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This is the ONLY Guidebook that has ever been published to enable people to obtain and enjoy the World's Great "Sleeper" Travel Job.

Currently in its updated 1998-thru-mid-2000 Version (which came off the press in March, 1998), this 8-1/2" x 11", 352-page book is the complete handbook and guide to the unique job (and lifestyle) of delivering brand-new recreational and specialty vehicles from theirthousands of manufacturing and modification sites to the dealerships and customers.

Think about this: You never see anything but cars, pickup trucks, and minivans being transported on trucks. That's because nearly ALL of the other types of vehicles are driven to their dealerships or customers -- which frequently lie hundreds, or even thousands of miles from their manufacturing sites. And most of those vehicles are driven by ordinary people who come from all walks of life... not by truck drivers. Examples include new ambulances, hearses, bread trucks, UPS vans, school busses, and even limousines -- and much more. And nearly all of the hundreds of thousands of recreational vehicles (RVs) that are manufactured annually.

It takes a large workforce to do this -- over 100,000 drivers in North America alone, working for 3,500 U.S. companies, and 330 companies in Canada. The current edition is double the length of the previous one, and explains in detailall of the useful tips and aspects of this job that I've learned since entering it myself in 1977. I was a schoolteacher then, and took this as a summer job. But right from the start. it never seemed like a "job." I enjoyed it so much, I never went back to teaching. I spent the next 10 years doing this work full-time... and it always was like being paid to do a favorite hobby!

Drivers who do this may choose to work full-time, part-time, seasonally, occasionally, or on-call-as-needed. Over 10,000 of them (or about 10% of the entire workforce) even have regular jobs during the week, and do this just on weekends, earning $100-300/week of supplemental income. (By the way, the book's title reflects what I was earning when I wrote its first edition, in 1979. The last 6 years that I did this full-time, my earnings were $52,000/year.)

The last half of the book provides a complete listing of all 4,000 potential employers in the USA, Canada, and Australia. Provided in these are the company names, addresses, phone, FAX, and toll-free numbers, contact person names, and the types of vehicle(s) made or modified at each site.

The following percentages overlap: 40% of the driver workforce is comprised of couples, and 30% of the drivers are between the ages of 65 and 80... which makes this perhaps the world's most senior-friendly job in terms of access, wages, and enjoyable, and stress-free work. (The other two-thirds of the drivers are between 18 and 64.)

Commonsense nuggets appear throughout (e.g., "Ask for discounts on extended stays"), and the Bakers strive to advise on such mundane operating matters as checking air pressure in the inside tire on a "dually," as well as on larger lifestyle issues, such as what the various "classes" of RVs offer in shower space and the all-important walk-room. So doing, they successfully provide a highly readable, comprehensive, and well-organized one-stop resource on practically any concern RVers might have. This could be the classic RVer's sourcebook. -- Mike Tribby

An Excellent "Bang for your Buck!"