My wife and I both took the RV Driving school here in North Georgia earlier this week. This is our 1st experience with an RV and we had actually just took possession of our 2012  40 foot Tiffin Allegro Bus the week before. ( Coastal RV in South Carolina allowed us to delay picking it up as we were busy finalizing the closing of the sale of our home and needed to get our possessions moved to storage quickly. )

Our instructor, Michael Lynch, was in contact with us during that time and even came to the RV park where we stayed and assisted us with backing into the campsite and getting everything hooked up properly.  His nearly 40 years as a professional driver and the numerous driver safety schools he had taken and given throughout his career, along with having had his own RV for years, gave him an extremely thorough knowledge on the subject.

Michael is a natural at being an instructor.  He was able to read our expressions and tell when we understood him in the classroom portion of the training and add another example when we needed it.  During the hands on driving instruction, he showed a lot of patience in being able to explain what we would do in each situation, walking us through performing maneuvers multiple times until we were comfortable, and explaining the importance of each practice obstacle in real life driving terms.

In our RV newbie situation, an old saying comes to mind…  you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it.  We did not know how important the mirrors are to driving such a large vehicle, nor the importance of proper alignment.  Our passenger mirror was not properly mechanically aligned and not able to be adjusted to full range of motion so Michael brought his tools out and helped with this as well,  We are scheduling to have an RV service shop repair or replace the mirror assembly.

That brings me to the one comment that could have made our training better.  A short set of emailed instructions, a video or a suggested U-tube link for new RV’ers  on mirror adjustment would have provided us with the heads up to have the problem corrected prior to starting the class.  Thankfully, Michael helped us get the mirror adjusted to be able to take the course and even spent a couple extra hours with us so that we did not loose any valuable hands on training time due to this mechanical issue.

We found the RV Driving course exceeded what we expected and hoped for.  We plan to be full time RV’ers for the next couple years or longer.  With the size and complexity of driving an RV and tow car, I believe the lessons learned in your school will not only help us live our dream safely but may very well save the lives of countless others.  I highly recommend that everyone who will drive an RV of any size take this course.