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We were fulltime for 12 years but have now been off the road for 10+ years so there would be some things that have changed. It was those years on the road that caused us to become life members of Escapees, but all of my club involvement has been as a volunteer so have a lot of experience with the group but have never been an employee. There is a lot of experience and knowledge to be found from club & forum members, and I'm only one voice among many.

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While this is typically the case, it doesn't have to be wired that way and occasionally is not.

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If you buy an RV or tow vehicle now and keep it at or near your home in CA, the law does require you to license it in CA and there are fines for failing to do so. On the other hand you could buy them now and store them in a state that you plan to claim as your home and if you keep an address in that state you could quite legally register and insure them in whatever state you have them stored in when not traveling over the highways. CA is one of the more aggressive states about enforcement of such laws, although many other states are becoming more active in that area. I suggest that the first thing that you do would be to learn more about what domicile is and how it is determined by reading Ultimate Guide for Residency and Domicile as a Full Time RVer, along with several other similar articles. I think that you might find the Escapees RV Club to be very helpful as they are a support group for people travel in RVs with a lot of emphasis on those who travel of extended periods. While the majority of members are retirees, the most rapidly growing part of the membership is the members who still work as they travel. The club has a special subgroup called X-scapers that is made up of such people.

Before you do anything else, make sure that all of your 120V circuit breakers are closed. The only way to know that for sure is to open each one and then close it again as a tripped circuit breaker is very difficult to detect visually. Do you own a multimeter that you can test for 120V to the outlet with? A GFI outlet that does not have 120V will not reset so check that first. Pull it out and measure between the wires connected to it before you replace it. If there is 120V at the connections and it doesn't reset, then open the circuit breaker and replace it. Be very careful to make all of the connections exactly as they are now.

East to West has an interesting history. Lisa Rees incorporated East to West and North to South Inc. (the company’s full name) in May 2017 and didn’t begin building the Della Terra until January 2018. In July of that same year, she sold her company to Forest River, where her father is CEO and became general manager of its newest division.

While it is often debated, the simple fact is that the RV propane system was designed to be used while traveling and is used by thousands of RV owners while traveling, especially when traveling in very cold weather. There are many antidotal stories that are popular in RV mythology, but try and find one that can be documented. It is wise to turn off the refrigerator when you stop for fuel, but in my years of RV experience, I have used the propane refrigerator for many miles and when traveling with a motorhome in cold weather we also use the furnace. If traveling in extreme cold weather your plumbing will freeze. There is truth to the opinion that the RV refrigerator is a common cause of RV fires but it is not from the use of propane but rather from the failure of the absorption cooling unit. There is an excellent aftermarket device called the Fridge Defend that prevents pretty much all of that type of failure.

I feel quite safe in my opinion that insurance companies would not spend the vast amounts for advertising that they do if the policies that they are selling do not make them very handsome profits. I find many of the advertisements for Part C plans to be very offensive, implying that your are stupid or mentally deficient if you don't buy their Plan C.

I am wondering why you would want to do that? I have operated my RV refrigerators on propane while traveling for years, as have numerous others but you can also just turn it off and it will be fine for 6 to 8 hours, especially if you don't open the door.

I believe that you bad information. I suggest that you visit the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle dept. for accurate information.

I suggest that you start by reading Ultimate Guide for Residency and Domicile as a Full Time RVer

Since Jessfar has not been back since posting his question, I doubt that he will be.

I'm not sure what you mean by "your RV TAG as the address" when you ask? Are you planning to change to a FL domicile and leave WI? I doubt very much that you could keep a Wi CDL if you move your domicile to FL. I suggest that you start by reading Ultimate Guide for Residency and Domicile as a Full Time RVer

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That is interesting! Thank you for posting the link.

That depends on how the pictures get posted. If you use cut & paste to post them then the picture is stored on the host forum. If you use a link from a photo hosting site or even from some other website, then all that is stored on the forum site is your link. How the pictures can be inserted into a post depends on the software being used by the forum host and if the forum is not "in house" but is located on a commercial forum host site like this one is, then the cost of the forum is dependent upon the amount of storage paid for. There are some forums that allow either method of inserting pictures. Very few public internet forums are actually on the server of the host organization but are actually on the servers of a hosting business. Forum hosting services typically cost between $100 and $500 per month, depending on the size of the forum and the storage it uses. The rise of social media: In recent years, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have become increasingly popular, and many people now use these platforms to communicate and share information with each other. This has been especially true at the Escapees RV Club with the increase in younger membership.

I looked at Toll Guru but it isn't current for NTTA & SunPass each accepting the other and it makes no mention of any of the national transponder services that are trying to gain acceptance by all toll authorities. Until and unless there is some sort of standardization at the national level the frequencies, and data is going to have compatibility issues. Things like system identifiers, account numbers, and various other data needs to be standardized and the system issuing the transponder must accept bills from all of the systems that accept it. This is not a simple thing to manage.

Which fits with what NTTA says about their transponder being accepted by Florida, except around Orlando and that they accept the SunPass. Are you saying that the TSD device has a SunPass imbedded into it? If so that might be how they could be accepted without being listed by NTTA as acceptable. Making them all accept the transponders from all of the other toll authorities is certainly the ideal answer but until that happens the commercial ones are probably the best answer for truckers and RVers who travel into all or most states. I don't have a great record in predicting the future, but I suspect that we will see more toll roads built in the future as a way to pay for new roads. It has been a while since we were last there but family in California reports that they have had a nightmare with 12 different toll authorities but it seems that they now have FasTrak that works with all of them. Doing a search for a nationally acceptable toll road transponder, I found these others. BestPass NationalPass RV-TollPass

That depends on if they both use the same fuel (gasoline, LP, or diesel), do you have proper air flow requirements for the larger unit, and how do the dimensions compare? Are you planning to do the work?

Just so that you know, I have had a toll tag with NTTA for more than 10 years now and as an account holder I get regular updates on where it is accepted, and that is how I came to be in touch with the NTTA employee who called me. If you will look at the NTTA website, as I stated before it does list "Florida (except for some tolls roads in the Orlando area)" but there is no mention of EZ Pass or Sun Pass. However that is a listing of where the NTTA tag is valid and accepted and says nothing at all about what other toll transponders that they accept. I would be very surprised if the Sun Pass is not accepted by NTTA, since their transponder is accepted on Sun Pass roads but I highly doubt it would be accepted by EZ Pass, since it is only in the Orlando area and that area does not accept the NTTA. In my experience, accepting another transponder is always a two way agreement so I'd expect that any system that accepts my NTTA tag would be accepting transponders from those systems. I specifically asked the NTTA if they accept the Toll Solutions transponder and was told no. I didn't ask if any of the other TX systems accept it, so perhaps they do? You can pay for toll roads in Texas electronically with the TxTag, EZ Tag, TollTag, PIKEPASS or K-Tag, depending on where you are driving. Pay by Plate is also available on all toll roads. The first 3 are from TX systems, PIKEPASS is OK and K-Tag is Kansas. You mentioned a box with two transponders inside so I'm wondering what it looks like? I have only seen the flat, decal like transponders recently but NTTA was originally a plastic item that was about 1/8" thick and some people would move it between vehicles, which may be the reason that they changed a few years back and replaced the old style. What does your TSD transponder look like?(I haven't driven in FL for about 15 years.)

I'll be interested to see the list. The idea is certainly a good one if they can actually make it work. As to them paying the fee via the license plate reader, I can see how that might work with major truck-lines, but find it difficult to see how they could intercept the fee bill when the license is to an individual since they mail it to the address on the vehicle registration.

That fits with what our eldest son has to day. He worked for a software company that supplies interface software between the toll readers and various accounting programs and the company keeps a list of toll agencies that they do not do business with for ethical reasons and E470 is on that list.

That is interesting, especially in light of what the lady from North Texas Toll Authority told me. Were you on an NTTA road?

The last time that we used E470(June 2021) they read my truck & trailer plates accurately but then sent the bill to the address that they had on file for my TX plates, not bothering to verify it and so see that the address had changed, so I didn't receive any bills. After a few months they turned it in to a collection agency that did check the address and send the bill + a $79 late fee to the proper address. one for each direction trip. When I contacted the toll authority to point out the address change they told me that I had to prove that my address had changed before I drove over their road. Looking at their website I was able to locate a copy of the original bills so I printed each one and put a check for the original charge without the late charge in it and they did accept each check and I have heard nothing more from them in about a year. As a side note, I also used the Northwest Parkway toll road twice while in the area and they sent the bill such that it arrived in less than a month and I paid it. Unlike the E470, they also put both trips on a single bill based on the license plate and then mailed it to the current address. When I was fighting with E470 I emailed NW Parkway and the sent a copy of their license plate number/address and the date it was read but E470 was not willing to accept that.