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  1. Would you mind sharing who you were able to get full timers insurance on an HDT and, I think, a New Horizons or Razor toy hauler?
  2. I have the 25K (four air bags) with the Binkley head. Actually on my second one. Extremely happy with performance but I got my full timing rig and it was significantly heavier than anything I had before. I maxed out at 5,000 lbs. There was travel left in the bags but I did have to go to maximum pressure (100 psi). However I am not a fan of running at 100% capacity so I am in the process of switching to a higher capacity unit, not AirSafe.
  3. I think there is a fine point that is being missed in my OP. My lament about insurance was in regard to getting a new policy. I too have had insurance from multiple companies over the ten years of full timing. It was only on the advent of a new truck in March of this year that I bumped into the difficulties I outlined. So my original heads-up still stands, getting new insurance is getting to be a real problem.
  4. Glenn, sorry man but YOU said you didn’t have any problems with insurance and YOU said you use Miller. So my questions were specifically to you. I have long researched the source you suggested and many more with the results I outlined in my OP. I want to know what company you had no problem in getting full timers insurance and MDT insurance.
  5. My understanding is that Miller is the broker, somebody else is the actual underwriter. Who is it you/Miller are getting to do the underwriting so easily? And are you buying true full timers insurance with an MDT tow vehicle?
  6. I’ve been a fulltimer for ten years and getting proper insurance for the 5th wheel and my HDT has always been a more difficult process than insuring a sticks and bricks and “normal” vehicles. But recently the places you can go to have dwindled to a scarce few and even those are expressing great reluctance at taking any new policies. I have been in the market for a new MDT (Ford F-550) for twenty months and I finally snagged one last week. In anticipation of eventually getting a new truck last summer I started applying with my current insurer, National General, through a broker. Up until the point I had a VIN to give them, this week, they, National General, would not agree to insure me and said I needed to find somebody else to insure my existing MDT because they were not going to renew at the expiration of my current policy. My broker was a great advocate for me and eventually negotiated a policy for the new truck. I’m essentially being grandfathered in as an existing multi-year policy holder. But what a journey to get here. If I had been coming as a new applicant I don’t think I would have had a chance at getting coverage. And I’m only good for a year. They may not renew. My broker said that she is experiencing this situation everywhere she turns. This is second hand information but there are unofficial communications from Progessive that they are looking into exiting fulltimers policies all together. The driving force behind this reassessment is that it seems a great number of us fulltimers got hammered by storms (tornados and hail being the worst) last year to the point where thousands of rigs that had to be totaled. No insurance company is a fan of loosing money on a market segment they service. So, not looking for solutions, this is just kind of a heads-up/rant. The only thing for sure is that it will be different come this time next year. Hoping for improvement but doubting it.
  7. I would/do use saddle soap to clean and then follow up with a good quality leather treatment, usually something with lanolin in it.
  8. I’m chiming in on this thread a little late, hope the OP is still listening in. If I understood correctly, the OP was looking to change domicile because it was getting difficult to make a personal appearance for driver license renewal in SD. From the 28 replies previous to me I take it that everyone is assuming TX driver licenses can be renewed on-line. This is not always correct. The OP did not say what equipment they were driving nor could I find it in their profile but, if anything they are driving has a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of greater than 26,000 lbs then a class A-exempt license is required. If you are in a position of being required to obtain the class A license then you are also obligated to make a personal appearance for renewal. TX will not renew a class A (CDL or Exempt) driver license on-line. So if you’re in a medium to large class A motor coach or towing with one of the higher rated pick-ups, you may want to think about setting up your domicile in FL. It is my understanding they do everything with a class C license.
  9. You assume many things and misstate others. I guarantee you that you can NOT get local weather or news any time at any location in the country. I've been living in those places for months at a time over the last six years where there are neither OTA nor cell phone signals. Depending on location, I have driven 25 to 85 miles to get a cell signal to do my once per month bill paying. This lack of ability to tap alternate signals and needing to rely on local channels via satellite was clearly stated in my first post. And I guess that your choice of technology has left you blind to today's TV broadcast weather warning systems. If there is severe weather anywhere in the local channel's viewing area they break in any time of day or night and give live tracking data down to the street level with direction and rate of travel. They will tell you up to fifteen minutes in advance of when a funnel cloud will pass over your area. We have been given ample time to seek shelter more than once thanks to this. Even when in range of a cell signal my weather apps have never been this responsive or real time for the really important information. I do live in the 21st century and am fully engaged in the use of all the technology available. A satellite link with access to local stations doesn't get any more advanced even if cell or internet connections are available.
  10. I'm the one that started the rant about getting migrated from DirecTV to the new ATT system and losing the ability to do a service address change. This is an UPDATE. The problem started in April of this year. We moved from Georgia to New Mexico to do a volunteer job for a national wildlife refuge. We were going to be at that location for three months so we did what we typically do when locating someplace for multiple weeks, called DirecTV to do service address change. This gives us access to the local channels so we can keep up with local happenings and most importantly, weather. For the past six years this has been a painless, five minute process but this time it was anything but. Our account was one of the early ones that got migrated to the new ATT system and long story short, after 10 hours on the phone and 47 customer service, technicians, and supervisors, no luck. Nobody could execute a service address change. There is a lot of details about all this in the two previous pages to this post that I won't rehash now. The end result was I had to file a complaint with the FCC and as best I can tell, a low level executive from the office of the president (of ATT) got hold of a programmer that went in and manually tweaked the program to get me changed. Instead, I am cautiously optimistic that ATT has taken steps to fix their inability to do a simple service address change for RV'ers. In the past few days we have moved again to our next volunteer job and have departed the desert southwest for the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. With lots of dread I called ATT/DirecTV and asked to do a service address change. Like usual, the customer service person said; "no problem, I can help you with that". But they soon discover that they can't and the forwarding-the-call-merry-go-round starts. This time was a little different, the customer service person got to the point that they usually start forwarding the call, but instead, this time, she said; "you have a special account and I need to talk to someone for help". After about five minutes on hold she came back and said that she needed to transfer me to the RC-1 department because they had questions that they personally had to ask me. After answering all the same questions the first agent asked I was finally asked something different. They wanted to know if I was going to be in this new location at least six months. Weighing the logic behind this question I thought it would be best to answer "Yes". As soon as I did things started happening. They took my new address and verified they had "line of sight" to it (how they know this is beyond me) and clicked the necessary buttons to make this my new location. It looked like this was actually going to happen. The RC-1 agent said that the order had been put in and that it would be two to four hours before my receiver would be updated. And that it is possible it could be twenty-four hours. Not the five minutes it used to be, but if it works I'll take it. Four hours later and a message came up on my TV screen saying that I needed to refresh my receiver. I pushed the reset button and after the reboot, voila, I was fully loaded with locals. Again, cautiously optimistic as I do not know if I got lucky and got somebody that knew what to do or if this how it is going to be no matter who answers the phone. But one thing is clear, the RC-1 department is who you will have to talk to.
  11. I think it will be a total roll of the dice. It will depend on whether your account has been migrated, which call center you get, what phase of the moon it is..... Other than my service address finally getting changed by “executive action” back in April I can find no evidence that ATT has fixed anything. I don’t think there is any risk in trying to do a change. If you call in and you start getting passed around, just hang up. You’ll be in no different condition than you are right now.
  12. Chuckbear, If your account was switched over to ATT at the beginning of the acquisition then you have not been migrated into the merged system yet. The merged system didn't exist in the early days of the acquisition and by the evidence of you being able to make a service address change as easy as we all used to is another clue that you have not been migrated yet. The nonsense about contracts and new package deals is just noise created by getting transferred to the sales department when you get on the merry-go-round of the new system. These things are not at the root of not getting a service address change, it's the programming, protocol and policies of the new, merged operating system. For now you are one of the lucky ones, enjoy.
  13. MnP, Try this link: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us This is the web page I went to.
  14. SWharton: The 800 number I had was from the pre-ATT acquisition. When I used it last week it just routed me into one of their call centers. I'll publish it again here because this forum is where I originally obtained it. It is (was) 800-769-4635.
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