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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Here's another thing I've been finding out, and I don't know if the transport companies do it purposely or unintentioanlly, but the either withhold information or simply don't reveal it, until you are AT THEIR NEW DRIVER ORIENTATION. THey probably use this tactic because otherwise people wouldn't want to deliver RVs if they knew all the details up front.
Anyway, the transport companies withold information until after you attend their orientation. Maybe "withhold" isn't the right term, but there's a lot of things they don't publish in their FAQs, a lot of which has come up through asking questions in this thread.
HOORAY for people asking questions on forums.
Doing RV deliveries is really no different than being an over the road truck driver, in that you are now "driving commerically" and all commercial drivers are subject to the same set of rules and guidelines for logging time, limits on the number of hours you can drive during a day (when driving for hire), the "34 hour reset rule".
Then there's DOT inspections, equipment inspections, stopping at weigh stations, licensing your truck for up to 26,000 GVW I (which adds cost to the licensing of it).
Commercial Insurance on your truck (3-4 times what a personal policy costs)
DOT medical physical, drug test
Anyway, the transport companies withold information until after you attend their orientation. Maybe "withhold" isn't the right term, but there's a lot of things they don't publish in their FAQs, a lot of which has come up through asking questions in this thread.
HOORAY for people asking questions on forums.
Doing RV deliveries is really no different than being an over the road truck driver, in that you are now "driving commerically" and all commercial drivers are subject to the same set of rules and guidelines for logging time, limits on the number of hours you can drive during a day (when driving for hire), the "34 hour reset rule".
Then there's DOT inspections, equipment inspections, stopping at weigh stations, licensing your truck for up to 26,000 GVW I (which adds cost to the licensing of it).
Commercial Insurance on your truck (3-4 times what a personal policy costs)
DOT medical physical, drug test
