Wet-hire · Truck and operator together
Grip truck with operator in Atlanta
More than just a grip truck! This is my grip and lighting van loaded with enough gear to handle a wide variety of shoots.
The more-than-1-ton bundle covers what an interview, b-roll, corporate, or lit narrative day needs: lighting for two or three setups at a time, shaped and powered, for a crew of up to six. Price includes me as your gaffer.
$1,750 /day · truck, gear, and me as gaffer
What's on the truck
Light Fixtures
- 9 COB heads, 80W RGB to 1,200W bicolor
- 10 panel and mat lights, 1x1 to 4x2
- 4 RGB tubes, 2ft and 4ft
- 10 RGB practicals: bulbs and minis
Shaping
- 13 Bowens mods: domes, lanterns, fresnels
- 8x8 and 6x6 frames with full rag sets
- Flags, floppies, and bounce
- Grids, ultrabounce, magic cloth, diff
Grip
- 24 stands: C-stands, combos, beefy babies
- 8 arms, 16 grip heads and cardellinis
- 18 sandbags, rigging clamps, apple boxes
- Rolling shelf carts, wedges, wall plates
Power
- 2kW battery generator built into the van, 1,200W of light for 6+ hours
- 12 stingers, 25ft to 100ft
- Distro: cube taps and dimming
The full itemized manifest is on the equipment page
This is wet-hire: the truck comes with its operator
I drive it
Prepped and ready on arrival
- The truck arrives ready to roll, because the driver is the gaffer
- Packed the night before, gone when we wrap
I run it
On set I'm your gaffer, not a delivery driver.
- I know where every stand, rag, and stinger lives
- 20+ years on set
I maintain it
My own gear, in working order.
- Tested, repaired, and restocked by the person who uses it
- Expendables (tape, gel, diffusion) stocked and included
One rate covers both: $1,750/day, the truck and full grip and electric (G&E) package with me as gaffer. Need camera too? The Docu DP Day is $2,500, the DP + Gaffer Day $3,500. See the day rates →
Why this beats a dry rental
A dry rental hands you a box of gear and leaves the rest to you. Wet-hire folds all of that into one person and one line on the budget. Additional crew and equipment are available, quoted per job.
- No separate delivery window Less to coordinate: the truck arrives when your crew call does, and the driver is your gaffer.
- No separate labor line The rate already includes the person who runs the gear. One booking, one invoice, no truck-plus-crew math.
- Gear maintained by owner Everything on the truck is owned, tested, and kept in working order by the person who works with it every week.
How booking works
Send the dates
Email, call, text, or grab 20 minutes on Calendly. Same-day answer.
Paperwork, same day
A COI naming your production, the same day you book: $1M/$2M general liability, plus workers comp and auto. W-9 and vendor paperwork the same day too. No union affiliation.
Deposit holds the days
25% deposit before the first shoot day, balance net 30. ACH, check, or card (card adds 3%).
Shoot day
I show up early with the gear already prepped for an efficient day.
Book four days, the fifth day is 50% off. Tech Scout $500 for four hours. Expendables included. Meals provided by production or billed. Cancellation: free 48+ hours out; inside 48 hours we reschedule within two weeks of the original date, or the fee is the first day of the booking.
Send the dates. You'll hear back today.
Same-day answer, usually within the hour. You get me, not a coordinator.
david@robertsonproduction.com · Atlanta, GA