Jim
RVF Supporter
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2019
- Messages
- 4,616
- Location
- North Carolina
- RV Year
- 2020
- RV Make
- Newmar
- RV Model
- Essex 4543
- RV Length
- 45
- Chassis
- Spartan
- Engine
- Cummins / I6 Diesel Pusher 605HP
- TOW/TOAD
- 2016 Jeep Rubicon
- Fulltimer
- No
Driving through Atlanta at 9:00am and traffic was unusually heavy for that early in the morning. We later credited that to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and people getting a head start, of which I was one. Lol.
Amazing how accustomed you become to looking at the camera and confirming that the toad is doing exactly what you expect it to be doing. Until it’s not.
The camera system in my coach is equipped with more views than anyone actually will ever need, and somehow, the rear view of the camera switched with the front view. Not sure how it happened, but when you glance down to confirm the toad’s presence, and suddenly it’s not there, the feeling in your stomach is indescribable.
But it wasn’t there, and I asked trish (probably more of a panic question than me just asking) “Where’s the truck???” She looked down and screamed, “OMG, where the truck?” Logic will tell you that there would have been indications if the truck had just unhooked and went on it’s own. And your mind is telling you that too. But the fact that it’s NOT on the display, so it must have gotten loose.
Neither of us could see it in the mirrors, that’s not unusual, but that didn’t help either of us to make sense of this. But the one redeeming factor that brought sense to the whole thing was that we could see the truck’s shadow in the small curved mirror that sits under the large one.
But still, you’re looking around at the other cars, expecting to see someone hanging out their window and making frantic gestures. Or at least a mirrored view of a truck, dangling off to one side, hung on by only a safety chain. Or the banging around of 7K lbs of metal smashing into the back of your rig. But no, not one of those was occurring.
I glanced back down but now the camera had gone completely out and there was nothing except a message that said “No camera input.”
We both “almost” laughed, but not really. It was a sickening feeling that I hope to never experience again. And at the end of it all, I was almost ashamed of myself, but halfway through this whole episode, which only took a matter of maybe 10 seconds at best, I actually thought to myself, “Well, I’ve been wanting a new truck . . . “
Amazing how accustomed you become to looking at the camera and confirming that the toad is doing exactly what you expect it to be doing. Until it’s not.
The camera system in my coach is equipped with more views than anyone actually will ever need, and somehow, the rear view of the camera switched with the front view. Not sure how it happened, but when you glance down to confirm the toad’s presence, and suddenly it’s not there, the feeling in your stomach is indescribable.
But it wasn’t there, and I asked trish (probably more of a panic question than me just asking) “Where’s the truck???” She looked down and screamed, “OMG, where the truck?” Logic will tell you that there would have been indications if the truck had just unhooked and went on it’s own. And your mind is telling you that too. But the fact that it’s NOT on the display, so it must have gotten loose.
Neither of us could see it in the mirrors, that’s not unusual, but that didn’t help either of us to make sense of this. But the one redeeming factor that brought sense to the whole thing was that we could see the truck’s shadow in the small curved mirror that sits under the large one.
But still, you’re looking around at the other cars, expecting to see someone hanging out their window and making frantic gestures. Or at least a mirrored view of a truck, dangling off to one side, hung on by only a safety chain. Or the banging around of 7K lbs of metal smashing into the back of your rig. But no, not one of those was occurring.
I glanced back down but now the camera had gone completely out and there was nothing except a message that said “No camera input.”
We both “almost” laughed, but not really. It was a sickening feeling that I hope to never experience again. And at the end of it all, I was almost ashamed of myself, but halfway through this whole episode, which only took a matter of maybe 10 seconds at best, I actually thought to myself, “Well, I’ve been wanting a new truck . . . “
