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What do you need to start a taxi business and how can you make money on it today? The situation on the market, the most profitable car brands for taxis and calculations for the organization of a small taxi fleet.

The taxi market is growing rapidly last years. And, despite the fact that competition in this business segment is increasing, this business is a financially profitable project. The use of leasing schemes allows you to reduce investments, and the involvement of aggregators allows you to easily provide a taxi fleet with customers. You can enter such a business without experience and gradually increase the number of cars, constantly increasing your profits.

The current situation in the taxi market

The volume of the Russian taxi market is more than 500 billion rubles. Moscow is the leader in revenue of the taxi business with revenues of more than 2 billion rubles annually. This is almost half of the entire Russian market. In terms of federal districts, the clear leader is the Central District, which generates revenues of about 180 billion rubles a year. St. Petersburg is inferior to Moscow in terms of revenue, but in terms of the number of registered cars, these cities are almost equal - they have about 7.5 taxis per 1,000 inhabitants. Almost 600 thousand people across the country are employed in this industry. In connection with the crisis in the economy of the Russian Federation, an increase in the number of employees in this industry by more than 100 thousand people is predicted.

The share of illegal taxis in the market is about 15%, and this figure is constantly decreasing, which is associated with an improvement in the quality of transportation by large taxi companies and a decrease in the cost of a trip for customers. Major players in the taxi market are fighting for their client, for example, over the past few years average speed taxi service has decreased from 10 minutes to 4-5 minutes. The average cost of a taxi ride over the past few years, according to market analysts, has decreased by about 35%. And this is despite a sharp rise in the price of all the main costs of transportation, such as the cost of cars, the cost of gasoline and spare parts. What made these savings possible? First of all, it is tougher competition among major market players. The cost of attracting a client has slightly decreased. But the main savings come from lowering the cost of wages drivers who have to work more for less pay.

The entire taxi market is divided into two large segments - the taxi companies themselves and aggregators that do not have their own cars, but only search for and transfer customers to taxi companies.

Yandex.Taxi, Gett and Uber are leaders among aggregators in Russia. Among the taxi companies are Rutaxi, Saturn and Maxim, which are large federal networks.

Based on the results of the market analysis, we conclude that despite the growth in the number of cars and revenue, it makes no economic sense to create a separate taxi fleet with its own dispatch service. This is due to the almost complete market penetration by large players who can maintain huge advertising budgets and low travel costs. The market is so busy that investments in a small taxi fleet with its own dispatch service are possible only in very tiny settlements where there are no large players. And, if such places still remain, then this is not for long. In our opinion, such investments are not justified.

How can you make money on a taxi for a small taxi company

Due to the fact that the creation of its own dispatch service by a small company is currently not profitable, it is possible, having a car park, to connect to any aggregator and fulfill orders on its behalf.

The schema looks like this. You purchase several cars, hire drivers and enter into an agreement with one or more taxi aggregators. They will advertise, provide a dispatch service and provide you with customers at the rates approved by them. You will pay the aggregator for each client or for a certain period of cooperation with him.

Aggregators only work with legal entities or individual entrepreneurs. As a rule, it is not profitable for a driver to open an IP for the implementation of a taxi transportation service in one car.

Exist two main schemes for working with drivers.

First scheme is based on the fact that you find a driver and agree with him on a certain plan, which he will hand over daily. Essentially, you are renting a car. As a rule, in order to avoid car downtime, two daily drivers work on one car. The cost of renting a car that you provide to the driver depends on the class of the car, its mileage and what fuel it runs on. Naturally, renting a car on gas is somewhat more expensive, as this is associated with a rather expensive re-equipment of the car, but the driver pays for the costs by reducing the cost of fuel. As a rule, the cost of such a rental for a driver per day for the regions is about 1300 - 2000 rubles per day.

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Second scheme is based on the fact that you provide a car and pay the driver a salary for the number of hours worked. In this case, you also connect the driver to your aggregator account, refuel the car, wash it and service it. On the salary scheme in the regions, the driver earns from 1,500 to 2,500 rubles a day.

There is another scheme for working with a driver, when a taxi company attracts a driver with a car and takes a certain percentage of his revenue. Usually it is 4-6%. But such a scheme, probably in connection with the adoption of the law on the self-employed, will become unprofitable for drivers. Since the law has already been adopted in the first reading, it will not be long to wait and we will not consider this version of the work. Many companies that have worked on this principle are changing their business model.

It is impossible to determine which scheme, the first or the second, is more profitable for the taxi company. As in any business, financial results mainly depend not on the model of its organization, but on the quality of business organization. Naturally, the salary model requires more attention to the business, more precise control over the work of the driver, but often extends the life of the car.

Naturally, car maintenance and repairs in both schemes described are carried out at your expense and under your control. Aggregators carry out full and strict quality control of order fulfillment. For any violations of the driver, he will be immediately fined or blocked. Often, aggregators also conduct driver training.

What cars are advisable to buy for a taxi fleet

Of course, the cheaper we buy a car, the faster it will pay off and start making money. However, cheap cars tend to have a smaller resource, which is very important for taxis, due to the fact that the cost of spare parts is constantly growing. The aggregators also issue the best orders, taking into account the class of the car and its mileage or age.

Therefore, it is necessary to find a middle ground that will save on initial costs and ensure sufficient money income from this car. Consider which main car brands are profitable to use in a taxi.

Let us turn to the practice of existing taxi companies, which have not only calculated the effectiveness of acquiring a particular brand, but have also verified the correctness of their calculations for years in practice.

In 2017, more than 29 thousand cars were purchased by companies for use as taxis.

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Volkswagen Polo and Hyundai Solaris are in first place in terms of the number of cars purchased for taxis, their share is approximately 13% of all cars purchased for use in taxis.

The third and fourth places are occupied by Skoda Rapid and KIA Rio with 11% and 10.7% respectively. The top ten most popular cars purchased by legal entities for use as taxis also included: Skoda Octavia (6.4%), Ford Focus (6.1%), Renault Logan (5.6%), Volkswagen Jetta (2, 8%), Renault Kaptur (2.5%) and Nissan Almera (2.3%).

The main criteria for choosing a car for use in a taxi are its initial cost, fuel consumption, maintenance cost, convenience for the driver and the client. You can also consider purchasing a used car, but the cost of maintaining it is usually much higher, especially given the significant mileage when working in a taxi.

Legal aspects of the taxi fleet

To begin with, we will decide which organizational and legal form is better to use for a taxi fleet - an individual entrepreneur or an LLC. We are not talking about one car, which is operated by the driver himself, but about a taxi fleet, to which there are 10-15 cars.

There is no fundamental difference between IP and LLC for a taxi fleet. Making an IP is a little simpler, but not much. IP reporting is somewhat simpler, but keep in mind that an IP is liable for its obligations with all its property, and cases on the road are different and not all of them may fit into the amount of insurance. Therefore, if you do not have any special reasons for choosing an individual entrepreneur, we recommend opening an LLC.

It is more important to immediately decide on the choice of tax regime. Several tax regimes are available for taxis: UTII ( single tax on imputed income), patent taxation system or simplified taxation system. Please note that UTII can be applied to individual entrepreneurs or legal entities that have no more than 20 vehicles for transportation.

It should be noted that the amount of taxes for each of the modes will be different depending on the region where the taxi company is registered. You can do it yourself on the website of the Federal Tax Service of Russia.

Let's calculate the cost of a patent for 10 cars for 2018 for a city, for example, Rostov-on-Don. Individual entrepreneurs can use the patent, average population employees of which does not exceed for the tax period, for all types entrepreneurial activity, carried out by an individual entrepreneur, 15 people, which fits into our conditions.

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Application patent system taxation provides for exemption from the obligation to pay personal income tax and personal property tax used for entrepreneurship.

Entering all the necessary data, we get that the amount of tax, when applying the patent system of taxation for this type of business activity for 12 months. will be 192,000 rubles, the tax is paid in two installments - 1 payment is equal to 64,000 rubles no later than ninety calendar days after the start of the patent, 2 payment is equal to 128,000 rubles no later than late expiration of the patent.

We calculate the amount of UTII for the same conditions using a special calculator. The amount of UTII will be about 50 thousand rubles per quarter. The amount of UTII tax can be reduced to 50% of the amount of insurance premiums paid for individual entrepreneurs. Further, it all depends on what contributions you will pay for employees.

In our opinion, there will not be a big difference in the amount of tax paid in fact, when using UTII or a patent.

Thus, it is better to choose UTII or a patent as a taxation system, which is better, it is easy to calculate it yourself for your region, according to the scheme that we showed. If you do not fall under the specified regimes due to restrictions, then choose the USN.

Registration of a license for the activity of a taxi fleet

Consider what is needed to obtain a license to operate a taxi fleet. Obtaining a license does not present any particular problems. Licenses are issued by the Ministry of Transport. It is best to get acquainted with the list of documents for obtaining a license in the administration of the region where you will receive a license, since this list may vary slightly depending on the region of registration. The cost of obtaining a license varies depending on the region and is about 5 thousand rubles.

Please note that in order to obtain a license, you need to equip the car in compliance with the following requirements:

Permanent presence in the car of the original permit for this type of activity.

Checkered stickers.

The interior of the vehicle must be equipped with a taximeter device or a mobile application that replaces it.

The roof of the car must be equipped with a characteristic "taxi" sign with an integrated light element.

There are also the following basic requirements for the driver:

Driving experience of at least 5 years.

The vehicle must be in the personal ownership of the driver or provided to him in accordance with the current leasing agreement.

As you can see, the procedure for obtaining a license, as a rule, does not cause problems.

And, another important legal aspect. Taxi drivers are required to undergo a pre-trip medical examination. Such examinations, by law, must be carried out by a certified specialist and the results of each examination must be recorded accordingly. To conduct such inspections, or record the fact of their conduct, you can conclude an agreement with a third-party organization that has a license for such activities.

Taxi fleet financial indicators

The financial performance of the taxi fleet will be different, depending on the operating model of the taxi fleet itself. Suppose we want to create a small fleet of 10 cars in a city with a population of about one million people. As a dispatch service, we will choose an aggregator, for example, Yandex.Taxi. Hired drivers will work in shifts and rent a plan of 1,700 rubles per day.

Highly great importance for the financial success of the taxi fleet has the professionalism of drivers. If drivers often get into accidents or carelessly operate cars, then there can be no talk of any positive financial results. Correct selection drivers are the backbone of a successful taxi business.

Consider what financial indicators in this example can be achieved by us.

Investment (initial) costs for opening a taxi depot will include the following main elements: costs for opening a company or individual entrepreneur, costs for obtaining a license, renting a parking lot, expenses for small office and vehicle purchase costs. The sum of the cost of purchasing cars is the bulk of all costs.

At average cost a car of 600 thousand rubles, the cost of 10 cars will be about 6 million rubles. These are significant investments, against their background, all the sum of all other initial costs can be neglected. You can reduce the amount of initial costs by acquiring a car on lease. For legal entities, there are many profitable leasing offers.

When concluding a leasing agreement, it is necessary to make an initial payment of about 10% -20%. The leasing agreement is concluded, as a rule, for a period of one to five years. The longer the lease term, the lower the monthly payment, but the greater the amount of overpayment for the entire term. Additionally, the lessee can get significant savings when paying the profit calculation. Also, the lessee saves on property tax and VAT, if he is its payer.

Specific amounts of tax savings depend on the taxation system you choose and can be calculated at any leasing company you contact. In any case, the option of purchasing cars on lease is worth considering, since you can reduce the amount of initial costs by almost 10 times.

Each car will bring you about 51 thousand rubles a month. But this amount is in the ideal case, in reality the amount will be 10% - 15% less, and this is subject to good organization of work. Let's take the net proceeds from one car in the amount of 45 thousand rubles per month.

The main expenses will be the following: the cost of purchasing an insurance policy, car maintenance, which, given the high mileage of cars in taxi mode, can be monthly, taxes, office maintenance, if necessary, and payment for aggregator services.

The total cost will be about 14 thousand per month per car. Thus, the expected profit from one car will be about 31 thousand rubles, and the total profit for 10 cars will be about 310 thousand rubles per month. In this calculation, we do not take into account some overpayment on leasing and consider that we make all investments at once. The payback period of the car will be about 2 years. In fact, the service life of a car in a taxi, subject to quality service, is much higher and is at least four years, after which it is more profitable to sell the car at the residual value.

As a result, taking into account the residual value of the car, each car will bring you about 700 thousand rubles in profit over four years, that is, about 14 thousand rubles a month.

Summing up, we conclude that opening your own small taxi fleet is good business providing decent profitability and acceptable payback periods. With proper organization of the case, the total income is quite sufficient to ensure the effectiveness of the entire project.

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You will need

• - business plan;
• - registration documents;
• - office;
• - furniture and office equipment;
• - radios and checkers;
• - employees;
• - advertising.

Instruction

To get started, you need to register with tax office. You can become an individual entrepreneur or organize a legal entity. To open a city taxi, there is no need to obtain a transportation license. This moment greatly simplifies the process of organizing a business.

Better before organizing taxi depot draw up a business plan. Calculate in it all your expenses and incomes based on the analysis of the sales market and your competitors.

Choose an office that will house the head radio and the dispatcher. It can be located absolutely anywhere, even in a residential area. The main thing is that it is convenient for you to receive drivers who are coming in and out of work there.

Get all the necessary equipment. You will need minimum set office furniture for the dispatcher, walkie-talkie, checkers, office equipment. Be sure to have a landline phone, as well as mobile numbers of different operators.

Hire employees. You will need several dispatchers who will work in 3-4 shifts, and drivers with personal cars. With taxi drivers, you must enter into contracts in accordance with which you will act as an agent, and charge them with agency imagination. Of course, you can also issue them for labor, but this way you will have to make settlements for them with the tax office, pension fund and others government organizations.

Develop a price list for your services. It is desirable that your taxi fleet is not limited to passenger transportation. In order to withstand serious competition in the taxi market, it is necessary to provide customers with a full range of services: courier services, delivery of food orders, meeting at the airport and train station, “sober driver” service and others.

From a formal point of view, the opening of the service Taxi presents no particular difficulty. It is enough to register as an individual entrepreneur or establish an enterprise, indicating the appropriate OKVED code as the main type of activity. But with the conduct of activities can be more difficult.

You will need

• - a package of documents for the registration of an enterprise or an individual entrepreneur;
• - money to pay the state duty;
• - start-up capital, the amount of which depends only on your plans, ambitions and capabilities.

Instruction

Come up with a name for your service. If you establish an enterprise, this can also become a name for it at the same time, but this condition is not necessary.
If you want to link to a telephone dispatcher (for example, a Pyaterka Taxi with a solid 5 phone), check with the telephone company in advance if it is free and, if possible, stake out for yourself.
The law does not oblige you to register the chosen name as a mark, but it is better to do this, although the procedure is costly: it guarantees that no one will forbid you to use this name, but you will have the right. Registration details can be found in Rospatent.

Register an enterprise or individual entrepreneur with the tax office. To do this, you will need to prepare a standard package of documents, for each case your own, and pay the state duty (details and size can be clarified at the tax office or Sberbank).
AT founding documents(when registering an individual entrepreneur - in the application) indicate the OKVED code 60.22 “Activity Taxi". In the application for registration of an individual entrepreneur, he must go first in the list.
When establishing, you will also have to resolve the issue with the company's legal address and statutory address.

After receiving documents on state registration of an individual entrepreneur or enterprise, receive statistics codes from the territorial department of Rosstat, open a bank account and make a seal.
After that, from a formal point of view, you can fully work. But the material and technical base and the costs of it depend on your capabilities and ambitions: will you buy and maintain your own taxi fleet and paint the cars in branded colors, or will you limit yourself to collecting orders and distributing them among third-party drivers for your percentage from each trip, will you employ staff or prefer to cooperate with drivers who have the status of an entrepreneur, will you work with Taxi stas who have their own cars or rent their own and much more.

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Service Taxi- current and profitable business. However, before becoming the owner of such a company, you need to collect the necessary package of documents and develop a business plan. There are two ways to open this business. The most optimal and economical option is a taxi dispatch service.

You will need

• - application for registration individual as an individual entrepreneur (form P21001);
• - TIN;
• - Passport and its photocopy;
• - receipt of payment of state duty (800 rubles).

Instruction

Your application must be signed and stitched and notarized. It should contain the expected OKVED codes for individual entrepreneurs. They will determine your activity.

Before you start preparing documents, decide which tax system will apply in your company. Many individual entrepreneurs choose the simplified system (STS), which includes two ways to pay taxes - 15% on income (minus production costs) and 6% on income.

An application for the transition to the simplified tax system will need to be attached to the main package of documents. If you don't, you will be assigned common system taxation, which you can change only after a year.

At the same time, decide on the name of your company. It should be original and easy to remember.

On the specified day, you will receive the IP documentation, which will consist of a certificate of state registration of the IP, an extract from the USRIP and a notice of registration. From this moment you can start your activity.

available option building this business is to open a control room. He doesn't require. You will need to rent an office, equip it with technical equipment, hire dispatchers and conclude contracts with private cab drivers. In this case, it will be required from the starting capital. The profit will be 20-30%.

You will need three lines for receiving orders, for which it will be enough to have one telephone number, three and special programs for dispatch services - INFINITY, O-TAXI or MAXIMA. Using a dispatch program will allow you to keep a record of calls, automatically determine the cost of a trip and provide communication.

This type of activity has significant advantages. You will be able to get by with minimal start-up capital and you will not need to rent a large expensive office.

The second option for opening this business is to create your own taxi fleet. He means big investment, buying cars, hiring drivers and registering a legal entity.

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From September 1, 2011 (according to Federal Law No. 69-FZ of April 21, 2011), the transportation of passengers and luggage by passenger taxis can only be carried out with a special permit. Permits can be obtained from authorized body legal entities or individual entrepreneurs.

Starting a business in small town requires a particularly careful approach to choosing a business idea that will work in it. most helpful, creative idea, which would be in demand in a metropolis, in a small town has a very high chance of failing, despite the active attraction of customers. However, this does not mean that a business in a small town is unlikely to be successful: in small towns there are pros and cons for business, in addition, there is a certain number of ideas that highly likely will work in a small town.

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The small size of the city means that when setting up a business, the founder will face the following challenges:

1. few consumers - thus, it makes no sense to open, for example, a highly specialized store (cosmetics self made etc.).

2. few highly skilled workers. The most qualified personnel work in the capital or in regional centers. Whatever salary you offer, people will not be able to work better than they can.

3. small city - a space where everyone knows everyone. Therefore, if someone starts a rumor that he was poisoned in your cafe, half the city will definitely not go into it. On the other hand, there is a plus in this, since rumors about a new good place spread quickly.

1. cheap work force. In general, salaries in small towns are lower than in large ones, so staff costs are lower.

2. low prices for renting premises.

3. absence successful companies well established in the market. It would be quite a profitable solution to open an inexpensive one in a city where Pyaterochka has not yet arrived and where, in principle, there is little or no.

All these advantages will allow you to start with a relatively small start-up capital.

Anyone who decides to will have to say goodbye to the ideas of opening highly specialized institutions. As much as you'd like to open a women's fitness center where you can do aerobics, yoga, and Pilates, it's unlikely to work in a small town. It’s easier not to come up with needs, but to find unsatisfied ones, of which there are quite a lot.

To find such a need, look at cities, newspapers with advertisements, just walk around the city. What do its inhabitants need? It will be enough to highlight at least five unmet needs, and then choose from them the one that is easier and more interesting for you to satisfy.

It is important to take into account the specifics of the city. If it is located near the regional center, then it is possible to provide its residents with the same services that are provided in the regional center, but cheaper. Thus, you will attract customers from the regional center as well - they will come to you to save money. If the city is located in an environmentally friendly place, and elite cottage villages are being built next to it, then you can safely open it, preferably with the "food on" service: the inhabitants of these villages will certainly drop in on you.

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Services today Taxi in demand in almost every city. Ride on Taxi often saves time and money. If you are tired of doing private transportation yourself, and you want to put passenger transportation on a professional and legal basis, open the service Taxi. The organization of the work of such a company begins with the preparation detailed business plan.

Instruction

Determine the type of service you intend to host. The best option in terms of budget there will be a service Taxi targeted at the average consumer. At the first stage, the creation of a "luxury" category with a specially selected assortment would be inappropriate.

Register the company legally by choosing the legal form of the enterprise. It can be, for example, a company or a limited liability company. Consider each of the options to take into account, in particular, all the subtleties of taxation.

Assess the need for transportation and employees. For full-fledged work you will need your own car park (at least half of the total number of cars), as well as drivers with their cars. In the future, subject to stable profits, the number of cars can be increased.

Write an algorithm for the operation of the service Taxi. It will be something like this: - the client contacts the service using a contact phone number;
- the dispatcher fixes the contact and coordinates of the client;
- the dispatcher transmits data to the driver who is closest to the desired address;
- the driver takes the client to the destination and receives a fee for the service provided.

Acquire the necessary equipment to run the service Taxi. You will need cars, taximeters, radio stations. To additional technical elements include: tracking system, navigation devices, software to the central computer. You can purchase these devices later, when it starts to bring tangible profits.

Calculate financial indicators and determine the approximate payback period of the service Taxi. If you have a fleet of your own cars, it will take you about a year and a half to return the investment. If you start by renting vehicles and hiring drivers with private cars, the payback period of the project will be significantly shorter.

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is a person who has been registered with the tax authorities for the purpose of carrying out entrepreneurial activities without legal education. By choosing this legal form, you simplify tax and accounting, and you will also pay taxes at reduced rates. But there are also disadvantages here: not every serious organization will want to cooperate with an individual entrepreneur. Still, how to open an IP?

Even in the smallest city, there is always a need to use transport services. One of the ways of transportation in this case is a taxi, which, although it regularly rises in price, nevertheless remains in demand by the population. The success of this direction can be judged even by the number of companies that are engaged in individual transportation of citizens despite fierce competition. So: how to open your own taxi from scratch, it will be interesting to know for everyone who is thinking of succeeding in this business.

Enterprise organization options

The principle of the taxi service is extremely simple - the client submits an application for the need to move around the city in a designated direction, the dispatcher accepts this application and passes it to a free driver. But such simplicity at first glance is quite deceptive, especially for those who have never gone into details. internal organization a similar company.

It is important to note that there may be several options for organizing this case:

• work on own car after obtaining the necessary permits;
• services of an intermediary between the client and the driver;
• full-fledged service with own cars and dispatching service.

The most cost-effective is, of course, the last option, although it will require significant investments already at the initial stage.

For beginners, experts still recommend stopping at the second way of organizing things. At its core, it is not much different from the previous one, but it will not require you to hire drivers in the state, pay them wages, and you will need an order of magnitude less investments.

Legalization of business

It all starts, of course, with the preparation of the necessary documents for doing business. Registering your business will become a pledge uninterrupted operation enterprises. For starters, you can get by with the usual individual entrepreneurship. But most often, an LLC or CJSC is used to organize a taxi business. The last form is better to choose when you are going to develop a large-scale business with a large fleet of vehicles.

The next step is to obtain a license to transport passengers. But they will be able to issue it to you only after certain requirements are met:

• cars will be properly equipped - the presence of checkers, lights, taximeters;
• drivers must pass a medical examination, have a license and driving experience;
• Every vehicle must pass a technical inspection. To do this, it is necessary to conclude a contract with the service station for scheduled maintenance;
• prepared parking for cars in the form of a garage or boxes;
• equipped office space.

A prerequisite for obtaining a license is that your taxi fleet has at least two Vehicle. If there are no opportunities for such expensive acquisitions, then you can hire drivers with their own cars, but you will have to help them get an individual license.

What else is needed

Do not forget that the taxi service is not only cars, drivers and dispatchers. In order for the whole mechanism to work, you will have to take care of buying a radio station that will provide communication between drivers and dispatchers.

This installation must certainly be registered at the center of radio frequencies, after which the service will be able to receive its own wave. In this case, it will be better if you become the owner of three waves at once:

1. For communication of dispatchers and taxi drivers.
2. To connect drivers with each other.
3. Reserve.

In addition, you will need walkie-talkies that can be issued to drivers for a conditional rent, for example, 15 rubles per day. Please note that for work in small cities, experts recommend taking walkie-talkies tuned to the MW frequency, but for megacities, the VHF band is more suitable.

Staff

Equally important in the question of how to open a taxi service is the staff. Your main support is the drivers, whose qualifications we have already spoken about. To help them, they need to pick up at least two dispatchers. Keep in mind, however, that the more demand for your service, the more line operators you should hire.

To provide continuous work and normal access to your service, you will need a multi-line phone, perhaps even more than one. Moreover, if you have more than three lines at your disposal, it would still be better to purchase a mini-PBX. Do not forget that the easier it is to get through to you, the greater the chance that you will not lose your customers.

Name

Last on the list, but not least, is the title. It should be memorable, attractive, in line with your line of work, ideally reflecting your special offer customers, if you found it by the time you started your business.

We equip the office

Newbies in the field transport services very often they neglect such an important moment as an office space, and they do it, by the way, completely in vain. Good enough for the first time small room high ground to provide a strong radio signal for your station.

At the same time, the part of the city in which the office will be located does not play any role. The main thing is that it should be comfortable for the work of your dispatchers. About 25 is enough for this. square meters.

Now let's make an approximate cost estimate for staffing office space:

• walkie-talkies - SV from 5 thousand rubles, VHF from 25 thousand;
• 3 tables - 15,000 rubles;
• 3 chairs - 12,000 rubles;
• 3 computers with licensed software - 90,000 rubles, software for automating work - 200,000 rubles;
• telephones - 50,000 rubles;
• equipping 30 cars - 99,000 rubles.

This model provides for hiring drivers with their own cars.

If you aim to have your own fleet, then add the cost of 5 cars to the expense part, better than a different level of comfort.

The approximate amount is 8 million rubles.

Shuttle taxi

Planning to take your place in a niche passenger traffic, do not forget about such a line of business as a fixed-route taxi. There are quite a few advantages to this form of organization:

• additional income by placing ads in your vehicles;
• provision of services for the transportation of excursions;
• provision of transport for various festive events.

The first thing to do is to contact the transport department of the area in which you are going to organize your activity. Special requirements are put forward to the cars themselves, which must be brought into proper form. As for drivers, they will need the rights of the appropriate category and experience in transporting people.

Please note that you will not be able to get on the route without the appropriate license. This is severely punished with high fines.

To get a route, you will have to contact the city administration, which constantly holds competitions for their distribution. If you want to develop your own route, then you will need to carefully study the city's transport network and submit your project to the authorities. If approved, feel free to proceed with the project.

Finance

The main issue in the taxi business plan is the profitability of the business. It is important to understand already at the planning stage that this direction is not the most budgetary. Therefore, you need to be prepared for significant costs.

In addition to what we have already discussed above, it is necessary to add the following costs:

• assignment of a telephone number - 2.5 thousand rubles;
• registration trademark- 6-7 thousand;
• monthly fee for using the radio wave - 10 thousand;
• salaries for dispatchers - 30 thousand;
• advertising - 50 thousand;
• garage and office rent - 100 thousand (the amount may vary depending on locality and the area in it).

The average earnings from one car per day is 2.5-3 thousand rubles, respectively, per month - 75-90 thousand (if you work seven days a week). Approximately 30% of this amount remains for the driver, the rest goes to the company. Full payback is achieved after 6-8 months of successful business.

If you open a service with your own fleet, then you can wait for the return on investment no earlier than in 1-2 years. This time will be just enough to promote your service and take a stable position in this niche.

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