RE: Pets are NOT to be left unattended... what??
Good grief...... some ppl need to chill out. Just because some dogs don't know how to behave or have irresponsible owners, you lump all dogs and dog owners in one category?
Get real - there are wife beaters out there - does that mean all men are wife beaters? There are women who can be real shrews - does that mean all women are like that? There are children who are neglected and unsupervised - does that mean all kids and parents fall into that group? Some people steal - does that mean all people steal?
I surely don't understand the attack this thread took on, against dog owners.Probably because in a 100 site RV park there is almost always one incessantly barking dog left alone in a rig. It gets really, really old enforcing any kind of policy. The norm is we finally get ahold of the person. They apologize profusely and tell us it will never happen again. The dog is then left alone to bark incessantly the next day and we notice that they are scheduled to leave the next morning anyway, so there is really nothing we can do short of tossing them out and create a big scene at 9PM when they return from their day trip. We then take the path of least resistance and say "What the Flip" and let nature take it's course and wave goodbye to them in the morning and then start following our ears to the next problem pup. It's only one dog, but they disturb entire sections of a park. Doesn't take too many for it to be a constant problem for both the park and the guests.
Wouldn't it be more convenient for you to ban dogs from your campground? It wouldn't bother most dog owners one bit avoiding your place all together. You never know when those yappy ones will show up. But I'm sure that would bite a little into the revenues wouldn't it. You could do us a favor by letting us know the name and location of your campground. I would be happy to pass you by during my travels. No hard feelings either.
I muct have missed something here. WesternPO didn't jump on anyone, didn't say he wanted to ban dogs. Was just honest about what happens at the CG he runs. He didn't toss the bad dog owner's as I personally believ he should have, He let them stay another day, and bother even more people. But it seems you took exception to him being nice to the bad dog owner's. It's just possible, he wil be glad to NOT have you visit his CG.
It seems you overlooked his/her scripture post? Sure seems like he/she has some bias. Personally I find these dog threads amusing. The good dog owners way out number the bad ones. We don't hear those stories. As some have indicated, there are many of us dog owners who go out of our way to make sure the rest of you are happy and enjoying your time. That's more than I can say for the "unattended" kids running through everyone's campsite, the loud drunks keeping everyone up all night, those shooting off fireworks, golf carts being operated by people who shouldn't drive a car much less a golf cart. But I have been able to live with it when I camp. I've been camping for over 40 years and have never run across a barking dog problem. Can't say the same for the other things I've mentioned.You lose all your credibility when you state that in over 40 years you have never run across a barking dog problem. That is only possible in a very few situations. One, you always boondock in the middle of nowhere with no one else around or chose parks than do not allow pets. Two, incessantly barking dogs do not bother you, hence it is never a problem, or three you are deaf and noise is never an issue. My guess is you have problem dogs and have been asked to leave parks, so like so many people today, instead of standing up and taking personal responsibility, you blame everyone else. In this case you blame it on their lack of tolerance for dogs, which I actually haven't seen too many posts actually profess. It is not a lack of tolerance for people's pets, it a well deserved intolerance for anything that disturbs others that is created by carelessness or indifference of the rights of others and that is what a barking, unattended dog is, either carelessness or indifference to what that does to everyone esle. . The reason so many people have problems with dogs in campground is because the problem exists. People do leave barking dogs unattended. People do fail to clean up after their dogs and this effects everyone else in the park. If all the people who spend so much energy saying it is the intolerance of others instead would put that effort into chastising those who are the bad owners and supporting the parks that try to enforce dog rules maybe this wouldn't be such an issue. But playing ostrich and sticking your head in the sand pretending a problem doesn't exist just makes you a pretty stupid looking bird.
RE: West Yellowstone to Red Lodge
I think we should have those stickers on our cars that say RV net. Do they have them anymore? I'd put one on my Trailer if they did.
Don't know what site I am getting, just one that is long and has wifi because I am teaching a summer session class online.You had better re-read the reviews for Grizzly. It is a fantastic park, but the wifi sucks. No way you will be able to depend on it if your class is interactive and live. This is not a condemnation of Grizzly, it is a condemnation of the combination of Tengointernet and the very real fact that the entire Yellowstone Park area has very limited wifi bandwidth being shared by thousands upon thousands of individuals.
RE: Beware of Flying J
I wish the CC companies would do something as it is not fair to CC holders or debit card holders to pay more.
Recent changes to the law has made it legal for merchants to charge a credit card fee on credit card transactions. I have seen it start to creep in at a few merchants. Wouldn't be surprised if within the next couple of years paying a 2% or 3% fee for a credit card transaction will be the norm.
The issue in Indiana, however, has to do with taxes, not cash vs credit pricing. I vividly remember the first (and hopefully last) time I bought diesel in Indiana and ran into the same thing.
You do realize that every retailer out there that takes credit cards pays around 2-3% to the credit card processor for you to use your credit card. When you pay cash at a gas station the retailer does not pay the 2% so they are giving you an option to save money.
That being said I think all fuel prices posted on signs should post the highest fee one would pay and then offer discounts after they suck you in.
RE: Beware of Flying J
I wish the CC companies would do something as it is not fair to CC holders or debit card holders to pay more.
Recent changes to the law has made it legal for merchants to charge a credit card fee on credit card transactions. I have seen it start to creep in at a few merchants. Wouldn't be surprised if within the next couple of years paying a 2% or 3% fee for a credit card transaction will be the norm.
The issue in Indiana, however, has to do with taxes, not cash vs credit pricing. I vividly remember the first (and hopefully last) time I bought diesel in Indiana and ran into the same thing.
You do realize that every retailer out there that takes credit cards pays around 2-3% to the credit card processor for you to use your credit card. When you pay cash at a gas station the retailer does not pay the 2% so they are giving you an option to save money.
That being said I think all fuel prices posted on signs should post the highest fee one would pay and then offer discounts after they suck you in.
RE: Is this normal? Dealer service question.
I would rather take it to the engine and transmission shop myself. That way the service writer is getting first hand information on the problem rather than information filtered from the dealer. Also, it gives me a contact person a little closer to the action. And, I seriously doubt the dealership is going to have their best employees away from the dealership for an hour or two transporting rigs to various shops. I just have the vision of goofball the dealership can most do without being the guy driving my rig around town.
RE: Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone
This may be sacriligious, but we enjoy creature comforts almost as much as we enjoy Yellowstone. We always stay outside the park, normally at Gardiner, but sometimes West Yellowstone. We do this because we like to come home after a long day and enjoy a nice meal at a decent restaurant without a 2 hour wait. We like having our cell phones work and enjoy having internet access. We like to be able to drive 1/4 mile to a grocery store and buy stuff at prices that are not totally ridiculous. Yellowstone will always involve a lot of driving, to us the amenities at our base camp are more important than saving a couple of minutes and miles.
RE: Commercial vs. Recreational RV insurance while gate guarding
Check with your insurer to be sure. No one on RV.net is going to cover you in the event of a denied claim. It sounds like it is pretty simple, but things never are. Example: My current policy requires me to get a rider to sell my rig on consignment, yet many other companies do not. One size does not fit all insurance policies.
RE: Camping World Greenwood IN.. Backs out of sale!
If the contract is signed by both parties and both of those parties are legally capable of making that commitment, they are legally bound to the terms of that contract UNLESS there is a material mistake in the contract or there are some variables that are not being met. A mistake would be something like they left the "1" off of the purchase price of $123,456.78. You don't get to get that rig for $23,456.78 even if that is what the contract says, since actual mistakes will void a contract. A variable would be something like the contract says you are trading in your RV and you have a wreck on the way in to pick up your new rig, they are not obligated to take the wrecked rig, when in good faith they expected it to not be wrecked. Otherwise, they should have their feet held to the fire, if that is what you want to do. As others have suggested, however, if it isn't a whole lot of money, I would walk away. Who needs to deal with dishonest people.
I do have one question, did you go in to the dealership, see the rig and sign documents there? I don't know of many dealerships that will actually complete a deal sight-unseen. There are many reasons why, not the least of which the law requires a certain amount of proof of identity. After all, it is easy to steal someone's identity and buy anything if you don't have to be physically seen. I can't pass for Halle Berry in person since I am male, white and better looking. But I look just like her on a faxed document.
RE: eating lunch at the fuel pumps
We don't use the truck stops but use regular gas stations and usually get cheaper prices. On this trip home however, I did need gas in the Jeep and we stopped at a truck stop (not Flying J) on the car side. Filled with gas. Noticed that the tank of gas from there went away a whole lot faster than the gas purchased at regular gas stations -- got 100 miles less on that tank full. We will not ever use that truck stop again, seems as if their gas is inferior in some way.
Some stations have the pumps rigged to pump less fuel than is indicated on the pump readoutDon't think so. That is a major violation of state and federal law and would earn the store a huge fine and the owners possibly jail time. Just doesn't happen. And yes, some fuel is "inferior" to other fuel. Any blended fuel with ethanol has less energy content than pure gasoline and you will get lower mileage when using an ethanol blend.
RE: A problem I never knew existed.
I remember a park where there was a lush carpet of grass in the site, but upon further investigation, just 1 or 2 inches below that turf was nothing but dirt and worms. Made sure to mark them off any potential future visit, the nerve hiding all that nasty stuff under the grass.
RE: Dallas in August?
Cannot possibly see any advantage to bringing the Trailer to Dallas, if you have any other option. If you need to stay for a length of time, a Residence Inn or another longer stay hotel would be my first choice.
You might save a few bucks by staying in the RV, but it will be miserable. Homes in Dallas are traditionally larger than homes in most parts of the country, exactly because in the summer NO ONE spends much time outside. Unless you have a boat and are on the water, or are swimming in your pool, you spend June thru August indoors. That means the malls, the theaters and the restaurants are the places to go when you leave the comforts of the AC in the house.
Yes, some people do go out for the weekend in their RVs, but they go as far away from the city as possible, since the city is a giant heat sink and can be 10 or more degrees warmer than getting 100 miles away. If you get unlucky and have a week with 110+ highs, and 85 degree lows, you will slow cook like a rack of baby back ribs. The AC unit in your rig, will not cool an outside temp or 113 degrees to anything that resembles comfortable.
RE: RV Direct Fine Print
The strongest negotiating factor you have is to walk out. You'll have salesmen and GM chasing you to your car.Which is exactly why RV Direct has a contract that offers you no wiggle room to walk away when there is an RV that can cost 100s of thousands of dollars that they are liable to pay for. They want no possibility that a customer will attempt to strong arm them to change the deal once the order is placed. And if you write your own purchase orders, I know a bunch of dealers that would love for you to bring such an order in, they would photo copy it and send it around as the daily joke. No dealer of any repute would allow a customer to write or materially alter the purchase orders, the finance contracts or any other legal document. That is the perfect way to loose tens of thousands of dollars trying to make a few hundred.
RE: Great deals on leftover rams
bigdogger,
Being a Supervisor with a Tier 1 supplier I DO know when re-tool starts..
.....on edit:, no, no contact point here in case some ones brakes fail, we have never had a recall on our brakes nor have we had a "failed brake"....I also would never take a brake caliper out of my plant and give it to someone, we deal directly with Auto manufacturers.Oh,I didn't know that a brake caliper was automatically model year specific. So you only send out 2013 calipers for 2013 models and the 2014s get something different? Apparently your company doesn't stand behind it's product, you pawn the responsibility off onto the auto manufacturer. If your manufacturing process and product is so great, you would have nothing to lose if you said you would personally stand behind every failed item you plant manufactures since you proclaim that failure rate is zero. And how wonderful it must be to be such a great manufacturer that you review each and ever part that goes out of your plant and you have ZERO product failures throughout the entire history of the company. If so, yours would be the first company in the history of the world to have that kind of track record. I know the banks I have worked for have a failure of some kind or another every hour of every day, and I bet most every other business does as well. Perfection is a standard that is pretty hard to achieve.
RE: Great deals on leftover rams
take that exact same 2012 truck that has been titled and driven 1000 miles and ask for the trade in value. It will be a whole lot less than $47000.00 You are getting a rig that is almost two years old, as model years go. There will be 2014s will be on the lot within a couple of months. Doesn't sound to me that this dealer is doing charity work on this deal.
OK, you're close, but no cigar...I have a 2013 on order,,,,,not here yet, nor do I plan to purchase it, but it's a 2013 3500DRW/CC/LB/Cummins with Aisin tranny with 4:10 in Longhorn trim..Should I choose to purchase it, they will give me what I gave them for the truck, heck, I've got it in writing..also in writing is that "IF" it's now delivered by 20 April, 2013 and my 2012 is low milage and looks as good as the day I bought it....and it does:).
so, I come out "smelling like a rose" so your speculation is just that....speculation..and I got a MONSTER trade in on my 2010....but then again, it may have to do with where I do ALL my trading since 96'...but never a Dodge truck till 2010....
How much you want to bet that you won't see a 2014 Ram 3500 in "a couple of months" We haven't seen a 2013 yet and we're within a hair of being into April..Do you know when re-tool starts in auto/truck manufacturing plants, ie, Ram's in particular??
I do, we're a Tier 1 supply of calipers, ABS and ESP systems in some of their automobiles and some of their trucks along with quiet a few other car/truck manufacturers..Actually, it is relatively common for manufacturers to only run a very short model year on first year introductions, especially when that introduction has been delayed. This is done for many reasons, it can be due to CAFE regs, customer satisfaction reasons, or maybe they weren't able to get all the changes in place for the first model year and the second will have all the new goodies. The best known example of that was with the Chevrolet Corvette. The first year of the radical change from the stingray style was 1984, the first year models had the old crossfire fuel injection, and the 1985s on had Throttle Body Injection. What GM did was make a short production run of the 1984s to use up all the crossfire engines, then the 1985s ran much longer. The fact that you are a "tier 1 supplier of Calipers" has nothing at all to do with what model year Dodge brands a truck. But at least now we have a contact point should someone's brakes fail.
RE: Great deals on leftover rams
take that exact same 2012 truck that has been titled and driven 1000 miles and ask for the trade in value. It will be a whole lot less than $47000.00 You are getting a rig that is almost two years old, as model years go. There will be 2014s will be on the lot within a couple of months. Doesn't sound to me that this dealer is doing charity work on this deal.
RE: DIY trade in appraisal?
It is a dealer with a pretty good plan. They have you fill out that appraisal and two things will happen. 1. you will point out a whole lot of flaws and then they will adjust the appraisal accordingly. It will be things like, you noted a scratch, and they will accurately tell you to professionally repair it, it may cost $500.00. You note a spot on the carpet, they note that replacing the carpet costs another $500 and they eventually roll down your appraisal to the true value of the rig. 2. they do the exact same thing to all the little details you don't point out.
This is a variation on the time honored used vehicle appraisal technique of touching and listening to every flaw and blemish without saying a word in front of the person who is trading a vehicle. Mentally the customer is lowering his value expectation with every ding and squeak. It is not anything illegal, immoral or shady, it is just a way to get a prospective customer to value their trade in more realistically. Everyone knows NADA is not an accurate reflection of the value of the trade. This dealer has chosen not to argue over whether or not NADA is accurate, he is going to start at NADA and prove to you your rig has issues that make it worth less than that NADA figure.
RE: Iowa Bill Aimed at RV Registration Fee Evasion
Montana LLCs are not really appropriate for people who keep their RV in their home state for most of the time. In our case, our RV is either on the road in the west for the summer or at our winter lot in California. It never enters Texas. I have no interest in pay Texas sales tax to register a vehicle that is never going to be at my home in Texas. I register my other vehicles at the Texas address, because that is where they are used. Iowa probably needs to realize it is freaking IOWA. There isn't a whole lot to draw someone to live there. If they get too cute and fancy about chasing taxes, I doubt many Iowans will have a problem relocating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri or any other neighboring state. It is not like they are going to forego their great oceanside estates, or their spectacular mountain views or are giving up those nice mild winters. States need residents with money, it helps everyone. The Montana LLC crowd are mostly people with expensive rigs, hence they are high net worth/high income crowd. Put up barriers and those wealthy residents move. Numerous people relocate to tax friendly areas when they can. It looks like Iowa is intent on giving them a nudge out the door.
RE: suggestions of where to sell a camper item
It really depends on the item. A relatively small, relatively expensive item that is relatively uncommon, EBAY can be a good source. It it is heavy, bulky and not very expensive, EBAY is too much hassle when you have to pay to ship, pack etc. In those instances, Craigslist, a local Thrifty Nickel publication or the local classifieds would be the best bets. If those don't work, the landfill is better than cluttering up the garage. Unless the item is really rare, the wider you cast your net, the less you are going to get. Most people will pay a bit more if they can see it and pick it up, that way they know what they are getting. They will only take a risk on an unknown seller for a real bargain.
RE: Southeastern PA to Yellowstone - How long?
Any suggestion that includes "Cody, Wyoming and then into Yellowstone" is taking you the long, slow way. From the Black Hills, go to Belle Fourche and pick up 212, (The Warrior Trail). This will take you to Garryowen Montana and Interstate 90. Follow 90 to either Livingston Montana or Bozeman Montana and enter either at the North or West Entrance to Yellowstone. This will be several hours faster than climbing over the Big Horn Mountains to Get to Cody and then driving the 80 or so miles to get to the Grand Loop of Yellowstone. Cody is a neat place, but it it is too far from Yellowstone to be a base camp for Yellowstone. Time is going to be critical for you, I really think you are looking at 5 days each way, plus a day at the Black Hills, so you are going to need every minute you can save for Yellowstone.
RE: anybody here ever owned an RV dealership? advice needed
It appears you are WAY over your head. Dealership retail financing relationships are not easy to get. The lender will require the dealer to complete comprehensive financial statements. The dealer must be financially secure because the lender is relying on the the good faith of the dealer that the information transmitted to them is correct as it relates to the customer's identification, the rig the customer is purchasing etc. You will be required to offer recourse (pay back the bank) if you send false or misleading information and often if the customer defaults within a certain period of time. The bank is also going to be looking for a situation where they will get enough business to justify having you as a dealer. My bank wouldn't keep an auto dealer that didn't send us a minimum of $250,000 in business a month. The bank is also going to be looking to see if the average loan amount will make it worthwhile. It costs the same to make a $50,000 loan than it does to make a $5000.00 and most banks won't mess with anything less that a $10,000 to $15,000 average. Also, the rigs will need to be no more than 4 or 5 years old to interest most lenders. Your best bet in to develop a referral relationship with a local bank or credit union. If you get a customer who wants to finance, they can go down to the bank and apply for a loan. But even that is going to be a longshot.
