Driver Guides
Driving apps show you a fare. That is useful, but it is not the whole story.
A pickup can take longer than expected. A long trip can put more miles on the car. Fuel or energy costs can change the value of the job. And a good-looking fare can become much less attractive once you work out the time and distance involved.
These guides explain how the calculations work. You can use the ideas yourself with a calculator, or see how FareWorth is designed to do the same kind of analysis for you on supported driver apps.
No guide tells you which rides to accept or reject. The numbers are there to help you make your own decision.
All Driver Guides
Practical guides for rideshare and private-hire drivers on £/hour, £/mile, pickup time, dead miles, vehicle costs and weekly driving analysis.
- 01
How to calculate your real £/hour as a rideshare driver
Learn how pickup time and passenger time can change what a fare is really paying for your time.
- 02
Why pickup time matters to rideshare profitability
See why a long pickup can turn a decent-looking fare into a much weaker offer.
- 03
£ per mile vs £ per hour: which should a rideshare driver use?
Understand what each number tells you and why it can be useful to look at both.
- 04
What are dead miles and what do they cost a private-hire driver?
Learn how unpaid or non-revenue distance after a drop-off can change the economics of a trip.
- 05
How vehicle costs change the value of a ride offer
See why two drivers can receive the same fare but keep different amounts after fuel or energy costs.
- 06
How to decide whether a ride offer is worth taking
Use a simple checklist covering fare, pickup, time, distance, costs and your own targets.
- 07
How to analyse your rideshare driving week
Look past one memorable trip and review the week using observed time, offers, fares, pickups and completed journeys.
- 08
Gross earnings vs real driving costs
Understand why money paid by the platform is not the same as money left after driving costs.
- 09
How to calculate your vehicle cost per mile for private-hire driving
Use your own fuel or energy spend and recorded mileage to build a transparent pence-per-mile benchmark.
- 10
How FareWorth analyses a ride offer
Follow the simple steps FareWorth uses to turn visible offer information and your settings into clear decision support.
Recommended reading order
Start with How to decide whether a ride offer is worth taking if you want the big picture. Then read the £/hour, £/mile and pickup guides. The Dead Miles guide explains post-drop-off risk. Read the cost-per-mile guide before the offer-level vehicle-cost guide if you want to build your own fuel or energy benchmark first. The weekly-analysis guide is useful once you want to look beyond one offer and understand what happened over several Driver Days.