Travel Time?

[Justme]

Originally Posted by SAump

Close proximity: How far are you willing to travel to accept an assignment? I am especially interested in hearing from those who travel more than one hour, one-way. What level of game would you accept and which do you turn down? All responses from amateur umpires about travel milage and lodging fees for "longer" distances are welcomed.

50 miles r/t max. unless a DH (then I'll go little further). Or if I can pick up another game on the way home, which I often do during the HS season. Work a HS game 3:30 - 5:30 (or so) then an Adult League game @ 7pm, I'll drive further.

[pdxblue]

I go where my assignor tells me to go. For high school age stuff, that can be up to about 100 miles. But we get milage.

For college, we service a couple of schools that are about 300 miles away. Fun trips those are!

[Lawrence.Dorsey]

I agree with the other posts. I go where I am asked to go...We have one HS here that I get about 2-3 times a year and it's 1.5 hrs on a dead run. Normally, every other school I cover is within an hour's drive. But I am not a snob about where I get assigned, my assigner has been really good to me over the past couple of years. For legion, it's about the same but the distance can be a little farther overall. I don't work any summer rec ball games that are farther than 25 minutes away.

We get no mileage for any league where I work in NC. It's strictly a flat fee.

Lawrence