Taxi drivers

Depends i think. My local firm are looking for "owner drivers" and just drivers....i assume if you own the car you wont have to pay to use it but obviously take the depreciation hit on your car.

I saw a taxi company in Glasgow advertising for "non radio" taxi drivers. :confused:
 
[TW]Fox said:
Most are self employed and pay rent to the taxi company for use of a radio.
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a bloke I know pays about £100 a week rent plus fuel costs ( this is a 50% time split of the car, radio, licence etc ) and then what he makes is his
 
Cheers,

I know generally how taxi and taxi firms operate, just want to know if anyone can find an average salary.
 
Totally depends on how often you work and if you share the car and pay half the expenses you would usually have to.

If you do say......Glasgow to Hamilton thats an easy £25,a lot of people will get a taxi in at say £15 and give them your number and you can get the hire back at 3am!

Sunday i paid £6 something for a taxi to work,usually only £4 weekdays.
 
jonesy said:
I would doubt that,

afaik taxi drivers make a good living. In Edinburgh anyway.
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maybe in place like edinbough/london but not in most places, there must be a good reason why they can never get drivers

the folks I know that do it are not well off at all
 
From what I know, there are quite a few people who do mini cabbing part time, in addition to their other (part time or full time) job. If you did this job full time, 7hrs per day, 5 days per week, I have to agree with what someone has already stated - just above minimum wage.

On the other hand, I have a friend who owns a Mercedes S600 and only deals with the top end, ie. wealthy clients who want to hire a luxury car and driver to drive them to wherever. He works full time. In 3 yrs he has made £25k or thereabouts. The money is undeclared so there are no deductions (tax, NI).
 
So he makes £8,300 odds a year? I wouldn't get out of my bed for that. On top of that if he isn't declaring his income he's defrauding the country.
 
Windle said:
So he makes £8,300 odds a year? I wouldn't get out of my bed for that. On top of that if he isn't declaring his income he's defrauding the country.
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My understanding is that this is on top of a full time job... :confused:
 
Thats correct.

He earns whatever he earns in his full time job PLUS c.£8300pa is what he earns from doing the cabbing, albeit using a Mercedes S600. Cash-in-hand.
 
For your average taxi driver, the take home is around £200-250 p/w, however if you operate next to an airport for instance you can take up to £600-700 p/w.
 
there is no average. depends who you pick up, where you are, what shifts you want to do.

On a busy Friday night in a town centre you can earn over 300 in one night.

but on a week day it can be as little as £50 minus fuel ect.

I don't know why the y do it full time, part time on friday/saterday is the best. even 4-8ish is good, everyone getting into town.
 
Rotty said:
I think the net pay would be little above minimum wage
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Nope, it's much higher.

Taxi drivers can make an awful lot of money, indeed I know of drivers who make around £800-1,000 a day, however its the drivers that really know the system and work on the larger circuits who only really get near this figure.

Realistically you're looking at a good take home wage every day, and if you're willing to work harder then some, you'll make more - a lot of taxi drivers have a set amount of money they want to make every day, then go home, regardless of what time it is.

The thing is, taxi drivers are genuinely very dishonest, and will find any way they can to cheat their system; the taxi companies reciprocate in screwing them over for account jobs.

If you can, join a company with a big account circuit, especially council/government ones, they are the jobs that pay big, and whilst companies take a large commission off these types of contracts, you'll still make more.

The newer PDA based systems really do help the companies cut down on cheaters, and some of these companies really rake it in, eg A&B and Keen; Whilst I can't disclose how much they make, believe me when I say it is a lot, per week.
 
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platypus said:
Nope, it's much higher.

Taxi drivers can make an awful lot of money, indeed I know of drivers who make around £800-1,000 a day, however its the drivers that really know the system and work on the larger circuits who only really get near this figure.

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:eek: , I know some drivers and they make less than 300 quid a week net for long hours


£800-1000 a day , at an average of about £2.50 a mile , sorry, no chance

if this was the case then why can't taxi companies get drivers
 
Rotty said:
:eek: , I know some drivers and they make less than 300 quid a week net for long hours

£800-1000 a day , at an average of about £2.50 a mile , sorry, no chance
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Where do you get an average of £2.50 a mile from? The average in London is £12.50 for the first mile and £6-£8 thereafter, and that's on cash jobs. And as I said before, its the contract jobs that make the real money.
 
platypus said:
Where do you get an average of £2.50 a mile from? The average in London is £12.50 for the first mile and £6-£8 thereafter, and that's on cash jobs. And as I said before, its the contract jobs that make the real money.
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2.50 a mile is about the national average

London is 20p for 168 metres ( tariff 1 ) , your figures just don't add up


For the first 335.8 metres there is a minimum charge of £2.20;
For each additional 167.9 metres, if the fare is less than £13.40 then there is a charge of 20p;


so that's about £3.80 for the first mile and £2.40 a mile after that


contract rates are normall below the standard rates
 
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