I don't get how you can be charging so low with all the sky high prices.

I was Just thinking how hackney and ph work is like around the rest of the country?
I have been driving hackney for nearly 1 and half years now at first work was average I only work 6 hours normally 10am to 4pm or 5pm as I have some personal issues which mean I can't work long in taxi,
When I first started was making total about 80-90 per day but I've relised it keeps decreasing and decreasing and with the fuel and other prices sky high my profit is less every month,
Recently I've been looking in on my daily takings and its not good.
This year its hard to even take in £40 per day I know that with the rescission people are cutting down on outgoings and use cheaper companys, most companys are £2.50 or £3.00 anywhere around town and us as hackneys are abit more expensive so most tend to use ph more.
But I don't get how you can be charging so low with all the sky high prices.

You don't want to know what I took last week, a mixture of a shit system that keeps crashing and no work left me paying out more than I took home. It was less than £100 for over 60 hours work.

It amazes me how many Taxi's there are around Ashfield and no real night life in Sutton or Kirkby, maybe I made the right decision of working from Mansfield rather than Ashfield where I live, I suppose time will tell, but I am having to work over 60 hours in Mansfield to make it pay, but probably that is the norm?

After reading above posts I must be lucky after making enough to cover the weeks rent in 7 hours Sat night and 9.5 hours today, hopefully it will carry on?

Assuming, you're self-employed (private hire)with your own car, the only way to do it I find is to take work from more than one company.

However this will only work out if, a commission is paid on each job, rather than paying a circuit fee (otherwise paying a circuit fee of more than one firm, you're going to loose!), and that the companies are happy for you to work open-shift, or won't be annoyed if you turn down jobs because you're doing a job for someone else (which is your right anyway if you're self-employed).

If you find work drying up from some companies, move on and ring up a few more.

You mean it took 2 days to get a weeks rent? Is that the rent for your radio?

Assuming, you're self-employed (private hire)with your own car, the only way to do it I find is to take work from more than one company.

However this will only work out if, a commission is paid on each job, rather than paying a circuit fee (otherwise paying a circuit fee of more than one firm, you're going to loose!), and that the companies are happy for you to work open-shift, or won't be annoyed if you turn down jobs because you're doing a job for someone else (which is your right anyway if you're self-employed).

If you find work drying up from some companies, move on and ring up a few more.