Getting your new coach home

As of today Phoenix is quoting $1.25 per mile, for a delivery driver driving your coach and towing his return car. Again this is not an employee of Phoenix.
Doug

2,200 miles out @ 10 miles to the gallon and $3.00 gas = $660
2,200 miles back @ 20 miles to the gallon and $3.00 gas = $330
4 days out and 4 days back @ 10 hours per day = 80 hours x $15??  $1,200??

Food and hotel assuming they are not sleeping on your rig ?????  $700??

Total = $2,890.  Pretty close to the quote.  I wouldn't do it for less.  500 miles per day is brutal.

Yep, doing the math makes the offer to deliver questionable.  Now if you could use it as an opportunity to visit family and such, that would surely be different.

I have never felt the milage rate is out of line. The concerns I have are towing with a new motor, I don't know what Ford specs say, we just bought a new Toyota and are not suppose to tow for the first either 500 or 1000 miles,can't remember which, but I suppose this could be used against you in a warranty situation. The other concern is getting a driver who has little respect for your coach, in other words just two speeds. I'm still weighing all options.
Doug

I would highly recommend you pick it up yourself at the factory.  I picked up a unit in October and everyone was great.  However, there were things that needed to be fixed and if someone would have delivered it to me in Nebraska.... I would have been doing the repairs or had to go find someone to get it done for me.
I learned so much about the process of building and met a lot of the workers as I stayed overnight at the plant.  I had a few items to have repaired in the morning and was out the door by 10 a.m.

Great experience and I am so glad i did not have it delivered.

I just wanted to do a follow up. We had our 2350 put on a flatbed and shipped. It took about three weeks to finally coordinate a full load headed in our direction. A 2350 qualified as a partial load, so they had to wait for the rest of the load. It ended up being about $1.65 per mile. I thought that was more than fair. A driver towing his return vehicle was $1.25 per mile. So our coach showed up with no additional mileage, no crazy drivers, on time, with no hassle. I want to say EARL went out of his way to show up on a weekend to get it loaded, and communicate with everyone. Thanks EARL!
Doug

Glad it all worked out for you,  Doug.        Hopefully no problems with it and it's "all good"  from here on out.   Thanks for letting us know.
jim

We flew to Chicago (flyer miles so no cost), drove to Elkhart and picked up our new 2552 the first of March, spent one night on-site (no punch list repairs to fix), then drove home. We could tell the delivery drivers on the north Indiana roads because they flew by us. I am not judging them for speed, they are trying to make a profit. I would not have wanted my new vehicle with 50 miles on it driven like that with a toad.

On the flip side, I met another customer at the factory that was arranging for his delivery. He had no vacation to spare, lived several states away, and was okay with paying someone else to drive it home for him.

The shipping is an interesting option as it places no miles on the chassis but as the poster said it took three weeks to schedule.

When one has no options, the current path is the best!

Steve

The shipping is an interesting option as it places no miles on the chassis

It surprised me to read that biglegmax had his PC delivered on a flat bed.  I never read anyone else having their PC delivered that way before.  I understood delivery was done by the PC being driven to the person's house, often towing a vehicle for the driver to get back home.  This being done across many states.  Historically is was Kermit's son doing deliveries that way.  Maybe now under new ownership, delivery is handled differently.

If considering delivery, make sure you understand the details on how it will work.

I want to clarify my post above. I commissioned the brokers to put the transport together, this had nothing to do with Phoenix.

Before Kyle left he gave a quote for a full load, in other words my coach was the only load on the flatbed. At that time it was about $2.50/mile. The 2350 model allowed some room on the flat bed for other cargo, being a partial load effectively shared the cost with the other load.

Hiring drivers to drive your coach, towing there return vehicles, seems to be the RV norm.

After just spending too much energy fighting a premature transmission failure in a passenger car I did not want to leave myself wide open in a possible warranty battle with Ford. And wanted the vehicle to be handled with respect.
 Passenger car tranny $8000, give the manufacturer any reason to not warranty and they will shove it down your throat.

My good friend and a lawyer has always said Disclaimers and Warranties should be printed on toilet paper, at least you will get some use out of them.....

If anyone wants the name of the transport broker send me a PM, I was happy with the results.

Doug
 

I have never felt the milage rate is out of line. The concerns I have are towing with a new motor, I don't know what Ford specs say, we just bought a new Toyota and are not suppose to tow for the first either 500 or 1000 miles,can't remember which, but I suppose this could be used against you in a warranty situation. The other concern is getting a driver who has little respect for your coach, in other words just two speeds. I'm still weighing all options.
Doug

Most motor homes bought at a dealer are delivered by driver picked up at factory...how Ford would determine if it was broken in properly is darn near impossible. Having said that, we picked ours up at the factory and wouldn’t do it again...not much to gain from 4200 miles of driving.

not much to gain from 4200 miles of driving.

We put 4,700 miles on our new coach from the factory to home.  First RV, first camping experience.  Honestly, we had the time of our lives.  It definitely did not all go well and the story is amusing if long.  But would do it again in a heartbeat.  We learned so much about both the coach and ourselves.  And we were still married when we got home!