Please give advice for the RV community

Show me the deed to the property, and then you can call it “your” spot.

 

yeah, i figured you were a millennial..

 

i painted my name, didn't you see it..???

 

that IS another gripe about the Rv'ers..opening up the slides....!!!!!!!

 

I don't know about road rules. Much. (I do but I rather keep one thought in mind re: RVs

If anything I have problems with in terms of potential wrecking is when I come up on a newbie RV driving something 55,000 pounds, big as a house for the first time ever and they are hunched over the wheel watching me coming on.

The first warning I get is the physical body langauge of the RV when it starts shivering or worse, wriggling as I begin the pass. That's not good. There is a certain amount of air pressure made by a big truck in the front, suction behind the tractor and wake in the rear of the trailer. So I'll extend out 300 yards then come over. Because the RV is stressed about me coming through.

In short I do what I can. But when they start swerving or shaking on it's suspension next to me... we cannot have that. They can solve that really easy. Take the horsies away, wait 5 then get back on it. That will be but a moment and clear the situation before something else comes along to really make a mess.

If I see it shivering next to others in front.. then I'll lay back a minute wait for a 6% downgrade and a little Mountain overdrive and get through right quick.

 

One piece of general advice I would give to RVers as both the wife of a truck driver and as a traveler is this...

Don't get boozy outside of the RV and carry on. The guys in a big 5th wheel at the RV spots in Big Bend this summer were seriously obnoxious. I could hear their drunken foolishness a literal quarter mile away in my cabin.

 

Fear.

There is a difference. The air pockets as you call it is normal. Most drivers of large vehicles can handle them without a thought. But the newbie RV or perhaps a aging tired RV driver not thinking clearly etc the body langauge I refer to becomes apparent.

I don't know how to be plainer.

Not mph, just a few moments off the horsies will sort it fast. Without interfering too much with the stack of other people behind. A newbie RV driver is likely as not to be rolling somewhat slower than the speed of traffic causing further problems.

I get it, we all have to learn how to drive big RV's at some point in life. (I actually do so in auctions and I don't enjoy that too much because Ive been in 5th wheel vehicles too long)