How to Cover Your £800/Month Van Finance
Without Price-Bidding
Your van lease is a fixed cost whether you work or not. Here’s how a handful of out-of-hours dispatches each month pays it off — without slashing your rate to win a job.
A True Growth Partnership
Because Rescue Fitter only charges a flat dispatch fee — £25 daytime / £50 out-of-hours — to the customer, our revenue is tied directly to your success. We do not take percentage cuts of your labour. The more jobs we route to you, the more we both earn. There is no scenario where it benefits us to undercut your rate — your margin and ours grow together.
The Maths: Two Ways to Scale Your Fleet
Rescue Fitter charges the customer a flat £25 dispatch fee during the day, and £50 out-of-hours. You keep 100 % of the tyre and fitting rate collected on-site. The figures below use realistic averages — actual earnings depend on tyre size and your quoted rate.
Scenario A — Out-of-Hours High Margin
Based on £190 fitter take-home · Standard mid-range night callout
Scenario B — Daytime Volume
Based on £150 fitter take-home · Standard mid-range day callout
Rates shown are illustrative averages for standard passenger tyres. Actual earnings vary by tyre size, vehicle category, add-ons, and your own quoted rate.
Why single-claim dispatch changes the profit equation
Most lead-gen platforms send the same job to five fitters simultaneously. The winner is whoever quotes lowest fastest — destroying margin before you’ve left the driveway. Rescue Fitter dispatches one fitter per job.
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One job, one fitter
When a customer is dispatched to you, no other fitter can claim it. You set your price without competing against someone willing to lose money for a review.
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Dispatch fee paid upfront
Before you leave your postcode, the customer has already paid the platform dispatch fee via Stripe. They are financially committed — not just browsing.
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£20 / £35 no-show protection
Arrive on site and start the geofenced countdown. If the customer is absent: £20 guaranteed for daytime, £35 for out-of-hours. Photo evidence triggers automatic capture.
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No minimum jobs, no monthly target
Use Rescue Fitter to cover your fixed costs, then serve your existing client base at full margin. There is no platform pressure to hit a dispatch quota.
A practical out-of-hours schedule
- →Monday–Friday evenings (18:00–22:00): toggle online for 4 hours after your day clients
- →Saturday mornings (07:00–13:00): cover roadside and residential calls
- →Sunday evenings (17:00–21:00): one of the highest-demand out-of-hours windows in the UK
Toggling on and off costs nothing. No penalty for quiet shifts. If no job comes in on a given evening, nothing changes on your account.
Why fitters earn more here
Legacy phone brokers take a 40 % slice before the fitter sees a penny. Rescue Fitter charges the customer a flat dispatch fee — and nothing more.
Legacy phone broker
Middleman earns 40 % of every job. Fitter earns less, customer pays more.
Rescue Fitter
Flat £50 dispatch fee billed to the customer out-of-hours (£25 daytime). Fitter keeps 100 % of the agreed tyre + labour rate — collected on site.
Fair Price for Customer, Maximum Profit for Fitter.
Smart suggested pricing — built on our full rate matrix
Every job alert includes a suggested price auto-calculated from four live variables. The platform builds a highly profitable baseline — you maintain complete flexibility to adjust the final quote on-site.
Add-on fees built into the suggested quote
The suggested price is advisory only. Call the customer, discuss the job, and submit your own final figure via the Fitter Hub. There are no rate caps and no race-to-the-bottom auction — each dispatch is single-claim.
15-minute no-show protection
Arrive on site, trigger the geofenced countdown, upload one photo. The platform automatically captures the pre-authorised dispatch fee — and you receive guaranteed compensation for your fuel and time.
Daytime no-show
£20
Guaranteed compensation captured automatically from the pre-authorised dispatch fee. Covers your travel time and fuel for any wasted daytime journey.
Out-of-hours no-show
£35
Higher compensation for evening, night, and weekend callouts — reflecting the true cost of an out-of-hours journey that did not convert.
How to trigger a no-show claim
- 1Arrive at the customer's location and start the 15-minute countdown in the Fitter Hub.
- 2If the customer is absent after 15 minutes, upload a timestamped photo of the location.
- 3The platform captures the pre-authorised dispatch fee and automatically adds the compensation to your Pending Payout ledger. Once your photo is quickly verified, the funds are cleared for payout — no chasing the customer required.
Turn Off-Duty Calls into Passive Cash
Fully booked? Finished for the day? Send your unique referral link to the caller — we handle the job, you get paid. Commission is automatically credited to your account based on when the job runs.
Daytime booking
£10
Per job booked via your link during standard daytime hours.
Out-of-hours booking
£20
Per job booked via your link during evening, night, or weekend hours.
Driver calls you
You're off-duty or fully booked.
Send your link
One tap — your unique tracking URL via WhatsApp or SMS.
Earn £10 or £20
They book; commission credited automatically based on time of day.
No cap on referral earnings. No minimum dispatch requirement to stay enrolled in the affiliate programme.
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