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Travel radius

Posted by Andrew Bentley on August 15, 2021 at 2:53pm

Hi everyone.

Thought it would be interesting to get some opinions on your working travel distance. For maintenance I will travel up to 15 miles from base but for one off jobs such as pruning (I do a lot of Wisteria and fruit tree work) I travel up to one and a half hours which gets me a fair distance but these are day rates which allow for travel.

How far are you willing to go and are you happy with this or wish you could cut your travel time?

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    Honey Badger August 15, 2021 at 3:58pm
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    I travel up to 15mins! Why would you want to travel 1.5hrs? If asked Todo that I'd say no or at least charge them for my travel time. On the rate you've previously mentioned that must really cut into your profit! 

    When I was a subie landscaper 17yrs ago I'd travel up for 2hrs for a £100 day rate or price which was normally over £200 or more. That was 17yrs ago....

     

    • Andrew Bentley > Honey Badger August 15, 2021 at 4:17pm
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      My further away jobs tend to be specialist pruning that take at least a day or more.

      For these I charge a day rate that includes travel time and costs....and are a bit more than £15 per hour! (Which is local maintenance work only) 😊

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        Honey Badger > Andrew Bentley August 15, 2021 at 5:01pm
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        I to have a few specialist pruning garden's all ten mins from my house.

        Glad to hear you're charging a bit more😉

         

  • Chris & Heather McAlpine August 15, 2021 at 4:19pm

    Our longest commute is 4 miles.  We have been to a place 30 minutes away for a border design and plant job though and charged accrdingly for travel costs/time etc.

    • Andrew Bentley > Chris & Heather McAlpine August 15, 2021 at 5:22pm

      Wow that is a small radius!

      ........wait up.....are you doing it on a bicycle with one of those trailers? 🤔😂

      • Chris & Heather McAlpine > Andrew Bentley August 16, 2021 at 7:41am

        We’re green but not that green 😀.  LWB van , lucky to have clients we need so close to home.  Only have 15 regulars and do design/planting jobs in other slots.  So much money around here (South Warrington) that we don’t need to travel further

  • Jim Murray August 15, 2021 at 9:09pm

    I travel upto 15 miles only for work

  • Glen Stillman August 17, 2021 at 8:28pm

    Our furthest travel is 24mile round trip. But that's the 2 of us there all day, weekly , all year round.

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