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motorcycle_jack
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Jun 03, 2014

Need help making decision - opinions please

My muscular dystrophy is advancing to the point of where we need to make a decision on our lifestyle. We currently full time in a DRV Mobile Suite 36'. I pull it with a 2008 F-450. My question is this: Do you think my wife should learn to drive the truck pulling the 5'er or should we get a large class C? Now realize the 450 and trailer are not handicapped equipped so there will be some challenges staying there but also the Class C has some size issues even at 31' of living space. Just trying to see what others think, thanks.

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  • I am also disabled so I have some insight.

    I would stay with what you now have. A Class "C" is not going to be any more "handicapped friendly."

    As my disability gets worse, my wife has taken over the set up and breakdown "jobs" one by one. She now does 99% of it. I still drive when hitched but she has practiced, and on occasions when my disability interfered with my driving, she took over. She could, because she had practiced on other days.

    She tends to do all the outside "jobs" while I set up the inside. Of course that is just the opposite from what most couples do. It does allow me to help, because I can stop and take a break as needed.

    I still do what I can, but she has stepped up to fill in. It is because we do not wish to come of the road.

    Between the two of us, we get it done.

    You can too. Just decide to find a way.

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