Log in or Sign up. Find Trucking Jobs. Nov 15, Yes, let employers and TruckersReport text me with new opportunities, job alerts and other career information to the number I provided. There is no charge for this service, but standard message and data rates may apply. Wouldn’t transporting RV’s be more profitable than all that wear and tear on your own truck?
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You should have a bank account with ATM card access and a Visa Card or Master Card with a credit limit large enough to get you out of an emergency situation. We do not make loans or advances. You must be neat about your personal grooming habits. When you drive onto a dealer’s lot, you represent our company and the manufacturer. You must be a concerned listener when you are at the dealer’s place of business and conduct yourself in a professional manner. Short tempered, impatient people need not apply. Where you live is not a factor to us, but you may find it more convenient if you live within a few hours drive of our terminal. Many of our contractors bring their own RV to the area and «camp» at one of the local RV parks. You must have a fifth-wheel hitch with a minimum load rating of 14, pounds no cross bed, wheel well mount. You need a 2 x 2 receiver hitch rated at 10, pounds, with a solid shank ball mount and load equalizing torsion bars, all rated at 10, pounds. The ball height measured from the ground to the top of the ball must not exceed 19 inches. An adjustable height ball mount is useful on some trucks. You need a ball that is two and five sixteenths inches in diameter, rated at 10, pounds. You should also carry a hollow shank 5, lb. A «goose neck» hitch is strongly recommended, and will allow you to pull equipment trailers, etc. With these four hitches, you will be able to pull just about everything we run into. You need an electric brake controller suitable for towing a trailer with six brakes. You need a seven wire «Bargeman» female side RV style electrical connector in the truck bed for the fifth wheel units, and a connector near the ball mount for travel trailers. You must have » wide towing mirrors, and big sturdy mud flaps mounted to hang about four inches above the ground. An extra large fuel tank is good to have maximum of gallon, and must have six way electric valve and a toolbox for your jack and other emergency items, like wheel changing tools. You will need a Standard Group 24 RV battery for the hydraulic jacks on some units and for the trailer break away switch.. If you choose to run a tailgate, it must be the «V» gate type. Leave your stock tailgate at home. It is handy to have a good quality CB. If you have a «cross-bed» toolbox that sits above the body of the pick-up, leave it at home. There must be 54 inches of clearance in front of the fifth wheel kingpin. Your pick-up must have a current annual D. The inspection is available at several vendors in our area, and at most truck repair facilities.
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If you like to drive and see the country, the work of delivering campers and other types of recreational vehicles can provide a seasonal or close to full-time job. With this type of work, you operate as an independent contractor, which allows you to pick and choose the types and dates of the deliveries you want to accept. It will help if you have some RV or medium to heavy truck-driving experience. RV manufacturing companies contract with specialized RV transport companies to move campers and motorhomes from the manufacturing plants to the RV dealers.
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Looking to get into RV transport some day, don’t see many people talking about their experience. Does anyone have experience or know of the industry? See, that’s the type of stuff that most people never consider or figure out during their research into becoming a lease driver or owner operator. For anyone who has never owned a business before, the business world is times more complex than they imagine. There are a million angles you can take. Not only that, but people aren’t used to competing for money. They’re used to going into work, doing their job, and going home with a paycheck. Simple as that. So when they consider starting their own business they look at it from that standpoint. They figure they’ll buy or lease a truck, do their job, and take home a paycheck. And there’s also people that wake up each day and their first thought is, «What do I have to do to drive my competition out of business? I’ll give you another example of why it’s so difficult to get good freight rates in trucking. Often times you’ll have a trucking company that has good paying freight coming out of a certain area but it’s difficult for them to get back there for another load. So maybe this company runs out of Atlanta we’ll say. So when they take that good paying freight to say Chicago, they’re basically looking for anything that can get them back to Atlanta quickly for another load. So maybe they take something cheap and fast out of Chicago. It doesn’t pay much and maybe they’ll barely break even on the load but at least they’ll be back in Atlanta ready for another good paying load, right? Well guess what? You also have companies in Chicago doing the same thing. They might get great paying runs out of Chicago going to Atlanta but have trouble getting anything good returning to Chicago that pays well. So they say the heck with it, take some really cheap freight which actually causes them to lose a few bucks, but at least they’re back in Chicago ready for another good paying load, right? Well how long do you think the shippers will keep paying high freight rates out of Atlanta to Chicago once they find out there’s a company out of Chicago that will take steady freight for cheap? Not very long. Same with the shipper in Chicago. How long do you think it will take them to figure out there’s a company begging for freight to the Atlanta area and they’ll do it cheap? So both companies wind up stealing each other’s good paying freight and now everyone is stuck with cheap freight. Welcome to the trucking industry. That stuff has gone on since the days of black smoke and steel wheels and it always will.
We all see pickup trucks pulling campers. And sometimes we get mad at them for «stealing» our parking places. Some of them aren’t Mom and Pop on vacation, but hard working owner-operators driving all over the U. Three men got together in the s and decided to launch their travel trailer business in their own Indiana makf. They were correct in believing that the northern Indiana workforce, which was very capable in building automobiles, goo pivot over to building RVs. You can read more about it. From my research and experience I transported fifth wheel camper trailers for a dealerRV transport is a nice hobby that will pay your travel expenses and let you see the U. You can’t make good money at it because of the constant deadheads. Sure, gvs can score a mile trip outbound from Indiana, but more than likely, you’re going to come back. Click on any company name to go to their website. The truck requirements to lease on to either of them are very similar. They include:. That’s an approximate figure based on my internet research. Once you deliver your load, more than likely you will have to deadhead all the way back for another load. You will be getting better fuel mileage, but once you factor in meals, motels, etc However, if the idea of buying a pickup truck and getting paid to see North America sounds good to you, go give it a try! Comments 0. Joey has been in the trucking industry since
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