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Title: HOW FAR DO YOU GUYS TRAVEL TO WORK?
Post by: tatman on April 18, 2007, 07:45:22 pm
Been looking at moving for ages finally decided on a place 20 miles from my current address. This means for 2 weeks a month a daily round trip of 40 miles to work and back. Most of my work for that period is within 3 miles of where i live now. Luckly i have built up a weeks work only 6 miles from the new place which means 1 week of 12 miles per day roughly. .The last remaining weeks work is in an area which will be a daily drive of 30miles each way :'( :'( It is a nice compact round though. Not sure if this last weeks work would do my head in driving 60miles 5 times a month. How far do you lads travel to work? Is 30miles to far? I suppose i could sell that week?
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Post by: niceandclean on April 18, 2007, 07:55:27 pm
I live just outside Cambridge, so have got alot of work in this area, but i travel as far as Ipswich once a week, but local stuff id say i travel about 50-60 miles round trip!
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Post by: david wood on April 18, 2007, 08:01:03 pm
hi i used to travel from prestatyn to stockport about 130 miles there and back twise a week,its no fun when you get stuck in trafic or its raining that bad when you arive you cant work :'( :'(
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Post by: Sir Squeaky on April 18, 2007, 08:03:38 pm
6 miles away is my furthest area.

Got a couple a few miles past that, but 98% of my work is inside 5 miles.
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Post by: clean team on April 18, 2007, 08:18:38 pm
just did a job in carlisle thats 104 miles from where i live
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Post by: NWH on April 18, 2007, 08:20:22 pm
Same as tatman almost exactly 20 miles there 20 miles back,and once i`m there i`ll do another 10miles travelling to jobs.A couple of times in a 6-8 weekly basis i have to do an 80 mile round trip for commercial work with good domestic work on the way home.
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on April 18, 2007, 09:29:49 pm
Half is within 3 miles - a quarter within 6 and the farthest is 12.
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Post by: Colin_Glenn on April 18, 2007, 09:31:23 pm
Almost all of my work is concentrated on one estate. This estate is 1 mile away from my house. I do a couple of cemercial jobs once a weeks which are 5 miles and 6 miles respectively.

Love it!  ;D
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Post by: craig jwc on April 18, 2007, 09:35:20 pm
Furthest jobs i have is around 30 mile (60 mile round trip)
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Post by: tacky on April 18, 2007, 10:24:21 pm
about 5 mile radius i made a mistake of when i started keeping to local area  eg 2 pound fronts 6 to 7 all round  think i should have traveled  out of area  to bigger houses  when i hear u guys charging 20 to 30 per house  i feel i made mistake   
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Post by: Richy L on April 18, 2007, 10:30:23 pm
i have one customer around the corner, but all my other work is between 25- 30 miles. (50- 60 mile round trip) Not ideal, but its worth it! :)
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Post by: Paul Coleman on April 18, 2007, 10:49:01 pm
My furthest job is about 15 miles away.  The bulk of it is within 10 miles though and some of it is within 2 miles.
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Post by: Blackbushe Windows on April 19, 2007, 12:09:23 am
Most of my work is local - around 1 - 4 miles. 6 Miles is about the farthest.

Cheers

Peter
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Post by: supernova77 on April 19, 2007, 12:13:21 am
Most of my work is within a 10 mile radius from where I live... I do have some that is 30 miles away though.

Andy
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Post by: LWC on April 19, 2007, 12:20:24 am
i have to travel every day 20 miles there and back to all my work, and as mentioned, then drive round the work

i was worried about it in the start...dont even notice the journey any more mate, and now ive moved down here ive picked up loads around here  ;D

i even go 40 miles away twice a month
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Post by: gary evans on April 19, 2007, 06:12:21 am
Hi All

We cover a 60 mile radious of cannock, most is around 30 miles.

I find traffic worse than mile-age, we travel to bitmingham, approx 20 miles or less but is average of one hour travelling or more. But, we travel 30+ miles to near crewe & do it in 40 minutes, i would prefer to travel than sit in traffic.

We have a weekly job near crewe every friday, most weeks is good but sometimes we hit traffic, but i would still prefer to go there, this morning, leaving at 0630 for job in castle brom 1 hour minimum travel. Ilook constantly for work north of me for better journeys.

Gary
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Post by: Lizzy on April 19, 2007, 06:51:28 am
I travel 20 miles to work & 20 miles home EVERY day.
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Post by: Trevor Knight on April 19, 2007, 07:58:05 am
We travel anywhere up to 60/70 miles away from our base, however, we charge the client travelling time so it doesn't effect our hourly rate!

If you have several domestic customers in this area then I don't see a problem with 30 miles, we would do that without too much trouble.
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Post by: Tosh on April 19, 2007, 06:52:12 pm
You guys who travel; don't you find it a real bummer when you've driven all that way somewhere; then get rained off?

Okay, okay, some may say we work in the rain; but do you really, when it's comming down sideways?

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Post by: simbo on April 19, 2007, 08:54:12 pm
just done today 140 mile round trip all comercial and very very well paid once a week i do this
simbo
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Post by: matt on April 19, 2007, 10:31:51 pm
most is within 15 mins of my house, furtherest is about 2 and 1/2 hours away ( 2 nice little comercail jobs, soon to be 3 ;))
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Post by: Londoner on April 21, 2007, 08:36:29 am
I'm the same, most of my work is within a mile of my house. I do some old people's flats about three miles away and thats my furthest. I only do them evert two months.
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Post by: dougster on April 21, 2007, 08:45:04 pm
i travel upto 30 miles to get to work then hoe again
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Post by: ok cleaning on April 21, 2007, 11:31:04 pm
we regularly travel up to 10 miles a day