One of my kids wants to go to Florida over the Xmas holiday, but doesn’t want to spring the bucks for air fare (he isn’t getting it from us!). I told him to just jump on a south bound freight train like a damn bum, but he wasn’t receptive to that!
So he talked about getting a temporary job transferring cars for a rental company or for someone that was moving, thinking he could find a situation where there was a car here that needed to be moved down to Florida, thus saving him half the travel costs. That actually sounds like a good idea…if it exists.
I’ve certainly heard of such a thing in the movies. In fact, I had a buddy that did it in college. But he only transferred rental cars for Budget between San Diego & L.A., not across state lines. And that was waaaaaaaaay the hell back in 1980.
So? Does such a job exist? Should he start contacting rental companies, or is there a web site he could look on? Or is the whole thing (as I suspect) just a beautiful dream?
Around 7 years ago I met a man who had a full-time job driving larger vehicles one way and returning, compensated, via trains and/or buses. I assume he was also compensated for travel to the points of origination. He had just driven a fire truck from southern Indiana to suburban Philadelphia. So something akin to this certainly exists, but I assume one needs a CDL (commercial drivers’ license.) I’m also unaware if this could be a one-time gig; I assume that’d involve a lenghty background check.
Well, it would be a one time gig if he did it, then quit! It’s not like he needs a job. He actually makes a decent living.
Let’s get something straight: my son is a skinflint! He ceratinly can afford to buy tickets to fly down there. Where he learned to be so tight is beyond my wife & I! :smack:
Try a local college; they may have a bulletin board in the student center with such stuff as ridesharing.
I transferred a personal car from LA to Seattle a few years ago. I had 6 days to turn it over to the owner, I made $200, all the gas and lodging were paid.
I found the ad for it in an L.A. alternative newspaper.