Full Time RVer

If you’ve ever considered making a few bucks by becoming an RV delivery driver, it might pay to wait a little while. When an RV manufacturer needs to get a trailer or fifth wheel out to the dealer, they customarily farm the job out to a transporter. Transporters are usually paid by the mile, and in these days of skyrocketing diesel prices, the transporters are having a hard time making ends meet.

“Obviously you have to cut back and then you know, the cost of maintaining the truck, those costs are also rising, and it just never ends,” transport driver Clyde Harshman told television station WSBT of Indiana.

“I would have liked to buy a new truck within the last year or two,” said transport driver Steven King. “I can’t do that because I can’t afford the payments plus all the other expenses. So I’m just making my old truck keep doing the job.”

“It’s costing right around half of their pay to go out and come back,” said Harley Vollrath, a dispatcher and former driver. “That’s not even paying their overhead, their truck payments, their insurance and so forth.”

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Truck photo: jde-07 from flickr.com

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