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...