How far do you travel to cut???

[eggy]

Another post has just got me wondering if maybe I am holding the growth of my buisness up by not covering a lot more areas. We are busy nhere in town really four good days to get things done in our current route which is within a small town and appx go only seven maybe ten max miles from home base. We are surronded by several other towns that are larger and smaller but good size towns. I would have to run another crew but finding help belive it or not isnt to bad of a problem here. What is the distance you guys/girls travel to mow..should I think about gowing 20 to 25 miles for accounts????

[landscaper3]

We run up to 40 miles from home for residential (maintain develoments)6 or more homes in associations, same with condos and town houses that generate from $6,000.00 to $20,000.00 a year (for summer only) Businesses we are around 25 miles all summer. For our winter all residential homes are 5 miles in each direction from home and commercial and condo year round we will travel up to 10 miles for the other properties over these numbers we sub-contract the plowing out but keep the sanding business and add 5% to 10% over sub-contracters price so we will profit also.

[A CUT ABOVE]

We run about 65 miles to do a chain of 29 convenience stores that bring in around $2,000 per month. We also run about 60 miles once a month to do a job that brings in about $7,000 per month. All residentials are within 10 miles of home.

[Keith]

Right now the farthest we go is about 8 miles. That is for only two $200/month lawns. Other than that, everything is within 4 miles.

[bob]

I read in a trade magazine about a successful lawn company that only stays in a 3 mile radius!

[TGCummings]

I'd have to say that everything is within 7-10 miles at this point. I live just outside town, so it's 3 miles just into the city, and then everything is with the 5-6 miles of the city limits.

I've consolidated my routes a lot in the last six months, but can see myself branching out to the other small towns in our area if A) The money is really good, and B) I can get consecutive accounts to make the journey a worthwhile one...

-TGC

[Davis TLC]

Closest account is about a mile from home, the furtherest one is 8 miles out in the country.

[Keith]

I could ride the mower to at least 50% of my accounts in less than ten minutes if I had to :D

[Runner]

No accounts more than 15-20 minutes from home. I used to travel up to 30-40 minutes in each direction, but now I have condensed it down so 90% of my work is within 5 to 10 minutes away, and two of my commercials are about 20 minutes out and right by the expressway. This is a BIG help on road time!

[John DiMartino]

I only travel in a 4 mile radius of home.I have my eyes on some big industrial sites with good size lawns about 10 miles away.My buddy with 2 crews and 4 Dixie choppers,2 exmark WBs travels in a 25+ mile radius.he is very successful,IMO.

[1MajorTom]

At present we need not travel more than 12 miles from our
home base.

We have multiply neighborhoods where we drop gate and service 7 to 9 customers per street.

The shorter, more condensed the route is for us, the better.


Jodi

[BobbyBcuttin]

All of my accounts are within a 10 mile radius,sometimes i will run outside this radius to do a few yards when these clinets go on vacations and bussiness trips.

[jay]

Theres alot of homes in my area so I stay in a radius of 5 miles, but I have traveled about 25 miles to do two commercial jobs for a good customer of mine. I told him I would have to charge him travel time to a from the job and he was ok with that so I did it. They were very profitable for me. But other than that I just stay close to home.

[SLC1]

We do only commercial work so we travel about 45 miles one way to do a large 50 acre site once a week. Then we have others spread out in a 35-40 mile radius of our shop.

[TurfGuyTX]

It really depends on what kind of profit margin we have with each property.

[jaybird]

our closes one as of now is 98 miles on up to about 140 miles. we dont drive back and forth.

[N.H.BOY]

our closes one as of now is 98 miles on up to about 140 miles. we dont drive back and forth.

What the h#ll??? Please explain this one :dizzy: I hope its the money. I think you have said you mow for your state?