Quote Originally Posted by irieworld View Post
...I have never seen a charter taxi take 5 dollars for a trip of any length.

4. I don't ask routes to go off their route for extra, but I know others have--not sure of the protocol on that one --I just always figured they should stick with assigned route. I guess you could ask the driver,

...I have been charged 25 to go to Hi Lo from NBCC and didn't know better about getting a lower price and at that time didn't know where hi lo was.
IW,

Charter taxis would go out of business if they refused to accept $5us for some of their trips. I dont know of many drivers would refuse us$5 for many of their trips.

When you ask a route taxi to go off their route, then it automatically becomes a charter. The protocol is simply to ask them - such as "can you take me to "ABC" for an extra j$150?"

Place the blame for the $25us you paid to get to HiLo on capitalism. Apparently at that point, you thought us$25 seemed like a fair price. Dont blame yourself or the driver - it was a learning experience.

And knowledge is power.