How much is a fair hourly rate to charge for a 7.5tonner with driver?
The vehicle is a flatbed with beavertail and plant ramps. Its also got a winch, so could pull non-running cars etc onto the bed. It’s been a plant vehicle in the past and could easily do that kind of work but its main duties are now moving steel building sections around.
The vehicle is not the main means of making a living but transport is something that will be done ‘on the side’ to make it earn its keep when not doing own account work.
I’d have thought about £40 hr, but maybe a less minimum hire charge.
In Essex we’re charging £55/hr (min 2 hours) for my 8 wheel hiab / beavertail. No capped mileages, but all journeys based on round tripstarting / ending at the yard.
ibson:
I price between 55 and 60 for our hiab low loader! If you can get 40 for a 7.5 toner fair play!
what are your minimum hours though & what t/m is the crane? it seems fairly cheap to Me, I was charging £50 per hour for standing time on a semi low-loader up untill I sold it last february…
The poster asked how much should you charge & in fairness you should be charging that in this day & age should’nt You?
I sold up for a number of reasons one of them being I could’nt be bothered going out competing in the general market with people who don’t charge enough for what they do even in a specialised market like what your in. Now if You tell Me You only leave the yard for a minimum 5 hour charge & stay within a 30 mile radius of base & your doing two jobs like this per day I’d say happy days…
ibson:
I price between 55 and 60 for our hiab low loader! If you can get 40 for a 7.5 toner fair play!
what are your minimum hours though & what t/m is the crane? it seems fairly cheap to Me, I was charging £50 per hour for standing time on a semi low-loader up untill I sold it last february…
The poster asked how much should you charge & in fairness you should be charging that in this day & age should’nt You?
I sold up for a number of reasons one of them being I could’nt be bothered going out competing in the general market with people who don’t charge enough for what they do even in a specialised market like what your in. Now if You tell Me You only leave the yard for a minimum 5 hour charge & stay within a 30 mile radius of base & your doing two jobs like this per day I’d say happy days…
It’s a hiab 550 on a 6 wheel scania, a triple axle step frame low loader trailer, with twist locks and a support on the back to carry longer containers. I charge a minimum of 3 hours generally, but most of our work is own account and nearly all of it local so again how I price the job depends on the situation and most are priced by the job. A lot of the time I can giggle other people’s jobs around our own. Our truck does at least 2 own account moves a day within a 50 mile radius, it can do up to 5 or 6 on a busy day, so I guess it does mean I can be more competitive with my figures, it also means I don’t need to chase for work.
There is a company local to me who run similar rigs to ours for a lot cheaper than me! It’s a competitive world now and I won’t run the truck for nothing, but hiab trucks even tractor units like mine are becoming so popular it makes the market even more competitive.
Best of both worlds ibson own account & a bit of the other I’m suspecting not a lot of diesel in this too?
Unfortunately as times gone on many old crane trucks of various sizes have hit the secondhand market & the bubble has’nt burst but deflated quite a lot. If your good at it your one step ahead as many have the gear but no idea what it can do or can’t make it do it.
I have a close friend whose still at it & He tells Me the jobs been fairly busy & even His 150t/m fassi has been out daily just lately.
I have a close friend whose still at it & He tells Me the jobs been fairly busy & even His 150t/m fassi has been out daily just lately.
Can’t imagine there are too many of them about. I saw one a few months back on an 8x4 MAN (IIRC) the unit was almost as long as my 8 wheeler and it was pulling a little flat trailer with some diddly lighting towers on it!
Its a big machine 8wheels it pulls a 36’ flat with steering, its fairly manouverable as it goes. STGO for whatever it does though but its under 44t so can go anywhere empty…
my old firm used to charge £38 per hour for an eight wheel grab ,minimum 10 hrs. this is pretty much the industry standard rate for london/home counties
still wasnt any money in this after wages/diesel, BUT- my old firm would do very well indeed out of it if we were tipping in our own yard and supplying the stone for backfill -they had their own transfer station/aggregate recycling.
i looked at great length at becoming an owner driver in this sort of work a couple of years ago(my father is a cpc holder so that was sorted)had the work sorted, and after doing the sums i would be doing it basically for what i get paid for driving for someone else without the 40 grand outlay for a half decent motor…
