Petrol Money

[Skintish]

Hi, hope i have put this in the right place.
I give a workmate a lift to work every day and he makes a donation of £3.00 per day towards fuel, this was about half the fuel bill but this has increased recently due to rising fuel costs.
My dilemma is that he has always said he would take lessons, pass test and buy a car, so we could take turns in driving. Over 3 years later and not one lesson! In this time I have driven some 45000 miles to work and back and have just had to replace my car.
Do any of you have an opinion of what is fair and reasonable to charge for giving him a lift, we do around 55 miles per day so the fuel and running costs are getting higher and higher.
I also realise that I would be going anyway so any donation is a bonus.
Any views or experiances of similar situations would be appreciated.
Thanks Skintish.

[Conor]

You are aware that legally you have to apply for a Private Hire licence?

[Skintish]

Thats it he's on the bus tomorrow!!!

[MILLWALLFC]

Terrible you charge your mates and your going that way anyway. Tut tut tut

[iolanthe07]

You are aware that legally you have to apply for a Private Hire licence?

This is no longer the case. The law was changed some years ago to encourage car sharing.

[davetrousers]

Just come out and say that due to the cost of petrol could he give you a bit more.

[Hintza]

Terrible you charge your mates and your going that way anyway. Tut tut tut


You are having a laugh with this comment I hope?

So OP lets mate travel for free and then in a years time watches him jet off on his expensive holiday on all the money he has saved on free rides. Whilst OP goes to Bognor for a long weekend because he has to pay all the car costs.............hmmm.....I don't think so.

Obviously OP doesn't want to be greedy but I would have thought something in the region of £4-£5 would not be out of order. But what is the cost of the bus?

[DKLS]

Charge him 40 pence a mile, that should cover fuel and a proportion for wear & tear.

[LandyAndy]

You are aware that legally you have to apply for a Private Hire licence?

This is no longer the case. The law was changed some years ago to encourage car sharing.

Conor, wrong! Falls down in a faint.

[vikingaero]

If you do 55ish miles per day, make the assumption that you are sitting in traffic, and your car does 30mpg-ish then that's £9.40ish for fuel without accounting for depreciation, servicing, tyres, insurance and maintenance. Your workmate has it cushy! He should contribute at least £5 per day if not more. £3 wouldn't get you 55 miles on a bus or train. As an example, my missus takes the bus 2.2 miles into town and back and pays £3.70.

[highguyuk]

Just tell him that as of the 1st Feb your rates will be going up due to the price in fuel costs and it will become X amount. (I'd suggest £4).

If he does not wish to pay the increase surcharges, he should look for an alternative arrangement.

[Badger_Lady]

With the basic expenses for car travel being 40p per mile, your 55-mile journey comes to £22! This should (theoretically) cover petrol, mileage added to the car's depreciation and maintenance costs.

Based on that theory you should be getting at least a tenner from your car share... but, as a nice helpful friend, perhaps £5 would be a compromise..?

[thescouselander]

Perhaps you could charge your mate a fuel surcharcharge or something.

[Conor]

Conor, wrong! Falls down in a faint.

My apologies for not keeping up. I've got enough keeping up with the changes to the drivers hours laws, tachograph regs and WTD (Mobile workers) which now appear to be happening on a 6 monthly basis.

[LandyAndy]

My apologies for not keeping up. I've got enough keeping up with the changes to the drivers hours laws, tachograph regs and WTD (Mobile workers) which now appear to be happening on a 6 monthly basis.

Tough at the top isn't it?;)

[lisyloo]

he makes a donation of £3.00 per day towards fuel

He should be contributing towards the costs of owning a car.
That's depreciation, servicing, MOT, parts, insurance and recovery policy.

To be totally fair I would add these up (for your commuting jouneys not personl journeys) and then divide by the relevant number of miles to get a price per journey.

For my car it works out at 20p per mile but it could be anything between about 20p and 40p depending on what type of car you drive.

This seems entirely fair to me.

[Skintish]

Thank you all for taking the time to comment, I will have a chat with him and come to some amicable agreement.