Meter for Hackney work tariff chart for prebooked which has set out plus mileages for each area that's how it works here though you would not have any element of time charging in the prebooked fares.

We are in a very rural borough. the borough is quite large being around 25 miles wide by 16 miles long. A major problem for both drivers and customers is a taxi from one village close to the borough boundary to another village a couple of miles apart.
Now if we use the meter from when the passenger gets in the vehicle to when the journey ends the fare can be around £4-5.00. However we could have traveled up to 30 miles in a round trip to do this job which is totally uneconomic for the driver. The result is that the people living in such village locations simply can't get a taxi. Our Councils answer to this is for drivers to get a private hire operators license and a private hire car but this is not practical because the majority of work is in the town and off the street which can't be done in a private hire vehicle.
The question is, can a council include on the table of fares a charge for picking up customers going from village to village?

Don't take the work in them locations unless you've got a car out there at that time.

We are in a very rural borough. the borough is quite large being around 25 miles wide by 16 miles long. A major problem for both drivers and customers is a taxi from one village close to the borough boundary to another village a couple of miles apart.
Now if we use the meter from when the passenger gets in the vehicle to when the journey ends the fare can be around £4-5.00. However we could have traveled up to 30 miles in a round trip to do this job which is totally uneconomic for the driver. The result is that the people living in such village locations simply can't get a taxi. Our Councils answer to this is for drivers to get a private hire operators license and a private hire car but this is not practical because the majority of work is in the town and off the street which can't be done in a private hire vehicle.
The question is, can a council include on the table of fares a charge for picking up customers going from village to village?

isn't all work within the borough in a hackney carriage hackney work even if it is pre booked.

That is the current situation. The problem is not ours but the customer who can't get a taxi. Many of them are willing to pay extra for us to come out but our council will not allow us to charge more than the fare on the meter.

But how much would the booking fee have to be in order for it to be worthwhile for a driver to do a 30 mile round trip, £20,£30 +the cost of the fare ? Who's going to pay that to go a couple of miles ?