Towing with a rental

JaxDad wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

JaxDad wrote:
Disbelief of and resentment against all sorts of regulations and requirements is rampant.

In several threads about homemade or conversion campers, including one very recently, people react strongly at the mere mention of ‘fine print’ regulations. Comments like “The LPG Police or the AC current Gestapo? Maybe the RVIA certification label which is a joke and not required to begin with?” appear very quickly.

I really think it’s just a case of anger against anything or anyone that dares to say you can’t do whatever you please.

Hey, that was my post and I stand by it. Frankly I think your claim that you have witnessed 12 people being tossed out or refused entrance to RV parks or Campgrounds, because they home-built a camper, altered the propane system, or anything else, to be a large load of BS. But that is just my personal opinion. It has/had nothing to do with anger against anyone or anything that dares say you can't do something.

LOL, so it was.

Just because you've never run across it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

As an example THIS is a link to the Port Canaveral Jetty Park Campground website. This is one of the places where my friend was refused a site. If you scroll to the bottom of the page there's a link to the rules which says "24.4 No RV campsite can be retained without a camping unit (camper with RVIA sticker) placed on the site.".

As I've said many times before, it doesn't mean anyone will catch on or even ask, but more & more the "What kind of RV do you have?" section of the registration forms are going to being enforced and scrutinized.

Google something like "RVIA sticker required" and you'll come across all sorts of threads about people with van conversions, cargo trailer conversions and bus (school and others) conversions being denied entry to both private and public parks on the basis that the units do not demonstrate compliance with life safety standards.

Better hope your RVIA decal never peels off then. The only reason anywhere has such a rule is to have an enforcement tool to keep out whatever they consider riff raff. It has not one thing to do about safety standards. If that was what it was about they would not let people have tents and put LPG fired heaters in them.

I've been to Jetty Park 4 times, the last time in 2014, and have never seen anyone refused a site. I have also seen a few homemade rigs, converted cargo trailers, and bus conversions there. If I was a betting man I would lay my money down they had no RVIA decal.

What does an RVIA decal mean anyway? It's certainly no guarantee the thing was wired correctly or the propane system does not leak. My Rockwood had an RVIA decal yet the lugs were left loose on the wall mounted shore power connection and all the heads were stripped out on the breakers and neutral bar with the conductors smashed flat from over torquing to the point that most just snapped off. An RVIA decal does a lot of good in that situation as it does when Lippert's welds break on spring hangers and frames.