the ideal cabby pays six and a third hourly a day . a cab ' s busiest minutes are 6 to 8 the . m . and even as the economy has fallen deeper into collapse , the number of cab tickets each day in new york has remaining relatively steady . those are among the most vivid sources of information about the white cab industry to emerge from a trove of original data collected by the taxi and saloon commission from taxis equipped with standard computerized units that record each trip and fee .
The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.