Delivering RV's for a living
Have any of you delivered RV's professionally? I was recenly laid off and have been contemplating a career change anyway to have more control over my time. Last night I saw an add on this site for...
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My postings are based on facts learned by myself delivering motor homes and my brother delivering trailers. There is so much more to the story that I have left unwritten...because when I mentioned you need to use every trick in the book and cut as many corners as you can to make it pay enough to make a few dollars...I write from experience
Things like how to work the mandatory "washing of the unit" so you can make a few bucks there...or, in the case of motor homes, planning strategic breakdowns to reset your log book and get downtime reimbursement. Creative log book management is not an exception, it is the rule...for example, when delivering trailers, you are required to log your empty backhaul back to either your home base, a reload back haul location or to your house. If you go home, when dispatched again, you have to log the deadhead back to the yard.
There are really only a few driver's really making any money at this endeavor...and they mostly all live in the Elkhart, Indiana area. They are mostly retiree's who know how to work the dispatch system. They have almost zero miles of deadhead for their drive to the yard to pickup a unit...and there are some tricks they can use on the return to house that maximizes their allowable road time...and being so close to the yard allows them to cherry pick the loads...
The only other guys making any money have a unique situation that they can use to minimize their operating costs...oh...and the shippers always get theirs...BTDT...I have a great truck to get back into this rat race but having been there...I do not think so...
Regards
Things like how to work the mandatory "washing of the unit" so you can make a few bucks there...or, in the case of motor homes, planning strategic breakdowns to reset your log book and get downtime reimbursement. Creative log book management is not an exception, it is the rule...for example, when delivering trailers, you are required to log your empty backhaul back to either your home base, a reload back haul location or to your house. If you go home, when dispatched again, you have to log the deadhead back to the yard.
There are really only a few driver's really making any money at this endeavor...and they mostly all live in the Elkhart, Indiana area. They are mostly retiree's who know how to work the dispatch system. They have almost zero miles of deadhead for their drive to the yard to pickup a unit...and there are some tricks they can use on the return to house that maximizes their allowable road time...and being so close to the yard allows them to cherry pick the loads...
The only other guys making any money have a unique situation that they can use to minimize their operating costs...oh...and the shippers always get theirs...BTDT...I have a great truck to get back into this rat race but having been there...I do not think so...
Regards
