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I do find it sad that drivers don't average a min of £10 per hour, but don't twist my words.

We are discussing what drivers could earn if hours were limited, and I gave a range that said £10 should be obtainable depending on what shifts drivers did.

You might be content earning f*** all, but I'm not.

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What i earn is for me to know,certainly not on a public forum .As for limiting hours its a joke,people do this job for the freedom of it and flexibility.You can twist your own words to that

That's where I stand on it...we need some leeway on driver hours..at a lowly 80p a mile roughly, earned on snarled up roads and all based on intermitent customers we need to be cut some slack.

I think I could count on the fingers of one hand those few days in a year I've driven more than a total of ten hours within a 24 hour period. But the work might include some evening work one day and some morning work the next and that they total less than 4 hours, but this would be fecked all together by a compulsory 10 hour Rest/sleep period if I Finished at Midnight and left again at 7.00am.

But beyond the Driving hours I like many others will have accounts, Maintenance, and a myriad of other things to do during the day to day running of a business, so its not just the hours driving but the many hours after the driving that counts as days work.

I only wish; that would be utopia!

There's no chance of earning that type of money in Brum.

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Can somebody explain to me what is reasonable about having to work 60 hours per week I understand that it maybe a necessity but I certainly don't think it's reasonable by any stretch of the imagination

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

I am very reliably informed by two good sources, that at a meeting on Wednesday in the Greater Manchester area attended by Law Commission representatives and Asian drivers and Asian trade reps only from around the country

Surely the Law commissions being somewhat racially prejudiced or biased toward non Asians if they have an Asian only meeting? What would happen if they had held a White Caucasion only Meeting, the PC police would be up in arms in an instant.

It's not reasonable to be forced to work 60 hours per week, but It's certainly reasonable to work 60 Hours a week of your own free will. and it's most unlikely that all those 60 hours would be spent driving anyway.

Do you mean forced by necessity or by 'employers'?

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By employers mainly.

I guess necessity means different thing to different people as some folks financial needs are greater than that of others.

Already done it (a few months back) !
My weekly costs come to around £240 which is £6 per hour. So based on a 40 hour week I need to take an AVERAGE of £12 on the meter per hour to achieve MINIMUM wage. Midweek I'm lucky if I hit even the £6 to cover my costs

Who's saying it is reasonable, it's just a reality.

But it boils down to what can be earnt within those 40 hours, and if drivers are struggling to get a £10 per hour, then the trade ain't worth working in if you can't do 60 hours.

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IDFIMH

And thats the Rub..You need around 60 hours to earn a half decent living, but then we might be told we can only work 40 hours and that's a 33% reduction on your driver hours and also a 33% reduction on gross income.
Your Nett outgoings remain static so all that 33% loss of driver hours/Income comes directly out of your pre-tax gross profit.

And if you presently work to a 50% profit margin then your net Profit will actually diminish by a whopping 66%.

That leaves with only £33 of profit for every £100 pounds of profit you previously earned before a 33% Cut in Driving hours.

Seemples..........It's not worth doing

You also get a 33% reduction in competition

Try factoring that into your figures.

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Then fares will have to increase.

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Round here we need £13 per hour to break even then on top of that we've got our wages to earn, add the £6 minimum fare on and you have a grand total of £19 per hour. That can't be done every hour of the week.