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hobbssb
Explorer
May 24, 2015

What emergency road equipment do you carry?

After nearly getting stuck turning around on a narrow road to nowhere, we have now added a folding shovel to our under-the-seat stash of tools.

What else should we be carrying for emergency road situations?
  • Guess it depends where you like to travel... I spend a lot of time on dirt/gravel roads and boondocking sites, so I have a bit more extraction stuff - not typical for a "B" - but since I not longer have a 4wd truck... Come-a-long, tow strap, recovery strap, wooden blocks (usually used for leveling but handy for jacking/setting under wheels, etc), tire chains, shovel, axe, saw (the tree hadn't been across the road when I went IN...), air compressor (flats or airing up if I had to air down for soft stuff), tire plug kit, and a pretty good assortment of tools (wrenches/sockets), spare serpentine belt, and a soldering iron! Plus traffic stuff like safety vest, road triangles. And I've used just about all of it at some point in our travels! ST
  • I too would reach for my Good Sam ERS card first. I do have flares, a flasher, and about 50 ft of heavy rope. Yes I have a shovel, but I've had it since the kids were in Scouts, and a hand axe (same reason). With an older smaller RV I used to have snow chains (which could also be used for soft ground). I carried the chains when we used to take the 32fter to the snow. Now, I'm older and sorer, and I would just call.
  • Naio's avatar
    Naio
    Explorer II
    I got a set of shop manuals for cheap on ebay. I figure if I am out in the boonies, no cell service, and no one comes by...

    Orange cones (dollar store), reflective vest, fix a flat, tools including but by no means limited to soldering iron and baling wire.