Taxis call for crackdown on illegal rivals.
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Taxis call for crackdown on illegal rivals.
Taxis call for fare rivalry
Mon, 31 October 2016
Matthieu de Gaudemar
The operator of the capital’s biggest metered taxi fleet has called on Phnom Penh municipal officials to crack down on unlicensed taxi operators, claiming as many as half of the capital’s 1,100 metered cabs are operating illegally.
Din Radeth, human resources manager for Choice Taxi, which operates a fleet of over 200 sedans under a licence from City Hall, said companies that invest in legal operations are facing cutthroat competition from unlicensed operators, who benefit from the uneven playing field.
He said metered taxi fleet operators are required to register with City Hall and pay a $2,000 monthly licensing fee to the municipality. Yet he claimed only three of the eight metered taxi firms have registered, and the unlicensed firms are benefitting from a poor regulatory framework that that creates major disadvantages for compliant firms...
Reached yesterday, City Hall spokesperson Mean Chanyda, said just three companies had received licences to operate metered taxi fleets in Phnom Penh, namely Choice Taxi, Airport Taxi and Great Wall Taxi...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/t ... re-rivalry
Mon, 31 October 2016
Matthieu de Gaudemar
The operator of the capital’s biggest metered taxi fleet has called on Phnom Penh municipal officials to crack down on unlicensed taxi operators, claiming as many as half of the capital’s 1,100 metered cabs are operating illegally.
Din Radeth, human resources manager for Choice Taxi, which operates a fleet of over 200 sedans under a licence from City Hall, said companies that invest in legal operations are facing cutthroat competition from unlicensed operators, who benefit from the uneven playing field.
He said metered taxi fleet operators are required to register with City Hall and pay a $2,000 monthly licensing fee to the municipality. Yet he claimed only three of the eight metered taxi firms have registered, and the unlicensed firms are benefitting from a poor regulatory framework that that creates major disadvantages for compliant firms...
Reached yesterday, City Hall spokesperson Mean Chanyda, said just three companies had received licences to operate metered taxi fleets in Phnom Penh, namely Choice Taxi, Airport Taxi and Great Wall Taxi...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/t ... re-rivalry
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Re: Taxis call for crackdown on illegal rivals.
Breaking news - in Cambodia, it often doesn't pay to go by the book (like these taxis that are paying their registration and insurance), since someone else will always undercut you. You're legally and morally in the right, but frankly who cares ? Not the authorities.
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Re: Taxis call for crackdown on illegal rivals.
boo hoo, they would have done the same thing a heart beat
Money is not the problem, the problem is no money
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