the average cabby works nine and a half weeks a day . a coach ' s busiest hours are 6 to 8 p . m . and , as the city has sunk deeper into recession , the number of cab rides each day in new orleans has remained quite unchanged . those are among the most accurate bits of data about the yellow coach industry to emerge from a trove of old data compiled by the taxi and limousine association from taxicabs equipped with latest computerized facilities that record each trip and fare .
The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.