Your biggest truck camper mistake?
Heading out on the road in a couple of days, for our first long trip with our new to us truck camper (having previously owned and travelled extensively with a travel trailer). What is/was your bi...
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I've not been on the road enough to have some of the more interesting disasters that have been listed so far but I might be able to compete for one of the messiest indoor disasters...
I was on a trip in LA and noticed my camper had shifted so I started to look for a flat level parking lot to reload the camper. Would you believe that I drove for nearly an hour and a half trying to find a place I wouldn't be hassled, making many turns and even going up and down some hilly streets. I finally managed to find a place and took care of the issue, closed the camper back up and drove about two miles to a gas station to top off.
I happened to open the camper back up to my shock and horror I found a a brand new bottle of Costco sized Olive Oil (yes, the big one) had flown out of the cabinet it was in and proceeded to dump about a liter and a half of olive oil all over the floor of the camper. Needless to say, WHAT A MESS!!! I had to ask the station owner for a roll of paper towels to try to clean it all up. Darn near killed myself too since everything was so slippery, especially the aluminum scissor steps.
If you can imagine the mood I was in after wasting a quarter tank of good diesel driving all over downtown LA on a hot day trying to find a level place to reset the camper without being hassled and ending up with a liter and a half of olive oil on the camper floor and no paper towels of my own to pick it up... to top it off, I didn't even get to unwind after all of that as I had nearly seven hours of driving left to do that day to make it to a class I had to be at on Monday.
I was on a trip in LA and noticed my camper had shifted so I started to look for a flat level parking lot to reload the camper. Would you believe that I drove for nearly an hour and a half trying to find a place I wouldn't be hassled, making many turns and even going up and down some hilly streets. I finally managed to find a place and took care of the issue, closed the camper back up and drove about two miles to a gas station to top off.
I happened to open the camper back up to my shock and horror I found a a brand new bottle of Costco sized Olive Oil (yes, the big one) had flown out of the cabinet it was in and proceeded to dump about a liter and a half of olive oil all over the floor of the camper. Needless to say, WHAT A MESS!!! I had to ask the station owner for a roll of paper towels to try to clean it all up. Darn near killed myself too since everything was so slippery, especially the aluminum scissor steps.
If you can imagine the mood I was in after wasting a quarter tank of good diesel driving all over downtown LA on a hot day trying to find a level place to reset the camper without being hassled and ending up with a liter and a half of olive oil on the camper floor and no paper towels of my own to pick it up... to top it off, I didn't even get to unwind after all of that as I had nearly seven hours of driving left to do that day to make it to a class I had to be at on Monday.
