I would die for one of those but outside my price range by a lot.
Same here and I don’t care to push big vehicles any more.
My last experience with an electronics recycling crowd as a truck driver left a permanent sour taste in my mouth.
One thing that stands out is this event even though there are plenty of others...
They had (probably still do) a straight drive import 26 or so whatever box truck. It had a very unreliable and hard shifting transmission. There was an art to it.
I was a new driver out of the pool of employees locally. I asked when I was going to get some training time and the local liar boss and his liar above him said soon. You would think drive around the lot, practice backing up, road, city, and interstate to get used to it. That is what I would do.
No, nothing even remotely close.
The idea was to ride with the driver and when we got to the outskirts of a decent sized city in AL, we traded places. It went downhill from there. This was typical of management mentality company wide.
Those old GMC 26 footers have quite the following, over 8,000 of them still on the road, they were built by GM from 1973 to 1978. They’re being restored, renovated and refurbished. There are shops specializing in them across the country. Here in NC, Bethune Sales has a few for sale as well as consignment: http://www.bethunesales.com/listings/index.html. You can find one totally updated to modern specs and literally like new for under $50K (search for Explorer GMCII, photos of a sold one: http://www.bethunesales.com/listings/walters.html). You can find well-tended, updated ones from the high teens to high twenties. You want dual AC, they have a lot of glass. The most car-like driving experience of any RV, front wheel drive with air suspension.