$199 per hour shop labor rate
I was floored today while at General RV. Their new 2018 labor rate charged is $ 199 hr. I had to look twice. It goes up every year. 5 hours working on your rig ... $1000 bucks, not including parts.
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jplante4 wrote:
Major's RV on Cape Cod is $138 an hour. Most of our business is repeat customers and RVers coming to the Cape for vacation having a problem. We don't do mobile service anymore, so they have to bring the rig in. Starting in April, the board is a week out and it stays that way until the end of November.
Our techs are RVIA/RVDA certified. I think ASE is autos and they wouldn't teach you anything about house systems.
There's also Freightliner and Cummins certifications and Onan/Cummins certified genset techs.
And don't forget he tack-ons for "shop supplies".
Yes, the tack on for "shop supplies" . I just had a base plate, light kit, breakaway installed at General RV of which I purchased the parts on Amazon. I knew from past experience they mark it way up buying it from them.
The Shop supply charge was $65. Remember I supplied the parts. The only thing they might have needed was a small cut off wheel worth $5. Plus it took 4 hours for a quoted seven hour job. Yep ... They charged for the 7 hours even with my complaint. Even Blue Ox says it's a 21/2 hour install. So adding the light and breakaway gets it to around a max of 4 hours. I think they are making up their service times and charging you the full amount no matter what the time actually was.
