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Originally posted by bill h:
Most Class As have it on the right. Anyone guess why?

It sounds like you were going to give us some info for the board game - Trivia Pursuit: Life on the Road...

Ok, I'll bite. Why are the ladders on most class A MHs located on the right side?

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Originally posted by Bill N.Y.:
It sounds like you were going to give us some info for the board game - Trivia Pursuit:

Ok, I'll bite. Why are the ladders on most class A MHs on the right side?

Nah, I wasn't trying to make anyone bite, just curious what you all think. After I posted the question, I thought about it a little, and came up with a coupla guesses.

Most of us are right-handed, and might feel more secure stepping to the left of a ladder. I have noticed that is how most construction and aircraft people get on and off ladders.

Another thought is that most of us seem to feel most secure moving to the left. As an example, I did better doughnuts on a motorcycle to the left, and am braver on fast left turns on a bicycle. In slalom water skiing, I always made more buoys on the right side than the left. That seemed to be the case with other competitors, too.

I had a girlfriend who was a barrel racer. She had to work harder on her right hand turns than the left ones. The lefts came naturally to her, but not the right. Most barrel racers look their best on left turns. I don't know if that is related to right-handedness or not.

On patrol, all else being equal, a soldier is more liable to leap off the trail to the left than to the right.

Carousels used to be built to go CCW, as left turns were believed to be safer or more natural or less upsetting, or something.

I was always annoyed that most motorcycle road racing courses had more right than left turns.

So, all of this is reinforcing my idea that most of us are more comfortable leaning left.

because of the increasing acreage of my solar farm, I was recently forced to move the ladder to the driver's side. I am less secure using it.

I was thinking if it were on the left you would be nearer the traffic if climbing alongside the road. Or, it simply puts it closer to the door for easier access.

I did a search of UK RVs and it does appear most that have a ladder (which are a lot fewer) are on the left.





The Winnie is interesting because it is made in the US with a right door, but ladder is left????????????

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was thinking if it were on the left you would be nearer the traffic if climbing alongside the road.

remember Brits drive on the "wrong side"

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remember Brits drive on the "wrong side"

Dick,

That's why I chose there. Originally I made the mistake of looking up Euro RVs, then realized many Euro countries drive on the "correct" side of the road as we do.

Working for a British company I've driven often over there and never had any real issues. Where I've almost been killed is crossing the road and looking the wrong way! That one is harder to get right for me!

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ber Brits drive on the "wrong side

The closest I ever got to that was a 1948 Singer with righthand drive and kamikazi takchis in Tokyo

I was in Freeport Bahamas one time and rented a scooter instead of taking thier "tour".... We went to Zanadu beach and had a "few" Pina-Coloda's... On the way back to the love boat I got lost.... Trying to figgure out which side of the road to take proved to difficult in my condition (and with the two divided highways) so I just had to wait until a car came past to see which side of the median I was supposed to turn onto... We ALMOST missed the boat.... Oh yeah, what an overhang the next day...

I had my most scary LHD moments when turning right into a road from a driveway. I had to really concentrate on which direction to watch the hardest. Once in Sweden, I was lucky a truck was very slow. I had driven there from Norway, which had RHD traffic.

Being in the same country for days and days allowed me to make fewer mistakes, but the change almost did me in.

My mother was in Scotland with some friends in the early 70's. They came around a corner of a highway in the correct lane and were hit head on by another couple who were in the wrong lane. She was in the back seat, they found her glasses on the dash of the other car. All were injured, she was the worst. 9 days in a coma, 3 holes drilled in her skull to relieve the pressure, 2 months in the hospital before they could bring her back here where she spent 2 more months in the hospital. Turns out that they all missed that her jaw was broken and her upper leg as well. Both healed on their own but her leg is about 1 inch shorter and they had to remake her dentures to fit. She also had to have an operation to straighten out one of her eyes, which is still off some. She was a teacher, has never been able to work or drive again, she uses a cane to get around. Her personality and speech are changed, she is not the same person that she was. Needless to say if i could change one thing in the world it would be that we all drive the same way.

Amen to that. Nearly got flattened out in Dublin crossing a street. You just look constantly the "wrong" way, really hard to figure out turning cars. As for right hand drive the Swiss Military had me driving a 1953 MOWAG, even the nuts turned the other way on that thing. But I liked shifting with the left hand, it was a little odd in right side traffic, luckily you hardly pass anything in an old off road truck. Double clutching too, how come they do not turn the clutch and brake around? Doris

BTW most sprinters take off pushing with their left leg forward position.

This has got to be the Grand Champion so far!

Dang, that thing is so long they couldn't get it all in the picture!

Shadow, what a tough story about your mother. I'm sorry that your family has to go through that. How is she doing now?