Beware of Karwa Taxi Drivers

i paid alkhor to madinath khalifa 100 Qrs on a carwa taxi.. still dont know its correct or not. time was about 5pm in the evening.. :(

Booked the taxi for airport and at the last moment got a call from the driver that his taxi met with an accident..

Surprisingly, it happened to me TWO times !!

Thank you for sharing this info. Now we know what and where to look in the meter taxi. And it's so annoying that they will give you a fixed rate and insisting not to use the meter especially in rush hour and you have no choice but to agree since it's hard to find taxi at those times.

Its always an excuse for them not to take customers if the road they have to traverse to take these customers to their destinations are heavily clogged by traffic. As I pointed out earlier that traffic in Doha is already widespread. It will really rushed your blood and temper to an elevated degree once a Karwa driver declined you as a customer because of traffic!!

the problem here are those greedy taxi drivers and not there nationalities.... we should help one another instead of bashing with each other... =.(

Your said it right Dohagvr because any individual regardless of nationality without any hesitation can do this malingering habit to any innocent customers. Peace to everyone.. (",)

Bebsi? BobCorn?

he is to be banned!

i would like to know the reason of having two modes instead of one..

why should travelling outside doha be dearer for people?

james...are u a racist?

oh really james? papa must be proud to have a big idiot home aint he?

last thurday night i have a very bad experience in the karwa service, where in line at the villagio waiting area...the line was so long, but we still waiting for our turn, but most of the drivers, choosing their passengers, many drivers stopped to the waiting customers but they refuse to pick up for the reason that traffic is heavy on the area where the customer is asking...its understandable that every thursday is slow moving traffic...

Yeah, being a cabbie...its good for us to stink. The passenger would faint cos of the smell making it easy for us to rob them of their belongings.

James,

agreed about the facts about karwa and their attitude..

but don't take it as nation wise...

James,

agreed about the facts about karwa and their attitude..

but don't take it as nation wise...

please.....This was a good topic. Don't spoil it by bashing of nationalities.

there are many karwa driver that really sucks. they all just care for big take home pay. And if they can fool around with passengers, they will.

hahahaha!!! you make me laugh out loud... I am not sure if there is any pakistani karwa drivers but most of them are indians...

James my dear r u sure, yesterday in the same taxi i smell like an animal died in the taxi, and when i ask for that smell i cant understand what the language of that motherf... if you right, i think they stinky is the second thing should be in the requirement job. so far stupidity and stinky

Thanks Imansoor55. Thats why most of the Karwa drivers are rampantly doing this habit since no one is reporting them...

thanks all of you

Most of the karwa taxi drivers dosen't like to use meeters. They always try to barging with costemer 10 or 15 or 20 QR before they start travelling like private taxi. Because they says reasion is, karwa paying low salary which is not convenient for them to live in Qatar QR 1500/- only. Thats why they started their own deal with costemer for their own price. The end of the day the amount will go to drivers pocket. But this will not for entire karwa drivers. Some of drivers are very honest.

yes u r right, no wonder!! They r pakistanis, pakistani is same bad like indian, but the difference is .... pakistanis have a very bad body smell more than indians and Indians move their head more while talking

Even before I also had another experience with a stupid karwa driver that he became moody to me since i told him to take another path or road rather than the path that he wants to traverse with!!.. On our way he was saying something that would make me feel guilty that if we would have taken the road that he wants to, then, we would not be trapped in the middle of traffic. I told him anywhere in Doha there is always traffic. So it is not an excuse that you cannot take me to my destination because of traffic. I reiterated to him the customer is always right so dont argue with me! The nerve of that driver being gutsy to quarrel with me! When I reached my destination, I went out immediately and closed the door hard with a bang!!! He was so lucky that I forgot his car number or else another Karwa driver will be eating nuts again to feed his pillock head!!!

macdonald300 i like what you did i feel i know you coz if i were you i do more than compliant to Karwa, and did anybody till me why it's necessary that the all driver of Karwa should be fool. i think that stupidity is most requirement of their job application

Baldrick, I think you are right. But it does appear as 0 and 1 in meter :-)

Is it 1 & 0?

I thought it was I & O for In Doha & Outside Doha?

thanx for taking the initiative to complain to the karwa.coz most of us are lazy to take time n call those guys n complain.but you just inspired many of us,not to b so lazy any more.good job .

1 means 1 Rial per 1.8km

0 means 1 Rial per 1.2km

It is like this Hawk10... On the right-side portion of the meter you will notice these numbers either 0 or 1.

1 is being inscribed on the meter if it's still daytime and even it is already night time as long as it is not yet 9 pm. Implication is that the meter will scroll and charge you on a normal fare.

The 0 will appear once the clock strikes at 9pm. This is usually done manually by the driver. Implication is that the meter will scroll maybe around 75% faster compared to the speed that it has if its on a "1" mode.

I never had any issues with Karwa taxi before. Maybe I am only here for 3 months and have been lucky so far. The only one or two negative encounters is when trying to book a taxi and they tell me none is available. When I went to the taxi queue a while later.. there was rows of empty taxis there waiting.

This "1" and "0" thing is my first time hearing about it. Thanks for the tip.

thanks drmana & mcdonalds... i dint know all these... coz i hav never travlld in taxi over here... but if needed i will b careful........

Hawk, meter should be in "1" when inside doha city and "0" only when outside the city limits. Meter runs faster per km when in "0".

Check the thread below. It would help you understand:

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/1293077

It would be fair if you'll be charged through the meter rather than charging you with a fixed fare Just come to think of it, Karwa drivers should not be doing this kind of habit; charging you for a fixed price rather than using the meter. I bet their doing this to catch-up easily to the daily boundary they must have.

I didn't get the point of "mcdonalds3000", we have to check if the meter is on 0 or 1. Nobody know all these. Even myself, I am not aware of this. Can you please explain in details if the meter is on 0, it will run fast?

well done! bravo... =)

specially at times its funny when a karwa guy asks me for 20 rials from Mughlina to Old airport....

though i ensure the regret doing that mistake...

Karwa just plain suck!

I booked a car to take me to the airport and it never came.

thats so cool of u