Some old birds here might disagree with me. I believe most bro
here would suggest newbie to drive day shift. However, I strongly
recommend night shift for newbie.
The peak hour/City surcharge and midnight charge, greatly helps
to compensate the incompetency of a newbie to generate a more
acceptable income.
The road after 12am are less conjested, so, newbie can auto roam
and get familiar with the CBD area more leisurely, and changing of
lane suddenly are much easier.
If lucky enough, just need to pick up 2 different pax within
CBD, and the 3rd going to long distance, could fetch about $40 -
$50 in an hour. The down side of long distance is that have to
travell 20km back to town after the long journey. Sometimes when
luck is on my side, I only need to travell 200km in a shift, to
make the same amount of profit as 300km.
Yes I think true, night better for newbie. Night from 6 to
midnight got surcharge. Morning from 6-930am, no nonsense must go
drive properly cannot idle, plus everywhere jam and ERP all
over.
Even after 930 must be careful got a lot of eyes on the roads
(LTA, TP cameras etc), make a mistake and it will be easily
spotted. Stopping and parking also problem especially in town.
At night, after 8 pm some places you can let your guard down a
bit.
Plus lesser car on the roads, you can drive around and learn
places easier.
