Trishaw

My group members consist of Joyce, Hanim, Noin, Heliana and me. At first, we felt so headache about the topic we want to present for our last project. After brainstorming for few hours at last we decide to do research on trishaw in Penang. When we talk about trishaw, what come across your mind? For us, we just feel want to know the reason why still so many seniors citizen work as trishaw rider. Why they so old already still want to give this kind of service to the tourists and local people. Some more, nowadays most of us at least have one vehicle at our home except the foreigners.

So on 22 of September, we went to do our research at Georgetown at 10 o’clock in the morning. We travel around to find the trishaw rider. At the end we manage to find them in Explanet, Cititel and Komtar. We interview few of the trishaw rider, they are so kind and friendly. They accept our interview when we approached to them. They give us many information such as the renter for the trishaw, type of foreigners and others thing.

From the interview, I just got to know they work in a shift. They can choose the time they want to give the service. Other than that, there few company which in charge of the riders. Different company have different route to ride. Usually the tourist guide will bring the tourists to the riders and recommend the tourists to have a ride on the trishaw. Whenever the tourist guide led the tourists to the rider, they will have some commission from the money that the rider got from the service.

For your information, most of the riders are still single and the average age for them to become rider is 18 to 75 years old. Most of them become trishaw rider because have a better income and they are not well educated so don’t have any company like to hired them. In conclusion, trishaw is also a type job that will give a better income to the people.