Welcome to Heartland RV park in Campbellsville, KY. This park is one of several local campgrounds which become the 4-month home of many of the Camper Force individuals who work the holiday seasonal period for Amazon. Three of the Amazon distribution centers hire Camper Force people. They are located in Campbellsville KY, Fernley NV, and Coffeyville KS. These centers do not have enough local residents available to work temporarily to supplement the full-time personnel to handle the increase in orders during the busy holiday season.
This is the office for the RV park which starts to get pretty busy around the end of September as the work campers arrive.
Here's the clubhouse which Amazon uses to greet new Camper Force workers. During the meeting, you get your shift information, job assignment, and are briefed on pay and other pertinent information. Additionally, they take photos of you for your Amazon ID badge. The building is also used for park gatherings such as pot luck dinners and other park functions.
Here we are parked in site number 90. The park has 111 sites of which 58 are occupied as of this posting. All the sites have been reserved for additional personnel scheduled to arrive in the next couple months.
You can see in this photo that the campground has several layers. All sites are gravel with full hook-ups. Amazon pays for our campground site, including electricity and wifi, each month of employment. We arrived August 30th for a September 3rd start date. Not too many RV's in the park! If you look very closely, you will see the Amazon name on the white building in the distance. That is where we walk to work.
This is the level where we originally parked until the first rain storm. We learned that the water does not drain well from this level and decided to move to a lower level. Also, some sites are larger than others.
The primary reason we selected this RV park is that its location is right across the street from Amazon. We can walk to work in a matter of minutes which helps a lot when you get up at 5 a.m.
I took this photo of a scanner used at the local Walmart. We use a comparable scanner at Amazon but due to proprietary reasons no one is permitted to take photos inside the building.
One great benefit of working here in Campbellsville is Amazon Camper Force workers can eat at Campbellsville University. You can purchase a 10-meal pass for $55 dollars which means meals cost $5.50 per person. You can't eat and drink at McDonald's for that amount and the food is considerably better.
Here's a picture of our new friends, Dave and Judy. They own the fifth wheel parked next to us. We are at one of Judy's favorite dining places the local Dairy Queen. We enjoyed the chicken tenders and also the Ice Cream for dessert. They are in their second season as work campers for Amazon. They have a wealth of local information as well as being great neighbors.
