How far before you stay in a hotel

[John C.]

An hour to an hour and a half is pretty normal in the Seattle area if you live in the burbs and commute to down town. When I started working for the dealers, labor was pretty cheap, two hours drive to a job was OK for a weeks work and you went back and forth. When the changes came, the customers wouldn't let you leave until the job was done. When I got out of the truck it was common to leave on Monday, get home on Friday night or Saturday, sleep and change laundry on Sunday and Monday start all over again. That's not something I'm ever going to do again. Knock on wood.

 

[check]

I wouln't take a job that far unless I could work it 10 - 12 hours a day.

 

[Birken Vogt]

One of my customers works for Cat in the big city, and he lives way out a long dirt road. Drives his car out the road, down a long country road to finally get to the main highway, from there all the way to the dealer. Maybe 1/2 hour on crooked roads plus one hour on straight roads.

Funny thing is, he works in tech support. He could work from his house just as easy but they want him on site to hold that phone.

 

[Mother Deuce]

200 round trip, buying a room.

 

[Bls repair]

When I was a road mechanic with a company truck the normal travel time was 1.5-2 hours when using my truck 1hour max .
I wouldn’t travel to where I had to get a room .already paying for one home not paying for two.