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Leaving the trade?
Changing career paths is never easy, but traversing from being a Taxi driver or Private Hire driver to a new career is fairly straight forward.
Everything to consider
Think and consider all your options including places that you were serving a driver because you already have relationships with these place.
Employment
Connecting people to employment and their workplaces.
Education
To and from school, college, training, nursery and university.
Health Care
For appointments, checkups, surgery and operations.
Social
Travel, tourism, nights out, occasions and entertainment
Commerce
Enabling the movement of people to transport goods and services
Ideas before you leave
Airport Transfers
This is one of the most common services, including meet and greet. Have you considered whether you want to do more airport transfer work?
Executive VIPs
Is it that you want to work for more executive type customers in a higher-end vehicle suited toward business professionals rather than the general public?
Chauffeur Services
You most likely have the experience and 80% of what’s required to provide. amore formal and luxurious experience ideal for corporate clients, events and higher profile guests.
Event Transfers
Events are big business and such as weddings, corporate functions, concerts, sporting events and this could be more up your street focussing on this area.
Courier Services
You have the hire and reward insurance and you could move over to providing courier services quite easily like many Private Hire firms do.
School Runs
Schools have a need within school hours and it is not just taking children to school and collecting the from school that is available.
Group Transport
If you are willing to look at group transport, there are options to move in tours, family outings and large events, rather than local travel.
Sightseeing and Tours
If your knowledge is good enough and you can acquire singular bookings (you cannot sell tickets) you can act as informal guides for sites.
Medical Appointments
Transportation for non-emergency medical appointments or hospital visits especially for people with mobility needs.
Contracted Services
If you are reliable, contracted transport arrangement for businesses needing transportation for staff and guests is always worth looking at.
School and College Transfers
Pre-arranged transport to and from educational institutions is good work looking at post-16 students who have varied timetables.
Pet transport
Being pet friendly could be what distinguishes you. There are a lot of drivers who refuse to take pets and this could be your niche.
Things you take
Local knowledge
You should have amassed a huge local knowledge regardless of where you have worked and this will give you a huge advantages in many roles.
Professional Driving
All that experience of working on the road as a driver will give you plenty to offer whether it is driving for a living or just being on-time.
Hire & Reward
You may not be moving people around in your next role, but you have the years under your belt of commercial no claims for hire and reward.
Customer Service
The skills of dealing with difficult customers and delivering customer service with serve you well in any role.
A Thousand Stories
A life-time of stories, interactions and musing that will forever entertain your new colleagues.
Maybe try marketing
If you are thinking of working in marketing, whether than is public relations, digital media or any other related field you could always try your hand with us and guest blog or ghost write to pick up some valuable experience along the way. You know the sector and you know the industry so if you you want to raise your profile, become an industry expert or just position yourself for that next role you can write for us.
Start that business…
If you are starting a new business we are here for your public relations and communications needs and we will keep your brand guide in check too. At least you know you have that website all sorted and can concentrate on making money rather than your content strategy.
or just retire.!
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