Taxi Driver Online

no idea about where you live but here we have 2 options,

1) buy a hack, then the hack plate is you're ops licence & apply for you're own run

2) contract to someone else & do the run for them, ok they take a cut,but normally only around 10%, on my run i do it in a mini bus, it takes about 3-4 hrs a day, bearing in mind that you are always done by 9 ish, i have no fuel to pay/upkeep of the vehicle but obviously the bus owners take a cut, if it was my own i wouldnt earn a lot more as i would have my fuel to pay & a few more miles on my motor , im happy with mine , i do want my own though, purely for the reason that i will get a contract, 2 -3 yrs or whatever, atm , the owners can take it off me & give me another one with less or more cash , so no security ( after a new motor STILL !! so need to know its a regular income ) taxi driving is a bit like trucking though, you are you're own boss pretty much, lot less stress also, no tachos to worry about/deadlines etc & you are home every night if you want to be , i just do my school run mon-fri & graft on a fri night ( rarely) but mostly on a sat night after the match till about 1 ish then kebab time & im away , that's fine for me , although if you are the shy retiring type ( like me ) you might think twice, there are a lot of nutters out there ! with my school run & a sat night i earn more that what you quoted with a shedload of time off !! just play on me bike pretty much mon - fri

I gave up private hire work a couple of years ago, living in a rural area there just was't the work around and a marriage split caused problems. I went back to part-time bus driving, doing rail replacement work mostly at weekends, with occasional nights. Good Friday job paid about £220 for a 12 hour standby shift, same Saturday Sunday and Monday, less stoppages of course! A lot of hanging around and I got done early 3 nights. Probably drove a bus abut 80 miles in the 4 days.

You're better off lorry driving.

The cab driving game is just that a game ', it's nothing like it use to be.saying that if you keep your costs low then u can survive.if you going for a new cab then your costs will be high .buy one 3/4 years old if possible

Have you thought about agency work for the lorry driving?

Think logically, there's a nationwide shortage of lorry and bus drivers, there is a glut of taxi and private hire drivers. Who is likely to be more in demand?

Gigolo's?

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