Utrecht wants to odorless taxi drivers, smelly should not be more

Posted on 08-04-2015 at 17:44 by Dizono – 34 Comments”

Utrecht wants to be the taxi driver with a new quality mark, literally and figuratively, a fresh image.

You need to smoking but oh so reliable W124 300 Turbodiesel the door, demanding the local authorities now also that you every day a clean shirt aatrekt. Taxichauffers in Utrecht do not have it easy and we’re not even talking about Uber(Pop). In an attempt to enhance the image of the taxi trade, what to boost, the municipality, in consultation with the drivers themselves, a list of quality requirements with which you must comply to the taxikeurmerk to get. Taxis without label from 1 may not be more welcome in Utrecht.

Smelly taxi drivers passed the inspection, just as drivers dressed in t-shirts, polo’s or with a pair of AirMax’s, Birkenstocks, or Crocs to the feet. No, a clean and crisp strong shirt, preferably worn on an equally immaculate pair of trousers, and finished with a tie are the new norm.

Also the car requirements: it must be inside and outside clean. Further drivers during working hours, no private calls commit and smoking in the taxi is also outside the working hours of taboo. Whom a lack of friends, and in no times more a good conversation has taken, can soon in Utrecht: when a customer wishes to do so, should the taxi driver a polite conversation, says the NOS. Most striking, however, the required knowledge about the town itself, drivers have well-known buildings, hospitals, railway stations, hotels and other popular destinations in the city effortless to find. There can therefore still far to be studied. About the threaten of UberPop-drivers, we read nothing, but that will probably also be not allowed any more. Mystery shoppers are used to check whether the men and women behind the wheel comply with the regulations.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, because who itself stinks, drunk, or stoned, or like your pet to want to take, the access to the taxi just to be denied. Only to the kledingeisen does not need to be met, so also with the most ghastly sandals to your deformed feet, you may in Utrecht, just with the taxi.

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