A couple weeks ago I brought my 38' Safari Simba out of storage to the house to do some work on it. While working I had put out one of the bedroom slides. After I was finished I was going to return to the storage and got in fired it up put it in reverse and then checked my mirrors before I backed up. I had failed to bring in the slide. I was surprised that there was not some type of safety feature that would not allow some idiot, like me, to drive with the slide out. Are all Class A's like this?

There are photos of some A's driving along with a slide or slides out. Yikes!

ours is. and while "slides in" is on our checklist it would be easy to overlook this when feeling rushed.

If I remember correctly, the RV movie with Robin Williams showed them going down the road. The outside shots showed the slides in, the inside shots the slides had to be out. Of course that was a movie.But you would think they would have an override or at leat an idiot light on the dash similar to "Jacks Down".

You would think that there would at least be a dashboard warning light or buzzer if the slide wasn't fully in, wouldn't you? Especially since there seem to be cases of the slides creeping out while the RV is cruising down the highway.

I am not aware of ANY device to stop a Motorhome from moving with the slides deployed. I have worked on thousands of motorhomes in 34 years and have never seen such a device. Now to the practical part of this question. As you found out, you looked in your SIDE mirrors and found the slide out. IMO, ANYBODY that would start a motorhome and put in gear and then move more than 5 feet WITHOUT noticing the rooms deployed in the side mirrors should NOT be driving a motorhome. They do not have the common safety sense to be driving, much less a motorhome. Doug

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