Lift Prices

[jmsbrush]

Guys ,what do you charge for a small scissor lift if needed for a 1/2 day and for a full day?
Thanks.

 

[nakulak]

whatever the rental company is charging. Or if its inconvenient, more.

 

[480sparky]

whatever the rental company is charging. ......

Plus delivery & pickup fees. Plus 20%.

 

[jmsbrush]

I was also thinking about 1 hour of labor as well for the paper work or if you need to go there in person.

 

[Power Tech]

Whatever you do, never, never let the customer rent the lift. You will lose lots of $. They will get some broken down thing your employee will try to fix and lose lots of $. Or it will not be there and they do,t care your worker had to drive 80 miles and you lose 4 hours of his work. They will expect you to do the work for the same price too.

 

[jmsbrush]

Whatever you do, never, never let the customer rent the lift. You will lose lots of $. They will get some broken down thing your employee will try to fix and lose lots of $. Or it will not be there and they do,t care your worker had to drive 80 miles and you lose 4 hours of his work. They will expect you to do the work for the same price too.

Sounds like that happened to you?

 

[wireguru]

where I havent wanted to either front the cost for the lift, or be responsible for it, I have booked it with the rental co then had the customer call them with credit card to pay for it.

I agree to not let the customer just get a lift, it will be broken, not there, wont fit through the door to get it into the building (this happened), gasoline powered (this happened too), or you will end up with a forklift with a pallet on it (this also happened).

 

[aline]

Whatever you do, never, never let the customer rent the lift. You will lose lots of $. They will get some broken down thing your employee will try to fix and lose lots of $. Or it will not be there and they do,t care your worker had to drive 80 miles and you lose 4 hours of his work. They will expect you to do the work for the same price too.

I climbed into a customer supplied boom lift one time and started raising the bucket. When I tried to stop it just kept going up and then it started rotating in circles. I tried the emergency shut off switch but nothing would make it stop. It finally stopped after awhile. They had left it out in the rain overnight and I guess the controls were full of water causing it to have a mind of it's own.

On another job I was up about 40ft. in a boom lift when it just quit. The hydraulics quit working and I couldn't get it to do anything. It was late in the evening and I was working alone and no one was around. It was either spend the night in the bucket or slide down the boom. I decided to slide down the boom.

 

[aline]

Usually I will have the rental place deliver and pick up the lift. I charge whatever the rental company charges plus 20%.

Most of the time they can deliver and pick up the lift cheaper than I can do it myself.

 

[aline]

If you leave it up to the customer to supply the lift this is what you get.

 

[Rewire]

The rental companies will pickup and deliver for an added fee the longer you keep it the better the deal rental for a week is cheaper than renting for four days.