Whoa, how much to wash my rig again...???

Bill.Satellite wrote:

msmith1199 wrote:

aslakson wrote:
We get our 32' MH detailed - wash, wax, polish - for $300 in Southern California. They include the wheel simulators and for another $20 even do the toad. And it's good work - crew of 4 guys takes about half a day. The result usually lasts a whole year until we get back there.

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Four guys a half day work for $300? If half day is four hours that is $18.75 and hour per person. I'm going to guess they're working for cash and not paying any taxes on that money, or insurance, or business license fees, etc.

I don't see a problem here. Do you think folks who wash RVs should not make $18.75/hour? The homeless begging at the corner average over $14/hour and they don't pay a dime in taxes or insurance or license fees and they collect all of the monies provided by other social programs. The homeless are likely making a better hourly wage than the majority of our youth but that's OK? I would be happy to pay 4 guys doing 4 hours of work $300 if they did the job I hired them for. I am sure you can do much better if you hire those guys that hang out at Home Depot.

You got all that out of what I wrote? Active imagination. But yes, I do think people running a business should be licensed and insured and pay workers comp insurance on their employees and social security like the rest of us. This company is not doing that at those rates. I have no idea where you got to homeless people out of this.

On Edit: After reading my reply again, I think you are complaining that I thought $18.75 was too much? Did you read my post where I paid a guy $525 for two guy to wash and wax my motorhome and they did it in five hours? That's over $50 per hour each, and I even said I thought that was a fair price! You couldn't have missed it, it was right in with this one. At $525 the guy I hired is insured, licensed, and I assume is paying all his taxes.