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I agree with the above ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But on another note if you pulled up for an 11pm booking and they were 10 minutes late would you let them have that time for free without engaging the meter? If I get to an 11pm booking they get two minutes then the meter gets engaged.

and then theres the 23.50hrs "T1" booking where they dont come out till 00.05hrs and its "T2" time......on a quoted price?.....

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Quoted price goes out of the window, it's for a T1 booking it's not T1 anymore. If you were running late then it has to be a T1 booking.

Finding your quoted or pre-paid passengers at a big wedding bash and no-one wants to go home....

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thankfully I dont work a base after 8pm any night, i do take pre-paid solid bookings....i dont wait

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Meter.

I've never had the pleasure to work from a base or a meter, being rural private hire. all these odd 2 minutes to wait add up to a lot of unpaid hours during the course of a year, as does the wasted mileage on no shows..

No show=no further bookings taken from them.

I'm starting to keep a log of the times spent on each job, so far it's working out roughly at ;

Time from getting job to arriving at pickup = 4 minutes
Time from arriving to loading passenger = 4 minutes
Time to unload at destination = 3 minutes.

Only averages at the moment as I've only checked a couple of days here and there, once I check a full week it'll be clearer.
But it looks like it takes 8 minutes from passenger phoning to actually getting in car - just to do a 3 minute 1 mile job (majority of our jobs go a mile or less )

Shockingly if I do an 8 hour shift only about 1.5 hours is with a passenger on board/meter running !

.... and uncountable waiting time between jobs

Am I only doing 1.5 hours work a day, or is it 6.5 hours unpaid work ?

Last night skewed the stats, most passengers loaded in less than two minutes and went a couple of miles.

I'm counting that as a "driving time", my best score is 11h59m in twelve hrs shift (town jobs only no distance) the worst is 0h45m in twelve hrs shift (1/1/2015)

Hang on, are you saying that you once had passengers in your car for 11 hours 59 mins of a 12 hour shift?

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Grandad,

"driving time" grandad means when I'm driving, I've stopped engine for 1 min in 12 hrs taking over 40 jobs at that time. working time it's not only when you carry passenger, I count it from time when booking appears on my screen then driving to pickup point (because I'm busy already and sometimes it takes longer). in that particular example I had job after job so I had no time to stop engine

12 hours without a break!!! most people would think that rather dangerous.

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Grandad,