Zigzag Traveler

How to tell the difference between the various motorhome types.  Anyone who has looked into buying an RV has noticed that like any industry the RV industry comes with a certain amount of buzz words or slang that can be hard for new folks to understand.  Motorhome types lead that list of impenetrable jargon.  First you have the trailer versus motorhome split and each has a number of categories that can be confusing.  Today I am going to talk about the various motorhome types in general use.  In a future post I will take a look at the various trailer styles.

Motorhome Types:

• Class A = big, usually on a bus or large truck chassis
• Class B = really small, built inside a regular van with no modifications to the exterior
• Class C = middle size usually on a light truck chassis with that big overhang in the front
• Class B+ = sort of a class C without the overhang;  or a class B on steroids
• Class C+ = a class C body on a heavy truck chassis; sort of a class C on steroids

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The name Zigzag Traveler wasn’t made up just for this blog. There is a real Zigzag Traveler, or Ziggy to her friends. She is a 2017 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552. We have always named our vehicles, weird maybe, so what? We’ve had Martha, Mable and Myrtle recently. But naming our motor home turned out to be harder than we would have thought. After almost a month and still no name, we felt it was time and past time. Inspiration finally arrived and we came up with Zigzag Traveler. Sometime later we decided that might be a good name for this blog as well. All kinda ties together, sort of. …

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