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Rental / Settle £270 per week, fuel £110-£130 per week total to save messing about £400 before you take anything for yourself. What would the hourly take have to be if a person wanted to earn £6 an hour?

If you work 60 hours a week just under £13.

If you work 40 hours a week £16.

If you work 80 hours a week £11.

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IDFIMH

Cheers, is that everything added in like the fuel?

It's gotta be easier to work 40 hours @ £16 an hour than 80 hours @ £11 an hour.

if its a whole car rental yes (insurance/plates/road tax/repairs), youd want the car 24/7, work/personal and option to car share with another (family?) driver

then it gets sane, split the rental (£135 each) each driver pays for their own shifts fuel

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

£400 a week before you turn a profit is completely insane. That's around £13 an hour for 30 hours before you make a bolt for yourself.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

but its all inclusive


look at Jman, his insurance is gonna be £3000, his cars £5000+ add in non-fuel items (tyres, road tax, servicing) it soon becomes cloudy as to whats best, plus the car rental means (often) a new vehicle every 3 or 4 years, and a renter can chuck the keys in and walk away in a heartbeat, you cant if youve got HP on a car and penalties to cancel insurance half way through and you get no refund on a plate do you...


£400 a week is £57 a day, take £157 and youve got £600 a week (after fuel) in your sky rocket, even I can see its achievable and im anti-circuit anti-rentals and anti-subcontracting

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Yes.

The equation is quite simple.

Base of £400 as you outlined.

Then add how many hours times the £6 an hour.

Then divide the total by the amount of hours.

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IDFIMH

What don't you get about working 30 hours a week before making a buck for yourself? Another 8 hours, and it's your average mans working-week with take-home pay. And that's before looking at the safety implications of someone having to work 60-80 hours a week, to earn a decent crust.

Don't you see? Your business model is not only unsafe but verges on the unfeasible.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I know it's shit

You are labouring under a misapprehension, your example is a "working man" who wants a living wage and stability with job security, throw that away, work hard and get on, work EXTRA hard and make more is a philosophy not applicable to PAYE workers especially since the working hours directive came in, how many builders/plasterers, etc do 80 hours a week to earn loadsamoney?.....most

PAYE workers on 6.50/hr have it harder, they cant work more than 44 hours, £14872 a year, £4782 of it taxed, I used to work a double shift at the pit (7am-2pm and 10pm-5am) on a friday for the extra....

Dont compare PAYE with self employed businesses

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Listen, having to work 60-80 hours a week makes you unsafe and has a huge impact on your family life. You happen to be picking up members of the public and driving them from A-B not plastering their bloody walls.

Most builders, plasterers, joiners, etc. don't have to work 30 hours before earning a crust for themselves. And no one is demanding they pay £400 a week, to turn up at their work. Oh and who's comparing driving a taxi to PAYE?

If the feasibility of driving a taxi was based on public safety, I doubt you would be allowed to drive 60-80 hours a week, to make a decent wage.

Get a grip, ffs...

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Of course they can do more than 44 hours. They just can't be forced to work more than 44 hours.

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Grandad,

Good point.


And what's more, why would anyone defend working 60-80 hours a week, while having to pay out £400 a week, to have a job? It's absolutely mental.

It just goes to show the state of the taxi trade as an industry.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

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