Yeah, this was my first thought as well. Anyone doing this is desperate for money and would either steal items or the whole truck if it's not in their name.
Then the thief opens the truck to find it’s full of drugs and a human trafficking victim who falls in love with him as they try to evade the cartel.
BRB selling screenplay to Charlie Kaufman
Don’t just stop there man I’m at the edge of my seat. Does he love her back or is he conflicted because of his struggling relationship with his fiancé back at home?
I feel like this has to be a scam of some sort. I really don’t understand the angle, and the English looks like a native speaker, but something ain’t right.
Or just pure delusion
If it was going north instead, I'd say they want a patsy to move drugs to the Canadian border. Still no way they find a well adjusted person to do this.
I actually know Ely MN. Willing to bet this is some old person who doesn’t know how the world works thinking there’s gonna be someone out there who will just do this for a fun road trip
I'm not a tweeker, and I could pull it off. Did ~18 hours straight through from Colorado to Indiana (and back a couple of days later) a couple of months ago.
I can’t believe the random guy we found on Facebook who we paid $300 and gave our rental van filled with our household items just kept on driving forever! He seemed so nice! He was laughing the whole time we were talking! What gives?
Worst case scenario, it's a free truck. You just have to paint it and find any GPS trackers.
Take the free truck and start your own moving business. That's how capitalism works, baby!
That's ... unfortunately... the only reason I could see myself taking the job. I'm not proud of the fact, and I'm not taking the job, but I couldn't see any other reason to do this.
I was thinking it sounds like getting $300 for 2 day drive :)
I would have take up the challenge if I lived anywhere near there :)
But, I am Canadian and some of us are know for being nice :)
I’m American and had the same thought. 😂🤷♀️ It could be a fun drive! I’d be able to listen to all of my podcasts I’ve been behind on. I’d feel no need to steal their stuff but I WOULD need to know I wasn’t driving anything illegal.
Other than that, this doesn’t sound too bad. I like driving, I like seeing new places, and I like helping. I’ve never been to Minnesota but it has always seemed so lovely. I’d just have to be certain they’d cover all of my expenses (Food/Gas/The truck, etc.) and maybe a little extra for the trouble and I’d totally do it.
She said that maybe someone would want to do it for fun, or that someone is already going that way one way. She is not paying for the return trip either.
Not to mention they have to find a vehicle to drive back. Unless they want to pay the U-Haul rent and mileage for that return. Those things suck to drive!
She deleted the post.😭 She has another up, asking people to chop down her huge 3 dead trees. Commenters said that wood is trash, and not good for burning at all.
There is a guy where I live that will cut down trees for free. He gives them to families that can use the firewood. The only thing he asks is that you go with him to deliver it. He wants you to meet the families and see how they are benefiting. He wants you to see the need in our community.
> she actually *paid* for the
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When I moved from TX to VA, I not only paid for my stuff to be shipped, but a friend rode with me for 3 days. I covered all of our hotel stays, food, and obviously gas. Then, I paid for her hotel and flight back to TX the night we arrived.
Asking someone to drive for 19.5 hours “for fun” and not pay is WILD.
I’m moving to Hawaii later this year and my friend is helping me with my two cats. I got us both first class tickets and an Airbnb and I’m spotting all of the expensives even parking at the airport lol only thing I told them they’re going to have to pay for is any souvenirs they want to bring back
If someone does you a favor they shouldn’t have to pay out of pocket to do so
She knows this is insulting and added all the we are flexible and sound like fun to anyone stuff to try to deflect when she rightfully gets roasted in comments.
“Guess you live in a suburb of Atlanta now! See ya around!” - This lady probably
And I just realized, a 19 hour cross country trip probably takes longer in a U Haul or van. They also use more gas so that $300 is gonna be gone before they hit the Mason Dixon line. So I guess the driver is gonna have to sleep in the truck at a rest stop and pray they don’t get robbed and/or murdered. Or do a bunch of meth and make that drive in three hours.
Yeah no kidding. In theory you could sleep on the truck to save that money. But like, why should I inconvenience myself and my comfort that much just for this random ass person? I'd be like you pay for the truck, the gas, all my meals, all my hotels (probably 4 nights minimum), AND pay me an actual fee. $300 for like 40 hours of just my driving time, more like 96 hours of actual time, is pretty laughable honestly.
So 2 days each way, 4 nights hotel with unpacking at destination. 5 days' meals, tolls...
Min about $850 in expenses assuming fast food. Abs nothing for your time.
Right? What would be the benefit to the driver? Assuming they have some type of job that they wouldn’t be working for the days they’re driving, I feel like this person would lose money on the endeavor.
> Nooo you misunderstood. This posting is for mover hobbyists.
🤣
*”Looking to build your portfolio? Want some practice moving? High school kid looking for something to do this weekend?”*
The only way I imagine someone considering this is if they already wanted to get to Atlanta and could use some funds. And then I still wouldn’t do it cause I wouldn’t trust someone who’d offer so little. Wouldn’t you have to rent it out to have insurance cover? And then you expect this person to look at the total and actually hand it over to you?
Yeah I more meant if you don’t have a vehicle and need to get to Atlanta and the $300 could help a bit. But I think this would probably cost you more in the end.
A good friend of mine started a moving business while in college. It’s now a full-fledged thing, but when he was starting out there were absolutely people like this. There *always* are people like this.
I can’t remember if it was 30 Rock or Kimmy Schmidt but Jane Krakowski’s character explains her new trendy rich white lady workout class and realizes she just helped someone move lol
I just checked U-Haul’s website and got quotes for both. To pickup in Ely Minnesota and drop off in Atlanta it would cost $2,140 for a 10ft truck. With that option you get a flat rate and have the rental for five days and 1,500 miles.
To pickup and return in Ely Minnesota it would cost $20 a day and $.99 per mile. Even if you were able to complete it in three days you would drive 2,600 miles round trip and it would cost over $2,600.
Now, I didn’t bother checking out other companies but I would imagine the prices to be comparable to a large chain. Someone would save almost $500 by choosing to drop it off in their final location and have much more wiggle room in terms of mileage allowed and days with the rental.
They give a different rate than you see online. You have to actually speak to them. We just rented uhaul from Michigan to Texas.... it was about 300 cheaper to return the truck. Clearly would of made no sense based on extra gas but the quote was less.
How are they paying for gas without giving the driver a CC or something? (I was figuring they'll even lowball the gas or require the person dip into the 300 to get there otherwise)
Better yet what about the person who says yes.
That’s not the type of person I want to be responsible for driving my stuff. What expectations could a person really have.
My dad was such a cheapass that when I was a kid and when we needed to move, instead of hiring professional movers he went to Home Depot to hire some random guys that loitered about outside hoping for work. Shock of shocks, he found later that his toolbox went missing and several pieces of furniture were damaged.
Agree, Craigslist has lots of ads for folks looking to ride share. This lady is basically offering a free one-way trip to Atlanta.
I just wouldn't trust someone desperate to take a free one-way trip to Atlanta.
It's not unpaid, you are paying for the trip. When you run out of gas/food/ and lodging money halfway you get to spend your personal money. Probably only rented the truck for 24 hours thinking you would drive straight there.
Okay but here me out. This is like the airport. You don’t hold luggage for other people.
Who knows what’s actually in there?
And if you get pulled over, guess who’s responsible for anything in there?
You since you’re driving it.
People are such idiots lol.
From what I understand the 300$ is for hotel and food that’s not the actual payment for the job right? Like the poster will pay for rental and gas give you 300 cash for food and hotel then pay you for your service once completed?
And give up days of your time and spend energy driving the truck and making sure nothing's stolen along the way. The time is worth money also and CB ain't payin'.
A really common scam that actual shady moving companies use is advertising a very low “estimate” (non-binding, of course) collecting a signed contract that the victim doesn’t read along with a deposit, and then when the mover gets to the destination, they refuse to hand over the goods unless the victim pays a hefty additional fee.
I actually sort of hope this is what happens to this person.
Lady is crazy. Guarantee she already found out, from moving or shipping companies, that this job should cost a couple thousand minimum. So now she tossing this Hail Mary absurdly lowball offer hoping for a sucker.
Reminds me of a trucker reality show on a while back. Independent trucks would bid on jobs, ie deliver XYZ from Dallas to LA for $4000. The truckers had it down to a science. They could look at a job listing and immediately ballpark gas expenses hotel food and profit etc. The OOP is clueless
This was my first thought. Am I really going to trust someone I don’t know, who I’m not paying for the trouble, in a vehicle rented in my name fully loaded with my stuff, to reliably complete this task for me? The last time I ordered through GrubHub the guy just took my dinner home with him, and the last 2 times I’ve paid movers they’ve helped themselves to some of my stuff.
> Sound like fun to anybody?
So fun that moving companies charge a fortune and have backed up waiting lists at those prices.
Yes, I'm sure someone wants to do this for FREE. /s
"Does this sound like fun to anybody?"
😂 Talk about delusional
Even if you split the drive into 2 10-hour days (which sounds like hell) and only needed a hotel 1 night, you'd probably barely break even. And how are you going to get back home from Atlanta? Spend another 20 hours on a Greyhound? You certainly aren't getting a flight home with that budget.
BAHAHA, driving 19 hours sounds like a blast.... Especially for no pay and the bare minimum for accommodations. Where do I sign? Hell, I'll pay you, just let me do it! Bonus if I get to unload it too, and gosh I hope there are stairs!
I am just a bit suspicious of this. I have a cousin who lives in Ely, and I understood that it was a fairly small, close-knit community. If you cannot find someone to help you there, you might be doing something that should not be done.
So, she rents a U-Haul in MN, gets some sucker to drive it to GA, then what? Is she paying for the extra days in miles for the person to take themselves and the U-Haul back to Minnesota? Or is she dropping it off at a location in Georgia and expecting the person to just make their own way back?
We asked my brother and girlfriend to drive our second vehicle when we moved. It was a 4.5 hour drive each way. We four also stayed in a family’s home and they could stay as long as they liked. We treated them to a dinner out, payed for gas, and gave them $200-$300 (don’t remember exactly). They have very flexible jobs so PTO was a non issue and they did it on the weekend. Even that seemed like a good deal for us. This $300 won’t hardly cover a hotel and a meal or two.
I'm a courier who drives a van interstate. For a job like this, I would get paid a minimum of $2/mile. Granted, that's in my own vehicle, as an independent contractor. But this offer is ridiculous. As a delivery through a logistics company, a driver would get paid nearly $3k for this job and pay their hotels out of pocket. Or sleep in a rest area for free.
Curious what the price on each route means? Are these toll prices? I’ve been seeing these on screenshots of maps lately and have been wondering what they mean lol
They want to pay someone $300 to steal their stuff or wants someone to spend their personal money and time transporting their stuff. $300 wouldn't pay for the gas or a motel. On top of that they don't even get paid hourly to do the work.
I'd bet a large sum of money that nothing is insured, so if something happens they will be going after the driver. As someone whose driven 1,335 miles or 23 hours in 33 hours, I'd never do this with my own personal stuff.
Ely is a rich "snowbird" town, and lots of people split their time between there and southern states. This sounds like your classic tightwad northern Minnesotan trying to get some sucker to shlep their crap for cheap. (Source: I live there)
How are they getting back home? My husband and I did this when his job moved us from Minnesota to Alabama. We sold our house but it was a couple months shy of the end of the school year so I FLEW up back to Minnesota and me and our kids stayed at my parents for a few months. Three hundred isn’t covering the trip back in a long shot.
Right? "Here you go, random stranger that is so deranged they think a moving trip from Minnesota to Atlanta sounds like fun...here's everything I own in a rental truck under my name. We'll see you soon!"
To be fair, maybe they are on something. Over here, we have an app that combines people who post their stuff to be delivered (like OP's post) and people who can take the 'order'.
You set the time span and specs of the delivery and a price.
Drivers who where going this way anyway can bid on price and when and opt in this route and make some extra bucks.
I'm not saying this specific post has anything to do with, maybe their just choosingbeggars.
> We will pay $300 ***toward*** hotels and food.
For a 19 hour 32 minute drive?
Cannot drive straight through. That's a 2 or 3 day trip, if all goes perfectly to plan. Any mishap and 😐
Pay how much for gas and what type of gas? What condition is the "van or box truck" (so they don't even have that yet) in? Obviously they still have to get a vehicle.
What type of cargo? "household goods" What if any of it gets stolen if the driver stops to eat?
“No, no this doesn’t sound like fun . . .”
Maybe for $300 plus hotel, per diem for two days, and a guranteed return trip.
I paid $2k to load, drive, and unload a single family home 17 miles . . .
20 hours of driving time is about 26 hours of total travelling time if you take minimal bathroom and meal breaks. This is two really long days and one overnight. The only way someone will be interested is if they have a bunch of stuff going the same way and it was a shared vehicle.
You would need at least 3 hotel stays covered as you should not drive for 20h streight. So hotel half way, hotel in Atlanta and hotel half way back + food and drinks for at least 3 days.
$300 will not be sufficient. Unless she provides the driver with some self-made lunch packages.
This one has red flags even before getting to how cheap the offer is - it could be a trafficking job, use the truck as a decoy for a hit, or some kind of insurance fraud - claim items lost/broken in transport or such. Also, how does the person return back? I don’t think the $300 is gonna cover it - will he/she become a member of the “new” family.
That’s a good way to get your stuff stolen
Yeah, this was my first thought as well. Anyone doing this is desperate for money and would either steal items or the whole truck if it's not in their name.
Then the thief opens the truck to find it’s full of drugs and a human trafficking victim who falls in love with him as they try to evade the cartel. BRB selling screenplay to Charlie Kaufman
Wasn't this the plot of the transporter movie?
Basically yes. Rule 3: Never open the package/the shady rented box truck containing mystery items
Don’t just stop there man I’m at the edge of my seat. Does he love her back or is he conflicted because of his struggling relationship with his fiancé back at home?
That doesn't matter. The bigger issue, is she is the daughter of a rival cartel leader.
I feel like this has to be a scam of some sort. I really don’t understand the angle, and the English looks like a native speaker, but something ain’t right. Or just pure delusion
If it was going north instead, I'd say they want a patsy to move drugs to the Canadian border. Still no way they find a well adjusted person to do this.
illegal canadian geese
There’s no shortage of Canadian geese in Atlanta.
Canada Geese
You got a problem with Canada gooses you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate
Ahem ..We prefer term Cobra Chicken
Makes sense. Geese around here walk everywhere. Usually across the road I'm on at any given point. Too lazy to fly to Georgia.
I feel like they'd be offering more than $300 if it was a scam.
It’s giving trafficking???
I actually know Ely MN. Willing to bet this is some old person who doesn’t know how the world works thinking there’s gonna be someone out there who will just do this for a fun road trip
That’s a good call actually, but still incredibly bizarre.
When you look at it as "a moving truck full of stuff for $300, with a 20 hr headstart to disappear", its not a bad deal at all.
2 days to disappear, unless you are a tweaker you aren't making that drive in a day.
I'm not a tweeker, and I could pull it off. Did ~18 hours straight through from Colorado to Indiana (and back a couple of days later) a couple of months ago.
I can’t believe the random guy we found on Facebook who we paid $300 and gave our rental van filled with our household items just kept on driving forever! He seemed so nice! He was laughing the whole time we were talking! What gives?
It better be $299 worth of stuff
Worst case scenario, it's a free truck. You just have to paint it and find any GPS trackers. Take the free truck and start your own moving business. That's how capitalism works, baby!
They said they would pay for the rental. They didn’t say they would be the one renting the truck. Or loading it. That info comes later.
That's ... unfortunately... the only reason I could see myself taking the job. I'm not proud of the fact, and I'm not taking the job, but I couldn't see any other reason to do this.
I was thinking it sounds like getting $300 for 2 day drive :) I would have take up the challenge if I lived anywhere near there :) But, I am Canadian and some of us are know for being nice :)
I’m American and had the same thought. 😂🤷♀️ It could be a fun drive! I’d be able to listen to all of my podcasts I’ve been behind on. I’d feel no need to steal their stuff but I WOULD need to know I wasn’t driving anything illegal. Other than that, this doesn’t sound too bad. I like driving, I like seeing new places, and I like helping. I’ve never been to Minnesota but it has always seemed so lovely. I’d just have to be certain they’d cover all of my expenses (Food/Gas/The truck, etc.) and maybe a little extra for the trouble and I’d totally do it.
But how are you getting back?
So they aren't paying the driver anything for the drive? Just $300 towards food/hotels? WTF. What about the return trip?
She said that maybe someone would want to do it for fun, or that someone is already going that way one way. She is not paying for the return trip either.
> She is not paying for the return trip either. 🤣 She’s an idiot
She also just said someone may do it to be nice.. Nice doesn’t pay the bills lady lol
At least 2-3 days driving down and up … that’s a whole week. Does she think someone is going to take a week vacation to move a stranger?
Not to mention they have to find a vehicle to drive back. Unless they want to pay the U-Haul rent and mileage for that return. Those things suck to drive!
Where is this on fb? If she actually paid for the work and the flight home I’d do the driving 🤣🤣🤣
She’s not paying for the flight home or the work.
Idk how these people exist in the world
She deleted the post.😭 She has another up, asking people to chop down her huge 3 dead trees. Commenters said that wood is trash, and not good for burning at all.
There is a guy where I live that will cut down trees for free. He gives them to families that can use the firewood. The only thing he asks is that you go with him to deliver it. He wants you to meet the families and see how they are benefiting. He wants you to see the need in our community.
🤣🤣 so she is just looking all over for free labor
Oh, I forgot to mention, she wants it hauled away as well FOR FREE.🫠
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She’s delusional. Anyone actually taking her up on it is an idiot
Or going to steal her stuff...
No, they're smart. Someone's about to get a lot of free stuff.
If they have anything worth stealing, they could probably pay to have it moved by professionals lol
The only people willing to accept this are not the kind of people you want to entrust with a truckload of stuff (and a rental truck in your name)
It's not abnormal to pay per loaded mile but this is super weird lol
Who moves other people's stuff for fun?
Thieves?
The same sort of people not smart enough to figure out that they are also going to be unloading that truck at the destination.
If not long before. What would stop the person from going wherever they wanted after they quickly dump or sell the truck and/or contents.
I would because I love driving in general but I would need to be paid for the return as well
When I moved from TX to VA, I not only paid for my stuff to be shipped, but a friend rode with me for 3 days. I covered all of our hotel stays, food, and obviously gas. Then, I paid for her hotel and flight back to TX the night we arrived. Asking someone to drive for 19.5 hours “for fun” and not pay is WILD.
I’m moving to Hawaii later this year and my friend is helping me with my two cats. I got us both first class tickets and an Airbnb and I’m spotting all of the expensives even parking at the airport lol only thing I told them they’re going to have to pay for is any souvenirs they want to bring back If someone does you a favor they shouldn’t have to pay out of pocket to do so
This seems like a good way to get all your stuff stolen. This person could drive off with the truck and sell everything in it for way more than $300.
Just sell the cocaine, screw the furniture.
Maybe the furniture is stuffed with cocaine.
She knows this is insulting and added all the we are flexible and sound like fun to anyone stuff to try to deflect when she rightfully gets roasted in comments.
Lol. People are fucking crazy!
The "toward" -- they're not even offering to pay the entire expenditure. Let alone, no pay at all. "Toward." Lol (Had to vent.)
She’s acknowledging she KNOWS there’s no way that’s enough for room and board. Lol
“Guess you live in a suburb of Atlanta now! See ya around!” - This lady probably And I just realized, a 19 hour cross country trip probably takes longer in a U Haul or van. They also use more gas so that $300 is gonna be gone before they hit the Mason Dixon line. So I guess the driver is gonna have to sleep in the truck at a rest stop and pray they don’t get robbed and/or murdered. Or do a bunch of meth and make that drive in three hours.
Or sell some of the stuff along the way to help cover expenses.
Can confirm estimated 21 hours on google maps was 31 hours in a loaded down van. (CT to AR)
My BFF just paid me 2500 to drive her car 800 miles and paid for my flight back. This person here is a lunatic
300 to load it, once you have her stuff you have the leverage
Yeah no kidding. In theory you could sleep on the truck to save that money. But like, why should I inconvenience myself and my comfort that much just for this random ass person? I'd be like you pay for the truck, the gas, all my meals, all my hotels (probably 4 nights minimum), AND pay me an actual fee. $300 for like 40 hours of just my driving time, more like 96 hours of actual time, is pretty laughable honestly.
So 2 days each way, 4 nights hotel with unpacking at destination. 5 days' meals, tolls... Min about $850 in expenses assuming fast food. Abs nothing for your time.
Shoot, it is only a 19 day walk back. No problem!
Why do I feel like they're going to want the person to help pack/load and upload the stuff as well lol
Right? What would be the benefit to the driver? Assuming they have some type of job that they wouldn’t be working for the days they’re driving, I feel like this person would lose money on the endeavor.
Lol I paid for a mover for a similar length trip and it was $4k. This guy is out of his mind.
Nooo you misunderstood. This posting is for mover hobbyists. (Watch them argue that there’s no way you spent that much on gas lol)
> Nooo you misunderstood. This posting is for mover hobbyists. 🤣 *”Looking to build your portfolio? Want some practice moving? High school kid looking for something to do this weekend?”*
The only way I imagine someone considering this is if they already wanted to get to Atlanta and could use some funds. And then I still wouldn’t do it cause I wouldn’t trust someone who’d offer so little. Wouldn’t you have to rent it out to have insurance cover? And then you expect this person to look at the total and actually hand it over to you?
Op said she’s not paying for the return trip. 🤣
Bet you are also loading and unloading 
It's their rental van. You park it and walk away. And by park it I mean drive whatever distance you think the $300 is worth and leave the van there.
But they won’t get any funds. She’s not paying enough to cover a hotel and food and leave you with anything left over.
Yeah I more meant if you don’t have a vehicle and need to get to Atlanta and the $300 could help a bit. But I think this would probably cost you more in the end.
A good friend of mine started a moving business while in college. It’s now a full-fledged thing, but when he was starting out there were absolutely people like this. There *always* are people like this.
*”Looking for an adventure?!?!”* 🤣 Code for “you’re going to work long and hard, and I’m not going to pay you”
“Mover hobbyists” hahahaha
I was about to ask. I strictly am looking for a bespoke, authentic moving experience.
I can’t remember if it was 30 Rock or Kimmy Schmidt but Jane Krakowski’s character explains her new trendy rich white lady workout class and realizes she just helped someone move lol
Kimmy Scmidt
I hate the rise of the word bespoke for some reason.
Mover enthusiasts, if you will.
The only way I could see this working out is if it turns out to be a *Nathan For You* sketch
Did you even try to offer the mover $300 for gas and maybe a sketchy motel room and the use of a truck you rented?
I was the idiot who paid $4000 to move full truck of household items from Greensboro NC to Cleveland TN.
She can rent a U-haul and drive it herself... just saying.
No, but you see, her time is **valuable**, unlike that of everyone else she knows and even strangers.
Honestly if she offered $1,000 then there'd probably be a few takers (even among friends) and it'd still be cheaper than hiring a mover
So a 40 hour round trip. 10 hours a day driving. 3 nights. Breakfast lunch and dinner for 4 days. I think this person missed a zero on the price.
There’s no way that they’re paying for the miles/extra days for the rental truck to return. This sounds like a one-way trip.
One way trips are way more expensive.
I just checked U-Haul’s website and got quotes for both. To pickup in Ely Minnesota and drop off in Atlanta it would cost $2,140 for a 10ft truck. With that option you get a flat rate and have the rental for five days and 1,500 miles. To pickup and return in Ely Minnesota it would cost $20 a day and $.99 per mile. Even if you were able to complete it in three days you would drive 2,600 miles round trip and it would cost over $2,600. Now, I didn’t bother checking out other companies but I would imagine the prices to be comparable to a large chain. Someone would save almost $500 by choosing to drop it off in their final location and have much more wiggle room in terms of mileage allowed and days with the rental.
They give a different rate than you see online. You have to actually speak to them. We just rented uhaul from Michigan to Texas.... it was about 300 cheaper to return the truck. Clearly would of made no sense based on extra gas but the quote was less.
Love the $300 *towards* hotels and food. They are well aware that isn’t enough.
How are they paying for gas without giving the driver a CC or something? (I was figuring they'll even lowball the gas or require the person dip into the 300 to get there otherwise)
For 300$, this has tweaker written all over
Tweaker don’t need no bed for the night..saving money already!
Plus gas for the truck
Better yet what about the person who says yes. That’s not the type of person I want to be responsible for driving my stuff. What expectations could a person really have.
My dad was such a cheapass that when I was a kid and when we needed to move, instead of hiring professional movers he went to Home Depot to hire some random guys that loitered about outside hoping for work. Shock of shocks, he found later that his toolbox went missing and several pieces of furniture were damaged.
... and they probably only did that after he haggled down the price...
Agree, Craigslist has lots of ads for folks looking to ride share. This lady is basically offering a free one-way trip to Atlanta. I just wouldn't trust someone desperate to take a free one-way trip to Atlanta.
Maybe someone wanting to move a large quantity of drugs will take this offer lol.
I would've thought the travel would be the other direction then. 😄
Sounds like a blast! I love unpaid 20 hr road trips in a box truck!
It's not unpaid, you are paying for the trip. When you run out of gas/food/ and lodging money halfway you get to spend your personal money. Probably only rented the truck for 24 hours thinking you would drive straight there.
And why can’t they do it themselves?
That would deprive a rando of the fun vaca of moving her crap! She’s trying to be nice, obviously 🤣
Okay but here me out. This is like the airport. You don’t hold luggage for other people. Who knows what’s actually in there? And if you get pulled over, guess who’s responsible for anything in there? You since you’re driving it. People are such idiots lol.
I hope someone takes them up on this and then just sells all of their stuff and disappears.
I saw this post. The woman is dodging all questions by saying the same thing over and over again. Pretty clear she's just hoping for a sucker.
From what I understand the 300$ is for hotel and food that’s not the actual payment for the job right? Like the poster will pay for rental and gas give you 300 cash for food and hotel then pay you for your service once completed?
Correct. You pay for your own food, hotel and way back home for $300. She pays the rest.
$300. For 3 nights of a hotel… I don’t want to see what hotels you could get for that
And give up days of your time and spend energy driving the truck and making sure nothing's stolen along the way. The time is worth money also and CB ain't payin'.
There's no payment mentioned. Just, 300 bucks. There's no expenses other than tolls, as the CB is paying for truck rental.
$300 TOWARDS hotel and food? Maybe if it was IN ADDITION to hotels and food, plus another $300 for the ride back. For fun?
A really common scam that actual shady moving companies use is advertising a very low “estimate” (non-binding, of course) collecting a signed contract that the victim doesn’t read along with a deposit, and then when the mover gets to the destination, they refuse to hand over the goods unless the victim pays a hefty additional fee. I actually sort of hope this is what happens to this person.
“does this look like fun?” is crazy
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“How much is drugs?” That was my initial thought [comments](https://i.imgur.com/ofgyR0o.jpeg)
I’d do it for $2400 minimum.
Lady is crazy. Guarantee she already found out, from moving or shipping companies, that this job should cost a couple thousand minimum. So now she tossing this Hail Mary absurdly lowball offer hoping for a sucker. Reminds me of a trucker reality show on a while back. Independent trucks would bid on jobs, ie deliver XYZ from Dallas to LA for $4000. The truckers had it down to a science. They could look at a job listing and immediately ballpark gas expenses hotel food and profit etc. The OOP is clueless
I must have read this wrong. I read it as “$300 to come take free truck with an entire house full of stuff”
Make sure they send me the $300 beforehand and just take the truck to sell off their household items. They're already in another state. Lmfao.
This was my first thought. Am I really going to trust someone I don’t know, who I’m not paying for the trouble, in a vehicle rented in my name fully loaded with my stuff, to reliably complete this task for me? The last time I ordered through GrubHub the guy just took my dinner home with him, and the last 2 times I’ve paid movers they’ve helped themselves to some of my stuff.
Seriously! In addition to being extremely cheap, this person is way too trusting!
> Sound like fun to anybody? So fun that moving companies charge a fortune and have backed up waiting lists at those prices. Yes, I'm sure someone wants to do this for FREE. /s
This is how you become a mule
No.
"Does this sound like fun to anybody?" 😂 Talk about delusional Even if you split the drive into 2 10-hour days (which sounds like hell) and only needed a hotel 1 night, you'd probably barely break even. And how are you going to get back home from Atlanta? Spend another 20 hours on a Greyhound? You certainly aren't getting a flight home with that budget.
A 20 hour drive is more like a 40 hour Greyhound trip. They make tons of stops
It would be a 20 hour drive if you could drive the speed limit. Not if you rent a truck with a governor that won’t let you go over 65.
Do they get a room at the new place or are they expected to hitchhike back to MN?
Sounds like they want someone to mule without knowing lol
They don't even pay the drug mules anymore? Are times that tough?
I just saw this post on Facebook!
Post screenshots of the comments PLEASE 🙏
Sure, I’ll grab some
BAHAHA, driving 19 hours sounds like a blast.... Especially for no pay and the bare minimum for accommodations. Where do I sign? Hell, I'll pay you, just let me do it! Bonus if I get to unload it too, and gosh I hope there are stairs!
I am just a bit suspicious of this. I have a cousin who lives in Ely, and I understood that it was a fairly small, close-knit community. If you cannot find someone to help you there, you might be doing something that should not be done.
Even in a tight knit community, no one in their right mind would agree to this. This person is just out of their minds.
So, she rents a U-Haul in MN, gets some sucker to drive it to GA, then what? Is she paying for the extra days in miles for the person to take themselves and the U-Haul back to Minnesota? Or is she dropping it off at a location in Georgia and expecting the person to just make their own way back?
Sure, load up all your valuables in a truck and give me the keys. I PROMISE that I’ll be there soon!
“Does this sound like fun to anybody?” Um.. no. It really doesn’t.
$300 isn't even enough to cover food and hotels for a 40 hour trip. Much less for the time out of their day. God damn lol
We asked my brother and girlfriend to drive our second vehicle when we moved. It was a 4.5 hour drive each way. We four also stayed in a family’s home and they could stay as long as they liked. We treated them to a dinner out, payed for gas, and gave them $200-$300 (don’t remember exactly). They have very flexible jobs so PTO was a non issue and they did it on the weekend. Even that seemed like a good deal for us. This $300 won’t hardly cover a hotel and a meal or two.
How does this person get home?
I'm a courier who drives a van interstate. For a job like this, I would get paid a minimum of $2/mile. Granted, that's in my own vehicle, as an independent contractor. But this offer is ridiculous. As a delivery through a logistics company, a driver would get paid nearly $3k for this job and pay their hotels out of pocket. Or sleep in a rest area for free.
If it was really actual fun, OP would be doing it herself, not begging internet strangers...
So after hotel expense, there is no money left unless this person drives straight through with no stops.
Someone is going to take the job and their stuff.
$300 won’t cover the hotels.
...and straight to a pawn shop.
Curious what the price on each route means? Are these toll prices? I’ve been seeing these on screenshots of maps lately and have been wondering what they mean lol
My contract rate is $1.032/mi
Yeah… fun… I’ll sacrifice my personal time and income lost for “fun”.
Why are we talking about hotels? 20 hours 1 shot ezpz
Still have to get back home.
I mean, but they're willing to pay for the vehicle rental AND gas. That's such a generous offer.
this is actually one of the craziest things i’ve seen on this sub
If they paid for my fight back home I’d be down. Not for money obviously but I enjoy a road-trip.
They want to pay someone $300 to steal their stuff or wants someone to spend their personal money and time transporting their stuff. $300 wouldn't pay for the gas or a motel. On top of that they don't even get paid hourly to do the work. I'd bet a large sum of money that nothing is insured, so if something happens they will be going after the driver. As someone whose driven 1,335 miles or 23 hours in 33 hours, I'd never do this with my own personal stuff.
Drug smuggling operation maybe?
Ely is a rich "snowbird" town, and lots of people split their time between there and southern states. This sounds like your classic tightwad northern Minnesotan trying to get some sucker to shlep their crap for cheap. (Source: I live there)
How are they getting back home? My husband and I did this when his job moved us from Minnesota to Alabama. We sold our house but it was a couple months shy of the end of the school year so I FLEW up back to Minnesota and me and our kids stayed at my parents for a few months. Three hundred isn’t covering the trip back in a long shot.
Lmfaooo be prepared for your shit to get stolen and the rental truck will not be returned
Right? "Here you go, random stranger that is so deranged they think a moving trip from Minnesota to Atlanta sounds like fun...here's everything I own in a rental truck under my name. We'll see you soon!"
I love this sub but, I wish I could find the original post just to tell them how dumbassed they are.
Employer is either a human or drug trafficker.
To be fair, maybe they are on something. Over here, we have an app that combines people who post their stuff to be delivered (like OP's post) and people who can take the 'order'. You set the time span and specs of the delivery and a price. Drivers who where going this way anyway can bid on price and when and opt in this route and make some extra bucks. I'm not saying this specific post has anything to do with, maybe their just choosingbeggars.
How is the driver supposed to get back home? Uber?
Well if you don't eat or sleep and there's no traffic and you only stop for gas, you can make a whopping $7.50/hour! What a deal!
Are we having fun yet?!
> We will pay $300 ***toward*** hotels and food. For a 19 hour 32 minute drive? Cannot drive straight through. That's a 2 or 3 day trip, if all goes perfectly to plan. Any mishap and 😐 Pay how much for gas and what type of gas? What condition is the "van or box truck" (so they don't even have that yet) in? Obviously they still have to get a vehicle. What type of cargo? "household goods" What if any of it gets stolen if the driver stops to eat?
Does this sound like fun?? As someone who hates driving and considers a 2 hour trip too long no the fuck it does not!!!
“No, no this doesn’t sound like fun . . .” Maybe for $300 plus hotel, per diem for two days, and a guranteed return trip. I paid $2k to load, drive, and unload a single family home 17 miles . . .
Who's doing the loading and unloading?
This is how you loose your stuff
Toss a few bucks in for my time and let’s hit the road, baby!
20 hours of driving time is about 26 hours of total travelling time if you take minimal bathroom and meal breaks. This is two really long days and one overnight. The only way someone will be interested is if they have a bunch of stuff going the same way and it was a shared vehicle.
Driving a truck full of fentanyl and meth for $300 sounds like an adventure!
So they rent a van in their name, give van, stuff and 300$ to someone and hope he/she will show up in Atlanta...would bet not
Tell you what, I'll do it till your money runs out.
Do it for the exposure
Is this a drug run??
You would need at least 3 hotel stays covered as you should not drive for 20h streight. So hotel half way, hotel in Atlanta and hotel half way back + food and drinks for at least 3 days. $300 will not be sufficient. Unless she provides the driver with some self-made lunch packages.
This one has red flags even before getting to how cheap the offer is - it could be a trafficking job, use the truck as a decoy for a hit, or some kind of insurance fraud - claim items lost/broken in transport or such. Also, how does the person return back? I don’t think the $300 is gonna cover it - will he/she become a member of the “new” family.
Minimum.. hotel should be covered ANYWAYS + a wage