Going back to TC from Class A? What do you think?
Travelling with a Class A for over a year and around 12,000 miles, I am looking back at a truck camper.
I use to have a Bigfoot 10.5 no extension and tought it was a bit small when camping for longer period especially sitting at the square table. I am retired now and have more time to spend in one location, like one month at a time. With the TC, I was mostly traveling and not staying more than a week at the same place, like going around USA and to Alaska twice. I don't know if I would like to stay in a TC for a month period, especially when it's raining or cold outside.
I certainly would go for a slide out and bigger than what I had at least to be able to spend a few days inside, and it needs to be winter proof.
I found the Class A to be very nice to travel and the floor space is undeniable. Since it is a 34 ft. it is not too bad to park in a parking lot and I found space available without to much problem so far. But it is not near the same as a TC as you can park anywhere there is a spot available.
The Class A is much more money to maintain and much harder to find a repair shop. I already had the radiator replace, $3000, tire replaced, $4000, and a few other breakdown. In my area I find all I want but while traveling, it is hard to find a shop that will do the repairs. Some big rig shops do some work but not everything, sometimes you have to go to an RV shop, then you talk big $$$$$$, and weeks waiting for parts or an available spot as I found out a couple of times this year. Or you do it yourself like I had to do for the ABS sensors and the Alternator.
One of my biggest concern now is the windshield chipping from road rocks. Where I live, they have gravel on the road in the winter months, for this winter only, while going and back from Florida, I had four chips on my windshield, two last year. One side of the windshield is around $1400, I cannot afford to replace windshield every year. I got a few rocks on the truck before, but they seem to fly by, not as direct as a Class A flat windshield.
The problem is to sell the RV, find a new TC, find a dually to fit a bigger camper, mine is a F350 single wheel.
Bad move?? Good move??
I use to have a Bigfoot 10.5 no extension and tought it was a bit small when camping for longer period especially sitting at the square table. I am retired now and have more time to spend in one location, like one month at a time. With the TC, I was mostly traveling and not staying more than a week at the same place, like going around USA and to Alaska twice. I don't know if I would like to stay in a TC for a month period, especially when it's raining or cold outside.
I certainly would go for a slide out and bigger than what I had at least to be able to spend a few days inside, and it needs to be winter proof.
I found the Class A to be very nice to travel and the floor space is undeniable. Since it is a 34 ft. it is not too bad to park in a parking lot and I found space available without to much problem so far. But it is not near the same as a TC as you can park anywhere there is a spot available.
The Class A is much more money to maintain and much harder to find a repair shop. I already had the radiator replace, $3000, tire replaced, $4000, and a few other breakdown. In my area I find all I want but while traveling, it is hard to find a shop that will do the repairs. Some big rig shops do some work but not everything, sometimes you have to go to an RV shop, then you talk big $$$$$$, and weeks waiting for parts or an available spot as I found out a couple of times this year. Or you do it yourself like I had to do for the ABS sensors and the Alternator.
One of my biggest concern now is the windshield chipping from road rocks. Where I live, they have gravel on the road in the winter months, for this winter only, while going and back from Florida, I had four chips on my windshield, two last year. One side of the windshield is around $1400, I cannot afford to replace windshield every year. I got a few rocks on the truck before, but they seem to fly by, not as direct as a Class A flat windshield.
The problem is to sell the RV, find a new TC, find a dually to fit a bigger camper, mine is a F350 single wheel.
Bad move?? Good move??
