Bucket Truck Rates?

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We have a contract to install and maintain tornado sirens, so we have a 65' bucket truck. We also use the truck for other jobs, but the market here only adds $30 - $50 per hour for the truck, plus the rate of an electrician. It hardly seems worth it.

What do YOU charge for your truck? :-?
 
"I went with the 14' x boxes on the buckets because I felt the back step bumper had to be a couple feet long to protect the bucket. We do a lot of car lots and the back end tends to swing out pretty wide."
Don't I know it. I swung into 4 open spots at big Orange about 6 months ago and didn't watch the back end of the truck (16' Isuzu with liftgate)well enough. I just nudged the quarter panel of a Toyota 4 Runner. Over $1500 worth of damage.

I'm a lot more careful now:grin: .

Trees and those rolling basketball goals can be a prbolem as well.

Mine has a side roll up door that I really appreciate. Best truck I've had in thirty years.
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Minuteman said:
Back to bucket truck rates...

We have a contract to install and maintain tornado sirens, so we have a 65' bucket truck. We also use the truck for other jobs, but the market here only adds $30 - $50 per hour for the truck, plus the rate of an electrician. It hardly seems worth it.

What do YOU charge for your truck? :-?
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you mean just the truck alone itself 30-50 per hour ??

for myself first hour is 150/hour then therefore after that it is 50/hour that do not include the electrician's rate.

I don't know what MDshunk charge for his truck but i am sure it is not far behind with my rates. [ i will let him comment on that one :cool: ]

Merci, Marc
 
I don't know if this would work for you, but many of the contractors in town here know each other. One guy here in town would let you use his truck, but his guy has to run it, all you had to do is pay his mans wages.

Now of course that only works if he's not using the truck and/or doesn't need his man.

Maybe you could work something out with some of the other contractors around.

One time we told one of the big suppliers of boom lifts that we were interested in buying one. They brought it by for us to try out for a week. We went around and cleaned and repaired all of the parking lot lights for three buildings, before letting them know that we would be in touch.:grin:

Wasn't my idea.
 
SmithBuilt said:
That's a little more than I thought it would be. Is that including the box?
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30K / 60 months(5 years) = $500 per/month in additional NET business will have paid back your investment and allowed you to acquire business you might not have received, not to mention the additional amount of business in inside work in buildings you will get through the connections made with the bucket truck business.
 
The trucks w/box are about 30K also.

There are cheaper ways to go but I am a tool guy and I believe that using the proper tools is the smart thing to do.

Our first bucket truck was a used telco truck with a utility bed. It was cheap but there was no room for stock and anything in the bed was prone to get wet or stolen.




BTW...........Financially, the bucket truck is the Most productive part of our business.
 
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The trucks w/box are about 30K also.

There are cheaper ways to go but I am a tool guy and I believe that using the proper tools is the smart thing to do.

Our first bucket truck was a used telco truck with a utility bed. It was cheap but there was no room for stock and anything in the bed was prone to get wet or stolen.




BTW...........Financially, the bucket truck is the Most productive part of our business.
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yep it can be very productive if used right and i know it do come handy more than one way.

and also feel safer with higher reach area then try to use the 24/30' FG extenstion ladder.

Merci, Marc
 
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