territory and time

[onesidedcoin]

At what point are customers too far to service ,how much windshield time is too much?With 24/7 support how large can your territory be?

[press1]

It would depend upon if you guarantee a response time and if you are a one man show. If you service too large an area your local customers will stop calling because you can't respond fast enough.

[mccool]

Depends on your area and direction of travel, we can go up to 3 hrs, 3 different directions for supermarket or special service before the next largest outfit is closer.
Met someone who had 4 seperate refrigeration outfits in same city (Montreal) or so he said!
How many employees?

[onesidedcoin]

We have 6 trucks ao the road with three being apprentices.We sevice convenience stores ac and refrigeration ,oil heat and car wash garage doors.Covering three states.

[icemeister]

Originally posted by onesidedcoin
We have 6 trucks ao the road with three being apprentices.We sevice convenience stores ac and refrigeration ,oil heat and car wash garage doors.Covering three states.

You cover three states????? I hope you're in New England where the states are kinda small.

I'm a one man operation doing C-Stores and such on the east coast of Florida where the territory is define by the Atlantic on the east and I-95 on the west with about ten miles in between. I run about forty mile north and forty miles south, which port-to-port still ends up at about an hour's time on a good day.

I don't mind getting paid to look through my windshield, but I can't make any coin doing that all day for one call.

Car wash garage doors??? What's up with that?

[condenseddave]

"Have passport, will travel" {Reads the card of the man...}

"If you've got the money, honey, I've got the time"

"It's 186 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas and a half a pack of cigarettes. It's dark, we're wearing shades."






Get the point? You pay the freight, I'll be there.

[mccool]

And if I drive 20% faster thats $10/hr on OT!

[shaun66]

We do only supermarkets, we service an area 6 hr in any direction, do some installs in crazy places, farm out warranty

[yanertrivr]

I only cover a sq mile, but I commute for over 12000 miles to get there.