Usage Fees

Usage Fee Policy for all Missions On Wheels Assets    

Effective 1/1/2022 (revised 1/2025), Missions On Wheels (MOW) will begin assessing “usage fees” (fees) for all truck and trailer deployments, including disaster response, relief, and long-term recovery deployments. This has been a difficult decision for our organization. We have always worked to support disaster relief/recovery without taking funding from our partners, and we hope to return to a “no-cost” model in the future. Since 2020, we have all experienced a drastic increase in the price of goods and materials required to carry out our mission, leaving us no choice but to assess fees to cover operational and transportation expenses going forward.  The fee structure described below was determined by evaluating the for-profit market rate compared to actual expenses and the ability to raise funds to cover necessary expenses and repairs during each phase.

EXCEPTIONS:

If sufficient grants and donations have been received to support operations, some or all fees may be waived at the sole discretion of the Executive Director or Board of Directors. All donations designated for a disaster event will always be applied to cover disaster operation expenses first.