How big is 40' really...

Desert Captain wrote:

dubdub07 wrote:

Desert Captain wrote:
I am always puzzled by the "Rules apply to everyone else but me" crowd. If you have a 40' rig you get to enjoy lots of amenities that the smaller rigs do not. That is your choice but with that choice come a few restrictions such as where you can park it. Some here seem to think it is cute or funny to flaunt the rule. Got news for you folks, it is neither.

Many times I have seen oversize rigs - motorhomes, TT's, fivers and/or their TV's encroaching out into the access roads because they chose to ignore the CG's posted restrictions. This is all smirks and grins until one of your neighbors strokes out at O'dark thirty and the emergency vehicles can't get through. Take a look at just how large paramedic or fire rigs are these days. Congratulations on having a nice big rig, I am sure you enjoy it but please don't be jerk at the possible expense of others. :S

Am I the only one that frowned at this response? Lighten up, Francis. I don't think there is the malice you describe in the OP's question. Certainly we aren't backing in to our site with the thought of blocking an emergency vehicle.

I will say this.......I look online first becuase it is so convenient. If I see a restriction that is close to my length, I call and ask. If they can't accomodate, they can't. I had a 36' FW that was 54' with the truck, yet most CGs will more than accomodate that over a 40' MH. A 40' motorhome is, 40'! I can back my 40' motorhome in pretty much any site that is 40' or bigger. It is a lot easier than backing the FW in, IMO.

WW

Glad you think life and death situations call for me to "Lighten up". I was not talking about your ability to back your 40' MH into a site that is "40' or bigger". My post was not aimed at the OP but the folks who seem to take pleasure in flaunting the rules. Sorry to be the one to enlighten them but the rules apply to everybody. A few days ago a poster on a another thread was whining because a neighbor complained about his trailer tongue being "a couple of feet into the access road". This sort of nonsense happens all the time. :S

My point was and is if you are 40' and the CG says 30' or 35' max site size go elsewhere. The same goes for many beautiful mountain roads which are restricted to vehicles of "X" length. I guess you have never come around a curve and found an oversized Class A smack in the middle of your lane. It is quite a cheap thrill I can assure you. :E

Here you go again, inciting riot. I would say that there are about zero campgrounds that would allow this to happen. I think you saw it once and it enraged you so much that you must bring it up time and again to prove a point that doesn't need to be made. Most of us (most) that can afford a 40+footer wouldn't stand for such a thing. At 1001 I will ask those noisy ones to calm down, so if I (or those like minded) see that someone is blocking an entrance/exit, then by-George I will say something about that. If it is truly life and death, I would even use my coach as a battery-ram to push the culprit out of the way.

Take a deep breath......in, out.....the fiction you speak of is not enraging us the way it has upset you.....the skyeth does not fall, Francis.

WW