Rigs that handle like cars in the wind?
High wind warnings have been posted the last few days for a large areas of So Cal. Driving on CR-V yesterday, wind was severe enough in some areas that even cars were slowing down. Yet a variety of ...
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Some days and in some places out west, the tumble weeds were passing us. I figured they knew where they were going so I just tried to keep up.
Really the problems in high winds is where are the winds are coming from? direct head winds just slow us down, just the opposite for a tail wind. The left side isn't too bad it will sway the coach but I've never had the wind blow us out of our lane. but the right side has our awning, three different times we have had it unfurl from its rolled position, plus once on Deception Pass bridge we were hit with a 70MPH gust that tore the awning completely off the Newmar, and put us up on two wheels, really it left stuff marks half way up the side walls of the front tires. Same place, same story, we lost the awning off our 25' big foot trailer. (completely tore it off) This trip in Odessa Tx, over night we were required to pull the slide in due to winds flapping the slide topper really hard. I feared it would get damaged, plus it was making a racket.
I guess bottom line here is some winds aren't so bad, other are, it then becomes a judgement call with what you know at the time.
Really the problems in high winds is where are the winds are coming from? direct head winds just slow us down, just the opposite for a tail wind. The left side isn't too bad it will sway the coach but I've never had the wind blow us out of our lane. but the right side has our awning, three different times we have had it unfurl from its rolled position, plus once on Deception Pass bridge we were hit with a 70MPH gust that tore the awning completely off the Newmar, and put us up on two wheels, really it left stuff marks half way up the side walls of the front tires. Same place, same story, we lost the awning off our 25' big foot trailer. (completely tore it off) This trip in Odessa Tx, over night we were required to pull the slide in due to winds flapping the slide topper really hard. I feared it would get damaged, plus it was making a racket.
I guess bottom line here is some winds aren't so bad, other are, it then becomes a judgement call with what you know at the time.
