Need Advise: Recover Dry-Van Trailer from Florida to California

Got $1.99 out of WA going to MI about as good as you’re going to get with van. Got rolls of paper and no seal. The plan is to put something else on then it’ll feel like Christmas

Bobtailing back from California..lol, I didn’t think it through before replying. Although 10 mpg vs 5 was sounding good in my head!

 

I’m wondering what the walls and floorboard is stuff with. Just saying………

 

That's the best idea I've read so far. I was thinking when prices were mentioned if a dry van was even worth that.

 

Amazon is so screwed up most times they don't know where their trailers are ,or what's in them. Company I work for has done several tows and impounds of Amazon trailers. Sometimes from the shoulder of the interstate, sometimes abandoned on private property. We'll drag them to our yard and it'll take a while for someone from Amazon to return calls , after that it'll be a month to 4 + months for them to pay the bill and tell us where to take it. It's good money for us . Tow fee , storage fee - per day , delivery fee.

 

If the renter is going to give it up friendly

but if it’s behind a locked fence , I’d just report it stolen .

 

You can get it back to you for $1k or so as a power only load out move and give the hauler 2 weeks usage. If you have a broker you've dealt with previously they can list it on dat and Truckstop for you. This is under the condition that 1. The previous renter isn't going to hassle the hauler picking up 2. The trailer is 100% road ready. If it's going to require a lot of work to pass an inspection and the numbers don't work, You can get someone to haul it up to Ritchie Bros in Davenport and auction it off.

 

Well isn’t that just nice….if you can work it right you can probably track it down that way and then I would seriously consider suing the lowlife for rent….,it should be pretty easy to prove he was using it

 

You pay someone to haul it for you and allow them to load it.