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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BigBaron wrote:
ricatic - 0.3 MPH over? It sure sounds like a lot of fun. NOT!
I hauled for three companies when I was doing this work. All three had a 65mph speed limit...so you could only "log" 650 in a 10 hour day(the driving hours allowed at that time).
The shippers used the standard method of checking your log book miles from the city you logged as your start to the city you logged when you finished. Using that method always shorted you on available miles. I used Streets and Trips and always logged out at an Exit Number. This precisely gave my miles for the day...safety guy did not like this method because of fear of drivers making a math mistake that the DOT might catch on an audit...
After a few weeks of driving the country, you get the hang of how the game is played...after about 4 months, I discovered the advantages of living close to the Ontario Canada border and the extra money that could be made hauling to Ontario and Quebec...of course...the shipper finally realized how well that my buddy and I were doing hauling strictly to Canada and changed the rules...after the dispatch rules change, I went from 11 deliveries in one month down to 3...end of good money and easy runs so I went back to construction...
Regards
