With mounting overheads and the need for continuous
tooling and training updates its becoming harder and harder to make a profit in the automotive repair industry!
The question is how can you make more profit from what you already have?
Labour is your biggest expense but also where your largest profit can be made!
TechTime understands this and through research conducted at an independent garage found that although
technicians worked for 8 hours per day the labour hours charged for each was only about 5 hours.
Three hours per day at £40 per hour is £120 multiply that by 5 days in the week and its a
huge £600 per technician per week lost!
Well in short you can't, but you can get a lot of it back by charging for the hours you are due.
Many garages have no official timekeeping system in place and rely on either repair times or by asking the technician to record how long they have spent on each job on their job card.
This type of system is designed to record activity on jobs but can be flawed by the reliance on a physical sticker or stamp being applied to the job card by the technician, the recorded times need to be totalled up and job cards can go missing.
To the second recording of technicians activities throughout the day, instant total of time spent on every job, see up to the second job times even if the technician is still working on the job, multi technicians on the same job.