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Andrew Roberts

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  1. You won't be alone on the roads at 60 mph towing until you get to Florida. Im not sure what happens the moment you cross that line but once you enter florida on I75 the drivers fly and scare the hell out of me. The trucks are no exception just be on your toes and don't worry about mount eagle it is no big deal just stay at a lower speed and don't start back down it above 55mph and you will be just fine

  2. It floods over there every time it rains in that spot hope they are fixing that and The Lazy Dayz TT was a Big Park model Wildwood before the Fifth Wheel was brought in this year. My guess is there is a little sweetheart deal they have with the Mouse. If you look around at all the special events they use Class C motorhomes all the time. almost always Coachman leprechauns.

  3. It takes me 20 hours to get form my home in South Bend Indiana to the Fort. 1150 miles give or take a few. I always run 31 to 465 east to I65 to I24 to I75 then the Fl turnpike. the only mountain in this route is mount eagle and it is not an issue just slow down and you will be just fine it is only 55mph at that point anyway. The trucks have to use the Atl bypass you don't and it will save you time to stay on I75 and go straight through ATL. but don't do that in Macon once you get there the Macon Bypass is the faster route. I have made this trip with my camper in as little as 18 hours but I was alone and didn't stop much. I have found that anytime past macon is a great place to stop for the night. I you stop before Macon the computer traffic sucks the next morning. Most of the trip I run 65mph and get between 11 and 14 mpg depending on the wind speed and direction Im pulling the picture on the left but run diesel. hope this helps. Keep in mind once you get to the warmer climate it is hell on your TT's tires make sure they are inflated properly and that they stay cool. It really sucks changing a tire on I75. 

  4. I know full well about weighings. I've actually weighed my rig quite a few times. I have a few blog entries on my experiences. Your numbers don't make sense to me. Your camper weight is going to be 7200+6600+910=14,710 pounds. Being that 910 pounds was your pin weight, that's something like 6.4% which is underheard of low for a travel trailer (norm is 10%-15%) and even further from accepted norms of 20-25%. I'm not saying their wrong- they're just wildly unexpected.

     As noted above I really posted this due to Forest River being in trouble for safety issues. I'm very sure about my findings and trust the people that helped me with it. Being that I'm on the edge of Elkhart Indiana. I have a lot of assistance from the engineers (my friends) that build this stuff.  (all of which warned me that that was to big a rig for just two axles). But again this really is a post about Forest River's issues not mine I just brought my example into it 

  5. Technically, your tires were likely fine- just at the maximum end of their weight capacity. A fifth wheel camper's axles and thusly tires generally carry only 75-84% of the total weight of the camper. The remainder of the weight is carried by the truck as pin/hitch weight. So a camper that weighs in at 15,000 pounds will carry somewhere in the ballpark of 11,250 to 12,600 pounds on the tires. Assuming 4 tires at 3,200 pounds means that you had a carrying capacity of 12,800 pounds. Like I said- they were maxed out, but probably not underrated as a whole. (Individual axle and wheel weights are another story- but they're generally very hard to get).

     

    I do appreciate the answer but the fact is the tires were under sized. The whole unit was scaled and there is only 950lb on the truck. and the back axle was holding 7200b and the front was at 6600lb. It was not safe in anyway shape or form. And all you have to do is drive into any truck stop with a scale and weigh the unit twice once with the truck and once without. place the scale plates between the axles and you can get the axle weight. Oh and the other part is the determination that it was overweight for the tires was done by Goodyear Commercial. the Failure of the Tires were from over heating. The stress on the sidewalls were to much for it to handle. The one that blow up was catastrophic the other side made it but had been stressed to the point of tread separation and multipoint leaks. THEY WERE WAY UNDERRATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    Also I put this up because the feds are investigating unsafe RV builders and I have had this issue. There are also many others who have. 

  6. Hopefully the below link will work. I live in the area where most of our beloved RV are made. Found this article in the paper a few days ago. Also wondering if this will help me or any of you. I own a Forest river Fifth Wheel that was manufacture in 2013 and was sitting on tires that were under sized for it. The tire they put on it were only rated for 3200lb and yet the Camper weighs in at 15,000. With only four wheels the math just won't not work. I never noticed until the one of tires blow up in Ocala on I75. The tires that can handle the weight cost me $1,468.00. May be time for a class action, who wants in?
     

     

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