How to open your taxi fleet

The taxi service is to unite private carriers with the help of a dispatcher on mutually beneficial conditions. Owners of a taxi fleet may have their own cars available, although this option of organizing a business will be much more costly and less profitable.

You will need

• - business plan;

• - registration documents;

• - office;

• - furniture and office equipment;

• - walkie-talkies and checkers;

• - staff;

• - advertising.

Instruction manual

1

First you need to register with the 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 license for transportation. This point greatly facilitates the process of organizing a business.

2

It is better to draw up a business plan before starting a taxi fleet. Calculate in it all your expenses and incomes based on an analysis of the sales market and your competitors.

3

Choose the office in which the head radio and dispatcher will be located. It can be located absolutely anywhere, even in a living room. The main thing is that it would be convenient for you to accept the drivers coming in for a shift and leaving work.

4

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

5

Hire employees. You will need several dispatchers who will work in 3-4 shifts, and drivers with private cars. With taxi drivers, you must conclude agreements in accordance with which you will act as an agent, and levy agent imagination from them. Of course, you can draw them up according to your work book, but in this way you will have to make payments for them with the tax inspectorate, pension fund and other state organizations.

6

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

7

Inform your potential customers that you have opened. The most difficult thing is to attract new customers and transfer them to the category of regular ones. To do this, your discovery should be loud and fueled by interest. Great discounts for first customers, holding a promotion with a draw of valuable prizes are perfect. Do not forget about advertising. Use all the possibilities for this: print media, local television and radio, the Internet, flyers, business cards in cafes, clubs, hotels, etc., outdoor advertising at train stations and other crowded places in the city.