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Because there is a large section of the trades, both hackney but mainly private hire, that believe you go to work to carry as many passengers in a day's work as possible.

I, on the other hand, go to work to earn as much money in a day's work as possible.

And the two things are not the same.

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I'd have refused, regular or not.
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I did a Warwick on Saturday morning about 1am, he phoned up asking for a price so we qouted him Birmingham Airport plus £10 making it £80, I got the job, and hour and 10 minutes there and the same back. I was averaging 53MPG there and back in 6th. Out of the £80 take away the fuel £20 and I've earned £60 in 2 hours.

When I got back the drivers said it's been dead, I did right taking the job IMO.

Because they are stupid and are only looking at the top figure, if you take a Out Of Town job you've got to take into consideration the time of night and would you earn more knocking round town doing less miles? Me personally I don't take Out Of Town jobs on a busy Friday or Saturday night.

I got offered a Nottingham at 12am this morning, it was banging round here so I returned the job to the base because I knew for a fact I'd double the Nottingham price knocking about round here and do less mileage.

The car that went to Nottingham was gone for the best part of 2 hours, in that time I doubled what he got for the Nottingham and a bit more due to me getting jobs that were dropping onto each other.

And you don't have to refuse and upset the regular passenger.

All you need to say is that you're already booked for a few hours, or that day when they want the hiring.

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I find 6th not as good for MPG, the 130ps "torque:BHP" best point is about 2200 rpm, which is over 80mph and the extra drag defeats the point, I prefer 65-70 in 5th, 6th lowers the RPM but the car struggles to keep up on a light throttle, also my right foot is lighter than the cruise, so i avoid using it except for a rest.....

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My sympathies its obviously tough out there these days, I've taken long trips for peanuts in the past the advantage being its guaranteed against chancing it and staying in town, but the Folkstone situation is just PATHETIC and sadly typical

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Sensible words there Brummie! Any fool can be busy all the time, but I always go for the price per mile rather than the cash turnover! I've found that (usually) as cash turnover goes up, profit goes down.

One of our local "fools" (no longer a ph driver, got banned for driving whilst medically unfit), used to do every 34 job, day and night, always busy, yet probably earned the same amount as I do for twice as much work!