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Short answer: In 2025 the busiest TLC bases outside Uber and Lyft were NYC 2 Way International (about 1.22 million trips), Agape Luxury (1.19 million) and Bee-Bee Car Service (1.16 million). These are the trips the bases reported to TLC in its FHV Base Aggregate Report. Even the biggest of them is tiny next to the apps: Uber reported about 176 million trips that year.
If you are choosing a base, this ranking shows you who has the most work. It does not show who pays best. Read the last two sections before you decide.
The numbers at a glance
So the market for non-app bases is very uneven. A few large bases do most of the work, and most bases are small neighborhood operations. TLC's own 2025 Annual Report describes bases as ranging "from small, neighborhood-based operations to larger fleets that provide citywide service."
Top 25 bases by trips in 2025
Trips are all trips each base reported for January to December 2025. "Cars per month" is the average number of different vehicles (unique dispatched vehicles) the base reported for a month. "Trips per car" is the base's average monthly trips divided by that number. Base type comes from TLC's Current Bases list dated October 10, 2026.
Watch the "months reported" column. A base with 8, 9 or 10 months did not submit (or TLC had not posted) every month of 2025 when we checked. Its yearly total is lower than its real activity, so its rank may be too low. For example, Landey EV Dispatch reported 699,809 trips in only 8 months.
Why not the latest month?
The newest month in the report is May 2026, but it is not complete yet. TLC says bases have until the end of the following month to submit, and the report "may not represent the total amount of trips dispatched by all TLC-licensed bases." On October 12, 2026 only 309 bases had May 2026 rows, compared with 404 for February 2026. Large bases such as High Class Bronx Limo, Bee-Bee Car Service and Riverside Radio Dispatcher had March and April 2026 rows but no May row yet. A ranking built on May would be wrong, so we use the full year 2025.
Non-app base trips are growing again
For all bases together, including Uber and Lyft, see the month-by-month total below. It has stayed between about 20 and 25 million trips a month since mid-2023.
Livery, black car and luxury: what the base type means
In the 2025 top 25, 16 bases are livery bases and 9 are black car bases. No luxury limousine base made the list. Across all 510 non-app bases, the 168 livery bases reported about 16.0 million trips in 2025, the 273 black car bases about 12.7 million, and the 61 luxury limousine bases about 0.57 million.
The type matters because TLC rules treat each one differently. These are the definitions in TLC Rules Chapter 59, §59A-03:
TLC's annual report adds that liveries "are required to offer passengers upfront flat fares, and many transactions occur using cash payment." Most licensed FHVs sit at black car bases. On TLC's active vehicle list for October 11, 2026, 80,617 vehicles were affiliated with one base, UBER USA, LLC (B03404), which the list shows as a black car base. In total the list showed 101,350 FHVs at black car bases, 2,112 at livery bases and 1,383 at luxury bases:
What "trips per car" does and doesn't say about earnings
Trips per car is the only work-per-vehicle number the report allows. Use it carefully:
- No money in the data. The report has trips, shared trips and vehicles. It has no fares, tips or driver pay. A base with fewer, longer trips (airport runs, for example) can pay more per trip.
- Part-time cars lower the average. "Cars per month" counts every vehicle that got at least one trip. A base with many part-time drivers shows a low trips-per-car number even if its full-time drivers are busy. The data alone can't tell you which case applies.
- Cars can work for more than one base. The report counts unique vehicles per base, not per driver. A car that took trips from two dispatchers in a month can be counted under both, so you can't add these numbers across bases.
- It is self-reported. TLC publishes what bases submit and says it "cannot guarantee or confirm their accuracy or completeness."
Before you join a base, ask it directly: how trips are assigned, what it charges you each week, how fast it pays you, and whether you can see a sample pay statement. Those questions matter more than rank.
How to change your base
TLC's FHV accessibility page says that if you can't reach an arrangement with your base, "you can change your base by submitting an application for a transfer of affiliation to the TLC" (TLC). The steps and forms are on our FHV base affiliation guide. To check which base a car is with now, see how to find which base a TLC car belongs to.
Related pages
- How many bases exist in total: how many FHV bases are in NYC?
- Trip trends for these sectors: livery and black car trip statistics
- When the apps are busiest: busiest hours for Uber and Lyft and app pay by hour of day
- Choosing a sector: yellow taxi vs Uber: which to drive and the black car driver page
- Terms: high-volume for-hire service
Frequently asked questions
Which non-app base dispatched the most trips in 2025?
In TLC's FHV Base Aggregate Report, NYC 2 Way International (B00412) reported 1,217,810 dispatched trips in 2025, followed by Agape Luxury (B02550) with 1,185,359 and Bee-Bee Car Service (B00856) with 1,164,929.
How big are the biggest bases compared with Uber and Lyft?
Very small. In the same report, Uber reported about 176.0 million trips in 2025 and Lyft about 67.6 million. All 510 other bases that reported trips added up to about 29.3 million.
Why does this page use 2025 and not the latest month?
Bases often submit late. For May 2026, only 309 bases had reported when we checked on October 12, 2026, against about 400 in a normal month, and several large bases were missing. A full year is fairer.
Does a high trips-per-car number mean I will earn more at that base?
Not by itself. The report has no fares or driver pay. Trips per car also depends on how many part-time cars a base has and how long its trips are. Ask the base about pay, fees and the work before you join.
How do I switch to a different base?
TLC says you can change your base by submitting an application for a transfer of affiliation to TLC. See our base affiliation guide for the steps.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC Open Data: FHV Base Aggregate Report (2v9c-2k7f), queried Oct 12, 2026 data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Current Bases (eccv-9dzr), list dated Oct 10, 2026 data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: For Hire Vehicles (FHV) - Active (8wbx-tsch) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 59, §59A-03 definitions (updated Feb 27, 2026) nyc.gov
- TLC 2025 Annual Report (licenses as of Dec 31, 2025) nyc.gov
- TLC: FHV Wheelchair Accessibility Owner/Driver Information (changing base) nyc.gov
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