Cabbies reject govt proposal


KUALA LUMPUR: The conventional taxi industry has described the Government’s proposal to introduce fewer Puspakom vehicle inspections for them – as a means to level the playing field with newly approved Uber and GrabCar – as inadequate.

Klang Valley Taxi Drivers’ Action Committee president Zailani Isa Usuluddin said these “deregulation” suggestions were not good enough to allow conventional taxis to survive in an e-hailing world.

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