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RE: Mountain loop highway in Wa.
We were thru there last fall, and it was pretty narrow and rough in many places. try running it with the toad first. but there are some pretty nice camps just out of Darrington
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Tom/Barb
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05/25/13 10:19pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Do Class A drivers need instructions before driving
Look how few airplane accidents there are. That is because of regular testing, both medical and proficiency testing. I do it to keep my pilot's license active, but it is a pain.
You should check the data base before you make statements like that, all that expense and time in training and the bi-annual flight review has only dropped the accident rate .02% we still die by the same accidents as we did 25 years ago.
I think proficiency tests for MH are just common sense. If it get's some MH driver's off the road, that should be off anyway, then so be it. It will not kill the RV industry, just like it didn't kill the motorcycle industry when Florida started requiring a proficiency test to have the motorcycle endorsement put on your driver's license.
And that hasn't dropped the M/C rate either
all these endorsements are simply people control, by an over bearing government state and federal.
THe CDL is simply a method of ensuring the state knows you have passed a knowledge requirement to drive a commercial vehicle.
Rule after rule, law after law, we just keep heaping it on until we loose all the freedoms the veterans have fought and died for all these years.
I think we should have a law saying you need training to cook on your BBQ this weekend.
Stupid is as stupid does, and you will not change that with another rule.
I also believe that the government has no right to interfere with gene pool purging or survival of the fittest.
So, get out of my way you stupid little car, I'm on cruise control.
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Tom/Barb
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05/25/13 08:02pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Class "C "or Class "A" for Maine,NH,VT's bad roads?
think "air ride" they will always ride better, as for the leaning, they all will. car, truck, buss or coach.
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Tom/Barb
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05/25/13 07:32pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Do Class A drivers need instructions before driving
any rv'r worth his or her salt shouldn't even try to drive w/o familiarizing themselves w/ their equipment. I've never seen any rv'r driving unsafely! Course, ive not been EVERYWHERE! ;) but,,,tht's just MY opinion,, for what it's worth
mine too.
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Tom/Barb
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05/25/13 12:09am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Do Class A drivers need instructions before driving
It is no different than driving an air brake equipped truck! If you need a CDL to drive a truck then I think you should have to pass some sort of test to drive a heavy class A.
It is a lot different than having a tractor and trailer rig with hoses to connect and disconnect and the ability to jackknife, logs to keep, all that stuff.
We basically have 1 drive axel, maybe a tag, but nothing like the 108,000# loads to contend with all the rules that go with trucking.
Just because you have 1 big yellow button to push or pull doesn't make it all that difficult.
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Tom/Barb
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05/25/13 12:07am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Do Class A drivers need instructions before driving
After all an A is sometime as big as an 18 wheeler and with nowhere near the safety systems.....
What do you mean we don't have the safety systems the 18 wheelers do?
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Tom/Barb
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05/24/13 10:20pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: I-5 bridge collapse
Bridge is an old bridge that was classified as deficient because of narrows lanes, low clearance etc. I'm sorry, but if 1 truck hitting part of the bridge can make it collapse, I would not feel safe driving on it. What if there was a 5 car accident and everyone hit some part of that bridge. It should be structurally strong enough to take a hit from something without collapsing.
The Load that hit the bridge was a huge ferrocement object that was both too high and too wide, the driver failed to be in the center of the highway where it would have cleared. taking out the top structure failed the whole bridge section.
the truck was from Canada where the no fault insurance will pay the bills.
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Tom/Barb
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05/24/13 09:06am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: I-5 bridge collapse
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Report-I-5-bridge-collapses-over-Skagit-River-cars-in-water-208758631.html
Some campers might have to cancel their weekend trips after seeing this. It's going to be a nightmare trying to get all that I-5 traffic around that bridge on such a busy travel weekend.
There are pretty easy way around this bridge.
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Tom/Barb
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05/23/13 11:23pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: I-5 Bridge Collapse at Mount Vernon, WA
Many truckers travel Hwy 9 to avoid the weigh station on Bow Hill. Now, they have a better excuse. We will make alternate plans when we head for eastern Oregon, probably Hwy 20 over the North Cascades Hwy.
Coming South get off I-5 at Cook Rd, east to Sedro-wooley, more better than 20.
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Tom/Barb
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05/23/13 11:15pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: I-5 Bridge Collapse at Mount Vernon, WA
The least used detour will be north bound, off at Conway follow Fir Island road, to Highway 20. east to I-5.
South, off at 20 west to Best Rd. south to Fir Island Rd, and conway and I-5
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Tom/Barb
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05/23/13 10:24pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Newmar electrical problem
Rick,
You are describing multiple (likely unrelated) issues:
Very hard to believe that the chassis battery is charged when on generator, but not when on shore power. Your converter, charger or inverter/charger really doesn't know the difference between the two sources.
It is not uncommon for the coach maker to wire the coach to charge the house battery bank from the converter, charger or inverter/charger but NOT the chassis battery.
And, as you state, the alternator should charge both banks when the engine is running.
With very low voltage on one bank, be careful about condemning a battery combiner solenoid. If it is powered by the battery with less than 12 VDC, THAT may be the issue.
Clearly, he needs to track down the 5 amp draw. That will take any battery bank down in just a few days.
The Onan genet will start and recharge the chassis battery on its own but will not charge the house batteries until the intelic control box tells it to.
He may have smoked the relay that the controller closes when the system requires it to, or he may have a bad controller or an open in the ground for the controller.
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Tom/Barb
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05/23/13 06:24pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Newmar electrical problem
Does the coach have an intelic controller? it should be in the same compartment as the large cable that is plugged into the external power source. little square black box about 1"X4"X4" has 5 small wires going to it. If it has a good ground, check the voltage drop across the relay that connects the two systems together during a boosted start. That is the relay that will be closed when the inverter is charging the chassis battery.
Place a trouble shooting light across the relay and see if the light will light when the inverter is charging the house battery.
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Tom/Barb
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05/23/13 06:20pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: The road ate my cable ;-(
What is a terminal strip?
Carolyn
terminal strip
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Tom/Barb
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05/20/13 08:41pm |
Towing
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RE: The road ate my cable ;-(
I would install a terminal strip aft of the worn spot, mounted on the frame and replace the cable from there to the 7 pin connector. (TV)
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Tom/Barb
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05/20/13 07:09pm |
Towing
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RE: Best place to buy replacement awning fabric
We are hang the same problem matching the dark green fabric of our awnings.
A&E systems (domestic) doesn't use the solid colors and more.
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Tom/Barb
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05/20/13 07:56am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Best route
LOL....I was just trying to miss as many as possible
Probably worrying about nothing....
I'd do I-80 to Salt Lake and I-15 north to I-90/94
to get out of the Ca central valley you must climb.
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Tom/Barb
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05/19/13 10:36pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Driveway/Pad Size
I find backing up is not the problem every one says it is. We park beside the house, which requires we back it 90 degrees to the street thru a 10' foot gate. really isn't that difficult.
but if you got the room, it will as simple as building a road 45' long.
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Tom/Barb
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05/19/13 06:38pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Test drove a new Chevy D/A Dually today
Want to pull ?? Pull
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Tom/Barb
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05/18/13 09:36pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: What are these? And do they need replacing?
Where do you suggest the OP stop? Do you honestly think these are the only rusty components on a 1993 Flair?
I would expect the owner to make that decision. This looks like an easy thing to do with major consequences if it were to fail.
This is more like cleaning battery terminals, would you allow them to fail before you did anything?
This is about common sense stuff and preventing it from biting you when you need it most.
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Tom/Barb
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05/18/13 11:19am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: What are these? And do they need replacing?
AS long as your breakers work, that's all you can ask of them. No reason to fix anything that works. If you HAVE to replace them on the road, do it then.
I don't like fixing things when I'm on a trip, when this seems like an easy do at home.
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Tom/Barb
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05/18/13 09:09am |
Class A Motorhomes
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