For a 12-hour shift, I'd typically travel 200 miles. A good day would be 250+. About 1/2 of those miles were with the meter on.

Every so often I'd get a good fare going in the wrong direction - passenger was going east at the end of my day, and I'd have to backtrack empty to return the cab on the west side of the valley to the next driver. It was 94 miles to get back to the Valley from Globe...

Interesting, thanks for the numbers

Depends where it's going, I guess? Other factors like A/C take as much power in stop-and-go as when driving. As I said, rough estimate. I would assume a typical taxi would drive more than 200 miles per working day; isn't this a reasonable assumption?

> I would assume a typical taxi would drive more than 200 miles per working day;

Depends on how much time you spend on the freeway. For me, a typical 12-hour shift covered about 200 miles. Some days I didn't work the full 12 hours; other days I 'got lucky' and had to cover a lot of ground.

One of my better fares was a guy who'd pissed off his girlfriend by (probably) getting obnoxiously drunk at the Lakers/Suns game... It was 89 miles to get him home, then I had to drive 94 miles to get the cab back to the day driver:

https://goo.gl/maps/4xFsvJtHzLK2

That story was at the close of this kuro5hin.org (RIP) diary:

http://www.taxiwars.org/2012/04/22-degrees-of-intoxication.h...

You dont have to assume when you have google, yeah it seems to be a bit below 200 miles per 12h shift..