AAA RV auto club

djgarcia wrote:

Dennis Smith wrote:
We have had AAA auto club for years for the cars, truck. Just signed up for the RV service. Anyone out there have it and are they happy with it? We have always been happy with AAA and I hope the RV service will be the same. We have the PLUS so we are covered for up to 100 miles, which out west 100 miles is nothing between service. Please let me know if your happy or sad about AAA RV Plus.

The best way to answer your question is to do a side by side comparison of 2 or 3 EMRS service policies: Good Sam, coach net, and AAA. Based on what I have read from various posts from RV.net this are my concerns and observations:
1. AAA primary business or focus is not providing RV Emergency Road Side Service.
2. AAA EMRS service is not universally consistent from area to area and state to state.
3. check and compare the various limitations of each policy.

I'll go with what djgarcia said about comparisons. However, there isn't any way to conduct a blind study. After saying what you should do, he posts his negative opinion about AAA. He didn't provide an analysis of AAA, GS and CoachNet, or any other service policies. Just as he does say, it's just his concerns and limitations.

I have AAA RV Plus and have been an SCAC member for over 50 years. My PERSONAL experience has been very good, djgarcias opinion is from reading about someone else's experience. The other two carriers mentioned may be fantastic, but honestly, I have no first hand experience with them and cannot form any concerns from other folks complaints.

Maybe dj ought to do a spread sheet and compare the complaints and kudos.

ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Not available in our area. I would check to make sure you can use it nationwide.

X2. When I RV around the country, the last thing I want to be worried about is rather or not the area I am in at any given time in will be able to provide Emergency Road Side Service in the event of a break down!!!!! How would an RVer obtain the information of where or what areas provide AAA ERSS? Does AAA have one 800 phone number that will tell me what cities, counties or states provide ERSS?? IMHO, it would be absurd to have ERSS policy which is so random and fluky:)

I've had it for many years in Southern California. Had the RV prior to my current one towed a couple of times. No charge. Great service. Had to use their battery service recently for the Tiger. The guy met me at the storage lot, put in the new battery which I bought from him, and followed me several miles to my mechanic's place to be sure that I got there safely. That is service beyond the call of duty.

I've had AAA from California, Florida and Texas. I always got exemplary service from all. Flat on Class A. Blown engine in truck pulling trailer. Bent Axle on Trailer. Cut tire down a dirt road in Big Bend National Park. (And more, so I've had lots of experience with them.) The local, contracted, service provider may not always be the best, but AAA doesn't bail on you when getting a solution becomes problematic. Just know that they don't understand mile markers and will send service from the last city you passed unless you tell them you are closer to the next town on your itinerary. Their default mode is to send a provider to a street intersection if possible so you have to be a little more careful about giving your location if you're in the middle of nowhere.

ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Not available in our area. I would check to make sure you can use it nationwide.

There is the problem with AAA RV as each area is an independent entity you may get to an area where the service is not available.
For example years ago Metro New York did not participate and when I had a problem on the LIE I was on my own.
I was cancelled after having a rather long tow that cost my local club a bunch of money. Just the one tow was all it took for them to cancel.
I have repeatedly used GSRA with no problems and no cancellation.
SO the moral of the story is find a service that works for you and ride that horse for as long as you can. At some point whatever service you choose will fail you and then you will look for another.

Not available in our area. I would check to make sure you can use it nationwide.

I first signed up last fall. Only used it once this past year, but it kept DH with health issues from having to deal with a flat. That sold it for me, along with the fact of covering towing on the tow vehicle as well as the recreational vehicle.

I went with AAA primarily because it covers all our toys - we have 3 boats on trailers as well as the TT and our vehicles. We actually have Coachnet on the new TT for a year, but it does not cover the other items. I figured it was a basic introductory plan, anyway.

I just upgraded from the Plus RV to the Premium RV version. That got me to 200 mile towing, which is about from our house to 4-5 hours away. For us, that would be to D.C., Skyline Drive or Lake Erie - our most common destinations. There are other good perks with the Premium like the concierge service.

Here in BC its called BCAA.It was about $20 more.Paid for it self within 2 weeks.Was using my 5th wheel for construction work at the time.
Broke a spring and got a flat at the same time.Called them up and they sent a low bed semi out from a near by town.He hauled it to another town about 2 1/2 hrs away.About 180 miles where we were going to stay anyway(one way of getting better gas mileage) He said it would have cost about $1500 dollars. If I had not bad the coverage I would have dragged it 1/2 mile and bought a spring and fixed it.

Had a wheel bearing eat itself on our 21' toyhauler on the way to the desert. AAA sent a flatbed in a reasonable amount of time, and got our trailer home in front of our house (50 miles). Driver said thank you very much - no charge.

Dennis Smith wrote:
We have had AAA auto club for years for the cars, truck. Just signed up for the RV service. Anyone out there have it and are they happy with it? We have always been happy with AAA and I hope the RV service will be the same. We have the PLUS so we are covered for up to 100 miles, which out west 100 miles is nothing between service. Please let me know if your happy or sad about AAA RV Plus.

The best way to answer your question is to do a side by side comparison of 2 or 3 EMRS service policies: Good Sam, coach net, and AAA. Based on what I have read from various posts from RV.net this are my concerns and observations:
1. AAA primary business or focus is not providing RV Emergency Road Side Service.
2. AAA EMRS service is not universally consistent from area to area and state to state.
3. check and compare the various limitations of each policy.