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The quote of upto 2100 bookings an hour probably means that they had 2100 in an hour on only 1 occasion. What would be interesting to know would be how many bookings they get per day or week. That way people could get a more accurate idea of jobs per hour.

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Grandad,

You are quite right, what people really want to know is the average per day. I took the top figure simply because we don't know that average but even on those figures over supply is obvious and a reduction of 200 drivers would still only yield 3.2 jobs per hour.

Having said all that, if the bulk of these jobs are substantial then 2.8 jobs per hour wouldn't be too bad. Perhaps all their jobs are of the twenty pound variety but weren't Delta priding themselves a few months back on their fares being kept atificially low?

Perhaps that last inference on fares is questionable?

Regards

JD

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I assume that they have submitted their accounts to company's house so it should be a fairly easy job to find their turnover for the last financial year. divide this by 8760 which is the total hours available for the year (except leap years) and then this number can be divided by the number of drivers to give an average take per driver. obviously this figure would include the drivers rents and radio charges etc. But that can be worked out and taken from the total.

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Grandad,

An excellent simplification, you are to be congratulated.

Regards

JD

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Deltastaff once informed us that, "There may be thousands of cars licensed by Sefton, but they're not IN Sefton. The majority work Liverpool and Knowsley".

So according to deltastaff the abundance of work is in any place other than Sefton and from his statement it would appear there is no existing expectation of growth in sefton and that growth from previous years has come from farming more lucrative areas such as Liverpool.

I believe the sour smell of stagnation could soon be hovering over number 7 Glen Buildings in Crosby sooner rather than later considering their opportunty for growth is now somewhat limited.

Regards

JD

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looking back to 2006 when Delta reportedly had 1100 drivers it would appear they were churning out 1500 jobs an hour. This amounts to 1.36 jobs per hour if all drivers were working at the same time, however we still have no indication as to the number of vehicles they run? The present situation sees a 1.4 ratio to drivers = jobs per hour. This would suggest that in three years there has been a negligible 0.04 increase in jobs per driver but a staggering 36% rise in radio rent income from 400 additional drivers.

Now that is certainly growth in radio rent but it certainly isn't growth in driver earnings.

Regards

JD

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If Delta had kept to a staple diet of 1100 drivers those drivers would no doubt have experianced an increase of up to 1.9 jobs per hour. That amounts to an increase of 0.5 which is reasonable under the circumstances but radio income for delta would have suffered greatly, however, when Delta talk of growth they obviously exclude growth in earnings for the driver, Deltas model is typical of many private hire operations where they take on drivers without having enough work to sustain those drivers.

That is why plying for hire is so prevalent.

Regards

JD

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