bloodnock wrote:
Your Prices have a Flaw.
The Start point from the Pick up Address (Shown as "A" on the map) to the Destination Address (Shown as "B" on the Map) and shown and priced based on the Mileage between these points...eg £90.00 or 55 miles (110 miles total)
Should "A" not be Based on your Home base Post code, Then "B" your Pickup Point Then "C" your Drop off Destination Point and then Finally "D" your Home Base Postcode.
EG: Lets Say Im based in Little Dunnowt, I get a result from a run from Lesser Cuffington to Greater Chuffington, I do that run then I return home to Little Dunnowt.
Little Dunnowt is 10 Miles from Lesser Chuffington and Lesser Chuffington is 55 miles from Greater Chuffington and my base at Little Dunnowt is 65 miles from Greater Chuffington. Im travelling 130 miles but only being paid for 110 miles
A simple "A" to "B" only shows the Distance between those 2 points and it Fails to take into account the fact that you might have to Travel 10miles before you even get to "A" and you also the Distance from "B" back to your base might also mean another 10 miles of travelling.
Thats a average loss of around 10%/15% on my unacccounted miles on any Journey. Yes, It would vary from run to run dependent on the Distance between Pick up point and your base on any given run but it could lead to a loss of around 10%/15% or more per journey because we are only showing the Journey as being a simple A-2-B run.
If we all lived at or on route between "A" and "B" we would be fine...So is it Possible for you to factor in the Overall Milages based on the four Different points of the Journey?
Hi bloodnock
That's a very good point, and I did think of this however as you say, there’s a few variables to factor in there such as each run is different and will you always be based at this point at the start of every pickup (i.e. will be on the way back from a different journey cross town etc.)
The only way I thought I could tackle this would be to allow you guys to set different “premiums” based on postcodes, pre-configuered with your postcode/response times. So for example:
- If you’re based in PE1 and you get a pickup from PE1, there is no premium charged; just the cost of from A to B.
- However, if you get a job from PE5 to PE6 you could already have PE5 pickups charged with a small premium to allow for this
Which kind of works, but then
- If your punter wants to PE5 to PE1, they might be upset that they are paying more than PE1 to PE5 – which is the same journey that you’d run anyway
Plus, I don’t want to give you endless amounts of tick boxes and textboxes to fillout. I know from when I'm the punter and I catch a taxi to town, I expect the return journey to cost the same as the outbound (and is advertised as such on the local leaflet drops).
So yeah, that’s where I got to with that. But as always, I’m open to suggestions
how about a wee Asterisk *Warning that an additional Mileage fee may be charged by the operator whilst travelling to your pick up point.
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