VietNamNet Bridge – After a taxi driver arrested for fleecing Interpol guests, the Ministry of Transport has decided to inspect the operation of all taxi firms in Hanoi and HCM City.
The Ministry’s chief inspector, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hao, said that there are up to 114 taxi companies in Hanoi, with a total of over 16,000 cars. HCM City has only 36 taxi firms but the total number of cabs is higher than in Hanoi.

The taxi service has developed robustly in Vietnam in recent years to meet the travel demand of local people. However, this field is said to be very disordered.

The Ministry of Transport began to comprehensively inspect taxi firms in Hanoi and HCM City. Hao said that from now to the year end, inspectors will work at 12 taxi firms in Hanoi and 9 in HCM City. The remaining companies will be checked next year.

The inspection will focus on organization, management, equipment, quality of cabs and qualification of drivers, service attitude, charges, spending and revenues, etc.

In the last three years, six tax companies were closed. Around 3,000 taxi drivers were fined in the last six months.

The following taxi firms in Hanoi will be inspected from November 11 to December 2: Taxi Hanoi, Mua Xuan, Thanh Nga, Phu Gia, Ba Sao, Hong Hung, ABC, Le Gia, Noi Bai, BG, 123 and Taxi 14.

Thanh Van