On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 09:10:43 -0500 Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
writes:
>britcars@juno.com wrote:
>>
>> We have a restored MG TF that needs to go from Sacramento, CA, to
>> Norwalk, Ohio, and a friend has an Austin Healey near Ft. Wayne,
>Indiana
>> that needs to come out to the Oakland, CA, area. Sounds as though
>there
>> ought to be a way to find someone with (preferably) an enclosed
>trailer
>> to make a more-or-less round trip out of it. Each leg of the trip is
>> worth about $650 to $700 to the respective individuals.
>
>Lemme see. $1,400 tops. Appears to be about 4,600 miles.
>
>I'm not really trying to start anything but, without deadheading, your
>offering about 30 cents a mile. Most new cars hauling absolutely
>nothing
>cost more than 30 cents a mile to operate.
>
>OTOH, if you averaged 10 hours a day at 60 MPH you're talking about an
>8
>day road trip. So that would be $175 a day (again, no dead heading
>payment).
>Expecting no more than 10 MPG, towing, would be 60 gallons of gas:
>$75.
>So you have maybe $100 left a day to eat, sleep, cover wear and tear,
>and whatever left over is the working wage. I figure the wage at about
>$2 an hour for 11 hour days.
>
>I think you should expect to pay about 50 cents a mile to haul cars,
>singularly, across the country. Now you're up to $2,300 and that
>starts
>sounding like real money.
>
>Been down that road before and there ain't no easy way.
>
>--
>Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
>
Bob.....
I agree absolutely! I posted the request only because my customer (who, I
hope, doesn't have access to this Bulletin Board!) is such a cheapskate!!
He had the car brought out here for $700 and wants the same kinda deal
going back (I wonder why the the first transporter doesn't want the
job??) I ran the numbers as you did, came to the same conclusions, but
agreed to post the request "just in case".
The opportunity to make it a "round trip" seemed to sweeten the pot just
a tad.....
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
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