spdracr39 said:
So we love our car and are looking at a class A. Our car cannot be flat towed or towed on a dolly only trailered. I am looking for real world experience with the pros and cons of this. We are not full time yet but are preparing for that in a few months.
Biggest questions are :
How easy is it to back up a 16' trailer with a 41' rig ?
How difficult is it to find campgrounds with a place to store the trailer?
My "rig" is 40ft and my trailer is 16' with a 3' V Nose and from the back of the trailer to the ball nose it's 22"
Overall I'm about 65' long when hooked up. How easy depends on how much you practice, the more practice the easier it gets.
I'm in a spot now that I will have to back out of as there are too many trees to drive around.
I'm not worried about backing up as I can just see a little bit of the fenders on the trailer when it's straight.
I have to go around a little corner one way and then the other way to be able to leave the park.
In some places I have been able to leave the trailer attached and then remove the motorcycle(s) and park them
along side the rig. Other times (Like the next place I'm going to) I will have to disconnect the trailer but it will still
be on my spot - just off to one side.
It sounds like you don't have the MH yet but you know it's going to be 41' ???
And you know the trailer will be 16' ???
That seems small for some reason.
What kind of car do you have? Can/could the car move the trailer?
I've seen that setup before - because sometimes the trailer can't stay with the rig and the easiest way is to
tow it to storage with your vehicle. Once I had someone with a pickup truck move my trailer for me, so that's a possibility too.
My trailer is enclosed. An enclosed CAR trailer is more money and weight vs. an open trailer.
However an enclosed trailer is going to keep the vehicle much nicer than an open trailer which is likely to get
nicked up not only from your RV but from passing vehicles and Semi Trucks on the roads. So pros and cons I guess.
An enclosed trailer also can keep it safer as no one knows what's inside (unless you advertise) which I would never do.
Also an enclosed trailer can hold other stuff like tool boxes and a lot of other stuff that might not fit in the MH. And last but not
least it keeps the sun, rain and or snow off the vehicle so it will arrive much cleaner then on an open trailer.
You can probably tell I'm a fan of the enclosed trailers - but I've seen a lot of open trailers with cars on them, but it's your call .......