Why Dont We Sell Our Bodies?

[Grudgee]

There would most-definitely be some kind of license required. Not a taxi license, per say, but something of the sort. A requirement across all vehicles to be used.

To do it legit, insurance would be a necessity and would be required on all vehicles.

Dunno how'd you go with the co-ordination of it all too, as you'd need to have someone managing the business and enquiries, as well as maintaining the books and paying everyone as they did their run-abouts. Most people won't be paying cash - especially for weddings where much of this stuff ends up on a credit card.

On the surface, it's a great idea, but you'd have a mass of work ahead of you before working out if it's viable or not.

If you can swing it on the side as a cash-only setup, avoiding the tax man, it'd be a ripper idea. No direct overheads (over and above the normal running costs of the vehicle) and a pocket full of cash. You might get in strife though.

[cobrav8]

Not sure if this applies in Aus, but in NZ if you hire a car for a wedding and drive it, you have to have a limousine licence. This came about as Taxi drivers complained about the people taking their business from what I heard.

[chikt]

I would think its like, you can drive a bus with a normal license but if you have paying passengers riding on your bus you need an F indorsment.

very good idea though, I would certainly be in for it..If I didnt drive a ute lol

Edited 23/04/08 08:53 AM by chikt

[7MA61]

Its not just that but the time and effort in getting the car spotless.

I volunteered to do my cousins wedding and seriously spent 2 weekends with a total of very close to 10 hours getting the car ready and imo it still wasn't perfect. This cost around $80 in product alone let alone the charge out rate for labour had I wanted to recoup on the time spent cleaning the car.

Between costs and labour for a normal job I'd be wanting close to $300+ just to break even let alone turn a profit.

Edited 23/04/08 09:10 AM by 7MA61

[ZAP]

While the idea might be ok, the reality is not.

You need to have Hire Car license, insurance and rego.

Unless you were only doing "mates" weddings, you could get in a lot of trouble.

[ebxmple]

Have a cup of concrete everyone. If they have a bunch of xr6ts to choose from and a phone number to contact the owner if they like what they see,whos going to know. It could be your mates wedding or a family member so at the end of the day nobodys going to say sqwat. Its not like theirs going to be people chasing you to find out if the people you are taking in your car are your mates or not.Nine out of ten your driving slow looking good anyway. I have helped out in my mates wedding and a friend of a friends wedding. You might not even have the people who paid you to do the job in your car so I say I am in with my white xr6t. I could do with the extra cash for more mods. MMMMMM 22s,airbag suspension,500rwkw,decked out with picture and sound oh and the wedding ribbons of course.

[harvyk]

I think it would be a great money spinner, but as others have already said, you'll have insurance problems, plus special rego, plus you'll need a special license.

Whilst it's all well and good saying "officially" your only driving mates around, as soon as you advertise the T's for hire you'll have no end of problems. You'd probably find that by the time the insurance \ tax man \ rta have taken their dues you'll end up with next to nothing, not really even enough to do a basic mod. Keep in mind the tax man looks at cars very differently to just about any other business tool.

(I've been setting up a business myself over the last few months, there is always someone with their hand out, often the gov't, they do not make it easy in the slightest)

[X-WING]

Don't mates tend to pay in rum,beer,ect many members have done it here for the joy on the day and to help out other members but to do it for

paying customers just gets messy

[Macktheknife]

I read the subject line, then a few posts, then realised that whatever way I viewed it, I'd have to pay....

[rboksic]

  hulk xr6t said:

There is of course a few hurdles to get through, but wouldnt you drive you T for a few km to pick up someone, drop them off and have a real good excuse to clean it every week. Not to mention the $500-$1000 in your pocket..

Also if the tax man wants to talk about it, ill buy 22 inch rims, spend $15k on the motor and claim them as a tax deduction as its a capital improvement for my money maker XR6T...

Actually its not a bad idea as you could do up you T, claim all the costs to do it up and then dont take on any jobs and say there is no work out there so no income, so the tax man will owe you...

Hulk,

If you dont make an income from it then I think you cant make a claim,

So people did this so as to own 40ft+ boats the ones that did not make any rentals had to pay back the ATO, it was about 3 to 4 yrs ago