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Dusty, it can't be done. And even if you managed to have one or two perfect hours with seven or eight jobs an hour (which I doubt) you've still got another ten hours where everything would have to work like clockwork.

Even 5 jobs and hour, over a twelve-hour period is a stretch, and that only works out to sixty jobs.

It's a fantasy Dusty, and I don't give a [edited by admin] where you work. Oh and you can forget about your housing estate theory. You would still have to make it back to the rank or pick-up a radio job, drop-off and pick-up, within ten minutes, six times every hour, for twelve hours, and that's only seventy-two jobs.

The reality is around fifty jobs on a busy night, and it doesn't get any better than that.

Well I would agree with that, for a twelve hour shift at least.

But that's in a city-style environment. I've worked in a small city, and the best I did on a normal Saturday was bang on 50 jobs, that was from 4 til 4 or possibly a bit longer.

I recall working one Christmas Day and must have easily done another 20 jobs on top of that, but can't remember the precise figures. But the shift were certainly a bit longer, perhaps 15 hours, early afternoon till the clubs kicked out.

I've also worked in a small town just a little bigger than Skippy's manor, and I would say that job-total wise you could easily add on another third to that, which would be the thick end of a hundred jobs. (Of course that's assuming non-stop jobs coming over the phone - you won't normally get non-stop street work in a small town, or anything like it. And of course they'll tend to be going a bit less distance-wise than in a bigger conurbation.)

I'd also say that working in the city on Christmas Day the jobs tend to be a bit shorter than on a normal Saturday (say) and will be more inclined to avoid the city centre and there will be a lot less traffic generally, thus the ability to do more jobs than would normally be the case. All this is consistent with what Skippy said earlier.

And in a small town like Galashiels that Skippy has worked for about 150 years he'll know addresses like the back of his hand, so no faffing around looking for house numbers or whatever.

Thus I don't disagree with Skippy's claim that he did 87 jobs, but where I would doubt him is that he did this in seven and a half hours or so, but who knows?

Why I also doubt him is because according to him his town's ranks are usually crowded with dozens of taxis and drivers earning tuppence ha'penny an hour, yet only five drivers came out on Christmas Day when they could be making megabucks

Skippy’s at the wind up and btw lt’s worked, but Skull is right, it’s bollocks. Anyway, are there really drivers that work 12/14 hrs ?. I just couldne’ do that. I think there was once, 12 years ago, and the clocks went forward, I done a marathon 10 hrs with an hour break in between, but never again. ( I’m sure my ears started to bleed that night).

Skippy's claim of 87 jobs, is fantasy. And it doesn't matter where you work; you are simply competing against too many variables over a twelve-hour period, and on average, your job totals work out to be much the same between each vehicle over the period. No one, and I do mean no one, is doing 87 jobs in a twelve-hour shift, no matter where they work. In reality, it's simply impossible.

That's more than seven jobs an hour, every hour, when your optimum operating level is probably three to five jobs an hour, on average.

Oh and your theory of only a few cars working and doing more work is also a myth. If the optimum number of jobs is between three to five on average, you can't, then do ten jobs simply because there is more demand.

Skippy, if you're gonna bullshit, keep the bullshit consistant.

This is what you posted on aberdeentaxis



Now that's not quite what you have said here, is it?

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Skull how long would it take you to do 9 miles, on Christmas day with near deserted roads it takes me 8.5 mins, without breaking the speed limit,as I only have half a mile to travel at 30 mph before I can get up to 60 mph
I believe your theory of working the runs out at 1 every 10 mins so 3 every half hour, if you work the way I do, I combine runs so that there is next to no dead mileage, and no rank pick ups so its very easy to do 5 in half an hour, you just warn the punters to be ready, and you will fit them in works well that one, so you drop off in one street and on the way for the next hire you pick up around the corner from where you drop on the way, if they are going the opposite direction you just give them a time

Half a mile at 30 mph = 1 minute.
8.5 miles at 60 mph = 8.5 minutes

Total 9.5 minutes, assuming you don't slow down for bends, junctions, lights, Derby and Joan doing 15 mph, drunken morons etc.

+Time for drunk passengers (Not many sober ones on xmas day) to pay you, get their change, pick up their stuff and get out?
+Time to get to next job, since you are now 8.5 miles from town?
+Time for next drunk passengers to come out and get in the cab?

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ups sorry I meant 9.5 hit the wrong key,
There was one 9 mile run from out of town, so went to get it, that turned into 2, a quick half mile up the road, then back to pick up a 10 miler while taking them got a call from a punter at the destination going to Gala so a bonus, the only road thats bad is the first 14 miles of the A7 going to Edinburgh

Skippy you are talking, shi*e, and not just a little shi*e, absolute shi*e. I've worked Ph and Hacks both in the City and in the Country, and a seven job an hour average, is a fantasy. Oh and I doubt there is a City more busier than Edinburgh, during a rugby International, in the whole of the UK. Over seven jobs an hour for a twelve-hour shift can't be done. That's a job every eight minutes for 12-hours, ffs.

At this point you should just admit, you are talking shi*e.

Skull, on the Aberdeen forum he claimed to have done 87 jobs between 6.30pm and 2.45am.
We make that 1 every 5 minutes and 41 seconds

Strangely enough, he was on here at 2.02 am claiming he was finished.

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Just over 10.5 jobs an hour btw

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All Skippy's passengers are sitting at the door in their new shell suit with running shoes on because Skippy has them working to an eight-minute in - out schedule.

It's no accident that councillors and members of the public think taxi drivers are ars*holes.

LMAO

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