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loony scouse echo journos again

There are several jobs currently available offering handsome salaries - in some cases of £40,000 or more.
Of course, many of these roles - such as those for veterinary surgeons or optometrists - are only open to suitably qualified candidates. But not all of them.

Private hire and taxi driver

Full time/part time

Salary: £450 - £1,250/week

Due to increases in customer demand, taxi firm Argyle Satellite is actively supporting customer focused, motivated people to become self-employed Wirral private hire or hackney drivers.

Becoming a private hire/hackney driver can provide you with a great deal of flexibility and a profession that is well paid yet can fit in around other commitments.

Call Argyle Satellite on 0151 666 8383 or apply here.

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Even if we believed the numbers, it's not exactly a salary.

It's turnover not money in the bank.

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A friend of mine works for (can you say that these days??) the big P/H firm here in Chester, Kingkabs. His takings have roughly stayed the same for a few months now, as it gets busier more drivers come back to work. The office manager put a message out last week saying things are back to pre-COVID levels now, last weeks top earner ‘took’ £2,200! Really?? £314 a day for seven straight days/nights ???

In the days when I worked long hours I think the most I took, before expenses, in a week was just over £1,000, That would be probably 4 or 5 times a year and mainly airports.

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Who knows what the figures the Echo quote actually refer to, but on the employment agency's website there's also this:


The asterisks refer to this:


I'm guessing these are some sort of hourly *profit* figures, so while £650/week and £300/weekend look very good after expenses, it looks like they're assuming 85 hours for the full-time drivers, and 38 hours for weekend drivers

One of the reviews left on Indeed's website is probably more realistic:


So I'm guessing the quoted 'salary' figures are topline/best scenario takings, based on a humungous number of hours worked. Who'd have guessed it?

Only question is whether the Echo have been paid to publish that, or whether it's just an article based on journalistic 'research' on a recruitment agency's website

Anyone have any idea what AFV and CB stand for? Couldn't find anything with Google

I'm guessing the A might stand for average, but can't think of anything for the other letters. Maybe it doesn't really mean anything much at all, and is just used to mask the reality of using something like 'average hourly earnings'. I mean, if they used some well known jargon in this kind of thing like OTE then it's easily enough found with Google, but can't see anything for AFV that would fit.

Could AFV be at face value?

About 10 years ago one of the operators told a few newbies that if they invested in new 8-seaters with schools and Fri/Sat night they could take three grand a week.

Three grand a week FFS.

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Average fare value?

Car/Cab bookings?

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IDFIMH

Good suggestion, but if so it's maybe recruitment-agency speak, and unique to that agency or whatever, because if it was something like OTE or NMW then it would be easily found with Google


Certainly good suggestion if it's cab trade jargon rather than the recruitment agency's own terminology.

But if it is 85 jobs rather than 85 hours then that would certainly seem more plausible. On the other hand, £650 in fares full-time doesn't seem much, as opposed to if the £650 was profit - I mean, after expenses, would there be anything other than sweetie money left out of £650 topline?

Worked out that if I worked 50 hours per week, averaged 30mph and had the meter activated ALL the time then I could make that

And I would say the odds of that happening are less than the odds of winning the euro millions jackpot !

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