Credit card fraud is a criminal offense as well.
Too stupid to sign a blank voucher with my credit card details all over it.
Yes I MUST remember to hand across my credit card numbers, expiry date and signature to more people, more often!
But the cabbie didn't defraud your credit card did he? No! Instead you denied him his rightfully pay.
Yes, it is your fault for signing a blank voucher. You are perfectly within your rights to insist that the voucher is filled in. Instead, what, it was
too hard for you to sit there for another 30 seconds and fill in the details yourself. If you read the voucher the passenger is supposed to write in the amount. That is
all you had to do, write "one hundred and fifty dollars", "zero cents" in the lower center of the voucher and "150" in the total on the lower right side of the voucher and then sign it. Then also collect the carbon paper bit from the cabbie - again insist if necessary.
Too hard for you to do and then you accuse the cabbie of defrauding you. Perhaps you need to try a bit harder to protect yourself. You should also realise there are many good reason why a manual voucher might be required, as others as mentioned.
To be very clear
it is the passengers responsibililty to fill in the voucher a good driver will do it for you. But do you realise that some ESL drivers, new australians might have some slight difficulty with the writeen word.
If a driver makes $150 a night that's not my problem, perhaps they should find a job that pays alot more
I can't believe you wrote that, if that happened, how would superior people like you get home? When I drove cabs back during Keating's recession (and later), a government got voted out for comments like that - remember keating to the students, "why don't you go get a really job".
medhead decided to confuse the issue by saying that me not allowing the cabbie his $150 has deprived him of his earnings all night.
Granted the cabbie may only earn $100 a night or something, but my one fare was not going to pay for it all, it would have come from other fares as well.
This really makes me wonder how you get your superior attitude about money. Some simple maths is required.
Take an example from my experience. The numbers are maybe 10 years old so we have to allow for some increase in fares etc.
A good night I would earn maybe $350 (to round off)
At the end of the night I have to do my pay in, that involves recording certain memories readings from the meter, such as
total fares, total extras, kilometers travelled etc. (This is from the meter, there can be maybe 6 to 10 programable memories in a meter)
From total fares I subtract fuel/oils - $310
(NB I was lucky my owner paid all fuel and oils, many others don't)
I then got 50% of the $310. That leaves me with $155.
(again lucky, I've heard of as low as 40%. I guess my owner was good to drivers because he wanted a good driver, others don't care)
I pay in $155 made up of my vouchers first and then cash. All good? No becasue 2 weeks later my owner comes back and tells me I owe him $150 because the voucher bounced. I have a contract with the owner, I have to pay him his share. So guess what I'm out of pocket because you cancelled your card.
Yes inflation has increase a cabbies take, but only to turn $350 into mayb $450 - $500. So theguy maybe ends up with $50 instead of $5. Good for a nights work!
