From: Convoy Magazine (convoymagazine@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Dec 24 2005 - 19:31:03 PST
What are we doing online???? get off the computer its
--- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
> I'm sending this for any and all comments but
Christmas!!
see you in a day or two.
cheers
Merry Christmas!
Marc
Convoy- Canada's No1 HMV hobby magazine
> primarily to get the opinion
> of TJ Smith. I wrote to TJ privately but he somehow
> has not been able to get
> an email through to me.
>
> Three years ago I turned my 1996 Freightliner Condo
> in to a recreational
> vehicle by stretching the frame slightly to accept
> an eight foot by fourteen
> foot aluminum box that I had on an old GMC cube van.
> My state, Florida, did
> a new title and etched a new vin number on the
> windshield and door glasses
> plus they put a data plate on the driver door post
> and gave me a title for a
> 2003 ASPT, which means, they say, that its assembled
> from parts.
>
> I somehow got lucky enough to turn out an RV Toter
> which makes the ones
> manufactured up around Elkhart, In. and some other
> places including Texas
> look less than finished, IMHO.
>
> I have a two and five sixteenth inch ball for my
> gooseneck trailer under a
> closed plate when not in use. I also have a class
> three hitch mounted under
> the rear of it.
>
> I'm strictly a collector of motorscooters,
> motorcycles, old farm tractors,
> and military vehicles among other things too
> numerous to go in to. I do not
> sell anything at the shows I attend, I only exibit
> for free. I do not ask
> for nor would I accept donations just to make myself
> clear on that.
>
> My RV is thirty eight foot long from bumper to
> bumper and my longest trailer
> is a thirty two foot gooseneck. Sometimes I drag a
> sixteen foot closed in
> trailer if I go to a scooter meet for example, but
> usually I have either no
> trailer or I have the gooseneck with maybe a deuce
> and a half or a HMMWV and
> a tractor.
>
> My trailer is rated at 25000 pound with two axles
> and eight tires, four on
> each axle. I have never hauled, to my knowledge,
> more than 25000 pound
> including the trailer weight. The trailer has
> electric, 12 volt DC, brakes
> activated by a Techonsha (sp) brake controller
> operated through the cold
> side of the brake light switch on the RV. Both
> trailers are 2003 as well as
> the truck.
>
> Now TJ, am I mandated to stop at weigh stations in
> your state of Texas and
> if not, would you if this was your set up? I have
> nothing to hide, consider
> myself to be totally safe and hold a class A CDL. I
> do not get an annual
> DOT medical check, and my health is good, so far
> anyway. I have stenciled on
> the side of the original sleeper "Recreational
> Vehicle, Not for Hire" on
> both sides. I do keep my truck in "ready for the
> road" condition since I've
> been in that field basically all my life. I retired
> from the Army in 1982
> as a Chief Warrant Officer, Automotive Maintenance
> Technician so I just
> don't trust my maintenance to anyone and will not as
> long as I'm physically
> able to do it myself, although I'll admit that some
> things are cheaper to
> have hired as I did last week getting an inner wheel
> seal put in but I was
> right there helping the mechanic as he is a good
> friend. I also let him do
> my brakes simply because it makes me feel better but
> some things I do the
> second time after I get my OJT from him. I never
> had full air brakes when I
> was in the "machine". They were always air over
> hydralic so I don't have
> much experience with full air. My truck has the
> newer, so I'm told, brake
> chambers that adjust automatically but when I
> replaced the shoes and springs
> last week he adjusted them initially or else it
> would take the automatic
> adjusters too long to get them adjusted. Is this
> normal?
>
> Sorry for rambling on fellers,
>
> TJ, tell me if I need to change anything I'm doing
> please.
>
> Sonny
>
>
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