If you know you want to explore life on the road, and you don’t want your house to be permanently in one location, you need to seriously consider if a class A motor or a 5th wheel is the best driving and living choice for you.
The Driving Set-Up
One of the biggest differences between a class A motor home and 5th wheel is how they are set up and how you drive them.
With a class A motor home, you are driving around a giant house on wheels. The driver’s seat is generally shaped like a captains seat; it feels more like being the driver of a bus than driving a standard vehicle. You can easily hear and see everything that is going on in the home behind you while you drive. You will have a great view of the road in front of you; class A motor homes have very large windshields. Driving a class A motor home is kind of like driving a bus.
You don’t drive a 5th wheel, you pull it. You’ll need a heavy-duty pick-up truck to attach your 5th wheel to. When you drive, you will not be distracted …show more content…
That way, when your motor home is parked, you’ll have another form of transportation. You’ll need to make sure that the vehicle you currently have or that you purchase is easy to tow and hook up to your motor home and meets your transportation needs. You can tow anything from a truck to a small economy car behind your motor home.
When you purchase a 5th wheel, you don’t need to tow another vehicle behind your 5th wheel because you are using your vehicle to tow your 5th wheel. When you park your 5th wheel, you can detach it from the truck you towed it with, and use the truck for all your transportation needs. The biggest drawback is that you have to use a truck for both towing and regular transportation. You don’t have as many choices for your transportation set-up as you do with a motor
The Driving Set-Up
One of the biggest differences between a class A motor home and 5th wheel is how they are set up and how you drive them.
With a class A motor home, you are driving around a giant house on wheels. The driver’s seat is generally shaped like a captains seat; it feels more like being the driver of a bus than driving a standard vehicle. You can easily hear and see everything that is going on in the home behind you while you drive. You will have a great view of the road in front of you; class A motor homes have very large windshields. Driving a class A motor home is kind of like driving a bus.
You don’t drive a 5th wheel, you pull it. You’ll need a heavy-duty pick-up truck to attach your 5th wheel to. When you drive, you will not be distracted …show more content…
That way, when your motor home is parked, you’ll have another form of transportation. You’ll need to make sure that the vehicle you currently have or that you purchase is easy to tow and hook up to your motor home and meets your transportation needs. You can tow anything from a truck to a small economy car behind your motor home.
When you purchase a 5th wheel, you don’t need to tow another vehicle behind your 5th wheel because you are using your vehicle to tow your 5th wheel. When you park your 5th wheel, you can detach it from the truck you towed it with, and use the truck for all your transportation needs. The biggest drawback is that you have to use a truck for both towing and regular transportation. You don’t have as many choices for your transportation set-up as you do with a motor