Tractor and driver hire

[John Deere 3050]

Just starting out and was wondering what price I should be charging out at when I'm dreying trailers. Don't want to be too dear but don't want to be bouncing round the roads for nothing. A bloke local to me advised I charged £29 p/h for a 150hp 50k tractor. Any advice would be much appreciated

 

[Farmergrum]

£25

 

[Lofty1984]

Just starting out and was wondering what price I should be charging out at when I'm dreying trailers. Don't want to be too dear but don't want to be bouncing round the roads for nothing. A bloke local to me advised I charged £29 p/h for a 150hp 50k tractor. Any advice would be much appreciated

All depends on where your location is

 

[smcapstick]

No use asking on here. You need to ask the men seeking drivers!

Prices vary wildly between areas.

 

[Ratherbefarming]

Most important question- who is paying for the fuel?

 

[james ds]

Just starting out and was wondering what price I should be charging out at when I'm dreying trailers. Don't want to be too dear but don't want to be bouncing round the roads for nothing. A bloke local to me advised I charged £29 p/h for a 150hp 50k tractor. Any advice would be much appreciated

Your a young lad who doesn't know what your real expences are , what are you going to do when there is no tractor work on , remember you need a weeks wages every week of the year , if you are the cheapest around you are losing money , who has paid for the tractor , or are you another young lad using Daddy's tractor to bring down the price of tractor hire in your area.

 

[feilding]

Start at £35 hr , so you don't fu?k it up for every one else

 

[TripleSix]

Your tractor is going to cost at least £12-£14/hr in costs and depreciation to run as a general rule.
Plus fuel.
Plus your wages.

 

[ARW]

Your tractor is going to cost at least £12-£14/hr in costs and depreciation to run as a general rule.
Plus fuel.
Plus your wages.

Plus a profit margin

 

[TripleSix]

Plus a profit margin

Yep, you need to be making money on top of that.

And have money in the bank for when your tractor takes a dump and you get a big bill...

 

[Chae1]

Just starting out and was wondering what price I should be charging out at when I'm dreying trailers. Don't want to be too dear but don't want to be bouncing round the roads for nothing. A bloke local to me advised I charged £29 p/h for a 150hp 50k tractor. Any advice would be much appreciated

Is it your own tractor or going out with dad's?

 

[geoff570]

Your tractor is going to cost at least £12-£14/hr in costs and depreciation to run as a general rule.
Plus fuel.
Plus your wages.

Plus tyres ,insurance & profit and remember silage gangs and veg/spud growers would buy their own tractors to run the roads if it was cheaper than having a tractor and man in on hire.

 

[Thick Farmer]

£15/hour

 

[Grassman]

Plus a profit margin

A what?

 

[Speedstar]

£15/hour

There is all ways one person taking the pi**, what do you want just the man

 

[D14]

Just starting out and was wondering what price I should be charging out at when I'm dreying trailers. Don't want to be too dear but don't want to be bouncing round the roads for nothing. A bloke local to me advised I charged £29 p/h for a 150hp 50k tractor. Any advice would be much appreciated

If we go out tractor, man, fuel then it's £45/hour for 200hp but if we get somebody in we are paying £21/hour + fuel. Hence why we are happy to use contractors!

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

£15/hour

hope your putting the fuel in at that rate, cause if its farmers fuel on top, its far to dear

 

[kill]

Start at £35 hr , so you don't fu?k it up for every one else

Absolutely brilliant but this poor guys phone will never ring at that price.
Works very hard to come across at decent rates and all but impossible to start with and this tractor all but a good machine isn't a Fendt 724 or the like so my guess is his ceiling price is maxed at £30 an hour and probably less.
What he really needs is a machine that no one has rather than being a sheep and just becoming lost in the flock!!!

 

[SuperTwo]

Honestly lad youre better off going and working a 9-5 job for a couple of years

 

[stevedave]

There is all ways one person taking the pi**, what do you want just the man

That's not the cheapest out our way by some stretch.