No one can say that courier driving is easy. But if you ever wonder how much to charge per mile for delivery to make it worthwhile, then you're not alone.
In today’s video. Pete walks you through exactly what to charge per mile for courier and delivery van driving.
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Today's video is on how much should you charge per mile,
Now, it's not always that straightforward. It depends on whether you are doing it as a subcontractor, or whether you're doing it for one of your own customers.
If you're doing it as a subcontractor, the person who gives you the job is going to want their share of the fare.
So if I got the job through somebody else, in a small van (maybe in a car), 50p a mile. Small van 65p a mile. Medium wheelbase, about 80p. Long wheelbase, 90p. Extra-long wheelbase, £1 going up to £1.10 in a Luton, maybe £1.20, £1.30, if it was a curtain, tail-lift job. And then after that, you’re into lorries, and lorries are £2.00 plus.
For my own customer, I would be looking to add at least 50% again. So if I was doing a small van job for someone (my own customers), I'll be looking at charging my£1.00 a mile, 65p for the van if I had to get it off on to somebody else, and 35p for me. Or, if it was one of our vans, £1.00 per mile. Again with Lutons, I'll be looking at £1.50, maybe £2.00 per mile, even potentially going up to £2.50.
Now you've got to bear in mind that you got to have a minimum mileage. So for example, if it was a small van and someone says, he's going three miles, I'm not going to charge him three quid. Because you've got to send the van there, you've got to wait for the load to go on board, you've got to ship it, you gotta take it off. This all takes time.
It's going to take at least an hour, plus diesel, plus rent a van. So with that, the minimum price on a job (on a small van), minimum price, even for one game on the corner, it should be £25.00 going up to, I would say about £65.00 in a Luton van and increments in between like before.
Of course, you don't have to do it by the mile. You can do it as a multi-drop job. There are advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is the more stops you gotta find, the more difficult the job is. Which is why I'll always say that I recommend you get a decent app. If you're going to multi-drop, get yourself a decent multi-drop app. Which is why I say Circuit is the best. But the advantage with a multidrug job is you're not going to be doing that many miles. You will charge them probably about £1.00 a drop.
So if I'm going to do a Luton job and I'm going to go a hundred miles and I'm going to go a hundred miles back again, that's 200 miles in a loop and back again, that’s going to be 20 miles, it's going to be half a tank of fuel. That's probably going to stand me in at roundabout, I’d say £50.00.
Whereas you can run around town all day, you could, if you got your routes sorted and you know where you’re going and you got it all locked in, you could probably do a tank of diesel twice a week.
The other advantage you've got with multi-drop is the fact that you can do them in smaller vehicles. So if you have got that problem where you'd like to have a go at doing the light haulage thing, but instead, the van doesn't quite fit on the driveway. It's just convenient that you've got the family car or something like that. That could also be the way forward.
But there's your long and short of it, really. You're going to be looking at a small van, 50p a mile, going all the way up to Luton at £1.10, £1.20 a mile. Minimum charges on a job, small van,£25.00 going up to £65.00 in a Luton. And, as a multi-drop job, if it's a proper multi-drop job, you're probably looking at around about £1.00 a drop. And you're looking at getting in about 200 to 250 drops a day.
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