Sunday, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:38
This episode is obviously such a common event, it doesn't even make the news any more.
The auction/salvage yards consistently have a wide variety of wrecked caravans and campers - thereby indicating that a lot of work still needs to be done, as regards ensuring drivers/caravan/camper owners, are better trained as to how to set up, load, and operate their rigs.
Too many caravans and campers are still being built to poor designs that encourage instability.
Add in owners who don't understand loading techniques that affect stability, and you have a regular recipe for disaster.
Saw a bloke yesterday with a fully loaded, full length roof-rack - with a tinny sitting upside down, on top of the fully loaded roof-rack! When I say fully loaded roof-rack, I mean fully loaded, too!
I hate to think what his stability was like, let alone the amount of loading on the gutters on rough roads.
Sighted another setup with a full length roof-rack mounted on the cabin one end, and mounted on a fibreglass canopy on the other end!
Obviously the owner is unaware of the massive amount of flexing between cabin and
the tub over uneven ground - nor the design of fibreglass canopies that are not normally designed to take full length roof-racks!
Both the setups I sighted were doing off-road driving, too, when I sighted them, I might add!
Cheers, Ron.
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