An Information Age Toolbox for motorhome travelers, that starts out with an old-fashioned disclaimers to avoid any sort of responsibility, attached as...
 
Caution:
Do not drink while driving your motorhome as doing so could distract you and result in an accident.  Perhaps I need a few more of my own.
 
Caution:
While I have tried to temper my rage by presenting everything as a provable in court fact (the opposition doesn’t know what paper and voice recordings I may have in a safety deposit box in an undisclosed location with instructions to be opened if I suffer a violent, accidental, death) I somehow have to explain to our readers that, we are not trying to blackmail any of the corporations listed here into making good on their advertised word.   On items listed here is too late to do that. The best a public relations department can do for damage control here is to apologize, in writing. This response will be published.
Our intent of our “reverse advertising” pages to prevent our narrow readership demographic  — those wishing to retire to the freedom of the road— from having their retirement diminished even further by Enron, sucker style, corporate greed.  Understand that our editorial matter is totally free of any industry control. We can't be bought. We belong to our readers!  

What paid for messages that may be displayed on this website are chosen in an Information Age way by a win-win-win organization that has a corporate credo of, “Don’t Be Evil,” and therefore have a validation beyond that of pressure from an all powerful ad agency. Having in the past owned and operated an ad agency, and published an expensive, dead tree, heavy gloss, magazine, Economic Currents, I fully understand the abuses of Industrial Age CEOs (especially those paid 600 times the wage of the workman worth his hire on the main floor) that have no clue who Edward Deming was, or what TQM stands for.
 
To present this material here I have written off over  $2,000 out of pocket repairs, lost forever, playing the Jayco management advertised “bumper-to-bumper,” warranty game, on a motorhome (guess what?) that has no bumpers.  Motorhomes by Jayco may seem, through repetition, to be the culprit here, but that is because I professionally need to follow a standard that would stand in court as to the “whole truth” of a situation.
 
However, I have also seen for myself, buried deep in my brother-in-laws owners manual, that a Minnie Winnie is also not recommended for full time occupancy.  Do they too have a formaldehyde problem, as the Sierra Club has suggested exists in FEMA trailers? If so, has a recall of the whole industry been suggested? If so, what will this do to the last big investment of our lifetime?
 
I should also like to follow as a publishing discipline, of starting this long list of complaints at, “A”. This works very well, as you will see:
 
AAA...the people to call when you have a flat tire?
Air-conditioning, in dash... In a box on wheels... with a supplied chassis... who is responsible for A/C?
Alice, Texas ... voted by our staff as the best, “Don’t Go There!” town in America.

[Editors notes: These little pieces take so much effort that I can only do a few at a time. Then I need time off from my writing for heading down the road to adventure.  I wish other motorhome travelers would start up an Association to deal with such abuses. I will help, but don’t ask me to do it all as I only have so many seconds left in my life, and miles to go before I die. Think about it. Do you have a useless decal on your rig claiming the manufacturer belongs to an RV or Motorhome — implied quality control— organization?  Well that is what we need too, a motorhome consumers PAC presence.
 
Bookmark this page. Come back when I get the really big stories uploaded (film at eleven) concerning the next subject amortization, and the worth of a motorhome industry warranty. ]

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