Haggling For Transport
1. You will find that coaches, busses and public taxis (white Toyota vans with blue checks round them) do not expect haggling from passengers. They have fixed prices and fares. These are, by European and American standards, absurdly inexpensive and there is really no reason to haggle anyway.
Although licenced for a set number, often 14, public taxis rarely move off until there are at least 18 people in them - don't try haggling to reduce the price because there are extra passengers- to the drivers mind there are the right number of passengers!
Private taxi cabs are open to negotiation, as are bodaboda drivers. Its well worth finding out the cost of a particular trip in advance when using a taxi or bodaboda so you have a guide to where the haggling should end. If you don't know the approximate price, don't be shy of haggling hard as you will soon get a response that indicates the lowest price.
Also make sure the driver really does know where your destination is - or you may find yourself in the wrong place and haggling over the extra cost to get back to the place you wanted. In the wrong place, alone and lost, you do not have the advantage in the haggling!
Take a look here for photographs of Ugandan roads, taxis, bodabodas and transport.