We are now confident that Singapore will have a robust, efficient and competitive market, and that our arrival will have a significantly positive impact on the lives of people in Singapore.
GO-JEK STATEMENT, made after the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore ruled that Grab's acquisition of Uber's South-east Asia operation was anti-competitive, and fined the two companies.

GOOD FOR COMMUTERS
It is a very good thing. More competition means more choices for consumers.
COMMUTER ANTHONY NG

MORE OPTIONS FOR DRIVERS
I am sure many drivers are waiting to jump ship.
FORMER GRAB DRIVER ELLIOT LIN

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/go-jek-revs-up-to-get-going-in-spore
 

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It is true: “no money nevermind; got car drive can already”.
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Highway To Hail
A fair and sustainable point-to-point transport industry is more about regulation than competition.
Christopher Tan

THE quagmire which the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) has found itself in with regards to ride-hailing firm Grab’s takeover of rival Uber’s South-east Asian business is not of its own doing.

For the past six months, the CCCS has been trying – with limited success – to get Grab to undo the “lessening of competition” which its acquisition of Uber’s regional operations has apparently given rise to.

The issue, really, is not about whether such a move has led to less competition. The answer to that is pretty obvious. Any drop-out of a competitor will lead to less competition.

The issue is whether it has led to a monopolistic situation. The answer to that is also pretty obvious. It has not. Grab is still facing a fair amount of competition from taxi operators and an ever increasing number of wannabe hailing apps.

One would think the very nature of competition is its perpetual flux. Players come and players go. As long as there is no monopoly, should the CCCS be concerned?

The commission, however, is finding itself in murky waters which should not have been there in the first place. That is, if Singapore had recognised Uber and Grab for what they were at the very start.

They are essentially taxi companies. (Of course, Grab is now trying to position itself in various other industries, but when it arrived here along with Uber in 2013, it was a taxi company.)

And taxi companies should be regulated like taxi companies. After five years, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is finally recognising that, and has put in place a regulatory framework for ride-hailing firms. It may be too little, too late.

Soon after Grab and Uber arrived here, The Straits Times asked the LTA why they did not have to follow regulations governing the taxi industry. The reply was that they were not taxi companies, but technology companies.

If it had treated these firms as transport providers from day one, the playing field would have been more level, and it is likely that we would not have had to expect the CCCS to do what it is doing now.

Instead, the two newcomers were allowed to grow in an unrestrained manner, with the number of private-hire vehicles hitting 50,000 in just four short years – double the entire fleet of taxis here.

If proper competition is what we are striving for, surely flooding the market with cars should not have been allowed in the first place. After all, the size of the taxi market is tightly controlled, and operators cannot expand in an unbridled way.

Consumers, however, were not complaining. Why should they, when the two ride-hailing firms were fighting tooth and nail for their patronage? Armed with a seemingly unending source of funds, Grab and Uber offered rides for as little as 50 cents.

That was unsustainable, as Uber’s pullout proved. But consumers don’t really care, do they? They want their cheap rides to go on, no matter what.

Regulators everywhere are beginning to see ride-hailing firms for what they are.

Last December, Europe ruled that Uber was a taxi company. Several cities, notably London, have banned Uber altogether.

In August, New York became the first American city to stop issuing new licences for ride hailing services. New York’s City Council speaker Corey Johnson, quoted by the New York Times, said: “We are pausing the issuance of new licenses in an industry that has been allowed to proliferate without any appropriate check or regulation.”

The move came after mounting evidence that the so-called sharing economy which ride-hailing firms purport to be part of was not what it was made out to be.

On August 9, the NewYork Times cited a study by economists James Parrott and Michael Reich which showed that in New York City, Uber’s largest domestic market, nearly two-thirds of drivers who worked for ride-hailing services did so full-time.

The study also found that these drivers held no other jobs, and about 80% bought cars for the purpose of making a living by driving them. Many were in debt from those acquisitions and making “very little money”. So much for “ride-sharing”.

The rise of ride-hailing cars also had a huge impact on the earnings of drivers as well as cabbies. According to the New York Times article, six professional drivers committed suicide “in the past several months” because they simply could not make ends meet.

In Singapore, easy access to a car has lured several thousand people to sign up as private hire drivers. Many are finding out that it is not as lucrative as it seems, and are looking for relief drivers to share their lease.

Many have turned to touting to supplement their income. The fact that it is illegal and carries hefty penalties reveals their desperation.

Others have returned their private-hire cars, leading to an idle fleet estimated to run into the thousands.

These drivers are also facing competition from the tens of thousands of motorists who have signed up with car-pooling apps. Unlike private-hire drivers who are now regulated, these car-pool drivers are flying completely under the radar. Something has to be done, but it will take more than the CCCS to do it.

October 2018, Torque, pp. 12-13
 
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