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mahlere, Not content or satisfied with the current fuel situation. I filled up the tank in my van and it cost $125.00. I feel like I'm just working to pay for gas now. But that same 30 gals or so would've cost twice as much in the UK and $552.90 (USD) in Sierra Leone. It could always be worse, no one is shooting at you or dropping mortars on your head...
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The only good thing about it, I'm hoping the crunch will finally convince my employer to go to 4 - !0's.
Three day weekends every week rock!
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I have had a few guys working on my addition and I get the feeling they are really only working for gas money. I had to give my roofer a partial payment so he could buy gas to get back the next day. I really don't understand how the guys who drive around picking up scrap metal are making any money at all. I gave a Mexican couple about 40-50 pounds of aluminum but they will end up burning a half tank of gas before they get home with the money
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The only good thing about it, I'm hoping the crunch will finally convince my employer to go to 4 - !0's.
Three day weekends every week rock! Honestly, me, too! We have 5-4-9 right now (9 hour days, every other friday off) but I'd go 4-10 in a heartbeat if I could. And not just for the gas prices, but also the time lost in conjestion- every day at work means 1.5 hours lost on the roads. There's really no reason NOT to go 4-10. I'd much rather be telecommuting. 90% of the time, I can do my job just as well from my home as I can from the office, but gas is free and there's 0 commute time.
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I started thinking about installing a taxi cab meter into my van the other day. That might sorta simplify the problems and process of recovering the cost of fuel and its instability in pricing. I could reset it at the startout dispatch and add that into any billing. Sort of a flat rate billing with a fuel surcharge that is a metered situation I could verify to the customers. At the very least it would serve to continue to remind me every time I put the key into that gas hog that it is costing me money to go from point A to point B no matter how close or how far. Anybody know where to get one, and how difficult it would be to have it installed?
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And a two minute Google search produced this excellent result. [url=http://www.taxicabelectronics.com/][/url] This may be a rather good idea....
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And I bet you thought you were being funny! Actually, this was a topic in our chat recently.
Taximeters cost about $250, and you can set them for any values you wish. Perhaps a good setting would be your shop rate / hr, plus the IRS mileage deduction. When you finish the job, that plus your parts would give you your invoice amount.
Maybe that's not such a bad way to do things.
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With the rise in gas prices maybe cars will finally go electric and then electricians might have another market to go into. Well a bigger market in the automobile industry at least. Just trying to look on the bright side.
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Actually, the infrastructure required for EVs... well, I'll start another thread for that one!
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And I bet you thought you were being funny! Actually, this was a topic in our chat recently. I was dead serious about it. But you know me, I always think I'm funny . Good to hear I was not the only one to think about a taxi meter. I thought it might be extreme thinking on my part (crazy). Still, I would not return to T+M billing. An added gas surcharge to my dispatch fee might work, based on the meter printout. The only way to find out is to try it.
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