Mobilization & Travel
Two to three unbilled hours and a tank of fuel per trip is the most-cited margin killer in this trade. Set a base move fee, a per-mile rate, and a free radius once — then every quote proposes the travel charge, computed from where the work actually is.
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The problem
You loaded at six, drove ninety minutes, unloaded, worked, loaded again, and got home at eight. The invoice covers the mulching. Do that twice a week and the truck is running a charity for people who live far away.
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How it works
Base move fee, per-mile rate, and the radius you don't charge inside. A worked example shows what a forty-mile job would carry before you save.
Distance comes from the largest takeoff zone when you've drawn one, and falls back to geocoding the address — then the city and state, because rural county-road addresses often return nothing at all.
A chip in the total bar shows the charge and the distance behind it. One tap adds it as a real line item; ignoring it leaves the bid exactly as it was.
Once it's on the quote, the chip turns amber if mobilization passes 25% of the total — the point where a customer starts asking what they're paying for.
Capabilities
The fixed cost of getting iron on a trailer and off again, charged once per move rather than smeared into the per-acre rate where nobody can see it.
Charge for the miles that actually cost you. Work inside your radius carries no travel line at all, so local customers see a clean bid and distant ones see an honest one.
When a takeoff is drawn, distance is measured to the largest zone's centroid — the middle of the work, not the mailbox. Every surface labels it as straight-line distance rather than implying a routed drive.
Mobilization that dominates a bid is a bid worth reconsidering. The chip goes amber past a quarter of the total so you find out before the customer does.
Committing the proposal writes an ordinary quote line that recalculates server-side and prints on the PDF. The customer sees what they're paying for, which is why they pay it.
Leave the settings empty and mobilization never appears. Nothing gets added to a quote because a default somewhere decided your travel was worth forty dollars.
FAQ
A base fee for each machine move, plus your per-mile rate applied to round-trip miles beyond your free radius. Distance comes from the drawn takeoff when there is one, otherwise from geocoding the job address.
Straight-line, and every surface says so — the chip reads "~47 mi direct". Road miles need a routing subscription to be honest about, so rather than quietly under-report, the figure is labelled for what it is and you price accordingly.
Leave the settings blank and the feature stays dormant — no chip, no line, nothing on any quote. It only ever does something once you've told it what your travel is worth.
Yes. The proposal becomes an ordinary quote line item once you accept it, so you can edit the amount, rename it, or delete it like any other line.
Set your travel terms once and let every quote carry the fee you've been absorbing since you started.
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