Is this mobile RV call actually paying you? Free, no signup.
Warranty calls pay slower and ask for photos, VINs, and pre-authorization. It is real work, so it goes in the hours.
RV service calls die on the drive. A $125 trip fee looks fine until the 60-minute round trip, the parts run, and the warranty paperwork quietly eat it, so this calculator prices every call that way. Start with your bar: the minimum dollars per hour you will work for (150), plus a daily take-home goal. Pick a preset: Diag only ($125 trip, $150 diagnostic, 0.5 labor hours), Diag + repair (2 labor hours, $85 parts), or Multi-system (3.5 hours, $160 parts), all editable starting points. The diagnostic-applied checkbox is the industry's signature leak: when the diag fee rolls into the repair, the tool stops billing it separately. The leaks card counts round-trip drive minutes, miles at vehicle cost, parts-store runs by the minute, and warranty or insurance paperwork, because photos and VINs are real work. Results show a line-item breakdown, call profit after true costs, your true hourly rate against the bar, and PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY verdicts. The recommended quote adds a 15 percent margin and rounds to $25. The gut check grades your instinct quote, and the day planner turns the goal into calls. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Diag + repair preset at a $150 bar: $125 trip fee plus 2 labor hours plus $85 of parts at a 40 percent markup, with the $150 diagnostic applied toward the repair. Revenue = 125 + 2 x 150 + 85 x 1.4 = $544. True costs are the $85 parts plus 48 miles x 0.67 = $32.16 of vehicle cost, so $117.16. Committed time is 2 labor + 1 drive + 0.5 parts run + 0.33 warranty paperwork = 3.83 hours. True rate = (544 - 117.16) / 3.83 = $111.35 per hour, which misses the $150 bar, so the verdict is WORKING TOO CHEAP. The recommended quote adds a 15 percent margin: (117.16 + 3.83 x 150) x 1.15 = $795.99, rounded up to the nearest $25 = $800. A $300 gut quote pays (300 - 117.16) / 3.83 = $47.70 per hour and leaves $500 on the table. An $800 day goal needs 800 / 426.84 = 1.87, rounded up to 2 calls.
**Q** Should the diagnostic fee apply toward the repair?
That is the call you make, not the customer. If the box is checked, the tool drops the $150 diag line to zero, so you can see the call without it. Many techs apply it to close the repair, but the checkbox shows exactly what the goodwill costs.
**Q** Why do parts-store runs count in hours?
Because a 30-minute run plus the drive is billable time you spend instead of fixing something. The tool multiplies your run count by minutes per run and adds it to committed hours, where it drags the true rate down honestly.
**Q** What is the 15 percent margin for?
It prices the call above your time and true costs, not at them. The recommended quote is (true costs + hours at your bar) x 1.15, rounded up to the nearest $25, so one bad surprise per call does not turn it into a loss.
**Q** How do warranty calls change the math?
They add unpaid-feeling minutes that the tool counts as work. Warranty and insurance paperwork gets its own field, defaulting to 20 minutes for photos, VINs, and pre-authorization. It lands in committed hours and lowers the rate the same as any other minute.
**Q** What does the day planner assume?
That every call today looks like this one. Two repair calls to hit an $800 goal is a different day than two diag-only calls. Run each call type separately for honest numbers. ---