Transportation to Events

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Instead of buying a trailer that might get used 2 or 3 times a year, rent a small moving truck; they are often $20 a day with a few cents per mile. That would handle all the equipment.

People can be transported by charter bus at a reasonable cost; the school surely uses them all the time. If it is near by (less than an hour) consider a school bus instead: Not as comfortable but a lot less expensive.

This is pretty much what 1923 does. In the past, we've had team parents with horse-trailers (power washed first!) take the equipment, but with our travel increases for districts we would rather not ask the continual wear & tear on their personal vehicles.

Instead, we get a 12- or 16-foot Penske to hold our pit, tool chests, bagged robot, etc. If there's enough room we also bring students' suitcases in the truck to save room on the bus.

(In our case, our school says we need a hotel for anything more than 45 minutes away, so on 'pack-up night' we also have to do luggage checks on the students and load them somewhere for storage until the trip, so it's a one-shot deal if we put their bags in our truck)

School buses are our norm, although for our District Championship this year we got a charter bus for the longer ride/bigger capacity for parents and siblings. Normally we ask the non-chaperone 'fans' to come on their own time, but for DCMP we bring everyone on the bus since it's kind of a haul.