The evening tally: three numbers in two minutes

Three: total takings, real hours — from first pickup to last drop-off — and the kilometres covered in the day, approaches included. All three are already in front of you, in the platform's app and on your dashboard. Writing them down takes two minutes, watch in hand.

Two divisions. Takings divided by hours gives your hourly revenue — the figure that says whether the day was worth it. Takings divided by kilometres gives your real euros per kilometre, to compare with your acceptance threshold: if it drops below, too many accepted rides did not deserve it, or you are driving too many empty kilometres.

Because a written number becomes a reference, and a reference makes gaps visible. After two weeks, your records show your genuinely good slots, your trap days, and the real effect of your choices — accepting more, driving elsewhere, stopping earlier. Without records these questions are settled by feel; and feel remembers the big fare, never the empty kilometres.

Two weeks are enough for the first useful decision — spotting your worst time slot and moving it. A month gives solid averages per weekday. The only real mistake is irregularity: three evenings noted out of ten show nothing. Better three numbers every evening for a month than ten numbers now and then.