I will report you! Shame on you!

Hello Syoti, I experienced it last friday i am trying to get a cab to meet the other mylotters in Ortigas but unfortunately the taxi driver ask for 200.00php which i found so unfair coz it will just cost me 75.00php. I understand your feelings actually i get the plate number of that cab and thanks for the information i am going to report him. Good Morning!

It is a shame that cab drivers act like this. They best be happy that they have a job. Who knows, the person they are passing up may tip better than the one they accepted.

hi syoti20 I do agree. Here in the US no cabdriver can just choose who he will take as they are to serve the public and when you phone for a cab he cannot say oh i will not take you.He is running a business for the public so he takes anyone who hales him,I don't know whether we have a hotline for cab drivers here in the US or not. they are usually so expensive I seldom take them.

Thanks syoti for this hotline. I often use a cab when i am soooooo tired from work and unable to hit the jeeps. I had been s*xually harrassed by a taxi driver too.

I know what you mean and I agree with you. Drivers should deny passengers only if they think they would be in danger, not because it is too far away or it is traffic in that area. In the Philippines the policy is that drivers are not allowed to deny passengers within their boundary. People should take the time to get the details of the driver and report them to the authorities. These often happen during the holidays and busy season especially this Christmas season!

This appears to be problem with anyone working with customer service it is awful that they are selective as anyone taking a cab has to pay right, so who cares who enters it so as long as they pay for the ride.

Its a shame that some get away with it. her at the airport the taxis line up and take thier turn when a person wants a cab. be very hard for them to choose thier people for a security guard also waves the taxi up

They probably earn enough if they are choozy. Here we have so many taxi companies, they are glad for customers. I guess it will change with time.

I had been experiencing that incident when I arrived from airport. A taxi driver talked to me and want to negotiate my fair. He told me to pay him 500p for my fair but I insist to use the metronome bill of taxi because I know that my house is not too far from the airport. He didn't agreed that is why i am looking for another taxi and thanks God I found the right one. I am also thinking of reporting the taxi but I know also that they do that in order to get a great income. May be some other time I can do that if they really ask for too much.

hey, are those numbers really the right ones? because i really really really hate them all - well not all, but most. Public transportation in fact. I just made my point to a comment at the other mylotter but it's really not a matter of choosing their passengers based on the person himself/herself, but they choose them because of the convenience it brings to them. I heard lots of stories from my friend who charges extra money just to go from this city to this city when in fact you only go with edsa and you are already there. I will save these numbers and will really really report these drivers. Plus, i also bring with me almost everytime my camera so i can take a photo and even record a video for these types of events. It really is not a matter of discipline anymore, imo, but a matter of dignity and really how to do their job properly.

I agree with you. I try not to take a cab as much as I can because I get short-tempered when that happens. I just hate it when the cab driver refuses because traffic is heavy here. Where in the world is there no traffic? If that is, then they should move their business elsewhere. Public transportation is public service and they have a franchise which is not a right but a privilege.

Thanks for sharing the numbers..i do hope this works here in our place too. Because i have a lot of experiences already with bad taxi drivers. Their meters ticks really fast and instead of the normal fare from a mall to my home, sometimes it goes double. It's such a stressful thing because i can't do anything about it. Sometimes some enforcers are not doing their jobs, even if you report these kind of taxi's and drivers they wouldn't be helping you out. Sometimes i even wish i am a close friend of the Mayor or the president so that i can easily report these things to them. Hopefully our government can really get rid of these driver's.

Thanks for the contact details because I've encountered that so many times since I was still a high school to college student. Sometimes it came to the point that the taxi driver was even drunk. But then he just dropped me to a gasoline station because there was a street that he does not want to enter because he told me that he has an enemy. But then I think it was way really better that he just dropped me rather than continuing to drive me at home since he really drives recklessly and afraid that there might be an accident that will happen to me in any case. Aside from that since I am living in Pasay City one of the streets that they don't want to enter is the place that I live. If I am going to tell them the street that we will be going the driver will refused me as the passenger for a reason that the place is too crowded and yet too much traffic. I've encountered that so many times to the extent that I can't find the cab easily. So now I listed down that contact details so that I would report the cab right away.

When i was still working in Manila, i usually encounter taxi drivers of that kind. When they would give me a flate rate, i would leave them and hail another taxi. Before leaving them, i would get their license number and report them. Good thing i am now in the province, where we don't have to take the taxi to bring you to your destination.

haha =D That's what's happening in singapore as well. There are choosy taxi drivers as well who refused to pick up passengers when it's near to midnight because when the clock strikes 0000hours, they get to earn double from passengers due to midnight surcharge.. lol =D Other than that, passengers at certain areas of the country will find it more frustrating to get taxis because most drivers would prefer to enter areas with surcharge, just to earn more money.. haha =D

It is unfair, especially if you have been waiting for a cab and you may be next in line! In Australia I am certain taxi drivers are not allowed to pick and choose their clients. We have taxi stands and everyone lines up in an orderly fashion as we all wait for our turn, unless we’ve pre-booked of course.

Hello syoti, Does it happen only in Philippines? If that is the case you need to report as a conscious citizen.

Wow, with such economy, they would do that? They just won't want to make money at all. If those taxi drivers are such choosy drivers, they shouldn't be a driver at all. Shame on them indeed.

Reporting such abuse from taxi drivers will cost them some money, so I think these same drivers should be given a lesson. They have to be reported so they will be fined and suspended.

i've been in this case once,, when i was at cebu,, taxi drivers just pass us and stop on a lone passenger,, and what the heck, it was almost midnight at that time and we were still ignored buy those drivers,, worst of all it was raining too hard, my companion decided to just step into the rain to find taxi for us still there's none,, i wish drivers would stop doing this,, we don't pay less for them anyway