News Forum - PLTO meets with taxis from outside Phuket over crackdown

[Thaiger]

The Phuket Land Transport Office (PLTO) and the Phuket Provincial Police have recently held discussions with a group of taxi drivers and tour operators from outside of Phuket who have been banned from working on the island. The talks were focused on finding a solution to the continual problem of green plate taxi operators facing …

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[Soidog]

“Then on Thursday, authorities turned their attention to a new target: foreigners using personal rental cars as taxis. In response to numerous complaints, Phuket officials launched an investigation into reports of foreign tourists acting as illegal taxi drivers”

Maybe they are residents and not Foreign tourists? I know they shouldn’t be operating illegal taxi services, but no different to Thais operating illegal taxis services is it? Perhaps the PLTO should meet with these Foreign Tourists/Foreigners/Residents to see if they can find a way to make everyone happy!  

[Grumpish]

Going after everything except the elephant in the room - the "legal" taxi operators that have done so much bring the Phuket taxi operators as a whole into such disrepute.