🚐💨 Fuel Up & Laugh Along! Our top RV Fueling Tips! 😂

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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live and as promised, we're on Thursday. And we skipped
last Thursday. I don't remember why. I think we were out.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Actually I think we were too.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, we went out somewhere. But we're back and we
have a great show for you, and we're also just
hanging out chatting with you with all of the fun things.
Today we are drinking water, all of juice flavored water.
M oh, thank you, Mike. We so uh we do

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a lot of our V show or r V videos,
but today day we did a really fun TikTok trend.
It was the price tag music video or price tag
song trend where you know, you have somebody that's singing
and then they point to somebody else and that other
person's doing all the movements or whatever. And let me

(01:18):
just say that was an ordeal. I think it took
us like what like fifteen takes to get that right.
It was a lot that was more of an ordeal
than I was expecting it to be. But I think
it turned out really, really well, and we did get
the outtakes version of it, or the behind the scenes
version of it, which I will post tomorrow. I think

(01:39):
that was more funny than the actual video itself. So
it should be it should be.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Good, should be something.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It should be something. It's gonna make you laugh. I'm
not sure if it's gonna make you laugh with us
or at us, but if you're laughing either way, then
our job is done. Thanks John. Uh So. Tonight we
are chatting about r V fuel and like kind of

(02:09):
the dues and don'ts like some of the unspoken rules
and etiquette around fueling up when you are taking an
RV trip, because there are some unspoken rules, and I
think that there's a lot of rbs, especially new r beers,
who don't know what those are. Really quick, is our
other camera actually recording?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Okay, cool, I just didn't see a light on.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So I'm only capturing here instead smart overheating hopeful smart.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
All right, well there we go. That's that's great, But.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, guys, what are we talking about?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Again tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Fueling up, fueling up on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
So that is what we're talking about, not Flying Jay.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm actually more of a fan of Love.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we are more of a fan of Actually,
we're more of a fan of open ropes. The Open
Roads fuel discount program is awesome. It saved US hundreds
and hundreds of dollars every single year. And they are
They partner with Loves, they partner with Marathon, they partner
with ta uh and a few others, a few of

(03:19):
the other big ones. But we we really appreciate and
like uh, Loves, we have a lot of success with it.
Flying J has the rb islands that you love. Yeah, yeah,
I could totally see that, Like they're yeah, there're fuel bays.
Are yours? Welcome to the Wandering RV show, your source

(03:41):
for our stories, our screwups and our success is only
the full time RV life. I'm Kara, the Wondering RBBA.
And then this is your.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Driver, ran Hi. I feel like I just woke up
from a coma. Geez. It was not loud, It's just
very rupt. He's very emphatic and energetic in a way
that I being energizing. That's like nine o'clock at night.
How do you have this much energy caffeine?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, so our first topic actually is really interesting. So
the let's see, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA
just released a compiled list of all of their RV
recalls for February twenty five, so it's about a month old,

(04:30):
but that it's a pretty comprehensive list, y'all. And there's
some things on this list that are like super easy.
It's like a label was wrong or something like that. Cool,
that's fine, go take it in a dealer. They'll slap
a new label on there. You get to go.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
That would be funny if if you had to take
it in for a recall to make your to be
able to register and get your car certified and all,
it is like a little label that's missing.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I think that's what is happening on some of them.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
That is sad.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's pretty Yeah, it's pretty sad. But some of these
are actually pretty pretty scary. So I'm just gonna like
go through them. I think they're in alphabetical order, so
I'm just gonna kind of walk through some of them.
And we can talk about them. So first up again
alphabetical order, Brinkley. They're twenty twenty four and twenty twenty
five model gs. They're recalling like seventeen hundred of those suckers,

(05:17):
and it is because their solar charger controller may fail
and overheat. So it looks like the Yeah, the solar
charger is faulty and it could lead to to some overheating.
So that's like a little nerve wracking.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Next up, watch your solar charger if you've got a Brinkley.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah. Next up is the twenty twenty four Mercedes East
Sprinter vans welding No faulty welds on the rear. Actual
drive train may cause may fail causing a loss of
the power train power of the drive train power. Holy shit.
That is like a like scary you're driving down the

(05:59):
road and all of a sudden you lose control of
your vehicle kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, don't want that.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's not a good one. Here's a pretty easy one.
The for Forest River. They're twenty twenty five Coachman Catalina
travel trailers have the incorrect dryweight listed on their placard labels.
You have to get a new one and it's only
like one hundred and forty.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Of them, so that could be bad if you bought
it based off of the dry weight and it's oh
and it's potentially an overload. So yeah, actually could still
be a bad deal for you, depending on if you
bought one.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
But not lose control of your vehicle driving down the
road kind of bit.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I mean, if you're overweight, that could well.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Okay, that's true. That's true. Grand Design twenty nineteen through
twenty twenty four Solitude fifth wheels. Their step tread could
could break during normal at just normal use Highland Ridge.
They're twenty twenty five Open Road Range or open Range
I'm sorry, Open Range three X fifth wheel has the

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wrong tire size listed on the certification label. Uh, Jacob
bunch of Jacob's. They're twenty twenty one through twenty twenty
five Integer Coach lone U, twenty twenty two intil your
Coach launched, Ellie twenty twenty one through twenty twenty five
Jacob Terrain and they're twenty twenty two Jaco Terrain Ellie.
All have the same issue. It is the gray water

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tank support bracket could damage the fuel tank.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm assuming fuel tank.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
That means these are like, yeah, they're class bs and
they're Yeah, it's eleven hundred of them that they're issuing
this for. Yeah. So it's funny because.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Moral of the story, don't necessarily buy a Jacob.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, so what's interesting is we just released a video
last week and the video was the driver Ryan talking
about how he was filling up our fresh tank before
we were about to hit the road. And we like
to have a fairly full fresh tank when we hit
the road, especially if we know that we're going to
go to an overnight stop where we won't have water,

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and then that way we can shower the next day,
we can stop, you know, on the road and wash
our hands and go to the restroom, all that gets
stuff like that. But there were several people in the
comments that talked about, oh, I don't do that because
your your tanks could be compromised and they could fall
on the road while you're driving. And I was like,
pH nah. And then and then I started thinking about it,

(08:10):
and I was like, yeah, actually r v's are kind
of pos's and so yeah, it totally could.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Happen, could happen.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
It totally could happen.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Uh, Jonah. This is your first time catching our live Hey.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jonah, we are talking about all of the safety recalls
that were just issued for a bunch of r v's
last month, and so some of them are not too bad.
This one's kind of terrifying. The twenty twenty five jco
J Feather micro travel trailer has a burner tube in
the cook top that could crack, resulting in a gas leak.

(08:45):
That's that's not scary at all, not terrifying in the slightest.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I ventured tremon and joining us again. There is normally
only one inch of lip that holds the tanks and.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, yice, like okay, but here's the thing, guys, like
I want to have a full fresh tank in case,
like I don't know, we need to stop on the
side of the road and she needs to do her business.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Or I don't know, you get to a campground and
their entire water supplies come off. We've had that happen,
Like that has happened, like yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Or we go and we dry camp for the night. Yeah,
there is no water supply.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
So like having having some water in the fresh tank,
I mean it's helpful, I get it. Like, I mean
my understanding, like from the advice that I always got
was like your your fresh tank needs to either be
all the way full, we're all the way empty, because
if you're partially filling it, then that water is just
slashing around the better chance of something happening if you
do that, whereas like least if it's full, like it

(09:37):
doesn't have as much motion of the ocean, if you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I think you could feel it like a third of
the way and then it's pretty safe. And it also
slashes around to kind of clean it out a little
bit too.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
So Vintage says, I have a tank out now on
a Grand design. I should send you a photo. Yeah
please do? Oh yeah please? The tank has split? Oh
wow wow, hello heavy duty. Most campers are built to
carry up to two thirds full when traveling. The water
isn't on at our campground yet. I wish I had
filled ours before we got.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I agree, Martin always Kara. Do you ever camp in
the northeast Northeast Pa? We did, Yeah, we did last
year a couple different times. Ye. Bearded nerd, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Beard nerd?

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Do you have?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I gotta know, like, bearded nerd, do you have glasses.
Please please tell me you're a four eyes because if
you're gonna call yourself bearded nerd, like I'm a nerd
part of the I'm a bearded nerd because I can
nerd about out about anything you want. But like I
feel like to truly be called the bearded nerd, you
kind of gotta wear some glasses, like please, like and
like really low on the nose or something.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, oh man, Okay. So Roadtech has some certification labels,
not as big a deal the Storyteller Overland. So this
was that like badass truck that we saw there was
like technically a Class B, but they are one hundred
and twenty of them, so not very many. Due to
the seat can loosen and detach, like the whole freaking seat,

(11:08):
like the seat assembly well is loose and can detach.
That's terrifying when you when you have a class it's
like a glass B motor home. So it's like a
really tricked out kind of truck. Chassis is what it's on.
But it's technically as a Class B, which is like
a van life type type classification. Geez, that's terrifying. Four

(11:32):
motor Coach issued for two of their twenty twenty three models,
their roof mounting brackets were installed without washers.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know what that does.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, I'm not really sure what that does. It doesn't
sound terrible.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
But maybe it is. I don't know if the washers
used as a spakes or that things sitting there flapping. Yeah,
that could be a problem.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
You'd be annoying at a minimum. Oh man, win a baco.
So it's funny. We were talking to when we were
at one of the RV shows. We were talking to
some buddy who very clearly was not really in the
RV industry anymore, but they were just kind of reminiscing
back on the glory days of Winnebago twenty five thirty
years ago. They were like, Winnebago's the best. They're they're

(12:11):
they're the best, and we're like, yeah, Winnebago. A lot
of their twenty twenty five models, their propane tank could
fall off. These are these are new recent recalls. And
then there was a Winnebago uh one of their travel trailers,

(12:32):
the cook talk flame could invert when the stove and
furnace are used at the same time. Geez uh. So
those are the those are the big ones. If you
want to know if your particular RV has a recall
out open on it, you can go to the nh
TSA dot gov slash recalls and you can type in

(12:52):
the making model or even like the license plate or
ven number of your RV and you can see I
typed in rs just to check and no result.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
We're found. Hey, hey, hey, okay, So Mike says he
only puts in twenty gallons vintage to modern, says upgrade
and adds straps like an old school gast tanks. That'll
fix the issue. Okay, Heavy Duty says South Carolina. Santi
Sante South Carolina. We should come sometime, okay, and Mike
adds to my bearded nerd making fun of and says

(13:22):
that there should be white tape in the middle. Fred
says hello, how are you? And French? Well are you guys?
Aaron asked, are we sponsors or in sorry, hold on,
are we owners or ambassadors of the products on the table?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, we are owners.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, no we are not.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
We are owners of these particular I am I'm an
owner of this jar of what is this clay palmade? No,
we're we're ambassadors. So this is a hair care and
skincare product. And it's really funny because we're our veers,
but a lot of our sponsors are auxiliary from that.

(14:08):
But this company, I've been using them. They're They're based
in Knoxville, Tennessee. They've been in business I think for
like ten years, and I started using their products like
a year and a half after they started up. They're great.
I love them. I've ordered directly from them the entire
time that we've used them. And when we started our
being we kind of started growing a little bit of

(14:29):
a following on social media. I reached out to them
and just kind of started up a conversation with them,
and that started a partnership. So we use their products
for his beard oil and beard conditioner. He loves it,
and then I use their clay Palmade. I use their
map paste for my hair as well.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Oh no, I used the Palmade on my Yeah, you
use the palmad a little bit, and then I'll use
a little bit of I don't remember you. Sometimes I
use the Palmaid. Sometimes I'll use something different. If I
really want to fix the beer up and look like
all fancy fancy, I'll use like the Matte paste or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
They're Matte paste is amazing. I love it so much.
I actually it's funny. I use their mate paste when
I first cut my hair because it's a little shorter
and it doesn't require as much product. And then when
my hair starts to kind of get a little longer.
To keep it, you know, nice and fun and spunky,
I'll use like the liquid clay and then I'll let
that dry and then I'll use like their clay palmade

(15:24):
or something, and it kind of gives it this fun
like wavy.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah. So if you've got a cool beard like me,
or cool hair like her, or anywhere in between. Maybe
if your hair is not cool, this.

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Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's such a complicated name. I know, use RV babe
at the checkout to get a discount, and that, you know,
lets them know that we're you know, doing our job
as ambassadors. We have ambassador but we were using them, well,
she was using them before, I was.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Using them before we were ambassadors. So I'm certainly a
loyal customer and they they're awesome, So yeah, definitely check
them out.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Positive Mama says, we are getting our first camphor for
our two toddlers.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
And us oh two tallers. Okay, so are you getting
a mid bunk or what are you what are you
doing for bedroom.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
For the time style?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
And yeah, I'm very curious.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
She says, it's used but new for them.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
I love that. I love that. See. The next thing too,
is if you get one used, well, whether you get
one new or used, I would always have an independent
orby inspector come take a look at it, just to
make sure that you're getting a good one. You're not
getting like a lemon or anything. But you can get
like gently used RVs that people bought brand new, took
out like once or twice and then realized RV life

(16:39):
wasn't for them, or like life changed, and they are
ready to sell it. And you can get a super
great deal on a really really good used one. So
that's awesome that you guys are getting one.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's it's one of those things like where you Okay,
I'll tell you. The reason we bought new mm hmmm
is because we were going to live in it full time. Yeah,
and we honestly, I mean we could have probably bought
used and still living in a full time, and maybe
we would have even been better off. Yeah, but there
was this floor plan only kind of exists in kind

(17:10):
of a small little pocket. And yeah, so getting the
exact floor plan we wanted and exactly what we wanted
was a little bit hard in the used market, whereas
in the new market, it was like it was there,
it was ready, it was easy to get her hands on.
So yeah, that was why we bought new. Yeah, it's
not to say that used or new is good or bad.
Like if it's used, then somebody may have already found

(17:30):
all the issues, got them all fixed for you. If
it's new, you may be the one finding out all
the issues. So yeah, it's just you missed you after
your capital says, I missed my rear kitchen.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
See, and that's what we have. We love our rear kitchen.
It's great so that the back of the fifth wheel
is a rear kitchen, and then the middle is more
of like a dining like a not a dining room.
It's a what am I trying to say? It's like
a den because it's got it's got couches on either
side and it slides the open crossways, so we've got

(18:01):
a ton of space there and then we've got theater
seats that look right onto the TV, and then of
course up in the cap is where the bedroom and
the bathroom are.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, that's that typical style. But yeah, yeah, I like
what F three says. This is basically a proper living
room and that really makes it feel like you can
kind of entertain guests and everything like that.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's really nice, right, It really truly feels like a
home on wheels as opposed to a camper, and so
that's really it's helpful and really really important, I think
if you're gonna full time in it.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Aaron asked, what's your opinion on the back patio slash
deck style you see nowadays?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
It's so I think they're really cool. They took off
when So what's funny is Kaz actually came out with
it to begin with, and then Brinkley came out with
theirs two years ago, now maybe it was last year,
and now everybody's doing it. I think it's really a
cool concept, especially if you like to grill outside and

(19:00):
have everything with you. The problem that we found is
a lot of camp site the back of the site
is not picturesque, Like it's not fun to be sitting
at the back of the site looking out onto like
the overfill swamp area site.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
All we've got is a giant fence here. Now. We
did see some Class a's a couple of years ago,
and I feel like I'm not seeing him anymore. That
had like a patio that would come out the side,
and somebody did it. Somebody else did it with a
fifth wheel this year.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Too, the Saber did it with a fifth wheel.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, okay, and like a little side patio and like that,
that's bad ass. That could be useful because if you
get to a site that doesn't have anything there, now,
what you do need to make sure is that it's
still functional space even if you can't put the side
patio in case there is something there. But if you
don't have anything, it's really nice to be to come
out and then you can sit on the side. But
that's just got my opinion. I feel like a side

(19:53):
patio is much more useful than a rear patio, especially
because we're not we don't we're not toy hauler people,
so we don't need a toy haul or whereas like
if you're getting a toy haler, then okay, back patio
is cool no matter what yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and back like a toy Heler. That's the nice
thing about a toy Heller is you get that like
multipurpose space back there, so you can turn it into
a back patio. Whereas if you get an RV that
is just specifically designed to just have a back patio
and that's the only thing it's used for, then it's
still really cool when you get to use it. When
you get to use it, that's kind of the key. Yeah,

(20:27):
you can't always find the space to be able to
use it, or sometimes it's just like not really pretty
or not really fun to use it. So definitely definitely
an interesting concept. I think we're going to start to
see some of that weighing off a little bit. I
think what we'll probably see next year is we'll probably
start to see more of those side patios coming back,
which might actually draw us in. Uh. It's really funny.

(20:51):
We go to RV shows a lot just for our
content or just to like cover or review different RVs,
and so far we have not found an RV that
has our current one that we're in that we love,
But I think they're getting close. There's elements of different
ones at different times that are like, Oh, that could

(21:11):
be really really cool if this one or two features
were different, And I think we might end up finding
one in the next year or two because they kind
of all come back around.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
So two little comments real quick before we jump into
our main topic. Yeah, Mike says, new or used RV
stands for repair vehicle.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well, you're absolutely right. It does not matter if you
get it new. It doesn't matter if you get it used.
You're gonna be working on repair, so definitely make sure
you've got some money set aside for that.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
And then Curtis O'Leary asked, is your amazing uniqueness accidental
or intentional?

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I don't know. I I well, I realized my air
is kind of unique and that certainly is intentional.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
But yeah, you are that.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm not really sure.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
You are a very unique individual, and I don't know
if that's on purpose or not.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, is that a compliment or is that just a statement?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
On with the main topic, He's like, danger, Danger, I'm
getting into a danger zone. Danger, Will Robinson Danger, I'll
go old enough to know that joke. Get us with
that main topic.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
All right, main topic is fueling up on the road,
and specifically we're talking about larger RV's, either the towabols
like the big travel trailers or the fifth wheels, or
some of those big motor homes like the big Class
C motor homes, where it's not always feasible to fit
into a normal gas station bay and you have to

(22:47):
kind of figure that out. So that's kind of what
we're talking about. First question or first thing we're going
to cover on this is where do you fill up
your RV when you have one of those big rigs.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
I like to fill up a trucks up. It's just
a personal thing. Like I know, there's a lot of
issues and I know some people, depending on what truck
you have, if you go to the truck, the actual
truck fill up like you're the thing, the the little
thingy thingy.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
These are really really technical terms.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Guys will like click on your ours does ours will
click on us every once in a while, But for
the most part I can usually kind of get it
just right where it won't click. So I like going
to fillip with those for multiple reasons. Paramount of all
of those is open roads and be able to use
their discount program. By the way, also wandering our V babe,
open roads.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's in our it's in our profile
as well, So yeah, we love open roads. They they
I think last year they saved U almost six hundred
dollars in fuel costs.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
But obviously that only works for you if you are
a diesel either a pusher or a diesel toe or
either one. If you're a gasoline fueler, then unfortunately, you're
gonna have to go to the front unless you go
to it, get to one of the some of.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Them have like RV bay.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, if they've gone an RV bay, then you're usually
you're going to go.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
There, but not all of them do. Some of the
newer ones definitely have RV bay bays or RV fuel islands.
But most of the time we find that with those
travel centers, it's just easier to go through the truck lanes,
which there is an etiquette to going through the truck
lanes that is probably a good etiquette to follow when

(24:23):
you're at any other fuel stop, but it is most
especially important when you're at those truck lanes. So before
we get to that, though, we talked about you know,
we like the travel centers so like loves somebody said
Pilot earlier they're another travel center that's really good t
a but you can go to, especially with open roads.

(24:44):
They are contracted with like Marathon. I think there's some
race tracks maybe that they're contracted or.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Race and sometimes it's not all of them, so they
might have like contracts with Marathon in different parts of
the different regions and things like that.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, where we don't go when we're traveling. What is
the one place that we actively avoid when we're traveling Buggies, BUCkies.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Never go to BUCkies.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Never go to BUCkies. See here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Too busy. I'll go there when I'll go there without
my trailer. Yeah, no deal. I love I love being
able to get deaf and diesel all in the same place.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
But I and beaver nuggets and jerky and fudge.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
And a clean bathroom and a clean bathroom.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
And the pulled pork sandwiches our next level.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
But I will never stop there with the trailer.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
They are so freaking busy and there's so many zippy
cars just zipping around that when you have a big
ass trailer and your you're forty foot trailer butt is
just sticking out there in the middle.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Of the shape. That trailer butt.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
The chances of somebody baby back. Oh my god, if
China hold it together, you know what I'm talking about.
That chances of somebody coming around a corner and hitting
the back of that trailer, the side of that trailer,
or just we've had so many close calls with that
that we just we just don't do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah. To answer your to respond to your comment, t.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Fing a team, that's a pretty bad you candle.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
To respond to you, I don't know, I guarantee you.
Here's the thing. Probably every loves gets their fuel from
somewhere different, and so you probably can't really say that
across the board all loves are bad. But even let's
say if they are. We travel, you know, every couple
of weeks, maybe sometimes even once a month, once every
couple of months, honestly sometimes Yeah, and if for on

(26:43):
that travel day, for that one thing, you know, it
doesn't work that way, Okay, for that one travel day.
If I'm getting bad diesel, I'm okay with it. It's
I mean, if the big eighteen whelers can run off
of it ninety percent of the time, I think I
can run off of it ten percent of the time.
And know that I'm going to get some better fuel
once I get somewhere where I can be unhitched and
actually go fill up with diesel.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
So that's kind of my response to that one. It
may be bad, it may not be. I think it's
probably more regional specific. But either way, even if it
was all bad, I think it's still you know, it's
it's still okay for in my book. Now, if you're
filling if you've got a not commercial but a personal,
you know, personal diesel truck and you're filling up constantly,
if you're going to Loves all the time, and the

(27:25):
diesel really is bad, that's probably not a good thing.
But a little bit of bad diesel thrown and everyone
in a while, we got fuel filters, we got water filters,
we got everything in our especially the modern trucks, to
try and clean that diesel up. If hopefully that's enough
to keep my truck safe for the couple of times
a year that I'm filling up at Loves.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah. So the next portion of this topic is the
unspoken rules at fuel stops, and we're specifically talking about
those truck base and going into the fuel Island area
where the big eighteen wheeler truckers are at there are
certainly some unspoken rules. One that are just kind of
like common courtesy, but two that are are things that

(28:08):
are kind of genuinely practical, uh, for a really really
busy travel center truck stop. And the first one is
if you have a big diesel rig, whether it's a
diesel pusher motor home or whether you're you know, you've
got a big travel trailer or big fifth wheel and
you've got a diesel tow truck, is you can go

(28:29):
into the truck lanes. It's amazing how many people like
have it in their head that they can't go into
the truck lanes when they have diesel, And I'm like,
how do you how do you fit into some of
those other bays, because there's been a couple of times
where we didn't have a diesel truck lane and it
was a little dicey trying to fit into the regular

(28:50):
like gasoline side or smaller car non commercial side. So
you can go in them.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, some truckers might not appreciate it, but if you
follow these simple rules while doing it, most truckers actually,
we get along with the truckers really.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Oh yeah, We've never really had an issue with truckers.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
We've heard some horror stories. We I don't know if
it's because we follow the rules. I don't know if
it's because we're really courteous on the road, but for
the most part when we get to truck stops, Like
we were at a truck stop one time and I
was filling up and like, uh, that's what was the
truck driver behind us. I was in the middle of
filling up and he came up. He's like, Hey, I

(29:31):
gotta take my mandatory nap, and there's no places for
me to stop. So if you stay in your lane
for a little while, I don't mind. And I was like, well, unfortunately,
I feel bad for you. I would I would stay
here and kind of be your decoy, but I really
don't want the other truckers thinking that I'm holding you
up either, So I didn't do it for him, unfortunately.
But you know, he was like most most truckers are

(29:52):
really nice, though, Yeah, like you talk to him.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm very courteous. Plus y'all, whether you whether you like
it or not, they keep our economy going because every
single item that you get into in a store or
that you have delivered to your home, was delivered on
a truck in some way, shape or form at some point,
so like you got to give them a little bit
of respect, a little bit of props. But if you
follow these rules, it will help keep you keep you

(30:16):
out of their line of fire, so to speak. Monitor
that fuel pump. It's it's amazing to see so many
people who will start pumping gas or start pumping their
diesel and then like go go run their errands. Yeah,
the problem with that is because those fuel pumps pump
at a higher rate and volume than most other fuel pumps,

(30:40):
they can overflow really really quickly, and then you have
a really big problem. So you definitely have to be
aware of that and just stay there keep an eye
on it. The other thing is when you get done
fueling up, pull all the way up. There's gonna be
a line typically that's painted on the ground that's about

(31:00):
an eighteen wheeler length forward. It's there for a reason.
Pull all the way up and then you can go
like run your your errands. If you need to go
to the bathroom, you need to get snacks, something like that,
you can actually go do that while you're just kind
of pulled up forward in that still at the fuel island.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
And the nice thing here is if you are, unless
you're a class A diesel pusher, your tanks are a
lot smaller than their's are. So when you go to
pull forward, oh yeah, a little time, you've got a
lot of time because they're filling. Especially if they're filling
like both tanks, both sides, it's gonna take them a
little while. And I mean I've literally we've gone in,
we've gone pee, picked up some snacks, grabbed some food.

(31:44):
I don't know, played the lottery, No, we never played.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, we haven't done that. But usually what we'll do
is we'll try to time our fuel stops with a
lunch stop as well, because usually those travel centers have
some sort of like fast food place at them, or
they've got you know, sandwiches or something like that, and
they're usually pretty good quality. And so what we'll do
is we'll go in, we'll do the restroom breaks, if

(32:07):
we want to grab a snack or drink or something
like that, will do that, and then he'll go right
back out to the truck and sit with the truck
while I place the order for lunch. So that way
he's there in case the person behind him gets on
filling up, he can just move around, drive around.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Go find a spot to either park or get out
of the way.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Just something, just something, yeah, or if not, at least
he's there. So if you know, for some reason there's
an issue, then it's fine. But if it's not busy,
then we'll just camp out there. We'll end up eating
our lunch at that spot too, as long as it's
not busy and there's nobody behind us, and then once
we're done, chuck it in the trash and off we go.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah. On travel day, we're all about efficiency. We're very
like boom boom boom. Okay, hit the road.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Again, exactly exactly our last rule of thumb. And this
is actually a personal rule for us. Not everybody, not
all our veers follow it, but we do, and we
can tell you why. But we do not park overnight
at truck stops ever. And the reason why is it's

(33:09):
not that it's their domain and we can't. We absolutely can.
It's a free country. It's a parking spot. You can
park there. It's not a big deal.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
And especially if you like, if you go in, you
pay for it and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's yours. It's not a big deal. However,
for us as our veers, we have so many more
options in terms of places that we can park overnight
that don't allow trucks to be able to park there,
but they allow our veers. The other thing is we
don't have mandatory rest breaks. We don't have mandatory stop

(33:40):
periods things like that where we're on a clock, and
also have a limited number of places to go. And
so because of that, like we can go to a
cracker barrel parking lot, we can go park at a Walmart.
Not all eighteen wheelers can do that. Sometimes we'll accept
our veers, but they won't accept trucks. We can go
to a harvest host or a boondocks welcome or an

(34:01):
overnight camp site. They can't go there. The places that
they can go are truck stop parking lots, rest stop
parking lots. That's about it. So we try to be
courteous and not take up a space that they could
have when we have a plethora of other options. What else?

(34:25):
What else we got? Hey, Amy, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (34:28):
We're sitting here, she says, she's stuffing it out through
the strungs in Tennessee. I said, stop sending the wind
down here.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I'm sick of the camp or rocket. Oh my goodness,
it has been so so windy, and apparently it's been
windy across the rest of the country. So the last
thing that we would say about.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Bird is bowling again to well what oh yes, I
remember that.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
I feel so privileged that we occupy your when you're
just sitting there like waiting for everybody else to bowl
and waiting for it to be your turn, that you're like,
you know what, I'm gonna check out their life. That's awesome. Thanks, Bert.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Be Browning. What is on the table, Well, we talked
about it earlier. This is Arcadie and grooming product. Yes,
use discount code RV babe. This is what I use
for my beard. That's what I use for my hand
and she was using it long before they started sponsoring us.
But please buy stuff from them because it helps us.
Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
And then our last piece of truck stop etiquette, or
I guess RV fueling etiquette is your fuel stop checklist.
There is a fuel stop checklist. There's something that you
should do every time you stop for fuel, well, really
every time you stop yeah, but most of the time
for most of us, it's gonna be when you're out

(35:52):
of fuel stop. The first and foremost thing is start
looking for a fuel stop when you have about half
a tank. Because we've had situations, yes where we went
to go pull into a fuel bay and like we
couldn't fit or it was too busy, or.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Like they were out of fuel. It does happen. That
has happened, or like we've had out of fuel, or
the computers went down, and so you couldn't buy fuel
unless you I well know no. Even the one that
you couldn't buy there was one that you could buy
with cash and we didn't. I didn't have enough cash
with me at the time.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Oh yeah, yeah that's and.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Then there was one where they couldn't even accept cash,
like the literally the computer system just not died.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, it just died. There was one the last one
that we had an issue with when we didn't actually
have the issue, but the last time we experienced one
where they ran literally ran out of fuel. We had
just gotten done fueling up and he noticed it was
kind of sputtering, and he was like, what is the
deal here, Like it's sputtering, but we were able to
get almost a full tank, so where he was like

(36:56):
it's fine, like we got it, We're good. And then
it's as as we got done and we went to
go pull forward, they came on the intercom and they
were like, uh, hey, we're out of diesel.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
So I felt really bad too, because it was busy
and there was somebody behind us, and that trucker was
very pissed.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Not happy, but uh just real quick. B Branding says, yeah,
Phillip Diesel, add four ounces of arch oil to the tank,
then right out. I don't know anything about arch oil.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
I don't know that that means. I know, I know
when it says F and when it says he, and
when it's halfway in between. That's when we start.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
I assume arch oil is some sort of additive. I oh,
okay for diesel. I have not checked that out. F
through Capital says, I use the rest stop and the
art and RV Parky app.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
I like RV Parky.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
We use RV Parky a lot. We're we're currently in
the process of testing r V Life. We'll see. I'm
not sure yet.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah, just see it out. Though it's hard to switch
from old habits but RV life is a pretty.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Party app and so.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Serious talking serious talking to me. Stop.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Nope, no serious stop.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
No serious stop.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
No, oh good good it worked.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Good job. Yeah. No, we use RB parking. That's kind
of our go to. So we're just trying to branch
out and just kind of see what else is out there.
But yeah, we re really like that out. So the
kind of next one is walk around.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
You walk around, I like you said it, like you're scared. Well,
walk because we know people who don't do this and
we're scared of them on the road. Walk around. Please,
like check.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Your tires, check check the screws on your RV. They
come off when you're on the road. We've had reflectors
on our travel trailer on our on our fifth wheel
that have just popped off while we were driving and
it was just hanging out there in the breeze. So
just go around kind of check things on the RV
and make sure that there's nothing loose, make sure that

(38:55):
there's nothing that's gonna break, make sure your tires don't
look like they're compromise. We actually last year had a
situation where we went to go stop for fuel and
Ryan noticed that the you know, normally the the truck
is here, the the fifth wheels here, and their level
with each other like level, and he noticed all of

(39:15):
a sudden the fifth wheel was listing. Yeah, well, really
really heavy one day and it was like, okay, does
that just get brighter? It did get brighter.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Okay, now I'm gonna have to just the lighting hold
on a second because that was too bright. Okay, that
was weird.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
That is weird light.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Just all of a sudden, I want to be on
max brightness.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That was very strange. It was like Casper decided it
wanted to control the ring light.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Okay, I think that, Yeah, that looks.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Right now, Okay, good, all right, Bert, you are thinking
on the same way of length there. So recapping again,
we were traveling truck here, fifth will here, it should
be level, fifth wheel is all of a sudd and listing,
and so we pull into the fuel bad we need
to get fuel anyway. So he pulls in and he

(40:05):
looks down and our suspension on one side of our
fifth wheel had just sheared right off, and the leaf
springs were.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Just floating in the air. A little tea joint that
holds them together, like the two sides together just sheared,
and so now they're.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
All, we were driving on the highway. Yeah it was,
it was bad. So checking all of those things can
be really really helpful and can save you from a
disaster down the road. And then the last kind of
piece of advice, and some of y'all might fight us
in the comments on this, but we think it's important
is have a glove handy. Diesel fuel smells and that

(40:46):
smell does not come out when.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
You wash your hands, so not for a while. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah, So he has a glove that is specifically for
fueling up and he uses it every time he feels up,
and then that way we don't have that crazy smell
going on.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, after Capital says always always check your hitch is
still locked. I think that's good advice.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
It is good advice. Our hitch has has a I'm
not really sure how to describe this, has like a
bit of a silf fail safe that like if it
came on hitched, the trailer would not be attached anymore.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Well, that that's what they're talking about, honey.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well, yeah, yeah, that would be that would be bad.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
That's what they're talking about. B Browning. You just had
to make it dirty. Didn't you.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Always using club don't you down to you?

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Uh No, it's a valid point. It's probably something that
we we don't do. I mean, it's like the tug test. Honestly,
we're not real great about doing the doug test either.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
We're okay, you got to tell them what the tug
tests though.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
So if you don't know what the tug test is,
that's where basically you get hitched up and you kind
of pull your your front your front struts up a
little bit. So in the case of like we're talking
mostly for fifth wheels, I don't know if it's really
applicable for a toe behind because it's kind of a
different thing. But you pull your front struts up and
then you hold the trailer brake and you just kind
of put it in drive, put your truck and drive,

(42:15):
and just let off the truck brake. And the idea
is that basically the trailer's gonna pull, the truck's gonna pull,
and if for some reason the hitch didn't fully lock,
the trailer would just kind of pop off the hitch
and land on the stabilizer strets. Like we're only talking
like barely off of the ground.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, Like maybe maybe a couple of centimeter off the game.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
You just don't want them dragging, but you don't want
them high enough that it like slams down. You just
want enough. There's been stories of people who basically didn't
do this. Put their their bed up and like it
lands on the on the tail or, put the tailgate
up and it lands on the tailgate, causes a bunch
of damage. So that's what the tug test is. We're
not real great about doing that. We we actually have
here lately been doing it more and more. But as

(42:55):
far as checking if my hitch is still locked when
I'm stopped fuel stop, I can honestly say I know. Oh,
I can honestly say I have done it a couple
of times. But I have become so confident in my
hitch that that I it feels erraneous that it's gonna
somehow come unhitched and not have already left the bed

(43:19):
at that like already come disattached at that point, and
that's where you've got the emergency break and all that stuff.
For like it just feels like I do. I will say,
when we do like a a stop, an overnight stop,
a lot of times I'll leave the hit the truck
hitched up. If we're just staying for one night, sure,
and when I get up in the morning, I really
I do kind of pull on it a little bit
and and like double check. Okay, yeah, it's still locked

(43:42):
in there. Good. I think that's more about the fact that,
like when the struts went down, did it settled, did
it settle in such a way that then it came unlocked,
because like when you got that downward pressure and the
rear pressure, in theory, it shouldn't be able to come unlocked.
So I'm not real great about that.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
We'll update you guys in a couple of weeks when
we inevitably do something stupid with the hitch. But so far,
so good.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
No gloves, then you need more bedrooms. I like that, Uh,
leather gloves in the rear door. That that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
My role of thumb is look at everything. Don't have
to close, but at a once over, uh would be great.
I will say, I think it does need to be close,
because after your capitical talk about how he did walk
around and found two tires with blisters in them, when
when we're talking about those kind of blisters, those kind
of like signs that the tires are about to bust.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Those are hard to see from that.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
It's hard to see. I mean we have gone over.
I mean we had when we had our bone tire.
We looked at them on the previous stop and saw nothing. Yeah,
and maybe we didn't look close enough. Maybe we could have.
But that's the thing is, I would not not look close.
If you're gonna look at it, look close, make sure
that it really is solid. If you're gonna check your
that your hitches locked, you check that your hitches locked.

(44:52):
Don't sit there and just kind of eh, it all
looks good. No, Actually, get your hand on there. If
you're gonna check it, get your honestly, if you really
want to do the tires right, rub your air hand
all around that tire for the good.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Well. The other thing too, is like.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Oh and f three. He says that the blizzards were
on the inside, so he couldn't even see him. So
that's so that's why. Yeah, if you got to check
check the inside, like, that's the only way is if
you were to feel around them. So if you're not
looking close, you're gonna miss the signs that end up
resulting in a blown tire like what we had.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, we did have that.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
In the case of fter your Capital. He caught it
and just replaced his tires, which is.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Great, which is great. The other thing too, is so
there's so many rivets and screws around the side in
the in the back of an RV, and when those
come loose on the road, that could puncture a tire
really really quickly. And we've seen so many of them
come loose on the road. We've had several that we
lost along the way. So what I like to do

(45:47):
is I actually keep a little tiny screw drug in
the glove box of the truck, and I keep a
little lock tight in the glove box of the truck.
So if I walk around while he's fueling up and
I see that there is a loose screw, I just
put a little lock tight there, screw it back in place,
and we're good to go. But the number of times
that I have seen that and done that have been

(46:08):
a lot. Probably every other every other trip there's one
that I have to work on and that you're not
going to see that from a distance either.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
So Eric asked, and I think this is kind of
an auxiliary question, but I think it kind of goes
back to what we were talking about earlier, is if
he goes to a rest stop, where should he park?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Oh, that is a great question.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
So I think. So the first question I asked back
to is how big are you?

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Hey? Yeah, how how big is your Because.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
If you've got like if you've got an SUV and
a little like tear drop, then go to the car side.
No matter what, you're probably gonna find a spot. You'll
be fine. Just go to the car side. Yeah, Now
past that size, if you're a little bit bigger twenty
twenty five, twenty seven and then forty like us, as
you get bigger, big motor homes, things like that, it's
gonna depend. Some rest stops have RV parking on the

(47:00):
car side, and so if you're in that that twenty
to thirty foot range, you might be fine to go
on the car side if they have that. Now, what
they'll usually have is they'll have like a sign. It'll
say trucks this way. I'm not on camera there we go,
trucks this way, cars this way. Now, some of them
will say trucks and RVs this way and cars this way.
Some will say trucks this way. Cars and RV's this way,

(47:22):
now go.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Slow and when you get to the truck, to the
ya shot because the signs are always gonna vary, and
they're gonna vary a lot of times by state, but
sometimes by county.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah, having a forty foot fifth wheel, we always go
to the truck side. Yeah, because even when they say
cars and trailers this way, a lot of times they
don't have that. They're like, they're thinking.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Like they're designed for smaller Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
They're thinking like a thirty foot Class A or or
a Class B with a trailer or something like that.
They're not thinking a forty foot I mean, we're not
that much shorter than the truck than the eighteen wheelers.
And most of the time the spots that they actually
have available on the car side are not meant for that. Now,
if they are great, cool, it's awesome. If I can
see them from the road, then I'll go to the
car side. Yeah, But if I can't see from the

(48:09):
road how big the parking spots are, I'm.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Gonna go to We default to the truck side. Yeah.
Because to Ryan's point, we know, like.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Chester said, at forty three feet like his always go
to the truck side.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, because at that size, you're not as long as
an eighteen wheeler, but you're as tall as an eighteen
wheeler and you're you're maybe within eight to ten feet
length wise, So you might as well just go to
the truck side because that's that's how big you are.
But yeah, Eric City's Chevy Silverado and about a twenty
foot I would say, with a Chevy Silverado and a

(48:42):
twenty foot.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
If it says cars and trailers this way, probably fine.
You're probably fine if it's and says trucks this way.
But if it says trucks and RV's this way and
cars this way, then I would go to the truck side.
At three Capital It's fine. Yes, you can park anywhere
if there's available parking. I just don't like to be
co park anyway.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
He's laughing.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
I don't like to be uncourteous to our our friendly
eighteen wheeler drivers who keep this country running. That's just
personal preference. You can do whatever you want to do.
Just know if you piss them off and then on
the road they start cutting you off on you my.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Head, yeah, yeah, yeah, now it's funny you say that.
We again we've never had any issue with an eighteen
wheeler driver. And what we have found is there have
been a number of times that because we were so
courteous to them, whether it was driving or whether it
was at the previous fuel bay, because we kind of
travel at bout the same pace. Yeah, then there's been

(49:37):
a number of times.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Oh, there's the puzzle.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
There is a puzzle. Hang on, TikTok. Friends, I gotta
make sure that the live doesn't cut us off.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, I don't know if you can hear us when
this happens, but basically TikTok likes to throw a little
puzzle up to make sure you're still a liive. Hey, guys,
let me know, could you hear me while I was
talking that? Did you see what? Like? What did you see?
I'm really curious.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
I don't think they see the puzzle.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
I think it's well, I know they don't see the puzzle,
but I don't know if like, if something happens with
the camera, like what happens with the audio. I'm just curious, honestly,
if you yeah, let us know what you guys saw
during that, because yeah, yeah, yes, I could hear you. Okay,
I don't know if.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Okay, I didn't hear anything. Oh you didn't hear anything,
or you didn't hear anything different, I saw you saw
you Okay, all right, Cool. They probably don't see anything.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Then, but no, I think you were just lurking in chat.
You didn't even say anything, or if you did, we
missed it.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
I'm sorry we may have. Oh you didn't see anything different, Okay. Cool.
Well that's good to know. Good feedback. So, uh, what
I was saying is like, so we've had trucker friends,
that's what I call them. I call them our trucker
friends who they have We've gotten into some traffic jams
and stuff, and they've allowed us to move into the
lane we needed to move into because it was like

(50:46):
reck traffic or it was construction traffic. And we had
seen them at the fuel bay before and they like
were super super nice. And of course we're huge, so
if a zippy cars don't let us in, we're not
gonna be able to get in. So there's definitely been
some benefits to making sure that that you're courteous on
the road.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
And just brought up a great point. We I think
we may have talked about it a little bit earlier. Sorry,
I guess I've still got a cough. We we had a.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Cold like months ago at a point, and it.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Is still like lingering and it's so annoying. It was
an upper risk wattering infection, not a cold, I should say.
But Jesster brought up talking about the like reserve spots
at the at the fuel at like a gas station,
the travel centers, if they've got reserve spots. Honestly, to me,
that's actually the best case scenario. Just go inside and

(51:40):
reserve spot, or or download the app and reservest spot
because then at that point, no trucker, like the truckers
can't get mad at you because the place allowed you
to reserve a spot. Now there, We have been to
travel centers that wouldn't wouldn't allow that because we were
an RV and not a trucker, and which I I
don't mind.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I kind of respect that.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I respect it like I don't have an issue with that.
That's their decision how they want to handle that. But yeah,
if they've got if they've got reserve spots, just go
reserve a spot, Go talk to the person at the counter.
If you're reserving a spot for overnight, be courteous. You know,
if just make sure that your slides aren't like taking
please don't put.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Your slides out.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, like try to just like if you can avoid
putting your slides out, but if you do, like make
sure that like a trucker can still get in beside
you without causing any issues. I mean, honestly, I mean,
I know this is mean, but I mean if it
were me in a in a at one of those
and it was really only meant for truckers and somebody's
got their slides out almost blocking my parking space, I'd

(52:42):
be half tempted to just like rub my trailer up
against their slide and scratch their paint. And I wouldn't
really care.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Oh, there's there's a number.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
There's the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
There's a number of them have chimed in on our
comments when we've done videos about truck stop etiquette who
have said that, and so, like, I don't necessary condone
that behavior, But at the same time, I kind of
don't fault them for it either, because if you're gonna
be a bro camper when you have so many other options,
then like I kind of see their their frustration at least.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
That it'd be interesting. I don't know if any of
y'all have run into this hit or not, but have
you been at one of the loves that has an
RV park on site? Do they not let you park
your in the truck parking because they shouldn't. I would
think they wouldn't because they're like, hey, we have an
RV spot specifically for r v's right, so we can
leave the truck spots. I'm just curious. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
And their RV spots are really nice, they're full hookups.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
They have like a.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Really nice lot. It's only for r V, so the
trucks can't go there. So yeah, I could totally see
that they potentially wouldn't allow you to go in the
truck zones and park at a reserve spot for the
trucks because they have their own spot for RV's.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
So, B Browning, we actually talked about it earlier. B Browning,
we don't do BUCkies, BBB. We we when we're towing,
we don't. I just rephrase, yeah, we're not towing game on. Yeah,
we use BUCkies if there airs one nearby. Diesel's usually cheap.
There's usually bulk death, which I prefer to use. Over
the box. So yeah, if if there's a BUCkies around,

(54:14):
I'll use it, but not when we're towing because there's
too many Zippy cars. And I get it, like the
price is cheaper, and I understand, like you gotta save
a buck wherever and if that's if that's your only
way to make traveling affordable is to be able to
spend less at a BUCkies over a loves again, use
open roads. It does discount the price. I don't know
if it's enough to match a BUCkies, but at least
discounts the price.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Sime. I don't know. Like we save on average anywhere
between thirty and sixty cents a gallon sometimes with open roads,
so like it's it's pretty competitive.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Yeah, So I personally we just don't like BUCkies because
we've just had too many issues. We had an issue
like the Zippy cars. I complained about Zippy cars all
the time. We had an issue with a Zippy class A.
Oh yeah, I remember we were up at the BUCkies
up at date t Yeah, Oh my gosh, that's a

(55:03):
terrible BUCkies. And we're coming in and we're coming like
we go in towards the back and around the outside
trying to kind of be polite and get out of
the way. We're in towards the back and I can't
really see. There's so many cars and RVs and other things.
This class a, I mean, there's only space for like
one car to come around the corner. This class a
comes whipping around that corner like way too fast. Yeah,

(55:26):
and like I had to slam on my brakes. He
just whips around, whips around, and like keeps on going
like no shit's given for the flow of traffic whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I was so thankful he was he didn't have a
little toe vehicle behind it, because it would have been
like just flapping everywhere because he was just all over
the road. It was crazy, but yeah, it was. It
was a little bit nuts. Hey campers, we'd love to
stay connected. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
at Wandering our v Babe. Thanks for joining us. Let's
do it again next week and happy camping.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Okay, babe, I can slip into something more comfortable.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Do I need to put Do I need to put
my orange bikini back on?

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Guys, you should put your orange bikini back on? So
all right, how many of y'all saw that video because
that was great. I swear it was his idea.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
No, she made me do it. He was forced.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
No, it was for it was not. It was not.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Next Thursday, she's gonna force Next Thursday, she's gonna force
us to wear matching orange bikinis. Some of y'all are
gonna be really excited about that. Some of you are
gonna be be verified. Some of you are gonna be
very excited about it for a completely different reason. I
don't know why you would be, and some people are.

(56:46):
Some of you are gonna be horrified.

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