[CAUT] charge for time?

[Wimblees at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/7/07 9:52:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sandstromsw at hotmail.com writes:

I was just wondering if most of you charge for your time on the road to  get 
to a job? If so do you charge from the time you leave your shop? Do you  
charge the same rate as your normal labor charge? Or do you only charge for  
mileage? This would be for jobs outside my normal area where I currently  only do a 
mileage charge. With the cost of running a vehicle going up all  the time I 
was thinking of redoing what I charge. I was interested what most  of you are 
doing. Thanks.
 
Steve Sandstrom



There are several different ways you can do this. One is to charge a flat  
fee to go different stages of mile driven, like mark suggested. The other way is 
 to figure by how long it takes you to go there. What I do is kind of know 
what  area I want to cover for my "normal" fee. But if I have to go outside that 
 area, I charge so much per mile to the customer's home. 
 
Depending on the kind of car you drive, you might want to charge as much as  
$1.75 or even $2 per mile from your house to the customer's  house. That's one 
way, not round trip. You should charge that in  addition to your tuning fee 
and any repairs, if it is only one to three  customers. But if you can get 4 or 
more customers in the same area, on the same  day, then don't charge anything 
extra. 
 
I know some people don't do it that way, but that's how I do it.  
 
Wim 



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