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| Topic: | Travelling for jobs This thread has 9 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 19:49 |
ian_av Long Time Member |
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do most of you guys have to travel to get to your client base or you set up shop in the area of your client base. company i work for is an hour away from our main client base, we get local work too, but the good jobs are farther away "where the money is". it seems worth it to drive an hour. start at 7-730 be on site by 9 worst case, after gas, load up, and drive.
we are getting more and more work farther away, say 2 - 2.5 hours away. just want to know what you guys do, charge for travel over one hour or do you turn jobs down or what? i mean if its a paying customer its hard to turn it away i can understand but its just so hard to drive 2 hours one way and get much accomplished in a day.
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| Post 2 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 20:04 |
ceied Loyal Member |
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we travel and they pay..... one way or the other or both....depends how rich they are...... and how much they really want me to do their project
money talks and bull shit walks
ed
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 20:07 |
doopid Active Member |
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I'll travel if the job is lucrative.
If I don't do the job....one of you guys will :P
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 20:25 |
We are anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours from our "local" clients, and we charge travel time to and from the job site. I think ceied more or less said it, if the client is the right fit for your business, and they are want you to do the job, then they will accept paying for the expenses. BTW, if you go to the same area or job for more than 2 days in a row and the travel time is an hour or more, it is often even money to get a hotel and have a nice dinner(part of travel expenses in the estimate) so that you are fresh and ready in the morning.
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| Post 5 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 20:28 |
ceied Loyal Member |
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i spent 3 weeks outside of aspen (crested buute) on the customers dime a few years back... that job payed really good and we did his chicago house first.
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 6 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 20:30 |
Larry Fine Loyal Member |
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I'd vote for the hotel for anything beyond an hour or so.
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| Post 7 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 20:32 |
dr.k Long Time Member |
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Most of our clients are less than 1 hour a way.
The projects we have that are farther, we work 12 hour days to cut the travel time down and then use those extra hours for days off.
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| Post 8 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 21:52 |
touchscreen?? Long Time Member |
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O.K, along the same lines. When you travel out of town are you paid extra for out of town (overnight) jobs? Do you give a per diem? Obviously I am an employee and not an owner. Very curious.
Bob
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| Post 9 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 22:09 |
cma Super Member |
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I used to travel for two previous companies I worked for, one gave us per diem the other reimbersed us expenses. Now I am my own boss and I don't get anything :)
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| Post 10 made on Wednesday January 4, 2006 at 22:38 |
davet2020 Senior Member |
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We generally try not to take jobs that are over one hour away. The money maybe good for the initial installation but who wants to drive over one hour back to the customer if a simple problem happens. A small problem can end up tieing up a truck for over half a day. We are very concerned about our reputation and give hands on assistance to our customers when they need us for any problems.
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