RV Safety

Описание: RV Safety

Vehicle Safety
Much of vehicle safety is common sense. You don't want to start a trip with bald tires, windshield wipers that don't work properly, or oil that needs to be changed. If you are having issues with your vehicle at home, it's going to be worse on the road.

Personal Safety
Although it's very popular to post on social media about trips you take, how long you will be gone, side trips you're taking. We feel you are asking for unseemly people to come rob your home if you do that. It's your choice, but we don't post like that on social media.

RVers are some of the friendliest people we've ever met; however, just random people who are strangers don't need to know exact plans you have. If someone asks how long we're planning on being at a dispersed place or a campsite, we leave ourselves some leeway, partially because we seldom have exact plans and partially for personal safety.

If either of us feel that something just isn't quite right about a place we were planning on staying, we keep driving. Both of us need to feel safe wherever we stay.

Towing Safety
Your vehicle will have a maximum payload. Don't exceed that. Your vehicle will have a maximum that it will tow. Don't exceed that. Remember that your RV has a maximum weight that it can manage fully loaded. Don't exceed that. Remember that a tandem axel will carry more weight that a single axel because the weight can be more evenly distributed. Your hitch has a maximum weight. We had a hitch receiver put on the new van. When we were purchasing it, the lady asked how much our RV weighs loaded. We told her 3,500 pounds. She automatically asked if we wanted the receiver for towing 6,500. Sharon asked what the next higher one was because that van will tow 7,500. The next one up was 10,000 pounds. That's the one we got. When towing, you are only as strong as your weakest link. The ball on the hitch has a maximum weight. The bottom line is stay within the numbers, and you should be fine.

Other Safety Measures
How can you keep someone from stealing your RV? You really can't, but you can make it harder. With ours we have scissor jacks between the tires. They take a special tool to take them from between the tires. If somebody wants to steal our RV, we've at least slowed them down a bit. We have the latch that is on the front, locked. We have a guard over the front. At places where we unhitch, Sharon chains the hitch to the frame of the RV.