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deltabravo
Aug 21, 2014Nomad
chevor wrote:
Those companies that say that want a long bed truck and 5th wheel are lying. The Majority of Campers sold are bumper pull.
They almost all say they require a long bed and 5th wheel hitch. It's the recruiters that are saying that.
When I talked to the dispatch folks, they were OK with a long bed or short bed truck, and no 5th wheel hitch.
I have a long bed and and short bed truck. When I started, I made 2 or 3 runs with the DRW long bed. I had been contemplating selling my Jeep JKU-R and getting another truck, long before I started hauling, for daily driving, so I asked if a shortbed was OK. The dispatch guy said there's very few 5th wheels coming here for delivery, so that's fine.
When working with the recruiter people, they kept telling me "you need a 5th wheel hitch." After several rounds of questions, I finally got someone to admit "by not having a 5th wheel hitch, you are limiting yourself to what you can haul."
That comment comes under the premise that someone is going to drive full time and come back to the lot with the expectation that they can "turn and burn" (leave with another rig, regardless of what it is).
So, if all they had were 5th wheel rigs, and you didn't have a 5th wheel hitch, you'd sit idle until a bumper pull came in.
The earlier quote is very true - I never thought of it before, but Chevor is right, most RVs are bumper pull.
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