Out for 30 days, home for 30?

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  1. dosel

    dosel Bobtail Member

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    So wouldn't this be a part time job then? Whats the industry term for this because I actually think this is the way to go. I could live in a hotel for the month I'm off and then be on "vacation" until I have to go back to work. I want to live a nomadic lifestyle and give up home ownership.


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  3. dosel

    dosel Bobtail Member

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    Almost done with my CDL school and I am looking at going down south, maybe Myrtle Beach and working OTR 30 days on 30 days off. Instead of paying money for an apartment every month where I wouldn't even live half of the time, I am thinking about buying a fifth wheel RV and leaving it at the terminal with it hooked up to my pickup truck. Then when I am off I could park it at an RV park for cheap and essentially have a home base for all the partying I will be doing for the rest of the month until I go back to work. Hotels are expensive especially down there and if I am only going to be working "part time" then I need to be careful with how I live
     
  4. Deere hunter

    Deere hunter Road Train Member

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    RV spots are not cheap nowadays. 50 to a 100 dollars depending on where you're at. Unless you're in clayton New Mexico for 39.00 a night.
    I'm headed to Ruidoso, New Mexico, for a long weekend, @ 83.00 a night.
     
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  5. '88K100

    '88K100 Road Train Member

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    Are there not govt owned land a person could camp out on legally for a duration?



     
  6. silverspur

    silverspur Road Train Member

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    Homeless people park in the field across from the little truck stop in Rochester Minnesota in the dead of winter and nobody seems to bother them.
     
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  7. Iamoverit

    Iamoverit Road Train Member

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    Regardless of whether you choose the hotel route or the RV park route it's going to be just as expensive (or more) than paying rent/mortgage. I guess it depends what you're willing to spend too. What's expensive to me might not be expensive to you.
     
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  8. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land is mostly out West. BLM allows 14 days of camping before being required to leave for 30+ days. The US Army Corp of Engineers has land with RV camp sites and MAYBE some dispersed camping (no RV hook-up) in the east and Southeast. Since covid lots of RV parks have jacked up prices and the parks are more full than before.
     
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  9. dosel

    dosel Bobtail Member

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    I think it might just be cheaper to get a regional job in an area you want to make home base and then rent a hotel for the weekends. Most RV parks are $800 a month in the winter and dont rent monthly in the summer, unless you are 55+. If you rent an RV campsite by the night you will spend $50-100 which is the same price of a hotel. A decent trailer is going to cost you 40-60K which if financed would put you around $1300 a month with rent. There are apartments with more square footage that are cheaper than that and you don't have the level of privacy of a walmart parking lot. These RV parks are basically just parking lots to park somewhere to take a dump. You would have to be crazy to live there with no mailing address
     
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  10. Iamoverit

    Iamoverit Road Train Member

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    That job looks like BS anyway.
     
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  11. RockinChair

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    And don't even think about buying a used trailer. They are ridiculously expensive to repair and maintain.
     
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