It is a FACT that, by federal law, all new RVs sold must have a “Certification Label”. The law specifies the information that must be on the label. It also specifies where the label is to be located, with different types of RVs having unique locations.
It is also a fact, confirmed by numerous studies, that more than half of the tires in use on RVs are run underinflated.
Another fact is that almost every week, I read a post or receive a question asking whether a certain size, type, or load range tire can be used on a specific RV.
The above suggests that RV owners were never told about the important SAFETY information on the Certificate, or that they chose to ignore this information.
Here is a poll to see how many readers of RVtravel.com know or have ever even read this safety information.
In case you do not know what the label looks like, here are a couple of examples.
Roger Marble
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If you have tire questions, check out Roger’s posts on RVtravel.com. There are hundreds of posts covering everything to do with tires.
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Half of tires on Rvs are under inflated! Under inflated tires are one of the biggest reasons of blowouts. I’ve been following Roger for years. He has repeatedly stated such but many disregard advice. I believe the complaints on “China bombs” would drop if more listened to him and other experts.
Think I have a picture, but faster to just go look at the side of the trailer or doorframe of our vehicles. Which I do fairly often just to make sure I remember the details.
Glad to hear that you know about the Certification Label. One reason I suggest taking pictures is that while helping RV owners at RV Conventions, I have visited the parking spot of the RV owned by a participant of a seminar and discovered the information printed on the label on the side of the RV Trailer was no longer legible
Within the first 10 pictures of our RV are the labels on tires and pressures! Always with us in an album on the iPhone 🙂
I know where the label is and what it says but never took a picture. It would take me longer to find the picture amid thousands than just look at the label if I had to refresh my memory.
I use actual scale weights and tire pressure tables, plus a margin as Roger recommends, to set pressure.
I understand the problem of finding certain pictures. I have a separate folder on my phone for specific important documents, including copies of my Driver License, Passport, Birth Certificate and vehicle registration.
Wow, Roger. You trust the security and hacking defenses of your phone a lot more than I do! I would never keep everything it takes to steal my identity in one place, much less on my cell phone.
I am the same, Mikal. I know where my stickers are and have most of the information memorized but finding a picture of them even in an album would take me longer to refer. Regardless, I took a picture (Because Roger guilt shamed me to do it) and stuck it in my RV album of pictures I could never find…..LOL
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How bout “Ain’t got those stickers on my trailer” as a choice.
1957 model