{"id":7291,"date":"2020-06-24T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/?p=7291"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:45:16","slug":"surviving-covid-19-cabbies-turned-to-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/surviving-covid-19-cabbies-turned-to-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving COVID-19: Cabbies Turned To Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Singapore\u2019s shores, it has been a challenging time across all in the transport industry, and even more so for our cabbies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When the Government eased point-to-point regulations to allow cabbies to participate in delivery service trials until end-September, ComfortDelGro Taxi started working with its partners to offer alternative job options, including food and grocery deliveries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most of these cabbies have had to do deliveries for the first time, with this being a whole new experience for them. Despite that, they have remained resilient.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabby Evelyn Lam, 61, ComfortDelGro LimoCab driver of seven years has not encountered a situation as challenging as the COVID-19 pandemic. Her typical day as a limousine cabby involves waking up at 4am to ply the roads for fare and serving her corporate clients, before calling it a day at 9pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this routine was rudely disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak. Now, she has to double up as a foodpanda \u201cdeliveryman\u201d from 11am to 2pm daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Surviving-COVID-19-Cabbies-Turned-To-Deliveries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read full article here. (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Singapore\u2019s shores, it has been a challenging time across all in the transport...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-19 04:33:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7295,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions\/7295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.cdgtaxi.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}