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You have help us with several other questions we have had since we started our full timing back in January and we need your help once again.
We are full timing but we are both still at our jobs. My husband is a sales rep. for a tire company and I am an artist with Painting With a Twist. I love my job, but my husband has been in a cubical for 30 years and he needs a change, and we just want more time together. The problem is we are both 51 and still have debt so we must work for a few more years.
So my question is: Has anyone ever worked for an RV tranporting company, or know of anyone who has? There are several in northern Indiana.
I've spoken with several guys who work for RV transport companies. One is retired and he does it part time. Really enjoys it and is pretty much able to work when he wants to.
Another traveled all over the company picking up and delivering RVs for a nationwide dealer network.
And a third delivered and picked up RVs used during large RV shows...he said it can be very tiresome because the RVs have to be onsite or removed within a small window of time.
One of the biggest problems most companies won't allow you to stay in the RV when you stop for the night, that means a hotel bill eats into your profit.
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"Small House, Big Yard "
"May the FOREST be with you" Alfa See-Ya 5'er and 2007 Kodiak C4500 Monroe
Although the ones I talked to could stay in the RV at night, they had to use sleeping bags and were not supposed to use the bathroom or kitchens. They also had to wash the RV before they turned it over to the dealer. The money they were paid wasn't all that much either.
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Clay (WA5NMR), Lee (wife), Katie, Kelli (cats) Full timed for eleven years in a 2004 Sightseer 35N. Snowbirds for one winter and now settled down in CO.
Once you calculate the wear and tear on your vehicle, the pay isn't much. If you got paid a large percentage of what the transporter company is charging, it might be ok. But, you don't.
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MarkS & Jackie MSgt, USAF, Ret 2004 Volvo 780 530 HP Cummins 13 speed 2014 Trilogy 3650RE fulltime since Oct 8, 2016
One way to look at RV Transporting is to consider the standard per mile tax deduction for business mileage. I think when you compare the actual price received per mile for transporting and the tax deductible figure, they will be approximately the same. Now if you can find a company that can get you back hauls so that you are receiving pay for miles both ways then you can probably show a little profit. Not many companies do this and you have to figure all miles as expense miles not just loaded(pay) miles.
