Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
I received a great phone call this evening from an old friend I've known since 1980 in Subic Bay, Philppines. He was a senior career civil servant at the US Navy shipyard in Subic at the time and I was active duty Navy. Christmas cards from him and his wife were the first time I ever heard of RV transporting for hire. He started transporting after he retired from the Navy shipyard at Long Beach, CA and had bought a new Dodge Ram. We visited him and his wife in Pahrump, NV in 2001 when my '01 Ram was new and he was driving a '95 Dodge with about 650,000 miles of experience. I learned many good things about transporting and Cummins powered Dodges from him. We visited some during May Madness in 2008.
He is now 76 years of age, has put 2 million 300 thousand miles on three Dodge Rams, and has been hauling for Bennett for about 18 years. He told me tonight he had gone out hauling a few months ago, winter months in Canada, and was gone and on the road for eleven and a half weeks and 34,500 miles. He said he hit a black ice patch in Alberta, Canada a few months ago and totalled a truck and the trailer he was hauling but was unhurt! He also told me 90% of his hauls are to Canada. Of course he only works for Bennett Transport and prefers working the west coast. I don't know what the percentages of new RV hauls out of Indiana are but would guess the percentages are roughly similar. I don't see RV transporters on the highways like I did in 2005 through 2007 when I was transporting.
That is an incredible record for a light truck commercial hauler. I doubt anyone in the industry can top that record. I've heard of a few that had exceeded a million miles.
He is now 76 years of age, has put 2 million 300 thousand miles on three Dodge Rams, and has been hauling for Bennett for about 18 years. He told me tonight he had gone out hauling a few months ago, winter months in Canada, and was gone and on the road for eleven and a half weeks and 34,500 miles. He said he hit a black ice patch in Alberta, Canada a few months ago and totalled a truck and the trailer he was hauling but was unhurt! He also told me 90% of his hauls are to Canada. Of course he only works for Bennett Transport and prefers working the west coast. I don't know what the percentages of new RV hauls out of Indiana are but would guess the percentages are roughly similar. I don't see RV transporters on the highways like I did in 2005 through 2007 when I was transporting.
That is an incredible record for a light truck commercial hauler. I doubt anyone in the industry can top that record. I've heard of a few that had exceeded a million miles.
