All transporter companies were in about the same shape, plus or minus a couple of days, because the manufacturers were self regulating dispatches based on which transporter was the least number of days out in addition to which ones could get a hot unit delivered first.
If that sounds familiar, one only needs to look back to May of 2007 to an RV Business article outlining the same situation, but for different reasons according to the transport companies ("RV Transport Firms Encounter Driver Shortage"). In that article, the source stems from the tidal wave of new drivers to the industry in order to move the Katrina FEMA units (you all remember those don't you - money through the nose with DOT waivers for all applicable regulations... that may be a slight exaggeration, but you remember).
After the FEMA units dried up, there was the natural decline of the industry in the second half of the year which spread the units too thin across the over-abundance of drivers leaving many with only one option - get out of the RV transport business.
In 2007 the RV transport companies realized they were in the midst of an unexpected driver shortage, but not in time to affect change. In addition to laying some blame on the inability to support a large enough base of drivers during the slow period, there was also the aspect of fuel costs. The manufactures were slow to respond to the rising cost of fuel which resulted in the inability of drivers to operate profitably.
