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Author	Torran_Toi
Comment	Yeah. Radio Rents are in the region of £150 per week. So that's the Friday shift swallowed up. Car costs (not covering fuel) are anywhere between £160 and £200 per week depending on car type. Owner-drivers can spread the costs out a bit (monthly finance and annual insurance, say) while the car renters need to pay a fixed weekly. pros and cons, swings and roundabouts. Either way, boom, that's the Saturday shift swallowed up. Then the diesel. This will vary from model to model. Well maintained motors will cost a bit less and sheds of shite will cost a bit more. Looking at anywhere between £100 and £150 per week. That's the Sunday shift gone. Monday to Thursday are less busy, so you're realistically only going to pull in £100 on each of those days if you actually want to sleep or spend time at home. So, you could get to take home a weekly wage of around £400 (pre-tax mind), but you worked ~10 hour shifts for 7 days for that! Working the local firms was brutal mate. Fuck going back to that way of living. Fuck knows how they are managing during this Covid stuff. Well, they aren't. Go take a look at the Network, Hampden or GPH yards. They are packed with cars that have been handed back. The "licence to print money" does exist, but not for drivers. That's the realm of the taxi firm owners. All those weekly rents MUST be paid in cash. Take a firm like Network who pre-covid had around 800 drivers. Radio rent per week is £150 ... so, that's a cash weekly income of 120 grand! Not even counting the car rents. Then the contract account work which they get an extra skim from. Literal millionaires, while drivers are bursting their balls into exhaustion to take home 1500 a month. end rant, lol.
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Created	Sun 18th Oct 2020 8:14am
Status	normal ()

Yeah.

Radio Rents are in the region of £150 per week. So that's the Friday shift swallowed up.

Car costs (not covering fuel) are anywhere between £160 and £200 per week depending on car type. Owner-drivers can spread the costs out a bit (monthly finance and annual insurance, say) while the car renters need to pay a fixed weekly. pros and cons, swings and roundabouts. Either way, boom, that's the Saturday shift swallowed up.

Then the diesel. This will vary from model to model. Well maintained motors will cost a bit less and sheds of shite will cost a bit more. Looking at anywhere between £100 and £150 per week. That's the Sunday shift gone.

Monday to Thursday are less busy, so you're realistically only going to pull in £100 on each of those days if you actually want to sleep or spend time at home. So, you could get to take home a weekly wage of around £400 (pre-tax mind), but you worked ~10 hour shifts for 7 days for that!

Working the local firms was brutal mate. Fuck going back to that way of living. Fuck knows how they are managing during this Covid stuff. Well, they aren't. Go take a look at the Network, Hampden or GPH yards. They are packed with cars that have been handed back.

The "licence to print money" does exist, but not for drivers. That's the realm of the taxi firm owners. All those weekly rents MUST be paid in cash. Take a firm like Network who pre-covid had around 800 drivers. Radio rent per week is £150 ... so, that's a cash weekly income of 120 grand! Not even counting the car rents. Then the contract account work which they get an extra skim from. Literal millionaires, while drivers are bursting their balls into exhaustion to take home 1500 a month.

end rant, lol.