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Sounds like the venerable call out fee.
My usual punter based routine is: do I have a trade I trust to do the work based on previous, if so message and book them, pay bill.
If not get Recommendations from friends/family then quotes and if I'm happy to pay what they are asking then boom I'll book.
Having a rage about how the quote/invoice is broken down seems churlish. I pay the whole bill not just parts of it.
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Doesn't work that way, some of the sundries (repaircare epoxy resin) are too expensive to include in the labour rate and it would mean the 1 hour jobs I do on the bike are also paying to run the van.
Another thing I've never done but will have to start doing is double the labour rate for the first hour. I can't do 8 hours of 1 hour jobs in a day if I'm going on the time I arrive on site.
Your final point, yes, a lot of people will be using materials they know and trust. Nothing worse than getting crappy materials that slow you down or mess your s**t up.
The bike shop analogy is fine.