on the 22nd? I don't wanna coach service, I wanna ride the train As I want my step son to experience the trains.
Hey coming to melbourne for a holiday will V/Line have trains running to BallaratYes as far as I am aware. The current shutdown ends on the 14th July.
on the 22nd? I don't wanna coach service, I wanna ride the train As I want my step son to experience the trains.
Apparently one bus company charges $1000 for the Melbourne-Bendigo run (not sure whether its SAS or express). I'm not sure how much it costs to run a train though.
Getting back on topic.. Why do some bus companies charge such astronomical prices, and is $1650 for a return trip or one way?
When quoting on a job, a bus company will figure out approx how many kms the vehicle will do for the trip, including dead running to/from the depot. The take this figure, multiply it by their cost per km for maintenance, fuel etc (they will know this number by heart).
Then they take the number of hours they will pay the driver, mutiply this by the hourly rate including on-costs (super etc).
They add the two figures togther. That's the cost price. If you ask for something specific (seatbelts, aircon, toilet etc, you pay a premium for this- less true now about seatbelts as more vehicles come standard with them; though for school charter work that's not always true).
Then they add on a healthy % for profit. Given it's V/Line they probably bump the % up a bit.
GST comes in on top of this.
It adds up, and quickly.
The rate is generally the same regardless of vehicle type. In an unplanned cancellation (fatality/signal fault) V/Line will take what they can get. Only toilet equipped coaches are supposed to go beyond Geelong/Kyneton/Seymour/warrragul but that rule often goes out the window.
The rate is generally the same regardless of vehicle type. In an unplanned cancellation (fatality/signal fault) V/Line will take what they can get. Only toilet equipped coaches are supposed to go beyond Geelong/Kyneton/Seymour/warrragul but that rule often goes out the window.Yah, maybe true for unplanned cancellations or even for planned replacements.
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