Holy Moly the new trucks are TALL
:( So my beloved brother offered to lend me his 2012 F350 to haul our new to us 2008 Fleetwood Regal from Red Deer, Alberta to Osoyoos, BC. Today we tried to hook it up to his Reese hitch and we were unable to get enough lift out of the Regal's front jacks to get his truck under the pin. We darn near pushed the Regal off of the blocks that we had it resting on and had to place wood between the bed rails and the bottom of the neck of the Regal to prevent it from falling onto the bed rails and damaging them. What a cluster foo foo the process turned out to be. We finally gave up on trying to hook up to his truck and backed the 1999 RAM 2500 back under the pin.
As it turns out we have to cancel our travel plans and stick around in the frozen wasteland of another Alberta winter. Our eldest daughter, who has been going through a very stressful battle with a Bi-Polar disorder, is being committed to an institution for an as yet unknown period of time. As always, family matters take precedence over personal wants
Tomorrow I'll haul the RV back to Wetaskiwin for storage and momma and I will move into the kids house to look after the house and her two boys. The RAM hauls the RV very nicely BTW. It's just that with full load and all it comes in at around 13,500lbs, way over the max allowed weight for the 3/4 ton RAM. Hence the need to borrow brothers 1 ton. Although the RAM tows the Regal very well and has tons of power it was the stopping and slowing going down the mountains that was a concern to me. If I had an exhaust brake on the RAM I probably wouldn't be so worried about the stopping end of things. I guess I'll start shopping for a 1 ton that I can afford so that we can tow the Regal safely next season. We are retired and fixed income so we are not in a position to take on any debt, any vehicle that I buy will have to be of an older vintage. Careful shopping will hopefully provide a decent truck.
Cheers!
Mike and Carol
As it turns out we have to cancel our travel plans and stick around in the frozen wasteland of another Alberta winter. Our eldest daughter, who has been going through a very stressful battle with a Bi-Polar disorder, is being committed to an institution for an as yet unknown period of time. As always, family matters take precedence over personal wants
Tomorrow I'll haul the RV back to Wetaskiwin for storage and momma and I will move into the kids house to look after the house and her two boys. The RAM hauls the RV very nicely BTW. It's just that with full load and all it comes in at around 13,500lbs, way over the max allowed weight for the 3/4 ton RAM. Hence the need to borrow brothers 1 ton. Although the RAM tows the Regal very well and has tons of power it was the stopping and slowing going down the mountains that was a concern to me. If I had an exhaust brake on the RAM I probably wouldn't be so worried about the stopping end of things. I guess I'll start shopping for a 1 ton that I can afford so that we can tow the Regal safely next season. We are retired and fixed income so we are not in a position to take on any debt, any vehicle that I buy will have to be of an older vintage. Careful shopping will hopefully provide a decent truck.
Cheers!
Mike and Carol
