Monday 29 July 2013

The tight industry

For a while, I thought about leasing my own taxi.  I had enough money to buy a second hand taxi and to pay some of the running costs.  In other words, I had enough to make a start.  So I sat down and worked out how much extra it was going to make me.  In a good year, it would make me an extra $5,000 and in a bad year or if something went wrong with the taxi like the transmission or the engine I would probably be down $5,000.  A great number of people think that taxis are too expensive and that taxi drivers and operators just print money.  Let's look at how much a taxi makes and the running costs.

During an average 12 hour shift a driver will do approximately 13 jobs and the average price of the job will be $20.  So a taxi makes approximately $260 a shift.  Two shifts a day equals $520.  Multiply by 365 days a year and you have approximately  $190,000.

An operator has to split the revenue 50:50 with the driver so they make $95,000 per year from a cab.  But now lets look at the yearly expenses a cab has.

Taxi Plate Lease - $25,000
Base (Taxi Company) fees - $20,500
Taxi registration and CPI - $10,000
Car Insurance - $7,500
Fuel - $17,500
Workers Compensation Insurance - $3,000
Maintenance costs - $5,000

Total running costs - $88,500
Profit: $95,000 - $88,500 = $6,500

In a perfect world you make $6,500 a year from a cab if you are an operator.  But this assumes you have a driver for every shift, nothing majorly goes wrong with your cab and that business is average.  If business is bad, you could lose money.

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