Driving instructors doesn't the cost of fuel eat up all your wages?

Question

Do you still make a good living even though you have to pay for all the petrol, it must cost you a fortune. Especially now they have anounced how high the prices will go in 2009.

Answer 1

There are other jobs that need petrol. I'm a delivery driver and although it's not killing me yet, once it goes up to £1.50 per litre it will be. Lucky for me everyone else knows the price of petrol and I've noticed my tips going up a bit.

Answer 2

At £25 per hour i'm sure their doing okay.

Answer 3

i know a driving instructor and yes it does affect wages

Answer 4

Like all occupations that involve transportation, the cost of operating a vehicle is passed on to the consumer in the form of price increases - whether it is a car, truck, train or airplane...If the price increase make a company non-competitive, then operating changes must be made by reducing services, laying off employees or cutting back on hours of operation...Reduction in salary is usually the last option before layoffs...Most companies try to absorb the increasing fuel costs at the expense of lower profits.

Answer 5

Hi, no, it doesn't eat up ALL my wages but it does eat up a fare amount!!

My biggest problem is constantly trying to get pupils who live near each other to have lessons on the same days, so I can cut down on the dead mileage between lessons.

If the price of fuel goes up much more - it's not really my fuel bill I will be worried about, but the fact that people are surely going to be thinking "hmm, whats the point in learning to drive, as by the time I pass my test, I probably won't be able to run a car, what with high insurance and now high fuel" Who the h**l is gonna want to learn to drive???

Anyone who sees the ad's on TV saying "you could be earning up to £30,000 per year.....ignore it, it's complete and utter bull.....er.....poo! You'd have to work 80 hours a week to actually EARN that after all costs!

It's not all good in the driving tuition trade :(