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02-08-2012, 10:16 AM
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Simple Word for 'Towing' Mode?
I've often tried to find a simple, well-understood, or less cumbersome word, to clearly define whether I'm talking about a "towing" situation or a "non-towing" situation, when discussing tow vehicles. I've heard words such as "solo," "bobtail", "bare", "empty", "light", etc., to describe the non-towing situation, as well as "hitched", "while towing", "hooked up", "pulling", etc. to describe the towing situation. Although "while/when towing" seems to cover that situation reasonably well, to say "while/when not towing" seems to be a bit wordy. Just for the fun of it, does anyone have any other suggestions??? I realize that I'm demonstrating "cabin fever" symptoms but, what the heck, the sun is out and there's hardly any snow on the ground - even if it was 0 deg last night!
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02-08-2012, 10:49 AM
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"Cloudsplitter"
2003 25' Classic
Houstatlantavegas
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Rolling "bareback"....opp's rong thread.
Bob
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02-08-2012, 11:00 AM
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Figment of My Imagination
2012 Interstate Coach
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Allow me to offer a term you didn't already use: coupled/uncoupled, referring to whether the trailer is connected to the towing vehicle. Can also be used to refer to a class A and its "dinghy" or "toad." Not to be confused with married/divorced, which is a completely different way of being coupled or uncoupled.
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02-08-2012, 11:02 AM
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Wheels Itch)(Must Travel
2014 25' FB Flying Cloud
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""...a simple, well-understood, or less cumbersome word, to clearly define
..a "towing" situation or a "non-towing" situation, when discussing tow vehicles. ""
HAPPY = towing AS
UNHAPPY = not towing AS
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02-08-2012, 11:08 AM
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Chief Chili Cook
2010 30' Flying Cloud
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Cracker, that's a good point. Empty and light can easily mean towing with empty tanks, no firewood or beer... Solo is common for singles airstreaming alone... Bare might be the Burners ( Burning Man 2012 )
Bobtail is really popular with the Truckers, but might not catch on with us RV folks though. Unhitched is succinct and rarely mistaken. Can't wait to see the other suggestions.
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02-08-2012, 11:10 AM
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Figment of My Imagination
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Quote:
Originally Posted by az-streamer
HAPPY = towing AS
UNHAPPY = not towing AS
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Really? You're happier when towing your Airstream than when you're CAMPING in your Airstream?
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02-08-2012, 11:25 AM
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2011 28' International
Chatham
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Skinny Driving
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02-08-2012, 03:42 PM
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Wheels Itch)(Must Travel
2014 25' FB Flying Cloud
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Protagonist
Really? You're happier when towing your Airstream than when you're CAMPING in your Airstream?
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i'm happy because i'm going TO be camping in my AS!
also - as long as i'm towin' i know that any time i want, i can be campin'
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02-08-2012, 03:59 PM
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2015 27' Flying Cloud
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How about "towing" & "driving"...seems simple enough to me ~
Shari
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02-08-2012, 05:04 PM
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1981 31' Excella II
New Market
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"While Towing" usually gets the message accross. Example: While towing, my truck overheated.
Perry
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02-08-2012, 05:27 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perryg114
"While Towing" usually gets the message accross. Example: While towing, my truck overheated.
Perry
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Agreed - but when you're trying to describe something that doesn't involve towing - i.e. "gas mileage discussion," "overheating," "engine noises," etc., you have to preface the comment with something like "While I was not towing------." This only happens on the Airstream Forum because we feel obligated to point out that - horror of horrors - we were actually going someplace without our Airstream in tow!
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02-08-2012, 06:57 PM
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In the world of commercial trucking to haul an empty trailer is known as "dead-heading" or "hauling [a load of] postholes." "bobtail" is used to describe so many things that the word has become useless.
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02-09-2012, 05:49 AM
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Rivet Master
1981 31' Excella II
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While Driving Empty, will take care of the not towing, nominal load situations. Most big vehicles get about the same miliage with a full payload as empty. My Excursion gets crappy miliage all the time.
If you want to get fancy you can say while driving , sans trailer, I got 12MPG.
Perry
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Originally Posted by Cracker
Agreed - but when you're trying to describe something that doesn't involve towing - i.e. "gas mileage discussion," "overheating," "engine noises," etc., you have to preface the comment with something like "While I was not towing------." This only happens on the Airstream Forum because we feel obligated to point out that - horror of horrors - we were actually going someplace without our Airstream in tow!
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02-09-2012, 09:16 AM
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Maybe it's time for someone to come up with a good acronym - i.e., like "SOB" to indicate the non-towing mode??? I'll start - "WNT" ---As in, WNT my gas mileage is around 18 mpg - or "ST," as implied by Perry in Post #13 above.
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02-09-2012, 09:24 AM
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4 Rivet Member
2012 16' Sport
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I understand...
...what you are trying to say. It is awkward english sometimes. We need a special word.
How about "entonced" (EN-TOWEN-CED). As in "I got gas, entonced, and hit the overhang". Or "My Airstream beat me in a race down the street, unentonced, of course!"
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02-09-2012, 11:23 AM
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Rivet Master
1981 31' Excella II
New Market
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So are we soon going to need a book titled "Airstream Acrynms for Dummies" or AAFD for short?
Perry
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02-09-2012, 11:30 AM
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4 Rivet Member
2002 31' Classic
Houston
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When towing I refer to the vehicles as the "assembly".
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02-09-2012, 01:07 PM
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Figment of My Imagination
2012 Interstate Coach
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I suppose you're either "Airing" (without trailer) or "Streaming" (with trailer).
Except that doesn't work for those of us with an Airstream motorhome.
--Doyle
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02-09-2012, 01:50 PM
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Fatknuckling - towing
Rolling bareknuckle - without trailer
Knuckleheading - doing stupid, or heading somewhere outstate.
White knuckling - Rolling fatknuckle in a crosswind.
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02-09-2012, 03:02 PM
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4 Rivet Member
2012 16' Sport
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perryg114
So are we soon going to need a book titled "Airstream Acrynms for Dummies" or AAFD for short?
Perry
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