GRABTAXI PH OFFERS LUXURY CAR RIDES IN
MANILAGrab Taxi Philippines launches ta luxury car taxi service for
Manila, they have a new service called Grab Car+ , its similar to their existing
service Grab Car, but the difference is that the Grab Car offers Sedan cars with
fixed rate and no booking fee and for Grab Car+ it offers luxury cars taxi
service with fixed rate and no booking fee.
The service is in its soft
launch period, but you can already booked a taxi ride via the Grab Taxi app and
choose the Grab Car+ service to track the luxury car taxi service nearby.
Available Grab Car+ cars are – Fortuner, Montero, Camry, Hummer and
Tucson.
No need to buy a million pesos worth of luxury car, you can now
book them for your travel around Manila as cheap as possible, from a rate of
PHP150 up to PHP200++
According to Ms. Natasha Bautista, acting general
manager of GrabTaxi PH – “ The GrabCar business model has been successful over
the past year. We’ve been getting good reviews as well as requests to include
more premium cars. This is where we got the idea for GrabCar+. We’re also
opening the business to those who are interested to partner with us through the
LTFRB-acknowledged GrabPeer system”
BACKSIDE INFO OF
GRABTAXIGrabTaxi is the Philippine app version of MyTeksi of
Malaysia. It’s a smartphone app to smartphone app communication of a taxi driver
and the passenger. Passengers can book a taxi via smartphone app if the taxi is
near the location of the passenger. The passengers can use the app
to communicate with the driver, mention for tips and pay via credit card, if no
credit card passengers can also pay cash direct to the driver.
MyTeksi
was launched in Malaysia in 2011, and then re-launched here in the Philippines
on 2013 as GrabTaxi, then launched a Grab Car sedan car service on May 2014,
Then on June-Oct 2014 they launched a GrabTaxi service in Cebu and Davao. For
this year Feb 2015, they launched the GrabCar+ luxury taxi car service in
Manila.
GrabTaxi operates in six countries – Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.
BE A GRAB CAR
OPERATOR OR DRIVERI asked Ms. Natasha on how to join the GrabPeer,
turning a fellow motorist to become a Grab Car service operator, she said that
they will help the motorist applicant with the paper works, screening and also
get proper accreditation with the LTFRB. I asked her if that will make a trouble
with LTFRB bec. it’s a private vehicle, then she said that with the proper paper
work and partnership with GrabTaxi or GrabCar, there’s no need to worry because
GrabTaxi PH works with the government to operate in a legal way.
GrabTaxi offers good income stream to the operator and driver and also
for the passenger to get more travel options to bring them to their destination
in the fastest, most convenient, and safest way possible.
We learned
since last year that GrabTaxi PH partners with a car rental service with a lot
of car fleet, these car service operators joined GrabTaxi PH’s GrabCar and
GrabCar+ service to turn those cars into a taxi service every day. The flow of
income streams is that 80% goes to the operator, 20% goes to GrabTaxi PH and an
incentive fee for the driver for every successful ride from a passenger, don’t
forget that sometimes passengers gave tips to driver for them to keep.
We
interviewed a driver of a GrabCar+, he said that he earns PHP450 daily based on
incentive rides, + monthly salary from the GrabPeer or operator, plus received
tips from happy passengers. After doing some math, we discovered that one driver
can earn up to PHP 20,000 to PHP 24,000.
For more info on how to be a
GrabCar operator or driver,
log on to
www.grabcar.com and click How to be a
GrabPeer.
GrabTaxi app is available in iOs, Android and
Blackberry
GRABCAR+ TEST RIDEI learned from Raffy and Enzo that they got a GRABCAR+
booking and it’s a Hummer 3 luxury car owned by a GrabPeer and operated under
GrabCar+ service. This car will transport us from Makati to Greenfields
Mandaluyong.
We date to compute the fare and its for only PHP
200.
Wow!! that’s already a reasonable price for a luxury car taxi.
Raffy of
www.digitalspidey.com Enzo of
www.juanmanilaexpress.com and EIC of
Adventour Magazine
Inside
the Hummer 3 GrabCar+ service
EVENT
PHOTOSThe soft launch at A Space Makati
I’m
late! hahah
The GrabTaxi ladies who talks to the driver, operators
and the media explaining the service of GrabCar+
Acting Manager Natasha Bautista showed to us on how to
use the GrabTaxi App
GrabTaxi