Newbie RV'ers
My husband and I just purchased a 2007 American Coach Heritage 45' with 22' ATC Stacker trailer. Yes we just sent our last kid off to college and have joined the empty nesters club! Neither of us have...
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Good advice here. I've only been driving my antique 30-footer for a couple of months. I always subscribe to these types of threads!
One thing I've learned to do is to plot my routes carefully. Google maps and/or GPS don't always provide an RV friendly route. On a recent trip, google maps wanted to take me on a route that had a bridge with a 4-ton weight limit and 11-foot vertical clearance. Luckily I spotted it in an aerial view of the route and went a different way.
I'm also super-paranoid about where I get off the highway, the businesses I pull into, etc. to make sure I can get turned around or out of a lot.
One thing I've learned to do is to plot my routes carefully. Google maps and/or GPS don't always provide an RV friendly route. On a recent trip, google maps wanted to take me on a route that had a bridge with a 4-ton weight limit and 11-foot vertical clearance. Luckily I spotted it in an aerial view of the route and went a different way.
I'm also super-paranoid about where I get off the highway, the businesses I pull into, etc. to make sure I can get turned around or out of a lot.
