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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Making Barely RM10 a Day as a Trishaw Rider..

He almost lives hand to mouth, making barely RM10 a day as a trishaw rider in Sibu Town.While pushing his old age trishaw near to Sibu Town express boat jetty  and waiting for customers.He told me that he got an average of three customer a day and on bad days I have no passengers at all.
'Most of my customers are Senior Citizens who use my service to go home after buying daily necessities at the wet market', he added each journey was less than 3km so the fare was just a little.He reckoned that,at his age,he would not be able to handle a longer trip even if the customers wanted it.
He start work at 07:30am everyday and finish when there are no more passengers.He usually park in Channel Road,wet market and express boat jetty to wait for business.
He belived that trishaws would disappear from Sibu street soon,when he and the other rider retired,as they were all advancing in age.

1 comment:

Hilda said...

Sigh, we have the same problems. :(