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China cabbies are overtaxed, can barely afford to be honest.
If a new car is licensed as a cab, then its cost is 2x of an
identical car sold for ordinary use. Cars in china must be scrapped ( as scrap iron ) in just 10 yr, so the high cost of a cab must be recovered in just 10 yr ! Road tax on ordinary small cars is ¥200 pm, medium size cars ¥240 pm, cabs' rd tax is likely higher. A cabbie's driving license costs ¥5600, cab fare allowed by govmnt is quite low. Income tax starts from 15% on income ¥1500 pm, now you can see how hard pressed china's cabbies are. Wiser to visit china only in a packaged tour ( transport is all arranged ) unless 1 can use public transport or locals there will provide transport. In '87 my parents went to Peking on their own, the cabbie driving my dad ( went off to find a hotel ) would not slow down to let my dad find my mum waiting for him by a road side with 2 big suitcases of 20 kg each : cab sped pass my mum 6x, my mum had to wait 3-4 hr for my dad to find her, cabbie wanted to maximise distance driven & fare collectable. In 6-04 in Xiamen 1 cabbie knew I was not local, because I asked him how far Electronic*City was from Walmart ( where I boarded ), drove me to north edge of city then pretended to have mistaken my destination before driving south to *, so he could get 10% more fare from me. From * to my hotel ( 3 km south of Walmart ), I convinced a cabbie that I was local, he did not detour for more fare. By comparing this fare with the detoured fare I paid the 1st cabbie, I could tell that the detoured fare was 10% necessary. |
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