When calculating travel fees, what should notaries take into consideration?

The focus for notaries when calculating travel fees primarily involves costs directly associated with providing their services, rather than considering factors that are more subjective or variable, such as distance to travel. Travel fees should instead reflect tangible costs incurred during the process of traveling to a client’s location, which includes elements like travel duration and possibly time of day, depending on the situations or local practice standards.

Including factors like weather conditions can also impact whether a notary chooses to travel or how they account for unexpected delays, but these aspects are often difficult to quantify in a straightforward fee structure. Thus, while distance is a relevant logistical consideration, it does not directly contribute to the determination of travel fees in the same way that time-sensitive and duration-specific factors do. This delineation helps clarify why distance should not be the primary factor that a notary considers when establishing travel fees.