You have a sheet of paper that is tables 1 - 19 with the cost incurred for Tariff 1 & 3.
eg: Travel 2 kms and its $10.90.
So you have to press your 'Trip' meter button (to Zero) on your dash at the start of each pick-up.
Say the person travels 1.6kms - its still $10.90
(Customer loses here, Taxi wins a tad extra)
If distance is 1.4kms = $8.20
(Customer wins, Taxi loses cost of .4kms)
If Taxi Driver makes wrong turn, the Trip count can't be paused and a 'guess' work is made in the effort not to charge the Customer.
If Taxi is waiting on a return journey, while customer is getting their Vodka from the BWS - a 'waiting time' is another 'guess'. Why not charge and extra $5 for just a few minutes?
You can not make a 'print-out' of the Fare if required.
etc
etc.
It's a ridiculous lowering of Taxi Standard and also Customer Service as the Customer would be peeved (as would I) at not being able to see the 'exact' amount displayed.
What if the Customer realised he only had $20 and asked the cabbie to stop at $20??
Doing it via Point-to-Point would be ...pointless.
So the Govt has really stuffed the entire system up thanks to Uber.
As a Driver, its a 'tedious' system to employ and every driver tries not to get that taxi to use.
Customers & Drivers are being ripped off by P2P system.
All because it costs $thousands less for the owner to Register each year.
...how does the cost of Registering a Meter system be justified up to $7000 then?
GOVT RIP-OFF & SCAM