Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

No one asked you. And sorry you raised degenerates

PP you replied to. Why so much rudeness? I didn't mean they were drinking or doing drugs. My son and other older teens I know are the intellectual and academic type, doing well in college, but not experienced enough drivers that I would trust any of them on the road with possibly noisy and distracting younger children.

Just because these teens are technically adults, doesn't mean they magically become fully-fledged mature drivers overnight. Undergrads are still in the highest-risk tranche of drivers for car accidents.

Many kids are getting their licenses older and don't have cars in college so not huge amount of driving experience.

Every family I knew growing up had their oldest child, a teenager in high school, driving the other kids after they got their license. The head of school at my DC’s elementary said her oldest daughter would drive the carpool to the top private in LA.

NP - I would actually say that I would not have HS kids drive my MS kids around. Unless I knew them personally.

I must spend hours weekly driving my 13 and 15 yr olds everywhere and it sucks because I swear it is my 2nd job. The flip side is I pretty much know everything that's going on with my kids after 12 hours with them in the car driving them every week, hahahaha! I hate it but I also think it's an amazing time to get to know your kids.

OP - your kids are still young at 10. Good luck - you got years of driving to do - hope you are made of money or figure out a way to find time to be a professional chauffer!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

No one asked you. And sorry you raised degenerates

PP you replied to. Why so much rudeness? I didn't mean they were drinking or doing drugs. My son and other older teens I know are the intellectual and academic type, doing well in college, but not experienced enough drivers that I would trust any of them on the road with possibly noisy and distracting younger children.

Just because these teens are technically adults, doesn't mean they magically become fully-fledged mature drivers overnight. Undergrads are still in the highest-risk tranche of drivers for car accidents.

Because you’re a judgemental shrew. Come back when your kids are actually teens and give your opinion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve always just paid a flat weekly fee that would work out to a high hourly rate bc otherwise it wouldn’t make sense for a kid to do this. You can’t just pay for the actual driving time

This is what I was going to recommend - $X00/week. Don't make the poor kid log his mileage, just give him a set amount weekly and give him a bonus if he does more one week than he normally would.

I'm the first responder in this thread and recommended reimbursing for mileage.

I don't think the kid has to "log his mileage." OP should easily be able to figure out how the distance from her house to the camp and back, and just use those figures.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

No one asked you. And sorry you raised degenerates

PP you replied to. Why so much rudeness? I didn't mean they were drinking or doing drugs. My son and other older teens I know are the intellectual and academic type, doing well in college, but not experienced enough drivers that I would trust any of them on the road with possibly noisy and distracting younger children.

Just because these teens are technically adults, doesn't mean they magically become fully-fledged mature drivers overnight. Undergrads are still in the highest-risk tranche of drivers for car accidents.

Many kids are getting their licenses older and don't have cars in college so not huge amount of driving experience.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve always just paid a flat weekly fee that would work out to a high hourly rate bc otherwise it wouldn’t make sense for a kid to do this. You can’t just pay for the actual driving time

This is what I was going to recommend - $X00/week. Don't make the poor kid log his mileage, just give him a set amount weekly and give him a bonus if he does more one week than he normally would.

If its his car, they pay milege.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

No one asked you. And sorry you raised degenerates

PP you replied to. Why so much rudeness? I didn't mean they were drinking or doing drugs. My son and other older teens I know are the intellectual and academic type, doing well in college, but not experienced enough drivers that I would trust any of them on the road with possibly noisy and distracting younger children.

Just because these teens are technically adults, doesn't mean they magically become fully-fledged mature drivers overnight. Undergrads are still in the highest-risk tranche of drivers for car accidents.

Anonymous wrote:No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

I nannied in college, driving the kids around was a huge part of my job. I even drove my employer's car (it was a Volvo, which I'm sure they figured was a lot safer than my 15 year old Camry).

Anonymous wrote:No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

No one asked you. And sorry you raised degenerates

No college kid I know, including my own, would be safe-enough drivers in this situation.

Anonymous wrote:We’ve always just paid a flat weekly fee that would work out to a high hourly rate bc otherwise it wouldn’t make sense for a kid to do this. You can’t just pay for the actual driving time

This is what I was going to recommend - $X00/week. Don't make the poor kid log his mileage, just give him a set amount weekly and give him a bonus if he does more one week than he normally would.

$25 an hour. You pay round trip, time he waits and mileage on less you provide the car.

We’ve always just paid a flat weekly fee that would work out to a high hourly rate bc otherwise it wouldn’t make sense for a kid to do this. You can’t just pay for the actual driving time

If he's driving his own car, you definitely need to reimburse for mileage. And yes, the GSA rate is what most people use.

You mention a "per hour" rate--how many hours per day will this be? Because if it's just an hour or so in the morning, and then another hour in the afternoon, just paying $40 for the 2 hours per day is kind of unreasonable (too low.) He will bail the minute he finds a better paying gig, or his friends want to do a beach week, etc.

So... this summer would be our first time getting someone to drive both kids (age 10 and 8) around to summer camps/practices/etc.

He's a good college kid with clean driving record and we're all good friends with his parents as well.
We happened to ask him if he would be willing to drive the kids around in the summer for some extra cash and he said yes.

We did not talk about how much to pay yet...

So do I pay him per mileage + hourly? I was thinking 0.70/mile (current GSA rate since I don't know what else to go off of) + $20/hour? is that too generous? too little?
or do I just pay him hourly without the mileage involved?! HELP!!!