In this series where Channel NewsAsia profiles individuals leaving the workforce after long careers, Amir Yusof speaks to a cabby who is reluctant ...
SINGAPORE: Stuck on the dashboard of Mr Loh Liang Yong’s blue ComfortDelGro taxi was a laminated card with a picture of him in his 50s alongside his name and license plate number.
He joked about the vocational license card being used by passengers to report him for wrongdoing, but they have used it to identify him for praise instead.In his career, Mr Loh received three official compliment letters from ComfortDelGro. During his early days as a driver with ComfortDelGro, Mr Loh was involved in an accident after a customer had requested for him to drive more quickly as she was running late.
“This is not true,” he said. “Time is money, we are fighting against time. More job pick-ups mean more money.”Typically, Mr Loh worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week. He carried about 20 passengers each day, beginning his shift at 8am and ending long after it gets dark. Mr Loh took breaks every day. He would stop for coffee and have lunch at his home in Toa Payoh, but he knew that if he was not turning the wheel, he was not making a living.
“I couldn’t believe how someone so friendly could all of a sudden steal from me - what a basket,” said Mr Loh.He lost about S$50, which was around half of his earnings for the day. The three girls study at CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel at Burghley Drive and Mr Loh used to occasionally pick them up after school in between his shifts.“I miss them … When I am able to, I’ll take them out during school holidays. Sometimes I like to show them around Singapore,” he said.
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