Underbelly Inspection... What I found is Frightening

[Hoopy Frood]

Parallel park a trailer?

[Ra&Ta350]

Parallel park a trailer?

Yes, Sir! There is an excellent video on YouTube on Tail swing out, Parallel docking, 90 degree docking and parallel parking a large trailer. “How to Back your RV (and trailer ‘tail swing’”. It’s on the Wandering Wagners channel.

[Second Chance]

In Texas, if your Truck/Trailer combo GCVWR exceeds 26,001 lbs (so long as the trailer exceeds 10k lbs) you need a Class A DL. You can get an RV Class A (so you don’t need a full CDL), but the driving skills test is fun, especially learning and proving you can parallel park.

Parallel parking is not part of the TX Class A Non-Commercial Exempt driving test (though backing is).

Rob

[Ra&Ta350]

Parallel parking is not part of the TX Class A Non-Commercial Exempt driving test (though backing is).

Rob

Well my tester made me parallel park the trailer. In the Paris, TX DPS office.

[Hoopy Frood]

While I think some training is a good idea, I don't know that it needs to go that far. I'm not planning on parking in a dock any time soon. Like they say when it comes to regulations: "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing".

[Second Chance]

Well my tester made me parallel park the trailer. In the Paris, TX DPS office.

You could have called him on it. I've tested in Livingston and El Paso - both inspectors knew what they were doing and knew there was a difference between the Class A Exempt and the CDL tests.

Rob

[Butcher]

Say what you all want, believe what you want to believe, there are enough customers to buy these POS's so why change?

There is nothing wrong with a business to make a profit. If we are so gullible to give them our money for an 'inferior' product, who is really at fault?

[phuber9458]

In Texas, if your Truck/Trailer combo GCVWR exceeds 26,001 lbs (so long as the trailer exceeds 10k lbs) you need a Class A DL. You can get an RV Class A (so you don’t need a full CDL), but the driving skills test is fun, especially learning and proving you can parallel park.

Never had to prove I could parallel park on my driving test. Guess it depends on where you take it.

[RickLight]

Say what you all want, believe what you want to believe, there are enough customers to buy these POS's so why change?

There is nothing wrong with a business to make a profit. If we are so gullible to give them our money for an 'inferior' product, who is really at fault?

So let's find out who is doing it right!
GD is better than some, but far from what we want.
Airstream?
Tiffin?
Mobile Suites?

[Reid Minish]

Has anyone removed the coroplast and fibreglass insulation, repaired/corrected the wiring and plumbing at the various locations, then spray foamed the everything, protected what cannot be foamed and put the coroplast back on? The fibreglass is waste of time and money and does very little….