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2003 34 ft Knight. Just returned from our cross Canada trip over the worst highways I have ever seen. Broke down half way between Thunder Bay and Sault St Marie. Right rear trailing arm snapped off while doing close to 60 MPH. Lucky to be alive as this immediately put us into the oncoming traffic, but lucky that at that instant no one was coming. I must say that my Safe-T-Steer did the job. Regained instant control. Called Good Sam for help and I must say they did try and find a suitable low trailer to load us but unsuccessful. A local person stopped and put me onto a good Truck shop some 25 miles down the highway. He came out and we pulled the axle back in place and temporarily secured it enough to slowly travel to his shop. Called Monaco and even though well past warranty they sent new trailing arms and paid for the installation. This had been a recall issue and I had taken it in to our local dealer for inspection but was informed that mine was OK so the replacement ones were not installed. Confirms my belief that most dealers don't have a clue when it comes to MH repair. We spent 10 days waiting for parts because the parts got hung up in Canadian Customs because the agent didn't like the paper work and the description written on them After 4 days we finally got the parts released. Walford Truck and Tractor did an excellent job on the repair. Just the owner and his son and they did great work and made our 10 day stay as pleasant as possible. Monaco's first question was if I had acted on my recall. As soon as they determined that I had, warranty was not an issue. They did say that less than 50% of MH owners pay attention to recalls, so my advise is make sure that you pay attention to recall notices and have them done by hopefully a competent shop which is what let me down. We thank the good Lord that we are alive and did not kill some one else, it could have been a terrible accident.