I always keep my camper ready to roll when I'm home.  Truck fueled, fridge stocked, fresh tank filled and shore line plugged in.  I do it for spur of the moment trips and the fact that I live in earthquake country. One thin I had been thinking about was keeping my Progressive Industrie EMS Tk-30 inline from the house to the camper. Last night we had a city wide power outage. I went out and switched the fridge to propane from AC and I looked at the shoreline and thought  "I better put the EMS on now"   I'm glad I did Power came back on for a few seconds then went back on then went off multiple times in a row.  before it finally stayed on.  It was never on long enough for the EMS unite to analyze and send power to the camper. No way to tell if the surges would have damaged the camper or not but I had a nice piece of mind sleeping.  I think I am going to leave it hooked up that way from now on. ... View more

I have new 3 peak mountain snowflake AT tires on my four wheel drive F350, and am travelling to Utah the end of December. I carry a set of cable chains I've never used, and am considering picking up some Autosocks. My reasoning is they are faster to deploy and remove than the cables, and in a real pinch I could have something on all four. I question whether the socks will improve traction much over the 3pms tires. Anyone have experience to share? Thanks. ... View more

One of the biggest annoying things about the new layout is the lack of density of the topics. Whereas I used to be able to look at a page and see about 30 topics and know what was new since I logged in, all without scrolling, now I have to scroll several pages to see what's new because the new forum wants to give you a preview paragraph of each post. Is it possible to change this default layout to only show the title of a posts in the lists of posts to make things more compact? I looked around in the settings but couldn't find anything obvious. Are there any Good Sam moderators here that can make these changes? ... View more

It's been a few weeks since the old forum was shut down and this new forum opened up, but I only see a few old members have joined and not really much for posts (20 total members as of the last few days).  I really liked all of the knowledgeable folks on the old forum who were so helpful with camper repairs and maintenance, but most didn't transition over.  I miss my daily morning reading on Good Sam, I guess Facebook camper pages are the future for now?      ... View more

Can anyone help me I really need to find out how the electrical works  ... View more

Has anyone heard from Sleepy recently? He was a knowledgable old fellow and it was fun to read about his frequent TC Boondocking reports. He ventured over to FB a few years ago and that was the last i heard. Hope he’s still kicking around. Rick ... View more

It's hard to believe but it is that time of year to start planning for our 2024 Northern California Truck Camper rally. We had a great time last year and hope to build on it this year. This year I am going to try to put a little more structure into the planning. Check the signup form for details but basically we will have a planned Saturday afternoon outing somewhere and a potluck Saturday dinner. All of the information about the rally is in the signup form linked below. The dates will be April 5th to 7th but early arrivals and late departures are welcome. Note... Feel free to share this with other friends who you think might be interested in attending. Sign Up Form If you want to see a video of last year's event, check out this link: 2023 Truck Camper Rally Here are a few pictures as well. ... View more

My wife qualified for the National Dressage finals in Kentucky and we live in Northern California.  That means we were doing a 5000 mile round trip hauling the horse.  It also means we were going to cross the Sierras and the Rockies twice on I80.  The truck was running great I had the Lance 1062  well stocked, trailer had been serviced so off we went.  We crested Donner Summit of I80 in the Sierras with ease.  As we were descending into Truckee on the east side the engine overheat warning flashed on the dash so I backed off and exited the freeway.  As luck would have it the offramp exited onto a side road with a huge safe shoulder for both the truck and horse trailer. US RIDER  got the horse and trailer towed to a stable and a medium Wrecker towed my and the truck/camper to Qualitly Automotive in Truckee. I had to dismount the camper in their lot so the truck could go up onto their lift.  The hose that blew was maybe 4 inches long and the diameter of my index finger and was buried at the base of the turbo. They were going to have to take the top of the engine apart to reach it. we explained our destination and timeline for reaching  the Championships and they moved some repairs around to get us to the front of the line  Parts got ordered and work got started.  they had everything pulled and were waiting on the arts to arrive so the mechanich started checking everything while the truck was on the rack. He found that the frond rotors were under spec for wear so I said replace them. when they pulled the calipers to get to the rotor chunks of caliper piston fell out.  New caliper time.  They had the truck finished by Wednesday afternoon, abut 6 hours of shop time. We were back on the road Thursday morning and made Kentucky on time and had a successful competition.  If the shops mechanic had not gone the extra mile in checking out everything on the truck we may have lost our front brakes descending one of the steep grades in the Rockies. He literally saved out hides.  We sopped in on our way home to Drop off Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale for the staff as a thank you.  Quality Automotive Service in Truckee CA. good folks.  FYI I had had the brakes checked a year ago. truck is a 2011 Ford F350 Diesel CC 4x4 ... View more