CWRV Delivery

rowekmr wrote:
I was hoping that I could do the shorter runs that maybe the full timers wouldn't want and live about 1 1/2 from Elkhart if that is where the loads originate. My only limitation is I would be using a F250 SRW with a short bed and see many companies prefer long beds but the ones that don't just require a slider hitch. Do companies have rules forbidding you from having passengers (family)?

Some allow passengers, but I never researched it fully.

Short runs are possible, but before you jump headlong in to it, I'd try doing a lot more in depth research, and the only real way to get an idea of what short runs might exist for you is to somehow get in touch with the actual dispatch people. The recruiting people won't tell you squat about what destinations exist.

The best way to do it part time, as a weekend gig, is to have a few dealers that you can go to, so the trip is fairly consistent.... and not have to travel a significant distance out of the way to get back home after your run. If you can find dealers that are a straight line trip between them and the factory, and where you live, all the better, so you minimize your empty miles.

This is exactly what I do (above). but I do it off and on, when I have time.
The area where I live, there's a plethora of dealers within a 30-40 mile radius. Some of them have multiple sales lots.
The factory in Pendleton makes several different brand names, and all the dealers sell different brand names, so that means there's a lot of units coming up to the area near where I live.

I'm about 12-15 miles from the interstate I take when I deliver, so it really works out well for me since I don't do it full time and don't have the free time to be gone for multiple days at a time.

One option, depending on the time of day is pick up a unit in which the delivery route takes you through (or within 10-15 miles of your home town), spend the night, finish the trip the next day.

Once example of me doing exactly that is when made a delivery to Missoula, MT. I picked up the RV, drove back home, spent the night at home, the drove from home to Missoula the next day.