{"id":531,"date":"2020-07-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2020-07-15T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T18:06:00","slug":"tips-for-driving-your-recreational-vehicle-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/tips-for-driving-your-recreational-vehicle-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips For Driving Your Recreational Vehicle Safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to get a great insurance policy for your recreational vehicle so that you can carry the peace of mind with you whenever you head out from West Hartford, CT on a new adventure. But as much as you want a great insurance policy, what you really want is to never have to file a claim. There may not be a way to eliminate risk entirely, but there are some things you can do to stay safe on the road:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice. An RV is nothing like driving a car. It&#8217;s not much like driving a big pickup truck, either. Even if you&#8217;ve already passed your test and gotten your license, the more practice you get in, the better. Head to a parking lot and practice your three-point turns, parking, and cornering. Take your RV out in light traffic and get used to it. You don&#8217;t want to have to learn all this stuff when you&#8217;re already a hundred miles from home.<\/li>\n<li>Keep an eye on the weather reports. Heavy rain is no fun when you&#8217;re driving a four-door, and it&#8217;s even worse in a house-on-wheels. Pretend you&#8217;re a sea captain and try to only set sail in smooth weather.<\/li>\n<li>Memorize your height. Write it on the dashboard if you must, but don&#8217;t guess at how tall your RV is when driving through a tunnel with a 12-ft limit. You can always reroute if an overpass is too low.<\/li>\n<li>Stay to the right. You have to take it slow and steady in an RV, and staying to the right gives cars behind you the chance to pass safely.<\/li>\n<li>Brake slowly. This isn&#8217;t a car, it&#8217;s a tiny house. You&#8217;ve got upwards of three tons of weight here, so ease into every stop sign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It really comes down to experience. The more time you spend driving around West Hartford, CT, the safer you&#8217;ll be.<\/p>\n<p>To get covered, call ALLConecticut Insurance, or visit the ALLConecticut Insurance website and let&#8217;s see what we can do for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to get a great insurance policy for your recreational vehicle so that you can carry the peace of mind with you whenever you head out from West Hartford, CT on a new adventure. But as much as you want a great insurance policy, what you really want is to never have to file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358,360],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","tag-allconnecticut-insurance","tag-west-hartford-ct"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allctinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}