Anyone ever do this???


http://www.fmca.com/motorhome/...-safe-driving-course

Looks like a good idea.

I'm always amazed that in Michigan if you are not a commercial driver you don't need anything but a regular driver's license to pilot a 20,000+ lb coach 40 ft long! No chauffeur's license, etc needed. Makes me a bit nervous when I see some of our little OLD men and women drivers.

I'm always spooked when I drive 86Barth on snow... I don't do it unless I have to. Experience indicates the front wheels will lock up well before the rear wheels in snow. (On dry pavement I'm not sure any will lock up... never had to brake that hard yet.)

Fortunately with all the tires in the rear dragging it seems to want to track straight. I suspect a skid would be hard to correct unless the front tires are in contact with the road. I used to practice skids in the car in big empty parking lots but I haven't had the guts to try it in the Barth.
Anyone else have any exciting snow driving reports?

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see some of our little OLD men and women drivers.

watch it you young wipper snapper!!!!!

Hey don't get too cranky.. (Like Mary Ray says,"Don't mess with old people...)

Reminder: I've had an AARP card a few years and I just turned 60 in Dec, I think I'm an old fart now, at least an apprentice?

Besides I've seen you drive that Gator through the bush, you have a Jeep, too.

After all the time on those Kentucky hills I want you to be my driver for the Barth hill climbs and off road races!

If the snow wasn't so deep to cover it, I'd be freezing my @## off lately... can't wait to get back to the south.

Have not had the Barth out on snow (and SALT!!)--- and hopefully never will. but I have a 79 ford cab- over 5 ton which I've taken out to "see how it handles"--- unlike a car or pickup that you can feel the back end move out, on the 5 ton (sitting over the front wheel) you could see the rear of the truck move across the center line of the road about the time you could feel it through your pants! I think a motor home would be similar. ---- so I guess if I do it, I need to wear "sensitive pants" that day.
Bud