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The taxi fare for a straight-line journey of six or seven kilometers was 237 yuan! Not only that, the driver also asked him for 100 yuan as a "return fee" when he got off the car. Xiao Li, a graduate student from Datong, Shanxi, initially thought he had encountered a "scalper" and a "black car", but he complained to the law enforcement department and the matter was soon clarified.

The young man reported that he was charged 337 yuan for a taxi ride of more than 10 kilometers

Xiao Li is from Datong, Shanxi Province, and is currently studying for a master's degree. On the morning of July 17, he told a reporter from the Huashang Daily about his experience of being cheated when taking a taxi.

"On the morning of July 13, I took a flight from Shandong Penglai Airport to Henan Xinzheng Airport." Xiao Li introduced that he originally planned to take the subway from Xinzheng Airport to Zhengzhou Airport High-speed Railway Station, and then take the high-speed rail back to Taiyuan.

Xiao Li said that because he did not know the location of the subway station, he asked a security guard for directions after leaving the terminal.

"At the time, a woman was chatting with a security guard. When she saw me asking him how to get to the subway station, she said the subway station was packed with people and I couldn't get in, so she asked me to take her car. I thought she was a taxi driver and I was in a hurry, so I followed her."

Xiao Li said that five or six minutes later, the woman took her to an underground garage and asked her to take another man's car to her destination. After the man started the car, he took out the meter and asked him to look at it. He saw that the starting price was 12 yuan, so he didn't say anything.

"About 15 or 16 minutes later, the car arrived at the destination. The man took out the meter from his pocket and showed it to me. It showed 237 yuan."

Xiao Li said that the meter used by the man looked like it was modified from a mobile phone, which felt irregular. Because he was a student and lacked social experience, he did not question it at the time and paid the other party 237 yuan via WeChat. After the payment, the other party said that the airport terminal was relatively remote and he could not pick up passengers here, so he asked him to pay another 100 yuan for the return trip. Seeing that the other party was tall and strong, he did not dare to say anything and paid the other party another 100 yuan via WeChat.

The car fare paid by Xiao Li on that day

Law enforcement department: Passengers have been refunded and those involved have been punished

Xiao Li said that after paying the bill, he checked on his phone and found that the straight-line distance from Xinzheng Airport to Zhengzhou Airport Terminal was only six or seven kilometers, and the driving route would be a bit roundabout, estimated to be more than 10 kilometers. Feeling cheated, he reported to the local police. The police asked him what the license plate was, and he said that he was in a hurry to catch the bus and did not write down the other party's license plate. The police said that it would be difficult to deal with without the license plate. Afterwards, he reported it to the local 12345 government hotline.

"I found the other party's address and phone number through WeChat payment records." Xiao Li said that on July 14, he posted his experience online. On the morning of the 17th, the local traffic law enforcement team contacted him to understand the situation and said they would investigate and deal with it.

On the morning of the 17th, based on the phone number provided by Xiao Li, the reporter tried to contact the driver involved, but the number showed up as invalid.

That morning, a reporter from the Huashang Daily Dafeng News contacted the traffic law enforcement team at the scene. They said that after seeing the video posted by Xiao Li, they took it very seriously. Preliminary analysis showed that the car that took Xiao Li away was not a regular taxi, and the woman who took Xiao Li to the underground garage might be a "scalper". They are currently checking the surveillance to find the people and vehicles involved, and will also report the matter to the public security department.

At 12:57 p.m. on the 17th, Xiao Li told the Huashang Daily Dafeng News reporter that the taxi order management station at the scene of the incident refunded him 337 yuan, and he expressed his gratitude to the law enforcement officers for their help.

At noon on the 17th, Xiao Li received a refund from the law enforcement department.

At about 1 p.m. that day, the traffic enforcement team staff at the scene confirmed to the reporter of Huashang Daily Dafeng News that they had found the driver and vehicle involved through surveillance. The vehicle involved was not a regular taxi. "Through a third party, we have refunded the 337 yuan fare to Xiao Li. On the afternoon of the 17th, the person involved will come to our office to be dealt with."

At around 4 p.m. on the 17th, staff from the traffic law enforcement team at the scene told the Huashang Daily Dafeng News reporter that after investigation, they found that the vehicle involved was an online-booked taxi with operating procedures. They have punished the people involved in accordance with the law in accordance with the "Interim Measures for the Management of Online Booked Taxi Services", but the specific details of the punishment are "inconvenient to disclose."

Further reading:

A Chengdu woman spent 11,000 yuan on a taxi to Beijing: It took 40 hours and she claimed she had something urgent to do

In the past few days, some photos have gone viral! In the photos, a green taxi with a Sichuan A license plate appeared in front of the CCTV building in Beijing. The netizen who posted the photos wrote: "As long as the service is good, no matter how far the passenger is, he can pick up the passenger." It turned out that this was a Chengdu taxi driver who took the passenger to Beijing. Netizens commented: "The last one was Chongqing's 'Ferrari' to Shanghai, and now it's Chengdu to Beijing. Sichuan and Chongqing are really brothers."

A green taxi with Sichuan A license plate appeared in front of the CCTV building in Beijing

Is this true? At noon on July 11, a Red Star News reporter met the taxi driver Chen Shijun at a taxi company in Jinniu District. He told reporters that at around 7 pm on June 30, he was waiting in line at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport for passengers when a female passenger got on. "At first, she said she wanted to go to Dazhou. I said it was more than 400 kilometers to Dazhou. She said, 'It's okay, just go.' She directly transferred 1,600 yuan to me."

The female passenger directly transferred 1,600 yuan to Master Chen

The car drove towards Dazhou, but Master Chen said that before reaching Dazhou, the passenger said she was going to Shanghai. "After going to Wuhan (on the way to Shanghai) and bypassing the city, she said she didn't want to go to Shanghai anymore, but to Beijing." After the two sides agreed on the price, they drove towards Beijing. On the way, Master Chen told the company and his family about this. The company also kept an eye on the vehicle's movements and reminded him to take a rest.

In this way, he started to pick up passengers on the afternoon of June 30, passing through Chengdu, Suining, Guang'an, Yichang, Jingmen, Wuhan, Zhumadian, Luohe, Zhengzhou, Handan, Shijiazhuang, Baoding and other cities, and finally arrived in Beijing on the afternoon of July 2. He traveled a total of more than 2,300 kilometers on one side, nearly 40 hours, and spent more than 2,000 yuan on round-trip tolls. Because it was an electric car, he charged it more than ten times on the way, and the charging fee was nearly 1,000 yuan. The reporter saw that during the entire journey, passengers paid a total of about 11,000 yuan in fares by WeChat and Alipay transfers.

Screenshot of Master Chen receiving payment

Why did they take a taxi to Beijing? On the afternoon of the 11th, passenger Ms. Jiang told reporters that she took the taxi because she had an urgent matter to attend to in Beijing. As for why she did not take other means of transportation, she said that she was in a hurry.

Master Chen said that this trip was not easy, as many places were mountainous and he was quite tired. Since it was his first time in Beijing, he first found a hotel to have a good sleep after arriving at the destination, and then drove a taxi to visit scenic spots such as the Bird's Nest and CCTV Building in Beijing, took photos and checked in, and returned to Chengdu on the afternoon of July 3.

Master Chen returns to Chengdu

Master Chen said that this was the largest order he had received in his four years of working in the industry. Although he was tired, he was also very happy because "this trip was relatively cost-effective. I earned almost half a month's salary."

According to Liu Lei, manager of the taxi company where Master Chen works, the company has more than 600 drivers, and this is the largest order the company has encountered in more than ten years since its establishment. "The farthest we have traveled before was to Baoji (Shaanxi)."

Liu Lei said that taxis can travel across regions, but "can pick up passengers, but cannot pick up passengers back." So this time when Master Chen returned to Chengdu from Beijing, he was "empty" on the return trip, without any passengers.