The bulkhead issue is a known issue and many coaches have had the fix done already. As to slides, I would build a new coach right now, I would not get more then two. They intrude too much and all they do is give you a dance floor in the living room. To each their own though, but I have put on 370K miles now in FT and the only other coach I would have is a prevost bus conversion. I would also look at older CCs and Monocos. I also will say that there is no problem getting service anywhere in the country. In fact we have many cummins locations that work with FT as well as Spartan.