I left home on Feb 3 on a "mostly video" route from DC to FL and back. I am currently in Savannah, heading home by Friday.
For video routes, I try to get the MSC to let me be "first shopper in" for almost all of the shops. That way, I don't have to worry about targets. Second best are the shops where the client has supplied us with the target's schedule and even may have arranged to make sure that target's partner is in training that day. However, on this trip, one builder screwed that all up by moving our targets among subdivisions without telling the video MSC. I lost a coiple of shops in the ensuing scrum, of course, but the MSC stepped in to add some shops for my route home. In order for all this to work, you need to have established a really, really good relationship with each scheduler. This is not likely to happen within one's first year of video shopping, I suspect.
I have had to mail in my SD cards to the editors for two MSCs on this trip. Hotels with zero vacancy (near Orlando and the Daytona races) are 100 % full of families with kids, with each person using at least one device. This sucks up the bandwidth pretty good.
One lesson leanered on this route: never, never, never book three high end hotel shops (total of 4 nights) back to back. You are better off using rewards points and cash to book moderate hotels, with no reports!
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.