Coach hire costs?

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 44006

Coach hire costs?

« on: October 15, 2014, 20:01:14 »

If I was looking to hire a coach ... around 30 seats, school holiday, early start and late return to Melksham. 150 miles out, 150 miles back ... what sort of cost am I looking at? ... as a one-off? ... as a weekly thing all summer? Very casual enquiry at the moment - looking for an order of magnitude and I know we have some people in the know. Web sites seem to give me a quotation form to fill in Undecided


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

LiskeardRich

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 3571

Re: Coach hire costs?

« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2014, 20:12:07 »

When we got married back in 2011 I got some quotes for guest transport. We didn't follow through with the idea as only about 8 guests showed an interest in using it.
For full day hire with around 40 mile round trip I was getting quotes between ^200 and 300 which included the coach, driver salary and mileage.
The breakdown for most of the quotes were around ^100 for the coach per day, the drivers salary which varied between ^8 and ^10 an hour, and around ^1 a mile seemed to be the mileage rate - mileage was calculated depot- pick up - destination- drop off - depot.


	Logged

All posts are my own personal believes, opinions and understandings!

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 44006

Re: Coach hire costs?

« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2014, 21:04:35 »

So:
100 ... coach basic hire
300 .... 300 miles at 1 pound per mile
140 .... 14 hours at 10 pounds per hour
===
540 pound for the day

Thanks Grin


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

LiskeardRich

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 3571

Re: Coach hire costs?

« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2014, 21:30:50 »

14 hours may require 2 drivers which may complicate the calculations.
There may also be a better chance of negotiation in school holiday as a typically quiet time for operators especially those with a lot of school or college contracts


	Logged

All posts are my own personal believes, opinions and understandings!

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »