What does your mechanics in your area charge per hour?

Red's Truck Center in Bidwell, Ohio, has a sign that says $125/hour when we went in. They agreed to send a mechanic to us in the campground since we weren't running. The guy came out and traced all the wires, checked grounds, tightened everything down. Found a bad crimp on the lug on the firewall connecting the main power cable from the back up to the front. Pulled it out and put a new crimp on it. That really did fix our problem, but we had another fuse problem we didn't find till later.

But the mechanic was there 2 hours in the cold rain and apologized for not being able to do more. He charged us $80. They were really great guys, all of them.

Dale

I pay about $80/hr here for mechanical repairs and it went up from $60/hr about 6 months ago.

I paid $135 an hour at Transwest in Colorado to service my Cat 3126.

My normal mechanic charges about $40-45 an hour. He does it out of his shop, my old neighbor real good friend of mine. He has my charge card so he just buys what he needs and bills me labor. If he can't or won't work on something he brings it to his diesel mechanic up the road, $90 an hour. He brings parts to him I pay with his discounts at Ford or the auto part stores.

Most repair facilities upcharge quite a bit on parts.

Dealership and repair shops always seem to run around $100.00.

Albiet I am a huge fan of mobile RV repair for tow car, MH, and toad.....their rates per hour are way lower but you have to watch the greedy ones on what the 'trip charge' is. I.E what they are going to charge you just to come out 'on top' of the hourly rate.
A lot of them want $75 bucks for the trip charge.

A little OT but down here in Florida the dang handyman wants 70 bucks trip charge just to come to your house to work.

Boy I sure wish someone paid me every day for all those years to get up and drive to work. :R

Automotive ~150.00/hr
RV maybe a little less

That in the SF Bay Area

Adam

Our local guy--$85/hr
Our RV dealership--$100/hr flat rate. Many of the typical maintainance chores are sold 'by the job' however. I'm okay paying flat rate. After 8 years as a service writer in a GM dealership, I'm pretty familiar with the process.

Add up the cost of the building and the land they are making payments on, property taxes, utilities, insurance on the building, liability insurance, special tools, hazardous waste disposal, uniforms, health insurance, social security, wages and more and you start to think that maybe they don't make much money at the $105.00 an hour they charge around here. I didn't see the owners of the shops I worked at pull up in a Rolls Royce every morning...

B.O.

CAT in Fl 125 hour.....Alliance Coach in Wildwood Fl is $120 hour.

Usually it is not by the hour, but by the job. Seems they go by the book on what to charge. Even if they can do it quicker. The charge is the same, and so if they take longer. the charge is the same. Had them do a $100 job in less than an hour, and had a $100 job that took nearly all day.