Travel charge is an additional cost applied to the cost of hire on top of the agreed hourly/daily rate when you hire an excavator for wet hire. The travel cost is for hour/s the excavator spends travelling to and from the depot to your work site. Usually travel cost is 1 hour the excavator hire rate if the distance between the depot and the work site is less than 30km. If the work site is further away from depot, the travel charge will increase above the usual 1 hour rate.