Phnom Penh Tuktuk Drivers Beat Up Pass-App Driver in Territory Dispute
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Re: Phnom Penh Tuktuk Drivers Beat Up Pass-App Driver in Territory Dispute
I have a lot of tuktuk driver friends here in Siem Reap. Looks like some of the guys in PP are more savage. I feel sad for this country. It's not going to go anywhere beacuse the wheels in the minds are broken.
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He might have got away if only he'd had one of these:
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I take a tuktuk only a small handful of times per year, usually to the airport. I count one tuktuk driver as a friend, and no one is saying they can't be good humans or anything. Away from the riverside they're usually fine. However, the business model was flawed from the start: sit around and do nothing for 20 hours per day, and then try to gouge people for short trips around town. As usual with Cambodia, you quickly get all the copycats so it didn't take long for every corner to have ten guys, thus making it 22-23 hours of doing nothing, then trying to compensate by asking for a higher price because they didn't have any customers that day... Well, it's the 20th century so things have caught up to them. They should just be thankful they didn't have to buy taxi licenses like many had to do in the west.SternAAlbifrons wrote:Yeah, that is their job, out there overcharging the twats.John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:30 am Some of them are fine if you get to know them but a lot of them are overcharging twats.
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Utter pricks, just doing his job.
I have about 5-6 tuk tuks outside my apartment none of whom feel like going via meter and cost double what I pay via pass app - not to mention having to negotiate a price for five minutes before we set off. So I always go via pass app now. I get dirty looks and comments every time I walk past the them, quite unnerving but what do they expect me to do, pay double for the fun of it?
The days of attempting to charge foreigners obscene amounts are over, they just need to deal with it.
I have about 5-6 tuk tuks outside my apartment none of whom feel like going via meter and cost double what I pay via pass app - not to mention having to negotiate a price for five minutes before we set off. So I always go via pass app now. I get dirty looks and comments every time I walk past the them, quite unnerving but what do they expect me to do, pay double for the fun of it?
The days of attempting to charge foreigners obscene amounts are over, they just need to deal with it.
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Industry disruption at work. I seem to recall when Uber first started in Australia, there were a few reported altercations between them and taxi drivers.
Of course, there's still a place for the regular tuktuk over the indian Passapp ones. You still can't get your khmer family of 5-6 on a Passapp nor if your scooter has broken down and you need to load it to the repair shop.
Of course, there's still a place for the regular tuktuk over the indian Passapp ones. You still can't get your khmer family of 5-6 on a Passapp nor if your scooter has broken down and you need to load it to the repair shop.
Re: Phnom Penh Tuktuk Drivers Beat Up Pass-App Driver in Territory Dispute
And the beauty of the pass app system is that the pass app driver doesn't even have to be "in their spot". He can just park on the next corner or down the street and wait for the app to pop up.LIVIDZX wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:11 am Utter pricks, just doing his job.
I have about 5-6 tuk tuks outside my apartment none of whom feel like going via meter and cost double what I pay via pass app - not to mention having to negotiate a price for five minutes before we set off. So I always go via pass app now. I get dirty looks and comments every time I walk past the them, quite unnerving but what do they expect me to do, pay double for the fun of it?
The days of attempting to charge foreigners obscene amounts are over, they just need to deal with it.
I see this quite often if i eat on the riverside. The pay-to-sit-outside the business tuktuks clearly look miffed as i sit there waiting for my pass app to arrive.
Get with the times or get left behind.
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I would be interested to know about the charges, and do they get time. This should be treated as a serious crime.CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 12:51 am
Phnom Penh, Cambodia News: During the night of April 18, 2019, a 36-year-old PassApp tuk-tuk driver, Chon Reth, was beaten until he passed out near Chroy Changvar bridge, Sangkat Sras Chok, Khan Don Penh, Phnom Penh.
A gang of local tuktuk drivers attacked the Pass-App driver when he came to pick up a fare in an area that the other drivers considered to be their pick-up territory. The outsider was severely beaten, but either did not want to, or was afraid to lodge a complaint or go to hospital until police arrived on the scene.
After the police intervention, the beaten driver was sent to hospital and a complaint was filed against the attackers.
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And that is why barely anyone wants their services anymore.SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 3:42 amYeah, that is their job, out there overcharging the twats.John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:30 am Some of them are fine if you get to know them but a lot of them are overcharging twats.
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Hey, no one is telling anyone to pay the high prices and not like there only a few of them aroundBitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:51 amI take a tuktuk only a small handful of times per year, usually to the airport. I count one tuktuk driver as a friend, and no one is saying they can't be good humans or anything. Away from the riverside they're usually fine. However, the business model was flawed from the start: sit around and do nothing for 20 hours per day, and then try to gouge people for short trips around town. As usual with Cambodia, you quickly get all the copycats so it didn't take long for every corner to have ten guys, thus making it 22-23 hours of doing nothing, then trying to compensate by asking for a higher price because they didn't have any customers that day... Well, it's the 20th century so things have caught up to them. They should just be thankful they didn't have to buy taxi licenses like many had to do in the west.SternAAlbifrons wrote:Yeah, that is their job, out there overcharging the twats.John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:30 am Some of them are fine if you get to know them but a lot of them are overcharging twats.
There only tuk tuk drivers cause there to fucking lazy to do a real job
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Re: Phnom Penh Tuktuk Drivers Beat Up Pass-App Driver in Territory Dispute
Similar stories of over-charging, with a twist. Where I used to live, 5 regular tuk-tuks were always waiting outside my apartment building. 3 of the 5 switched from old-fashioned tuk-tuk to the Indian PassApp scooters within weeks of each other in early 2018.John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:51 amAnd that is why barely anyone wants their services anymore.SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 3:42 amYeah, that is their job, out there overcharging the twats.John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:30 am Some of them are fine if you get to know them but a lot of them are overcharging twats.
I had an interesting 'altercation' with a tuk-tuk some time back. Coming back to my apartment from somewhere near the Soviet hospital. Agreed a price of $3. Got to my apartment and the guy tried to charge $5. Said traffic was busier than he expected so ride took longer. I refused to pay the extra, he got all up in my face and shouting that I was stealing from him. 3 of the 5 guys who were always stationed outside my apartment stepped in and told him to take his $3 and leave. He took his $3 and left. They're not all bad.
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