Job 13 of 16 · Outline

Build travel and waste disposal into prices

The problem

Driving between jobs and tip runs are unpaid hours unless you price them in. A month of logs shows what to add.

What AI does

AI works out your average travel time and waste costs from your own logs and sets out two ways to include them in your prices. Which way you choose, and your prices, are your decision.

Time

Time: 15 minutesTools: ChatGPT, Gemini

The steps, in short

  1. Log your travel and waste trips, with their costs, for a few weeks.
  2. Have AI work out the averages from your logs.
  3. Compare the options it sets out and decide how to price them.
  4. Update your prices and check your waste carrier registration with the regulator for your nation.

A short sample prompt

Here are my travel and tip logs for [period]: [paste]. Work out how long I spend travelling for each job on average, and what waste costs me per visit. Then show how a typical [job type] would be priced with a separate charge compared with a higher hourly rate.

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