Tougher rules introduced to curb cheating taxi drivers
Kongleaphy Keam

PHUKET: -- Phuket taxi drivers are facing tough new regulations and harsher punishments in a renewed effort to prevent them from overcharging and cheating customers.

The new regulations are aimed predominantly at taxi drivers based at Phuket International Airport, where cabbies are frequently accused of refusing to turn on their meters, overcharging and making unwanted diversions, said Jaturong Kaewkasi, chief policy adviser for the Phuket Land Transport Office (PLTO) on Wednesday.

‟First-time offenders will be charged a 1,000-baht fine and face a seven-day suspension. Those caught a second time will be permanently banned,” said Mr Jaturong, the chief policy adviser for the Phuket Land Transport Office (PLTO).

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-- Phuket Gazette 2016-03-18

Is it another 500 Baht and 30 day suspension scheme period for a few months until things are forgotten?????

What is the point of new rules if there is no enforcement?

What is the point of new rules if there is no enforcement?

To receive credit for making an announcement pretending to do something.

The same as always. Remember, buses banned from Patong hill, jetskis, taxi fare reductions, tourist safely patrol increases, tourist courts, condo scams, bungy deaths, flood mitigation, tsunami drills,functioning cctv cameras, prosecution of illegal land titles, the list could go on.

Edited March 18, 201610 yr by Reigntax

This topic is getting boring.

Same old same old bull..t

Do the powers that be not get tired of spouting the same sh..e again and again.

Is it another 500 Baht and 30 day suspension scheme period for a few months until things are forgotten?????

No, you should read the article. It's a 1000 Baht and 7 days suspension scheme that will be soon forgotten.

It must be true. They announce it every Saturday.

more rules.... more laws..... still last i checked zero enforcement = zero result

As my wife says,'talk a lot,do nothing'

Looks really good in the news for the BKK bosses........but that's all it ever is....a facade and joke as always!

someone needs to let the authorities know that this is getting boring.....

nothing is being done to stop the taxi rip offs and drivers refusing passengers .......

go onto facebook and government websites and let them know nothings working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'‟First-time offenders will be charged a 1,000-baht fine and face a seven-day suspension. Those caught a second time will be permanently banned ..."' Well, if they really follow through on that, it'll solve things very quickly. So why do I have my doubts that anything will change?

someone needs to let the authorities know that this is getting boring.....

nothing is being done to stop the taxi rip offs and drivers refusing passengers .......

go onto facebook and government websites and let them know nothings working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be fair to the DoT - which does take some doing - innumerable passengers, especially Thais, simply don't bother to report the drivers.

This topic is getting boring.

Same old same old bull..t

Do the powers that be not get tired of spouting the same sh..e again and again.

Of course not. Spout it enough times, and some will believe it. Everyone else will just ignore it.

Taxi crackdown number 322.

"We have set rules in the past without being able to eliminate the problem entirely” (quote from the article in the Gazette)

Duh. Make all the rules you WANT! NOTHING happens without serious and continued enforcement. And we KNOW that's not going to happen. So, once again, just a little something for public consumption, mainly by naïve and gullible foreigners.

Thailand: The hub of crackdowns, that last maybe a week or two...

What is the point of new rules if there is no enforcement?

The point is, authorities are seen to be doing something, without changing anything.