guest wrote:
I'm a black cab owner /driver in Manchester , i get 200 off my night man , i work the days 6am-5.30pm 6 days a week and take on between 85-100 a day if i stick at it and work right thru without a break, i put on average £15 fuel in a day , so on a 48 week year thats 31,200, my insurance is 2,800, and my repair bill and other overheads last year was 2,600 , that brings my profit down to 25,800, and i'm paying 800 per mnth for the cab &plate finance .....profit £16,500....... welcome to the real world Mr Davies !!!! day men making £200 per day .....

I assume you don't have a radio Or if you do have one you don't work it, or perhaps if you do have one you are on a poor radio circuit.
If you don't have a radio, you fit perfectly into the category of a non-radio driver whose earnings I described as being around 80 to 90 pounds a day. Thank you for confirming my figures.
If you read what I said about a driver with a radio doing 200 miles a day you will see I said it would equate to 150 pound when you take into consideration the discount on account work. If you’re going to quote me please quote the whole sentence and not part of it to suite your own argument.
Maybe you should try getting a school job. The average school job nowadays must pay around 50 pound a day, or perhaps join a good Radio system such as Mantax if you’re finding it hard to cope financially.
For your day man to be paying you 200 pound a week the day man will have to be grossing around 570 pound to make himself 300, considering he cant start earning for himself until he has earnt your 200 pound and the diesel to boot.
Anyway, you cleared up one thing and that is that Day men without a radio can earn 700 pound a week if they work seven days.
The question posed by Geoff was this, he asked if the Manchester evening news got it right about cabbies earning 30 grand a year. I explained fully the potential of earnings of a Manchester cab driver; it was also evident that the scale I used was in the extreme, if you read my post u will no doubt see that.
Not many people work 12 hours a day seven days a week but if they do they can expect to earn in the region of the figures I quoted, even you must realise that. As for outgoing's, I made it very clear that the figures I quoted excluded outgoings such as vehicle repayments.
There is no point in whingeing just because you bought yourself a cab and plate. You go into this game with your eyes open, if you didn't think the game was lucrative enough to make a good living you probably wouldn’t have staked so much into something that could be worthless come tomorrow.
Best wishes
John Davies