Driving Class A's
Hi, my wife and I have traveled extensively in a Ford E-450 based class C motorhome (with a towed vehicle). We are seriously planning to upgrade to a class A and fulltiming. I figure some of you on...
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I was fortunate to have a brief stint as a transit coach driver in the time between selling our 26' C and getting a 32' A. After horsing a 40-foot coach through downtown Everett in the 16:30 rush-hour traffic, our Georgetown isn't much of a problem.
My only caution is to watch out for narrow campsites that are at 90 degrees to the park's roads. We stayed at one of the OR SPs earlier this year, just north of Brookings. It's a park that probably pre-dates 102" width and slides. The roads in the park are mainly single-lane. I pulled part-way into an unoccupied tent site, then started backing across the road into our site. I was concentrating on getting the driver's side of the rig in the right place and crunched three of the stow-bin doors on a rock wall on the passenger side. Cosmetic damage, mainly.
My only caution is to watch out for narrow campsites that are at 90 degrees to the park's roads. We stayed at one of the OR SPs earlier this year, just north of Brookings. It's a park that probably pre-dates 102" width and slides. The roads in the park are mainly single-lane. I pulled part-way into an unoccupied tent site, then started backing across the road into our site. I was concentrating on getting the driver's side of the rig in the right place and crunched three of the stow-bin doors on a rock wall on the passenger side. Cosmetic damage, mainly.
