Do you use your RV for business?
I buy/sell light commercial trucks, many for long-time clients who call and place an informal order for a particular type or price range. It's my job to find it, vet it, buy it, repair and modify as necessary, and often deliver it.
The RV-8 is perfect for the common missions (two seats, fast, low fuel cost), working auctions in neighboring states and visiting clients. It roughly triples the geographic area I can cover in a day.
Today's mission started at 7AM in Montgomery when I picked up my buddy Stan and headed for 08A. We were airborne by 7:45, destination Hattiesburg MS (HBG), enjoying a bright morning while skipping over patches of sticky fog. By 9:30 we had jumped in a rental car, found the auction, and were checking the flatbed Isuzu NPR I had come to buy:
By 11 we were out the gate. After fuel, lunch, and a short cell phone discussion with the customer, Stan headed the truck down Hwy 98 and I went back to the airport, topped off, and headed for Fairhope Al, across the bay from Mobile. Stan picked up the customer in Daphne, and we hooked up at Continental's CQF FBO/Service center to do paperwork. It was less than a hour's ride back to 08A; I was in my office catching up with other stuff by 5:15. It would have been a 500 mile plus driving day in my trusty old pickup...difficult given the required auction and customer time.
BTW, this truck will get a new life as a lawn spray rig, carrying 500 gallons of mix from home to home for a landscape company. You might be amused to know that one part of my work is determining weight and balance for truck applications, fundamentally the same thing as preflight W&B.
I buy/sell light commercial trucks, many for long-time clients who call and place an informal order for a particular type or price range. It's my job to find it, vet it, buy it, repair and modify as necessary, and often deliver it.
The RV-8 is perfect for the common missions (two seats, fast, low fuel cost), working auctions in neighboring states and visiting clients. It roughly triples the geographic area I can cover in a day.
Today's mission started at 7AM in Montgomery when I picked up my buddy Stan and headed for 08A. We were airborne by 7:45, destination Hattiesburg MS (HBG), enjoying a bright morning while skipping over patches of sticky fog. By 9:30 we had jumped in a rental car, found the auction, and were checking the flatbed Isuzu NPR I had come to buy:
By 11 we were out the gate. After fuel, lunch, and a short cell phone discussion with the customer, Stan headed the truck down Hwy 98 and I went back to the airport, topped off, and headed for Fairhope Al, across the bay from Mobile. Stan picked up the customer in Daphne, and we hooked up at Continental's CQF FBO/Service center to do paperwork. It was less than a hour's ride back to 08A; I was in my office catching up with other stuff by 5:15. It would have been a 500 mile plus driving day in my trusty old pickup...difficult given the required auction and customer time.
BTW, this truck will get a new life as a lawn spray rig, carrying 500 gallons of mix from home to home for a landscape company. You might be amused to know that one part of my work is determining weight and balance for truck applications, fundamentally the same thing as preflight W&B.
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