Mortorhome Dinghy towing problems
I am planning to purchase a first time Class A Motorhome. I have been told that you cannot back up while flat towing a vehicle. My concern is how often does this really become a problem? I assume if y...
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JimM68 wrote:
And then we found out the road we were on did a loop by the beach and went back to the main road. If I'da just kept going it woulda all been fine.
I've had to disconnect to backup just once in 11 years and that was about 8 years ago. Passed the road to the campground. Not knowing the area, and seeing that just past the road I missed was a fork in the road with what looked like a wide enough paved surface to pull a U-turn, I tried it. Nope. Not quite. "Missed by that much." as Maxwell Smart used to say. :)
So I got out and unhooked. (Our towbar generally doesn't bind, so at least that worked OK) As I was backing up the Odyssey, a gentleman came out to ask if he could assist. He also mentioned that if I had driven down the road about 0.2 of a mile, there was a cross-connector pass between the two roads and I could've used that to turn around. Apparently a lot of folks & delivery trucks miss the turn off.
I should've checked the GPS first, although not sure if that road was on it. Now if I need to scope out an area, I give a look at the satellite view on the map program on the iPad if I'm in an area where I can get a data signal.
~Rick
