The Bent RV Trailer Hitch and other Full Time RVing Tales of Woe

Sometimes while you are staying in an RV full time, things break down.
And also at times, important stuffs break in the middle of nowhere.
Yesterday, I bent each of our RV trailer hitch rails wanting to back to a tight spot at our RV car park. I was attempting to loosen the RV hitch from a “tow” position into the “maneuver” position and the darn thing bent in the bed of our truck.
The RV trailer hitch is a important piece of equipment that are used to pull the 5th wheel RV. If perhaps it is broken, you aren’t proceeding anywhere soon.
If the rails are bent (even slightly), you just cannot take a chance on it and attempt traveling by using it.
Must it be stated that if you're RVing full time across the country along with a wife and 2 kids, you don’t like the fifth wheel RV to fall off of the back of the pick up truck?
We have a Reese Sliding Hitch, and as expected, all of us do not recommend you get that equipment…
We all do recommend the Husky RV Sliding Hitch instead.
Unlike the Reese Sliding Hitch, the Husky RV Hitch has more support with RV hitch rails because they are basically screwed on to the frame of the pickup truck. Also, since it is so secure, you’re less likely to bend one.
The Reese rails are bolted to the bed of the truck.
I’m no technical RVing guru, but it does not appear like a great thing when you are carrying six tons.
As soon as we purchased our truck, we got the hitch as an add-on at the car dealership (another place we don’t really recommend - but also will remain unidentified) and these people gaveus all the less expensive hitch.
Just what are the chances for a car dealership doing that?
$537.99 along with a scenic ride into the Wisconsin country side after that, we'd the RV hitch rails repaired out in Wisconsin at Mound View RV in Belmont, Wisconsin.
Thankfully that RV dealerships in the Midwest are almost as common as cornfields.
So if you’re deciding on RVing full time, consider for the things failing and plan for everything not going just exactly as you intended it - despite that you planned it as carefully as you could.
Things usually go badly, even more so if you are 100 % full time RVing novices exactly like us.
But just get up again, find out how to deal with your issues and get it done. Even if it costs you a little cash to get it done right, you should not conserve money or cut corners if you are carrying a six ton RV behemoth.

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