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RV Daily Tips. Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Issue 1857 Welcome to RV Travel’s Daily Tips Newsletter, where you’ll find helpful RV-related tips from the pros, travel advice, product reviews and more. Thanks...

Ask Dave: Do I need supplemental brakes for my toad?

Dave Solberg is a leading expert in the RV industry and author of the “RV Handbook” as well as the Managing Editor of the...

RV Daily Tips. Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Issue 1602 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros, travel advice,...

RV Daily Tips. Tuesday, August 18, 2020

This newsletter is for intelligent, open-minded RVers. If you comment on an article, do it with respect for others. If not, you will be denied...

Select your towed vehicle for all-around fun and utility

By Greg Illes It turns out that "towed" and "toad" are pronounced the same. It also turns out that the RV community, as a whole,...

“We’re (finally!) towing a dinghy and loving it!”

By Nanci Dixon We love having a dinghy vehicle to drive once we park the motorhome. It only took a few car rentals and unhooking...

Best ways to tow a vehicle behind a motorhome

What's the best way to tow a vehicle behind a motorhome? Walter Cannon of the Recreational Vehicle Safety and Education Foundation explains the three...

RV Daily Tips Newsletter Issue 1316

Friday, April 10, 2020 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros,...

A backup camera for your RV? “Wireless” may not be best

By Russ and Tiña De Maris If you've bought a car in the last few years, chances are it came with a rear view or...

RV Daily Tips Newsletter Issue 1290

Thursday, March 5, 2020 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros,...

How to tow a “dead” vehicle out of the middle of nowhere

By Greg Illes After more than fifty years of driving, and a lot of it off-road, I've had a bit of experience towing “dead” vehicles....

RV Daily Tips Newsletter Issue 1287

Monday, March 2, 2020 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros,...

Towing in the dirt – Be careful of your “fog”

By Greg Illes In 2015, we were fortunate to be able to take off for several months to tour Alaska and Canada. While most of...

RV Daily Tips Newsletter Issue 1223

Monday, December 2, 2019 Welcome to another edition of RV Travel’s Daily Tips newsletter. Here you’ll find helpful RV-related and living tips from the pros,...

VIDEO: The proper way to connect a tow bar to your vehicle

In this video I'll show you the steps required to properly connect a tow bar to your vehicle. While I'm using a Blue Ox...

RV Shrink: Avoid pulling a flat-tired toad – or you’ll be sorry

Dear RV Shrink: We tow a Saturn behind our motorhome. I think we should have some type of alarm system or indicator to warn us...

Video: How to attach a Blue Ox Ascent tow bar

Andy Pargh THE GADGET GURU This is Part 2 of a two-part interview I did with Jeff Jubin, the Dealer Development Manager of Blue Ox, and...

Motorhome doesn’t slow at exit. Terrible crash. See video

Here's yet another reminder to drive carefully. We don't know the make or model of the motorhome that crashed after failing to slow at...

RV Mods: Turn your tow dolly into a utility trailer

By Russ and Tiña De Maris Leave it to an innovative RVer to come up with the answer to what could be a thorny issue....

New foam car debuts: Your next dinghy?

  You've likely never seen a car like the new electric drive Spira, which debuted at the L.A. Auto Show. The enclosed three-wheel electric trike is steered with a...

Better to flat-tow dinghy or use tow dolly?

By Chris DoughertyChris Dougherty is a certified RV technician. Here is a letter he received from a reader while he was serving as RVtravel.com's...

Truck stop overnighting — be safe out there!

By Russ and Tiña De Maris When RVers think of "pavement camping," it's often in terms of a "necessary evil," sort of way. We need...

One way to save your motorhome’s rear end

By Ron Jones Dragging the rear end of your motorhome, especially while flat-towing a car with the tow bar attached, is not good. This is...

Avoid tow bar tragedy

By Russ and Tiña De Maris Imagine looking in the rearview mirror and seeing traffic behind you scattering in every direction – trying to avoid...

Keep some essentials — and more — in your toad

By Greg Illes Statistics tell us that 80 percent of the motorhome population tows a car behind their rig. Add to this the number of...

Turn your tow dolly into a utility trailer in minutes

Leave it to an innovative RVer to come up with the answer to what could be a thorny issue. If you've got a motorhome...

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