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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3751117" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>For any business owner, maximizing use of your assets should equal more profit potential. That means your vehicles in this case. You won't have any issues finding people willing to work on weekends part time because there are millions of people who have 40 hour a week jobs who need extra money. If it is profitable to run 5 days a week, it should be just as profitable per day to run 7 days. Your gas and maintenance costs are basically per mile, and adding a 7th day of work without raising your monthly insurance rate actually reduces your per mile costs. </p><p></p><p>Yes, 7 days may mean more work for a small operator, but for larger operations who already have a manager, even that cost is really a per hour expense. Maybe you can have one 4 day work week, and another shift for the other three days. You might even save money on overtime costs if you are now paying extra for OT. Even if you personally might need to work 7 days a week, your profits should increase proportionately, meaning an extra 40% profit as compared to a 5 day week.</p><p></p><p>If you look at businesses like Taco Bell, for example, they expanded their business hours to include breakfast to utilize their asset- the restaurant- more fully. If you don't have the volume to make it worthwhile, that is one of the problems with the unilateral aspect of being an ISP under a contract that you have no choice to accept with no real negotiation except around the edges. If you paid for the right to service a contract someone else originally signed, unless you sell it to another unknowing individual, you don't have a choice anyway. At least the next 'owner' will know that they are expected to work seven days a week, and can decide on a purchase price that reflects their business goals. </p><p></p><p>7 day a week operation should lead to larger operations because it simply won't be as easy for the owner of a smaller operation to manage 7 days a week, 360 days a year unless volume on the extra days grows. Simply spreading out the same volume now delivered in 5 days over 7 days is a money loser.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3751117, member: 60252"] For any business owner, maximizing use of your assets should equal more profit potential. That means your vehicles in this case. You won't have any issues finding people willing to work on weekends part time because there are millions of people who have 40 hour a week jobs who need extra money. If it is profitable to run 5 days a week, it should be just as profitable per day to run 7 days. Your gas and maintenance costs are basically per mile, and adding a 7th day of work without raising your monthly insurance rate actually reduces your per mile costs. Yes, 7 days may mean more work for a small operator, but for larger operations who already have a manager, even that cost is really a per hour expense. Maybe you can have one 4 day work week, and another shift for the other three days. You might even save money on overtime costs if you are now paying extra for OT. Even if you personally might need to work 7 days a week, your profits should increase proportionately, meaning an extra 40% profit as compared to a 5 day week. If you look at businesses like Taco Bell, for example, they expanded their business hours to include breakfast to utilize their asset- the restaurant- more fully. If you don't have the volume to make it worthwhile, that is one of the problems with the unilateral aspect of being an ISP under a contract that you have no choice to accept with no real negotiation except around the edges. If you paid for the right to service a contract someone else originally signed, unless you sell it to another unknowing individual, you don't have a choice anyway. At least the next 'owner' will know that they are expected to work seven days a week, and can decide on a purchase price that reflects their business goals. 7 day a week operation should lead to larger operations because it simply won't be as easy for the owner of a smaller operation to manage 7 days a week, 360 days a year unless volume on the extra days grows. Simply spreading out the same volume now delivered in 5 days over 7 days is a money loser. [/QUOTE]
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