Motorhome/Toad vs Truck-Trailer/Chase Car
I have been doing a lot of study on the motorhome vs truck-trailer approach to full-timing. There is the issue of having a smaller vehicle to run around in - easily satisfied by choice of a suitabl...
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We started fulltime with just the truck and trailer, but it was a International MDT. After about 4 months we decided we needed a smaller car for shopping and site seeing. We bought a new PT Cruiser. That car got 24 mpg or more and the truck 7.5 so doing some math I figured we had to put about 95,000 miles on the car to be 'free' compared to the trucks costs. We ended up putting 130,000 miles on before selling it. We rarely traveled more than 300 miles on move days, so we were apart for about 6 hours. She and I kept in contact with CB radios and it worked great. We always started out with printed maps of where we were going and how to get there. Plus she was my blocker, allowing me to switch lanes easier than if she was not there. Sometimes the other drivers just don't want to let you slide over for whatever reason. Parking in RV parks was never an issue, sometimes the MDT had to park in a different location, but rarely. The PT could squeeze in places a larger vehicle could not. Yes there were added costs, of insurance and plates along with maintenance, but the benifits to us were worth it.
