Careers
Drive with Fare 1.
We’re growing the Fare 1 driver network across the UK. If you’re a licensed PHV driver who wants fixed-price work with weekly Stripe payouts and a real dispatch team behind you, read on.
Why drive with us
What you get.
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Fixed-price work, no haggling.
Trips come into your driver app with the fare already set. No metering, no roadside pricing arguments — you just drive.
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Direct Stripe payouts.
Earnings settle to your bank via Stripe Connect. Payout cadence agreed at onboarding.
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A real dispatch team.
When a passenger reaches out, a vehicle issue comes up, or a route changes mid-trip, there’s a human at the other end of the radio. Not voicemail.
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UK-wide work.
We dispatch across the UK with Southampton as the hub. Airport, cruise, train, long-distance, and hourly chauffeur — the work mix is broader than local minicab.
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Annual re-verification we own.
The compliance work that’s usually on you (DBS, DVLA, medical, MOT, insurance) we coordinate — annual reminders and tracked records so paperwork doesn’t lapse.
What we look for
The bar.
These are the checks every Fare 1 driver passes — before the first trip, and again every year. We don’t take shortcuts on any of them.
- 01Enhanced DBS criminal record check (all drivers)
- 02DVLA license check + endorsement history review
- 03Council-issued PHV driver license verification
- 04Group 2 medical fitness standard
- 05Vehicle MOT + comprehensive insurance verification
- 06Annual re-verification of all of the above
On vehicles: we work with both owner-drivers and lease-to-own arrangements. The vehicle needs to meet Fare 1 spec for the category you want to drive — clean recent-model car for Standard, Mercedes / BMW / Volkswagen for Executive, accessible Caddy or equivalent for Accessible. We'll talk through what works for you on application.
How to apply
Three steps.
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Email us.
Send a message to careers@fare1.co.uk with: your PHV licence number and issuing council, the vehicle you’d drive (or that you’d need an arrangement), and roughly when and where you’d want to work.
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Document check.
We run the six vetting checks: DBS, DVLA endorsements, PHV licence with the council, Group 2 medical, vehicle MOT, and insurance. Takes about a week.
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Onboarding.
Driver app setup, customer-service walk-through, vehicle-presentation review, and a buddy shift with an existing Fare 1 driver. Then you’re live.
Other roles
Not a driver?
We don’t have a public list of open ops, customer-support, or engineering roles right now. Speculative applications welcome — we keep a list and revisit when something opens.
Email careers@fare1.co.uk with a short note on what you do and how you’d like to contribute.