[Andy]

Another great “Build it and they will come” story.

I started “lurking” for 2 or 3 years, and came to realise I too could be

a Prevost Owner.

Thank you ,administrators and members

[Andy]

You should not be “shut down” but you should be so slow as to be completely unusable. That’s the way the FMCA Verizon plan is setup. Service should return to normal at the end of your current 30 day cycle.

[Andy]

Loc,

We will be in Moab at Portal RV from 7 to 20 September. Our summer trip out west does not really start until late July early August, but we will be on the road until some time in November.

You do know that the reason we have the Rubicon and we are going to Moab is because of the Jeep trip we all took with you at Buckhorn Rally back in 2010. Ann had so much fun that we decided to do more Jeeping. That day on the trails in Texas was a lot of fun.

[Andy]

Thanks for this post, Jon. I just had a shop replace a couple of fuel hoses because I didn’t know if I could get it fired up again after. This procedure is going in my emergency repair notebook.

NOTE TO SELF: make an emergency repair notebook

[Andy]

We have owned three Prevosts. Two with slides (our last two buses) and one without slides (our first Prevost). When we traded out of the non-slide coach I wanted another non-slide coach but was not able to find what I wanted in the used market. I wanted a non-slide coach because we do a lot of driving and not a lot of sitting in one place and I like not having the slide wall behind the driver’s seat. That being said, we have enjoyed the slide coaches especially on football tailgate weekends when the weather is not good for outside activities.

It really boils down to finding a coach that suits your needs. I wouldn’t hesitate to have another non-slide coach but my bride prefers the extra room when parked. Guess who wins that argument.

[Andy]

Just cut Jon’s share. No problem

[Andy]

building I like has 8by8 wooden post with steel bar joist trusses. 40 by 60 under 7Grand no side wall just wood purlins and galv roof. ck on e-bay for ideas. 10ft centers 2by6 purlins galv metal roof: I have done several. 39lb per sq ft live load. Fwiw.

[Andy]

depends on your dollars vs convience . What little you do on front just move the bus. Remote tank bleed fittings are cheap.. I get along just fine with a 3ft deep 20 ft long pit. crawl in. Point is not to need pit!!!! Sure limits use of that area for any thing else. My low dollar opinion!! my building is 74W only 80 ft long. ck out bar joist truss with wood purlins and girts also think about loft for storage. Bob

[Andy]

We gave up long ago paying high labor costs to install base plates.

[Andy]

Given the number of telemarketing calls and robo calls now invading my home and cell phones when my cell phone breaks or is no longer supported I am seriously considering not having one at all.

I managed to grow a number of businesses and NEVER carried one when I had my businesses and I actually survived. I rarely turn it on, and when I do use it the total time per month is very likely less than 30 minutes, so its value to what I pay sucks. I don’t expect to see flying donkeys any time soon, if at all.

[Andy]

The toad is not being measured by the multiplex system. Those lights are initiated I believe by relays that close the circuit when their corresponding tail lights are on.

If they were sensed by the bus system, every time you traded toads if the tail light loads were different (current draw) the system would see a “fault”.

[Andy]

Jon, I have never run the ‘light check’ but now I’m wondering if a light was out on the toad, would the Prevost system recognize it. I’ll need to give it a try sometime.

Tom, I would think that Prevost could program your rear lights not to come on. I had to have Prevost reprogram the computer to disable the flashers when I put the coach in reverse.

Since we have the side camera’s and when I would put the coach in reverse, the backup camera would switch from left, right and rear on the camera. It made it difficult for me to watch the backup camera. I still have the beeping.

Mark

[Andy]

Let’s just say I have some special Friends!

[Andy]

Keep the drunks and druggies and cell phone users off the roads and those low numbers will drop to almost nothing.

I agree, but since that’s not happening, what’s the solution? How about vehicles that can react to changing conditions faster than a human?

And not a single computer controlled vehicle contributed to the gains in the safety of our roads or the cars currently being sold.

Emergency braking/collision avoidance systems have already proven to reduce traffic fatalities. This feature will be on nearly all new cars by 2022.

Here’s an interesting read: Consumer Reports

[Andy]

Thanks Jon, your perspective as a driver and pilot puts things well into perspective. It comes down to reasonable balance doesn’t it? Great to have auto this and auto that but when the plane is hit with lightening and something in the avionics goes wrong. You want an experienced pilot at the yoke. And that’s no yoke!

And Bernie you put it into full perspective when you said…

And the waitress at the Triple who would see me leading a herd a trucks in the middle of the night to get fuel and order my bacon and egg on white toast to go. Have the pot of coffee in her hand to fill my thermos and smile at me and hand me my bag to go and tell me, you look like hell, go to bed.

You don’t know her name but you remember the kindness and will never forget it and so many other things. Try that with a fast food automated robot. Emotion does play a part and always will. When I went to the maintenance seminar at Jeff’s I didn’t fall in love with the buses. I fell in love with the people.

Lets just be real careful when we decide to turn our lives over to automation. It all comes with a price. Just ask Tom about his blowup Fara Faucet doll. Woo-doggies!

Harry