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Desert_Captain
Explorer III
Nov 18, 2013

That rig was How big???

Last Friday night we were sitting around the fire out at Roper Lake SP when our new neighbors arrived.... in this:



Told my bride "Watch this guy slide it in perfectly...." and that is just what Mike did. When he opened the drivers side slide he was perfectly parallel and 3" from the steel cement filled posts that guard the pedestal. The fiver is 40' and that is a 1995 Freightliner 8.3L, 7 speed beast for his TV. Said he gets 11.3 mpg with that bad boy, wow that was a lot of truck.

The fiver, a serious toy hauler is rated to sleep 10 and you could lost in there real easy. Keep in mind we were next door with our 24' Class C. :B
  • stub-kb-2 wrote:


    the insurance companies charge quite a bit more to insure a safer truck.

    go figure.


    Yup, ridiculous - seen that first hand -- I have sibling who got an F550 chassis /5er deal from an RV dealer in a package deal with no advice on how to get the insurance. They had a huge fight with the insurance company over it. A few difference companies initially told them the only way they'd insure it at a "personal" use rate, rather than a "commercial" rate was if it never got disconnected from the 5er.

    Here's what I'd like to do with our TT:

  • Just got back from a months trip from out in the western states. You'll alot of kinds of rigs on the road and at RV Parks. At one of the parks I stayed at a Kenworth tractor, I talking about the big rigs. He was pulling a 35 foot Montana. I'll bet he didn't even know the trailer was behind him.
  • We fulltimed in a rig just like the OP posted. A 39' Teton and Freightliner FL 60 Loved that rig. The truck was a dream to drive....and with the really tight turning radius, a dream to park. Hated to let it go, but the truck was only useful for towing. As a pickup it sucked :0 So when we landed, the whole rig was sold.
  • Captain_Happy wrote:
    Just got back from a months trip from out in the western states. You'll alot of kinds of rigs on the road and at RV Parks. At one of the parks I stayed at a Kenworth tractor, I talking about the big rigs. He was pulling a 35 foot Montana. I'll bet he didn't even know the trailer was behind him.


    Being an owner of a Kenworth T600 pulling a 35 ft Hitchhiker. I know it's back there. I can see it in my mirrors. :B All joking a side. We fear no mountains.
  • I was looking at a new Volvo and Freightliner models for no real reason... both had nice sleeper cabs... and even more odd, both had fully auto transmissions (well, AMTs to be exact). Looks like if you don't want to double-clutch things, you don't have to.

    The Volvo VNL780 with the 600hp engine is cheaper than some class "B"s I was looking at, to boot... and it has a slightly better tow rating to boot (so I could take a small cargo trailer behind it). If it had a wet bath, it would be tempting.
  • A few years back, while on a caravan to Churchill Manitoba a couple in the group had a large fiver pulled by a tractor with sleeper/kitchen/porta potty behind the cab. Since both units qualified as "homes", according to the IRS they claimed the fiver as their primary home and the tractor as their secondary home and thus subtracted loan interest on both from their taxes!
    No - they had no other home.
  • At a racetrack last summer, a huge diesel rig came in after dark; it drove around for awhile before finally parking across the street from us. The space they were on was barely big enough for the toy hauler (caring the race car) and the truck...an F-750 Ford pick-up truck...never seen anything like it. They left less than 24 hours later...seemed a lot of gas and driving for so little time, but...
  • Had a rig like that pull in next to us a few years ago. As he was setting up I notice it had what looked like a sleeper cab. I couldn't figure out why you would want a sleeper cab when you have that nice 5er right behind you. The next morning I was sitting outside enjoying my coffie when the neighbor comes out and opens up the sleeper, it was a garage for his Harley! No really I wasn't jealous a bit.......not at all........