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I know a woman taxi driver who was also p/t on the base at a local firm

She did a school contract, 50 miles each way so 200 miles total a day


She rented a car off the base for £300/week (just add fuel, PDA included)


Being in the office she came across the invoice for her school run for which she got a total of £100/day


Base were getting just under £200/day....

So the base were seeing £800/week from her (term time)

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I picked up one of our railway contracts. Passenger says 'not a bad job, £100 for a couple of hours driving'. I replied it's only £60 - turns out he was the contract manager and they pay the firm £100 per trip.

I recall a contact (owner/driver) who was "mates" with his base owner, about 130 cars at £120/week rent and told the guy he creamed £250K a year off the top of contracts

then he got my mate and 6 others to chip in and start a new base which lasted 6 months with no refunds

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My drivers get 100 percent of what we invoice

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Heres another..

The base im on, if we do an account job, we put a ticket in and deduct it from the rent due end of week

Previously, other base, we had to invoice the base EOM and wait 45 days for a cheque

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Serves her right for running at £1.00 a mile.

When I was doing contracts for other people, I couldn't care less what they were getting paid for it as long as I was getting what I wanted.

The trade is full of operators fleecing councils yet paying drivers a faction of the fleece.

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IDFIMH

Agreed. The job required a female driver, she was one of only 2 on the circuit.

If it had been me the day I saw the invoice would have been the last day i did it without a big pay increase

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