Travel distance

[jekjr]

What is the furtherest distance from home you have to travel to cut grass? There is a town 35 miles away I am considering advertising in to try to get work?

 

[Ric]

What is the furtherest distance from home you have to travel to cut grass? There is a town 35 miles away I am considering advertising in to try to get work?

If you travel that far 70 miles round trip I can't see how you make any money. You'll spend all your profits in gas. The only way you could make it pay would be to increase your prices and at that point the locals would beat you out of work. I know it happens here that way. Generally speaking the guys that try to that 99% of the time don't return after e few trips.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

What is the furtherest distance from home you have to travel to cut grass? There is a town 35 miles away I am considering advertising in to try to get work?

Yeah that seems too far...for the reasons Ric mentioned.

 

[chobbs1957]

What is the furtherest distance from home you have to travel to cut grass? There is a town 35 miles away I am considering advertising in to try to get work?

In agricultural consulting (not much like a lawn care service, I know:wink, I covered a territory about 70 miles across. The key is to have blocks of farms (accounts) in the area, and a very structured schedule that allows maximum efficiency and volume of work while there.

 

[mowerman05]

I traveled 65 miles one way to cut a lawn for one of my regular customers. her son was renting a house and she didn't want anybody else on the property snooping around, I did this for the entire season. Charged her from the time my truck started till I was back home. Very good customer however we have since went our separate ways.:frown:

 

[jekjr]

In agricultural consulting (not much like a lawn care service, I know:wink, I covered a territory about 70 miles across. The key is to have blocks of farms (accounts) in the area, and a very structured schedule that allows maximum efficiency and volume of work while there.

That is what I would hope to accomplish. What I wold have to do is get enough work so that I stayed on the area preferably all day at the time. Obviously I cold not drive that far and cut one yard although I wold have to start off with what ever I could get.

 

[mowerman05]

Does the town that you want to get work in pay more than the local area or just looking for more work?

 

[chobbs1957]

That is what I would hope to accomplish. What I wold have to do is get enough work so that I stayed on the area preferably all day at the time. Obviously I cold not drive that far and cut one yard although I wold have to start off with what ever I could get.

I liked being spread out in my consulting business as well. A lot of my accounts were neighbors, family, or close friends with one another. They did a lot of comparing of notes. If a recommended product went out a little late and failed, it looked like I messed up, and the others were going to find out! Being spread out was some protection from such.

 

[BHLC]

We go 32 miles to our furthest account, but it is On a day where our route has stops all the way out and all the way back. It's one of our biggest grossing days. Takes 5 gallons of gas in the truck though!

 

[sgmgarden]

It may be personal choice but I don't think I would be keen on travelling that far, due to the reasons mentioned above, petrol etc. Would it really be worth the while unless it was a very big job?