Motorhome on the Plenty Highway

There are motor homes and motor homes. I met a fella coming across in a Hi Ace van once. Never seen anyone with a motor home, but I'm sure some of the more robust ones could do it.

Only time I travelled the Plenty, there were several station hands doing a high speed run to the shop ( 100K's away ) for smokes....in a Commodore, so don't think the Plenty is anything but a normal dirt road.
Can be washed away a bit from rain at times, and is a rocky dirt road ( rocks the size of a 10 cent piece instead of small pebbles ), but driven to conditions is no harder than other dirt roads.

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It is just another long formed gravel road that varies with the traffic, the weather and the grader timing.
All sorts of vehicles use it.
Any damage that you incur will relate to the condition of your vehicle, its suitability and especially how fast you drive. Drive at 100kph and there is every likelihood that you will damage it. Drive at 10kph and there is very little chance.
You need to pick the speed between those that is appropriate on the day.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

Thank's everyone. Great comments and lots of help

The only motorhome I have ever seen on the Plenty was doing about 10kph with the left wheels off the side of the road trying to avoid the corrugations and minimise the damage to his vehicle. Once you are in there is no real way around, you are committed.

Last year we took a caravan along the Plenty Highway from Alice to Boulia and had no problems at all. Take your time and drive to the conditions.

We took a sturdy 20 ft caravan across in 2014. The corrugations were quite bad at the time and there was a lot of loose large gravel. We drove slowly and had no great problems except for one tyre that was punctured by a piece of wire probably from a cattle truck. The good folk at Tobermorey were able to repair it but changing the tyre out in the heat and dust was not enjoyable. We also lost one truck mirror. The biggest hazard is to your windscreen as on-coming vehicles are often driven carelessly and at speed with no thought to the damage they can easily inflict. Alice Springs has many prosperous looking windscreen replacement workshops! The other hazard is dust! At times we were driving through deep bull dust holes and dust rose well above the van's roof. You would need to make sure your motor home could be well dustproofed and that bathroom and roof vents would stay tightly shut as you rattled over corrugations! It was an interesting trip but, in terms of time, not really much of a short cut. Lynne