If earlier mobile phones were used exclusively for communicating with relatives and friends, for making calls and sending SMS, now the capabilities of modern smartphones are not limited to these functions. Some of the nuances of the performance of drivers would not be out of place to know their potential customers.
We present the top 10 interesting facts about the work of taxi drivers that passengers are not aware of.
10. The taxi driver does not know where to go
In mobile applications for ordering a taxi, the final destination of the route is requested immediately, however, the driver can see this information only upon arrival at the client. Therefore, keep in mind that the driver, having studied the route scheme, may meet you with a very displeased face. To avoid various misunderstandings, it is recommended to notify a taxi driver in advance if he is to make a trip with an unusual route.
9. Your phone number is also unknown
Of course, taxi drivers have the opportunity to contact the client, but the phone number of passengers they do not display. Communication between the driver and the passenger is carried out using a common application system.
8. The driver should not start the conversation first
As in any profession, among taxi drivers there is a set of unspoken rules, that is, a kind of corporate etiquette that conscientious drivers try not to break. According to these rules, a taxi driver should not be chatty and impose a conversation on his client. If the passenger himself expresses a desire to talk heart to heart with the driver - then of course, the conversation needs to be supported. However, if the client is not positioned to communicate with a stranger, then he may well politely tell the driver that he wants to stay in silence. Although, according to statistics, most people using taxi services are not at all against chatting with a driver. At the same time, the most popular topics of conversation between clients and taxi service employees are: politics, finance, sports and personal problems.
7. Taxi drivers can set a counter in advance
I don’t want to slander all taxi drivers, but, unfortunately, some dishonest drivers resort to dishonest tricks: upon arrival at the place of call, they first turn on the counter, and only after some time they notify the client. Thus, the passenger will have to pay downtime. Such actions are grossly contrary to the charter of taxi workers. By law, after arriving at the place of call, the taxi driver is not allowed to turn on the counter in the first 10 minutes of waiting.
Therefore, try to get to the taxi on time. First, being late is indecent. And secondly, this will save you time and money.
6. The driver is trapped in the system
According to the operating principle of taxi applications, drivers willy-nilly fall into a certain dependence on this soulless system. For example, when you exit the application, a message appears, something like “You have $ 20 left up to $ 500. Do you really want to leave the application? ” Similar notifications to a certain extent press on the sore spots of the human psyche and thus manipulate taxi drivers, forcing them to give all their best to achieve an illusory goal.
And one more thing - managers sometimes indicate feminine instead of their real name and send drivers notifications written in a rather frivolous style, such as: “Hello, a football match will end soon here. Will you come? ” According to psychologists, most men at the instinct level in such situations trigger a biological mechanism that forces him to fulfill this request at any cost, even to the detriment of his own interests.
5. A traffic light is a friend, and traffic jam is a mom
The motto of so many taxi parks is the expression “We do not rely on the speed of the driver. For us, the most important thing is customer safety. ” But some dishonest taxi drivers for these mercenary purposes understand these words as: “The passenger should be taken along the longest route. And traffic lights and traffic jams are the main allies in making illegal profits. ” To avoid such a scenario, it is better for the passenger to inform the taxi driver the most optimal route before the trip.
4. Small distances are the norm
Have you ever had to go somewhere by taxi for 100 rubles? It seems that the driver, performing such orders, does not make a profit, but on the contrary, works at a loss. However, with such short routes, many drivers work, because in such companies there is a threshold for a trip fee, less than which a driver cannot get for work. Although there is a downside here - some drivers in revenge can put a low rating on a client if they consider that he could reach his destination by foot.
3. Drivers fired for rating
Many passengers think that a score of 4.6 is almost perfect for a taxi driver. However, this figure is the minimum rating of a driver who can continue to work. A driver with a lower rating system deactivates. Therefore, before giving a low rating, think that the work of a living person depends on this. Therefore, to treat such an assessment with maximum responsibility.
2. You also have a rating
Each passenger can find their rating in the application settings or ask a taxi driver. If you suddenly remembered that you had not behaved in the most worthy manner towards the driver and felt a certain concern because of this, don’t worry: this rating has little effect, just some picky taxi drivers (of which there are only a few) will refuse from your orders.
1. Passengers are packages
Professional slang exists in almost every profession. Sometimes, some of the words that taxi drivers use among themselves are incomprehensible to passengers, who in some cases can be very distrustful of various professional words. For example, many have heard, but few people know what the mysterious word “pax” means, which quite often taxi drivers use in their speech when communicating with colleagues.
The word “pax” is the international official designation for a passenger who is on board an airplane. This term is usually used among pilots and taxi drivers. Therefore, be aware that in the language of corporate slang of taxi drivers, the client is called pax.