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Driving A Big Motorhome vs. Pulling A 5th Wheel

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First drive, around 200 yards lol.

Pulled it out of the shop and drove it up to the house. Had to bring it up to the house in reverse. I can only pull it into my driveway from the north and the shop is to the south. And I needed to pull it in to hook up my electric and water so I couldn't back it up the driveway.
Useless Frontier has a phone pedestal right on top of the south side of my driveway and my mailbox is right across from it so if I tried to pull in from the south I'd either hit the pedestal or catch the mail box with tail swing.
Wife flagged traffic of which there was only one car (I live in the sticks). I didn't really have any problems but I can tell it will be hard to get used to figuring out where the side of the road is. When I got over to let the car by I really couldn't tell where the road ended and the ditch started on the passenger side going forward, spent a lot of time looking at the mirror and camera. I'll get used to it, I have to.

I'm going to call Frontier and see about getting this pedestal moved. I'm sure they'll blow me off but I'll try anyway. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is anymore. No one out here has a landline phone. I called them to try their slow internet again a few months ago and they told me that the speeds were so slow out here that they had discontinued offering dsl.
 
Great job, keep practicing. Watch you speed, these beast can move pretty fast but your safety envelope reduces with speed. Look out for idiots on your right trying to get by you prior to return to right lane. Happens all the time to me. I move left to give safety equipment room and signal to move back right after we clear. Almost every time a car can't wait and tries to zoom by.
 

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