They deliver fully styled Airstream retreats to private vineyards, Hill Country hideaways, and event venues across Texas. Guests arrive and don't have to think about a thing. That premise worked. And then the event requests started getting bigger than what they owned.
The growth opportunity
Jen had leads for events calling for 10, 20, even 30 vehicles. Buying her way there wasn't realistic.
She'd heard about the consignment model at the Outdoorsy Group 2026 Summit — operators who owned 10 units but ran events with 90, sourcing vehicles from other owners on a revenue-share basis. It was exactly what she needed. But her existing setup made it impossible. Seven Zapier integrations, all requiring manual triggers to fire, nothing talking to anything else.
The idea of layering in consigned vehicles from multiple owners — each with their own calendars, their own Outdoorsy listings, their own payout expectations — on top of that wasn't going to fly.
“There's no way. It couldn't talk to anything. I had to do all these pieces manually and I still had to trigger them.”
Consignment as a solution
When Jen approaches an Airstream owner, the arrangement goes like this: she picks up the vehicle, handles everything from logistics to interior equipment, puts it under her insurance policy, runs the booking, and returns it clean. Owners pocket the income without lifting a finger.
She finds them everywhere — Facebook Marketplace, knocking on doors at businesses with units sitting in the lot. A lot of them had no plans to rent.
For an upcoming brand activation — a 3D-printed homes startup that needs on-site lodging for VIP executives — Jen pulled together five consigned Airstreams from four different owners she'd connected with through Outdoorsy. Three of them hadn't been planning to do anything with their units that weekend.
Why Wheelbase
Before Jen could grow, she needed a system that could handle growth. When she came across Wheelbase, it wasn't any single feature that sold her — it was that everything lived in one place: the calendar, the direct booking site, guest communications, consignment reporting.
She also got the sense that Wheelbase was built by people who understood what fleet operators actually deal with. Not just booking logistics, but managing insurance across vehicles she doesn't own, coordinating multi-unit events, and paying out consignors without a dedicated finance team.
She built on Wheelbase before the volume was there. That ended up being the right call.
“I would not have been able to scale in this way. I wouldn't be able to consign if I didn't have Wheelbase. I'm so glad I went to that conference and met Justin.”
What's next
Eight events are on the books between now and October. She started with 2 Airstreams she owned outright. She's at 7 now, and she's gunning for 30 by December.
She's also planning community meetups at her property — open houses where local owners can walk through the units, hear how the consignment model works, and connect with other operators thinking about doing the same thing.
