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Another taxi incident goes viral in Phuket as tension between online app taxis and regular taxis appears to increase


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1 hour ago, steven100 said:

oh dear  ' lowlife thai taxi drivers at it again ....

Why 'lowlife taxi drivers'? just because they want to protect their  source of income they deserve to be called derogatory names?...

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1 hour ago, ChrisY1 said:

Quite unbelievable that this Phuket taxi extortion racket has been ongoing now for years.....and the so called authorities simply back it endlessly.

Where is the government...where is that useless enterprise, TAT...nothing is ever said!

TAT are busy counting everyone who passes thru an immigration post as a tourist !!!  "But I only went to Malaysia on a visa run .."  

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

The application she used can only be serviced in certain areas of Phuket

Well, we can all guess why, can't we. Whenever anyone I know tells me they are planning a trip to Thailand I've long told them to avoid Phuket like the plague.

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2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Why 'lowlife taxi drivers'? just because they want to protect their  source of income they deserve to be called derogatory names?...

Surely if they are ripping off passengers and only allowing "certain" taxis into certain locations,(or else) they are behaving as the mafia does, are they not 'lowlifes'?

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"The application she used can only be serviced in certain areas of Phuket but not for Kamala and not this particular venue." Which app is this? ? Can you use Grab Taxi app in Phuket?

Posted
16 minutes ago, island coconut said:

It would make one hell of a "Reality" TV show. 

Better than those fabricated divas in the dramas.

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On 10/5/2022 at 8:35 AM, steven100 said:

maybe my words were harsh but you gotta admit these guys are always fighting,  as they're mafia controlled in many places.  It's a pitty they couldn't just be like normal taxi drivers and act accordingly, be clean, polite, honest ....   that means accepting passengers regardless of the journey. 

As you say...they're controlled by local "mafia" figures. Most of the taxi drivers I've taken have been courteous and polite...they have nothing to with the fixed-prices of the taxis and certainly don't make any money off it. If the government ever removed the mafia middlemen (????????????) the drivers lives would be much better and some sort of fair tariff structure could be put in place.

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