the average cabby works nine and a half hours a afternoon . a cab ' s working hours are 6 to 8 p . m . and even as the economy has sunk deeper into recession , the number of cab rides each month in the york has remained relatively steady . those are among the most vivid fragments of information about the yellow cab industry to emerge from a artefacts of new data collected by the taxi and van commission from minibuses equipped with new computerized systems that record each trips and fare .
The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.