Van travel radius calculator
Type in a job's price and on-site hours, your target rate, and what your van costs to run. See the maximum round-trip distance this job is actually worth — not a fixed number of miles. Updates live as you type. No signup, nothing saved, nothing sent anywhere.
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Van travel radius calculator
The rate you want to clear for every hour, driving included.
Fuel, tyres, servicing, insurance, tax, and depreciation — not fuel alone.
Fuel, tyres, servicing, insurance, tax, and depreciation, for the whole year.
The real distance and drive time for this specific job — used for the figures below, separately from the maximum this job can carry.
about 74.4 mi, round trip
Drive time at your target rate — time you cannot sell to anyone else.
Want the reasoning behind these numbers? Read how far is worth going. For the smallest jobs, see minimum job price and travel-time, or all free tools.
Why this solves for a distance, not a price
The minimum job price calculator starts from a trip and works out the price it needs. This one starts from a price already on the table and works out the trip it can carry. Same two costs — the van, and the hour you cannot sell — solved in the other direction.
Two costs, kept separate on purpose
The van cost and the unsold-time cost are shown apart, not added into one number, because they behave differently. The van cost scales with distance alone. The unsold-time cost scales with how slow the drive actually is — traffic, not miles. A short, slow drive can cost more in time than a longer, faster one costs in fuel and wear.
The full method — why a fixed radius is the wrong rule, the three ways to carry the cost, and how sharing a trip between two jobs is the one thing that halves it — is in how far is worth going.
Want a travel line ready before you quote?
BizBinder does not track mileage or log trips — that stays your own record. It does let you put a travel or call-out line on a quote or invoice, and mark drive time against a job as billable or not, so the cost of the trip does not just vanish into unpaid time.
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