If Hurricane Gustav comes hits Louisana like its projected to, we will be back to hauling Fema campers again. With about 50,000 rv's sitting at Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Purvis, MS we ought to be very busy moving them from one place to another (what's left of them). Guess we are going to have to get the beast tuned up & ready to go.

 

need help? i'm looking for something to do

 

I guess I've got an advantage over ya'll. I live in Hope and there are thousands of them sitting at the airport ready to go. Maybe I'll take a week of vacation and haul some trailers...nahhhhh!

 

I'd haul some if I could get on, my hauling business doesn't pick up for another month or so.. If the canes do come in, I might be able to pick up a little quicker tho.. Post up some info, if you can..

Jason

 

Yeah, probably. Send me a message with your phone #, and I'll get in touch with you. We are gonna have to see what the hurricane does, then head down there.

 

I'd also be interested in this, If it tears up the Northrop Grumman ship yard in pascagoula, ms like katrina did I'll definately haul some.

 

Hamilton71801, I hauled several campers to Hope from Baton Rouge & that lot was literally just a muddy pasture. I had to use 4wd to park them.
I'd probably get 100 calls if I post my info here, but send me a message & I'll see what I can do. It would be nice to run in a convoy of CTD trucks for once instead of Fords & Chevys.

 

I believe it still is. They are repairing the ones that were brought back so they will be ready next time...like Tuesday. Send me a PM if you get in this neck of the woods and need something.

 

Weve already hauled a bunch of generators to Louisiana. Im sure light plants will be next. I loaded Friday for Port Fourchon LA. I dont think I'll get to deliver it on Tuesday.

 

When we went down to Louisana and south MS right after Katrina, I learned how much fuel my tank holds and an important lesson when I nearly ran out. We couldn't find diesel anywhere. At the last fuel station I went to I was on fumes when I met up with a local farmer who let me follow him to his place & sold me some offroad diesel. This time I'm putting my 150 gal fuel tank in the bed. Hurricane Gustav is looking like it might be worse than Katrina.

 

Don't count on hauling those trailers . They are contaminated with formaldehyde . Where do you think they would go and why do you think Katrina victims are still in hotels instead of FEMA trailers ? Trailers need to be hooked up to utilities . There will likely be none available for quite a while . Whatever trailers are moved will be moved by RV transport companies that already have hundreds of contracted trucks sitting around looking for work .
Why would you want to haul them anyway ? Paid $1.20 a mile 1 way = realistic $.60 a mile . A losing deal .

 

Formaldehyde is the by product of all the glues when assembled, so not really a contamination. If the units are left open for a while the levels will drop, but the heat and a closed up trailer is bad news. Fema has said they won't use them again anyway, but if it was that bad what other choice is there. The key was they were meant to be short term housing, not put in and used for years anyway. The next problem is the rv companies (the ones still around) may not even want to build any since they are being hung out to dry by the people who got them for free and long over stayed there welcome in them.

 

Most of the old trailers were stripped by their former tenants of anything useful when they moved out and will probably be scrapped.

 

Immediately after Katrina, we were getting $3 per mile. It dropped down to 1.20 after 6 months or so when too many people got into doing it. I always worked for smaller companies rather than the large ones that you are referring to. I wouldn't have done it if I lost money. You would also be suprised at the thousands of campers in Baton Rouge & Purvis that have never been used at all since coming straight from the factory in 05.

 

Maybe Ike...