who earns more, taxi driver or truck driver?

Depends on the city where you drive taxi. I used to make $500 a weekend here in the little village (5000 people) of Red Lake. But that was weekend nights. Wasn't like that through the week.

 

I make more driving a truck. I drove a taxi for a few years in Tulsa, OK which is a mid-sized city.

You also should take into consideration health insurance. That is one main reason I left the taxi. Self-employed, no health insurance. But I still don't want Obama-care.

 

I drove a cab for a few days and that was enough for me. I didn't make any money. I had to pay 80 a day to use there equipment and buy my own gas. Its one of the worse jobs I ever had and also dangerous.

 

I was in a Taxi in Las Vegas, the driver said he wanted to drive a big truck. I asked him how much he made, when he told me I asked him how I could become a Taxi driver.

Truck driving is hard work, you away from home, and its in your blood. You will never here a Taxi drivier say it in his blood. I do what I do because its what I WANT to do.

Safe Miles,
Larry

 

In 1995 I drove a Taxi for 3 months in Las Vegas.

Averaged $100.00 +/- per day, take home. I worked the day shift which was less money than nights.

4:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The deal went like this;

The company split the meter 50/50 with you, you had to pay the company $1.00 per trip and, you and the company split the gas 50/50. You kept all of your tips.

The scam was that certain businesses paid you to bring people in. Some restaraunts, strip clubs and a few smaller casinos would pay up to $3.00 per person. Cash money on the spot.

And of course people would get in the cab and ask what's the best (casino/bar/strip club etc..). Whatever the answer was .. it's the one farthest away that pays the driver the most.

The brothels in Pahrump paid really good too. Do it for a flat rate of $125.00 round trip and the "house" would give 25% of whatever the customer paid. While you sat in the bar and drank free sodas.

All in all it was a pretty sleazy way to make a living.

It's not so much "driving" as it is "hustling"


............ Jim

 

Jimbo, did you quit because it was a sleazy way? Did you make more as a taxi driver than as a trucker?

 

How much did he make?

 

How much did that amount to in a year?

 

How much did you make driving a taxi and how much did you make driving a truck?