Officials insist they need to step up efforts to crack down on ride-hailing apps to bring order to public transport services for the sake of passenger safety and interests. Starting in Chiang Mai last week, the provincial land transport office has been pursuing tougher measures to crack down on illegal ride-hailing taxi services, including Uber and Grab Car. "But none of those drivers who are operating the illegal taxi services was verified by such procedures." For example, Grab Taxi and All Thai Taxi are legal ride-hailing taxi services supported by the department, he said. "Since we arrived in Thailand in 2014, Uber has engaged with the department to clarify that we are not a taxi service.

Source: Bangkok Post March 09, 2017 19:30 UTC