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Including Travel time for a job?
Hi Guys,
This is pitched to you guys who require to travel long distances to jobs. We very rarely have to but i`d had a job come in that requires it.
I have a good customer (Theyre all good aren`t they?) who needs me to travel 3 and a half hours to do a £350.00 job (We do these job on our premises here for £350.00)
I need my employees to earn £35.00 per hour.
What is the "done" thing for charging for traveling?. I estimate a 7 hour round trip and around £70.00 of fuel.
Is it as simple as charging my full hourly rate plus fuel on top of the actual job price?.
It`s a grey area for me.
Thanks.
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Hi Rod,
I charge my time at a day rate. 7 Hours is as good as a full day. You are not going to travel for 7 hours and go back to work for another hour to make up the day, so that seems fair to me.
I don’t charge a fuel levy though, but a kilometre rate. In the transport industry that is the accepted charge for travel, and as my jobs are usually transport based, it seems to work for me.
You’ll find some resistance to clients paying an hourly rate for travel that is the same as a fitting rate though. So a day rate will hide this in your quote.
It really depends on how important the client is.
My quotes usually state the job price, the day rate for labour travel, and the kilometer rate for the distance. The klm rate will be the fuel costs and a bit extra for wear and tear on the vehicle.
I don’t usually itemize the quote either. My quote is usually a total price of $xxx.xx, with a notation that it includes all material, travel, insurance and labour costs.
Hope that helps
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Depends on the repeat work
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quote Dave Rowland:Depends on the repeat workLong established customer with repeat work.
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Thanks Shane, i like the idea of setting a day rate.
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I include travel time in my mileage rate.
Basically I charge 45p a mile for all work except within a couple of miles.
This is worked out on
Fuel used pence per mile.
Annual serviceing costs averaged and split by 15,000 miles.
Then I call a 50 mile trip One hour and charge £10 per hour driving time or 20p/mile.with the present fuel increases it works out probably nearewr 50p a mile now so should really put it up.
As many business and approved council rates are in the region of 45p a mile my charges are usually accepted as the norm and if I have a week doing lots of miles and surveys rather than paying contracts at least I feel I am being paid for my time just driving.
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