the average cabby works two and a tenth hours a time . a cab ' s busiest hours are 6 to 8 my . m . and even as the population has sunk deeply into recession , the volume of cab rides each day in new yorker has become relatively steady . those are possibly the most vivid bits of details about the yellow cab industry to emerging from a unearthed of historical data collected by the taxi and limousine council from taxicabs modified with new digitized systems that count each trip and fare .
The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.