Don Finds Comfort in Virginia
9/13/2017
Hobbies can take you anywhere, sometimes unexpectedly. For Virginia’s Don R., his love of motorcycle riding, camping, and boating have given him the opportunity to explore the country with his wife.
Don is a guy who is completely dedicated to his hobbies. He’s been on life-changing, “check this one off the bucket list” kind of trips on his motorcycle – in 2014, he was able to take three weeks off of work in order to travel across the country on his 2003 Honda Goldwing. He and 45 other bikers set off from Wilmington, North Carolina, and traveled all the way across the United States to Coronado Beach, California, before beginning the trip back home.
Just last year, Don and his wife got into group camping. It gives them the opportunity to visit new campsites that, otherwise, they wouldn’t have known about.
“I would feel every bump in the road. It really affected my back and it felt like I had been beaten up after every trip.”
In order to bring his motorcycle with him when camping, Don purchased a 2016 fifth-wheel toy hauler. The rig is 42 feet long and weighs in at 18,200 pounds when fully loaded with motorcycles. Whether he’s pulling the toy hauler to a campsite or his pontoon boat to the lake, his 2008 Dodge RAM 3500 is more than enough truck to handle the job.
However, after only his third camping trip with the set-up, Don knew that something was not quite right.
“I would feel every bump in the road. It really affected my back and it felt like I had been beaten up after every trip.”
From just looking at his truck parked at the campsite, Don realized that the weight of the camper was dropping the truck bed all the way down on the rear axle. He immediately started researching solutions that would level the truck and save his back.
