Fair contribution for car share?

Haggisman

Haggisman

Haggisman

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My employer have just placed another contractor (who lives relatively close to me) at the same site where I'm based, however he doesn't drive, and so the suggestion has been made that I can offset some of my travel costs by car sharing with him.

Just trying to decide on a fair contribution, and I reckon 50% of my petrol costs seems fair?

So that works out at £0.07/mile, or £120/month (it's an 80 mile round trip).

Seem fair?
 
Seems very fair to me. By the sounds of it he would be significantly inconvenienced if you weren't to offer him a ride.
 
Sounds reasonable enough, obviously it doesn't cover half your costs...but it's £120 a month you weren't getting back before!

From the other side I dare say they will realise how much it a) costs you and b) would cost them in terms of transport and time otherwise.
 
my view is that 75% of petrol or same as the train fare would be reasonable as you cover all the insurance, tyres and other running costs.
 
I used to pay 2/3rds when I shared for a while, my choice and I thought it was fair to the driver.

Then I realised I was too crabbit in the morning and was poor company lol.
 
I would say 50%. You've got to foot the bill for tyres, servicing, insurance etc. anyway whether he rides with you or not, so half the fuel seems fair to me.
 
Given that you are making this journey anyway and that the net marginal cost of taking him with you is absolutely zero, suggestions of 75% of fuel cost seem absolutely ridiculous. I'd suspect the maximum reasonable expectation is a deal where you go 'halvers' on the fuel and leave it at that.
 
Unless of course you are the one who cannot commit to times, xpm every night simply wouldn't work for me so I couldn't be relied on to run someone every day
 
[TW]Fox;27802784 said:
Given that you are making this journey anyway and that the net marginal cost of taking him with you is absolutely zero, suggestions of 75% of fuel cost seem absolutely ridiculous. I'd suspect the maximum reasonable expectation is a deal where you go 'halvers' on the fuel and leave it at that.
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If it was a friend I would agree, but its a huge bonus for a complete stranger to be picked up and dropped off home every day and I would assume quite a big saving on train fair.
 
I would charge 50% petrol. (including what ever extra petrol it costs to divert to pick him up).

That's fair in my book, as you are getting a nice offset against your weekly fuel cost, and they are getting a good deal as its cheaper than taxi or public transport with a door to door service without having to worry about car maintenance, tax, insurance, tyres etc.
 
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