Driving a Class C on Snow and Ice

We normally do not go camping in the snow but it does surprise us sometimes. In fact, on our first trip with the MH quite a little blizzard caught us. We stopped at a rest stop and enjoyed our new house until the storm ended. I was surprised that the MH felt slightly more slippery on the snow covered highway than our minivan. Physics says the friction force (traction) is proportional to the weight so you would expect deceleration from braking to be the same for a vehicle of any weight, other things being equal, but some tires have more grip than others per pound. It is prohibitively expensive to buy winter tires for a motorhome and a waste to use them on hot summer pavement. So avoiding driving when it is slippery unless willing to chain up and driving slowly and carefully are the only alternatives. If you get a chance to practise driving on ice and snow, grab it. We do it six months of every year here in the north and some get pretty good at it. Big mall or truck stop parking lots are a good place.