CONCLUSION: how to deal with neighbor noise in quiet hours
There was a lot of interest in this thread - I guess many people have been on the giving and receiving end of this problem.
Thanks to all for the suggestions. I was most surprised by the suggestions to fix the noisy truck. I'm always ready to help someone in need, but I estimate it would have been about $1000 to fix the truck and I'm just not that generous.
A lot of factors went into the decision but in the end we decided there was no way we were going to 'win'.
CONCLUSION: today we moved to another site in the park. We've met the neighbors who all seem nice and they tell us it's quiet on this street except for all the motorcycles during the day which is just fine with us.
Thanks to all for the suggestions. I was most surprised by the suggestions to fix the noisy truck. I'm always ready to help someone in need, but I estimate it would have been about $1000 to fix the truck and I'm just not that generous.
A lot of factors went into the decision but in the end we decided there was no way we were going to 'win'.
CONCLUSION: today we moved to another site in the park. We've met the neighbors who all seem nice and they tell us it's quiet on this street except for all the motorcycles during the day which is just fine with us.
I know we're living in close quarters so some noise is always expected. This fairly nice RV park has a lot of motorcycles so there's a lot of noise but for the most part, it's noisy during the day and quiet during official quiet times 10pm-7am.
Our next door neighbours live in their trailer year-round but I wouldn't call them full-timers.
She leaves at 5:45am every weekday to walk 3 miles before her shift starts. Her truck is a hard to start, squealing fanbelt, no exhaust beater. She parks it 10 feet from our bed. She wakes me every morning - it usually takes me an hour or more to get back to sleep. Sometimes not at all.
This is a so-called "premium" site and we don't want to move, but we may have to. Before we do that I'm wondering if anyone can think of any (legal) things to do to stop this inconsiderate behavior? We asked her to park at the other end of her trailer and that helped a lot for a couple of weeks but she's decided she doesn't want to do that anymore (why, I dunno). After two and a half months we've finally complained to the office but I have little hope that they can / will do anything.
We've been doing the RV thing for quite a few years and I've never come across this kind of issue. I understand the "suck it up", "stop whining" and "move" options. Any other suggestions?
