Tulecreeper

I don't necessarily agree. I have a friend who has a Keystone Montana (not sure which model, but it's about 38-feet), and he and his wife travel from MN where they live, to AZ from April through October every year so they're full-timing 6 months out of the year. He told me they take a lot of stuff with them, including all his wife's sewing stuff, and he weighed before and after a a CAT scale and they have 1360# of cargo...and that includes a full water tank. It's amazing how much stuff it takes to make 2000 pounds of cargo.

We are about to contact an estate attorney in the next few months as soon as, #1- we sell this house and property, and, #2- my wife's brother finishes settling her parent's estate and puts everything in the trust fund her parent's set up for her and her siblings. Then with all the proceeds from both in one trust we will set up the same kind of trust her parent's did. One that we can draw from as we see fit - which probably won't be at all as we are quite financial stable - but then my wife's two kids will get it when we both go, which hopefully will be many years in the future. Before everything else, though, we're buying our new RV outright and buying a new vehicle for the wife.

No, they would be given a deferral. In other words, they would tell the court that they will not be back from vacation until, say, Aug 12th. Then the court would defer them being called until after that time. I was a Reservist. When 9-1-1 went down I got recalled to Active Duty. I had a friend pick up my mail for the 1st month and hold it for me until I knew where I would be for the duration, then he sent it all at once. At the same time I sent in a Change of Address to my home post office. Several months later, I received a notice to appear in federal court in a city about 50 miles from my home. I called the court on the phone and told them I would not be able to make it because I was out of the country at the moment. The gal on the other end asked, "And when do you plan on being back?" A said, "I don't know exactly, at the earliest it will be next September." She then said, " Being out of the country does not excuse you from jury duty. You will have to find a way to return for the voir dire. And how can you be out of the country but not know when you will return?" I replied, "Because when Uncle Sam issued my travel orders, he explicitly told me that I would be gone for 1 year, with the possibility of a 12-month extension." There was this real long silence on the other end, and finally I think I heard the sound of a lightbulb flickering on, "Are you in the military and currently overseas?" "Yes." "Then I believe you are qualified for a deferral." "I said, "That's a good thing. Because I wouldn't be there anyway." Never heard anything more about it. And never got another summons.

I'm pretty sure that if you have a utility bill, a local bank account, or whatever no one is going to check to see how long you have actually been in the state. When we moved from CA to AR, I provided the street address of our property, but since we had no mailbox out here in the sticks I also gave a PO Box as a mailing address. Your physical address and your mailing address does not have to be the same.

And here I am, spending the first week after I bought my new RAM trying to figure out how to turn off or disable mine because it's irritating. 😁

The term you're looking for is GCWR (Gross Combined Wheel Rating), not GVWR (Gross Vehicle Wheel Rating). GCWR is for the total allowed weight of the trailer/5th-wheel + the tow vehicle together. GVWR is for the total allowed weight of either one by itself.

^^^ That ^^^ I kept mine when I retired from the state of CA. I only gave it up later because I didn't need it anymore.

As retired Navy, I can tell you that I have never saved enough money at any Exchange or Commissary to make it worth the drive to the base. And that includes all the way back to the 1980's when I was first on Active Duty and the base was only 10 minutes away. It was cheaper to go to Safeway 2 blocks from me, or the local hardware store or Radio Shack. The only thing that made it worth my time was when I was in the Reserves and had to have my uniforms cleaned and pressed. I could get it done for $5 a set, whereas in town it was $15. That is also the only time I shopped at the Exchange, but only because I was already there.

I full-timed in a 1976 Ideal TT for a couple years. Very well built and 20 years old when I bought it. Got my money back when I sold it 4 years later.

Grand Design is made by Winnebago, and as Kirk said earlier, Winnebago has a solid reputation.

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😄 Well, using that definition my current RAM 2500 is all electric except for the 6.4L Hemi.

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Ray, that's commercial trucking. Apples and oranges compared to tens of millions of POV's traveling helter-skelter all over the country in no particular order. If you travel from TX up through NM into AZ, then north to Canada, then back down the east coast and across the south to TX but in all that driving you were in the far NE corner of AZ for literally 20 minutes before going into CO how much do you owe the state of AZ? It won't happen because the states will never all get together and agree on a fairness doctrine.

You must have a massive battery bank to provide that much 12v dc amperage to convert into 120v ac amperage.