When I request PAD, I tell them the following:
Amount of PAD requested: $xx.xx
Reason for PAD: 37 road miles and 55 minutes each way, plus $5 bridge toll and $1.15 toll road
I have an idea of how far (distance and time) I will drive as part of the base fee, so I mentally subtract that and then ask for what I need to cover "excess" mileage and "excess" time. Since I have to schedule the visits (usuallY quickly with the contact, I have to assume that this is the only assignment that I will be able to do in that area. Sometimes I find a bank of a lunch shop to add in, but not always.
The request seems to linger as they become convinced that no one will do it for less and they reach some sort of time limit. I ask for enough PAD so that if I get it, I ill not be upset. Yesterday, they called and asked me to request PAD for an assignment "further than you usually travel". I said that I would look online. I requested hundreds of dollars, and I hope that someone else gets it, but if I get it, I will be alright with it, if not happy. It will fill an entire day even if I avoid Monday and Friday beach traffic. Unless they ask me to "bid" on such a distant job, I don't even bother. I suspect that occasionally they need a second bid so that they can "justify" a high but lower bid from someone else. I "bid" to help the pleasant schedulers, but always enough for me to reach my hourly target.
@Hydra777 wrote:
Can I get this a lot they don't want to pay me much for shop that's over the other side of the mountain it's only like 15 to 20 miles of driving it is over a hundred miles to actually drive it
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008