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Old Feb 5, 2016 | 12:56 pm
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Originally Posted by dsquared37
I am not familiar with the Bumrumgrad scene: So a non-grab taxi driver dropping off a fare cannot pick up a new fare?
No. In fact most of the taxis a not Grab Taxi. But if the taxi wants to pick someone up they have to join the queue and Grab Taxi manages the queue.

What I don't get is how Grab Taxi makes money out of this. They don't take a record of the taxi number that I have seen. So the taxi driver gets his 25 baht but how does Grab Taxi profit?

If Bumrungrad is paying them, why would they do that as opposed to letting their own staff manage it for less?
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