Taxi Driver Online

ages ago...

now on 5 days a week x £90/day plus escort at £45/day =£675 a week

just bid on another 6 day a week run but only £75/day = £450/week

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why so interested in my contract?

what do you earn?

Go and get on the framework (ours is open in 2019), get the county contractor badge for all drivers/escorts/base staff (DBS, CSE course, etc) and then try tendering....or go sit on the rank (which i do between schools sometimes)

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You were the one who mentioned the contract, You were the one to mention your personal figures (not me), and then came out with a figure that I had never heard the likes of!

I asked for details (not names) as to what was entailed i.e distance/time involved/why so high.

Oh......my earnings? = The great State Pension + a few smaller (and I mean small) works pensions, and some savings/investments! Nothing to hide/no outrageous claims from me.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

if you dont want the answer, dont ask the question...

BTW, Im vat registered due to my high percentage of contract work....go figure

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lowest i bid is 10% less than meter.....bearing in mind it can be 4 years work 10 trips a a week 34 weeks a year, with an annua rise each april

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Are you off of your medicinal drugs yet?......You have claimed (nobody forced you) that you have an exceptionally highly remunerative school contract! A question has been asked, and then (you say) " I don't want the answer".......Hmm hello........yes I do. At the moment your claim of a 3k in a month contract, does not stack up.

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

22 school days

£136 a day

simples

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As you can see (left hand col winning bids) the runs can add up


http://www.leics.gov.uk/tenderresults-243.htm

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The truth of these contacts is NOT the actual figure being quoted - "The Truth" is what anyone (as an individual) will actually get from it as an end result i.e overall expenses stripped out ......they are not what they seem.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

That would be the same for any taxi fare though. If the fare is £5.00 that is what the customer pays. the driver still has to take their expenses out of the fiver, even if they are an owner/driver.

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Grandad,

I had hoped that you would have looked beyond that. Reading what some of the guys on here have put i.e quoting a minus price of 10% of the normal meter tariff, and then a minus £45/whatever per day for an escort to come out - and then to strip out in some cases VAT! My point being is this; the drivers/some of them, are not actually getting (for themselves) anywhere near the figures that they are posting.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

I can't speak for others but unless I have made a cock up I always quote what the job would be on the meter, including dead miles where I can. For our drivers who are self employed, that is what they get. Obviously the hourhly paid drivers get paid the hourly rate which is currently £8.00 per hour. Our escorts also get £8.00 per hour.

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Grandad,

WYSIWYG......

literally

they are the INVOICED amounts

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OH.... you mean bases cream off 10%-25% for themselves and pay the owner drivers/drivers the balance?

really?.....never.....wouldnt think that ever happens......much

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most