Recently my wife and I were talking about our upcoming long term tour of
the country. I will be 62 and we both have dreamt of traveling the
country and seeing everything we have always wanted to see. We own a 32
ft. travel trailer and a Dodge 3500 diesel dually that we would be
towing it with. For whatever reason, I started thinking that it would be
nice to get a Class A. She had apparently been thinking the same thing.
So off to the dealers we went.
Having no idea of what to look
for, what kind of budget for the rig would be needed or even the
operating costs we decided it would be a good idea to ask as many
questions as possible. We are not new to the RV world, having lived
full-time in a fifth-wheel for 10 years, has taught us a lot. We are
familiar with the problems of freezing water lines, dumping the tanks,
setting up and tearing down. How to economize the storage space and
shopping while living on a limited budget. So we knew what we wanted on
the inside. But a Class A is totally different from a fifth-wheel on the
outside.
We had to look at things differently when getting on
the road. Our current fifth-wheel is 42 ft. long. It is a toy hauler or
garage unit. The back 14 ft. was used as an office instead of carrying
around toys (motor cycles, ATV etc.). Storage on the outside was simply
the basement area. With a Class A you have a lot more storage. But even
that seemed to raise questions. Why were some models offering pass
through and some not? Why do some models have a lot of storage and some
don't? Also almost all Class A RVs have a generator, why? What kind of
maintenance do they need? How big would we need? How long will it run,
etc.? It seemed the more we started looking the more questions we had.
Then the really big question, gas or diesel.
We really needed to
narrow down the selection and get an idea on the costs of a Class A. If
you have looked around at Class A's at all you know that diesel units
cost more than gas units. Sometimes a lot more. But are they worth it?
Our first problem was actually justifying a Class A over the rig we
already have and paid for. My son kind of answered that. His feelings
were that a Class A offered more options. If you are on the road and
broke down, you had your TOAD (car that you towed behind the Class A for
getting around town) that you could unhook and drive to get help.
Second was the storage. Regardless of the type of Class A (gas or
diesel), you still have a lot more storage than a travel trailer. The
operating costs of a Class A versus the truck and trailer are also
better. My truck gets about 8 MPG average towing the trailer. A diesel
Class A is about the same. But once camped, my car (TOAD) gets 30 MPG
and the truck 16 MPG. Gas is currently 30 cents a gallon cheaper than
diesel. Our overall cost for travel would be cheaper.
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