 Whether you take your RV to an RV park or a campground or national forest BLM or just out for the weekends There are some unwritten rules of the road that you might want to know So you're not the jerk Hey birdwatchers, it's Robin with creativity RV Today, I'm going to share with you some insight I got from my viewers on some social media pages and about a hundred forums blogs and articles that I researched To tell you what the top complaints are from RVers about other RVers the number one complaint by far Was don't be noisy. Now RVs are not like houses It's not like you're a lot away from another house where maybe there's a loud party You're inside of an RV your windows are probably open You can hear everything on the outside and they can hear you now here's a clip Of a bunch of partiers that came in for the weekend in Sisters, Oregon where I was camping on some national forest land The people that come in for the weekend I get it They have a finite amount of time to fit in their party and they're drinking But for those of us that are full-time It's like, yeah, I'm not out of here to party and you just pulled up literally next to my house And had a rave. Yay people are leaving Go home the top complaints here Where keep your music down if you're out at night drinking by the campfire with your friends keep your voices down If you're gonna leave early in the morning Try not to make a lot of noise starting your engine slamming your doors are bringing up your gear and don't honk It makes people jump out of their skin if you have a generator And it's one of the kinds that you have to take out and put on the ground Maybe you don't want to turn that bad boy on so it's right next to your neighbor's window. You guys might have seen a video I did I don't know a couple years ago about Walmart where I had the worst Neighbor I was parked like this and these people came and then parked like this they kept their headlights on into my window and then they ran their generator all Night long like this jack wagon who's running his generator at 11 30 at night in the Walmart parking lot Oh my god It is 7 15 in the morning and now these jack wagons are out using heavy machinery These are the worst Walmart neighbors. I've ever had it was the summer and my windows were open And I thought okay one o'clock in the morning two o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning It has to stop right now some people said maybe they were running their generator so they could run a CPAP No, no, they were running their generator so they could run their air conditioning I could see it in their windows with the condensation. It was like 67 they could have opened their windows instead of running their generator which went right up into my windows Yeah, it's Walmart and It's free and you don't have room to complain But it is one of those things that give our veers a bad name and Make your neighbors crazy The second biggest complaint I found from the RV community is about people that don't keep their pets on a leash I know you love your dog and you want us to love your dog. That's cool But like my friend Neil says from no legs no problem You say your dog is friendly and I say who cares your dog is jumping up on me And I don't know your dog if you're in any place where there are people around Keep your dog on a leash Recently, I was in an overflow campground on a lake in Colorado, which was so chill During the week, but on the weekends other people would come Including a family who pulled up into a camping space and didn't pay and they got a ticket with their dog who was off leash It would just run around and jump on people's kids and in their campgrounds and on the other dogs that were on a leash If you're out in let's say a BLM spot your dog is off leash and you're inside of the dog is running around It could get hit by another car when I'm going through BLM areas and I see dogs off leash That is a constant worry for me or I feel like I have to look out for other people's dogs because you know They could get attacked by an animal I don't want to spend my time camping keeping an eye out on your dog Unless it's a lost dog and then I'm happy to help But if I know you're over there and you just failed to put your dog on a leash That's a fail as an RV neighbor. The other big complaint from RVers is that other RVers Don't pick up after their dog and look I know it's got to be tempting, right? You feel like you're out in nature and they're gonna poop and that's nature, man But don't be that dude that makes somebody else step in poop The third biggest complaint from RVers is other RVers That don't pick up their trash This honestly is a huge problem. Look at this sign that was circulated on Facebook This is an area where they posted that this national forest area Which is available for all of us to camp for free, which is how we do it Might be closed because people weren't picking up their trash I know of a couple of other areas that have been closed because of that we know that a lot of this might be because of People that are coming through on the weekends or they're partying or for other reasons usually It's not our community of full-timers and most the people that I know Actually go through and pick up the trash like I do when I was first on the road. I Was at a national forest campground in Idaho? I think and there were a few families there that knew each other and After they left I saw that they had left a bunch of trash. There was no camp hose there So I went out with a trash bag and started to pick up trash that I saw and then Two of their campsites had raw open fresh unburned diapers in them and I Could not believe it. That was the first time that I ever saw anything that heinous Sometimes there are car campers or tank campers That will leave their used toilet paper out or Or bottles of urine and I put out a call on Facebook and one of my viewers actually shared this That's right Use toilet paper just scattered across the ground Which her dog ate and then he got it all over himself So if you don't want to be a jerk leave your spot better than you found it If you can pack all that stuff in You can pack it out and find a trash can the next one is don't keep a bunch of lights on This is actually a huge complaint from our veers, and I admit when I was a new I didn't know this You know you see those cool solar lanterns and little lights And you want to have the outside of your rig really well illuminated Maybe keep your porch light on because it makes you feel safe. Here's the problem with that your light Might be shining right into somebody else's eyes where they're trying to go to sleep or They might be wanting to see the stars and because your lights are bright They can't see them or maybe you're projecting a movie on the outside of your rig Cool invite me if you're in the middle of nowhere But if that's a bouncing off your rig right to somebody else's eye when they're trying to sleep That's not cool And the other thing is if you're near any other campers at all If you're leaving your spot early in the morning like when it's still dark Don't turn your brights on because that will shine right in somebody's eyes The next biggest complaint RVers have about other RVers is People that trespass or intrude now. There's a bunch we can talk about here But the biggest peeve RVers have by far is people that cut through their campsite I have to tell you guys I didn't know this one I was out boondocking with some people and I was sitting with a woman who got really upset with another woman Who walked across her yard in her campsite to talk to us now for a minute I didn't understand why she was so upset She explained it to me and I'm glad she did When you have an RV or a tent or a van You have to imagine there's like a perimeter Right outside your rig Like the lot lines around a house where people really shouldn't walk like this is my rig And these are the lines around my campsite. Don't walk through there. Go around the outside That's fine But don't cut across my yard to get to a friend or your campsite or to a trail or even to my door Because remember RVers have their whole life right there and if they see somebody right outside their window It might creep them out You should come around the outside of their rig and they go up to their door and then back off after you knock and wait and That leads us to the next one Which is don't camp right next to somebody if there's room to camp somewhere else last year I was camping with badge and kneel from no legs no problem and wonder boom And some other people and there was this weird guy that kept like circling around our group just circling around none of us knew him and then He parked literally Directly behind my rig now. I didn't see this But there was a lot of space out there lots of campsites and it was like he was trying to kind of move in into our group and Badge round outside and said too close too close and made it move. Well later that night We were sitting around the campfire And that same guy was like Circling around the campfire in the dark and then like worked his way in and finally came up behind us and I'll tell you There were a couple of southern gentlemen in our campfire that told that guy to leave and Only the way southern gentlemen can and he never came back and Don't steal somebody's site if it's already reserved There are boondockers out there that are in vans or class C's or class A's they don't have another car So when they have to go into town to get water dump their trash get propane whatever it is Usually they'll leave some camp chairs out Some people leave a sign that says spot taken Don't take that spot. That is a jerk move Don't do it. It just leads to RV drama and that's not why any of us are out here Okay, the next thing That falls under intruding or trespassing Is about RV social life? You gotta read the room people a lot of people that RV are friendly When you go in they'll wave they make friends, but the way to do that is wait till people are outside like at a campfire or Outside walking around if you're outside and you see them outside strike up a conversation But if you see an RV where the blinds are down and the door is shut not just the screen But the door they probably don't want to talk to you Another thing is if you're in an RV park or a campground Don't chat people up when they're hooking up their RV or on hooking Because they're concentrating and they can make a mistake and the last thing is don't steal my view now There are people that may not steal your campsite But let's say you found the perfect spot in Moab and There's just say a road down below not even a campsite Somebody will go down there and park on the road and obstruct your view Here's actually a clip that I took when I was in Pismo Beach if you've never gone there. It's rad It does wreck your rig because of all the salt water. Just know that but everybody camps in a row, right? Well, I was camped in a row like everybody else and these people came late at night And actually tried to park in front of me So they were obstructing my view of the ocean and that didn't work out very well for them Because they got stuck. I think it was pretty funny because not only did they get stuck They had to ask me for a tool to get unstuck and then they went on their way The next biggest complaint from RVers about other RVers is The ones that don't know how to dump their black tank Look at this heinous picture This is from somebody that didn't hook up their hose correctly It wasn't on there. Well, and then when they turned on their tanks The stuff went everywhere don't be that guy and also Don't leave your trash laying around the dump station that is disgusting Somebody has to pick that up and in most dump stations. You'll see that big hose that kind of you can pull around It's usually on a big pole. It's not drinkable water That is there so you can spray out your hose and you can spray the area around you So if you take off your hose and there's some little drippings there that are gross Spray it away before the next person gets there and the last thing is when you go to dump your tanks Be fast be ready to go I've had people ask me what I do with my hose because it does get gross and you don't want to just put it In an outside cargo bin. I actually got a duffel bag Where my hose fits right in the duffel bag. No big deal. I can grab it and dump my tanks one of my personal biggest peeves is When I go to let's say a truck stop where there's a dump station and I pull up behind an RV That's using the only dump and they've gone inside to go shopping for 20 minutes There's usually other RVers that want to go behind you Just be quick get out of the way and then go fill up your gas tanks into your shopping The next biggest complaint from our veers is about jerk drivers. Think about this Our veers the camp. Let's say a national forest land or on BLM land are Outside and they have their windows open and if they have a fan in their ceiling that fan Pulls the air through the windows and up out the fan But if somebody goes by really fast and there's a cloud of dust That dust literally gets sucked into the RV now Some RVers do this, but a lot of times it's the ATVers or people that are just in trucks or cars So if you're listening know that you're kicking up dirt that's going right inside of our houses Most RVers I know go about five or ten miles an hour when they're going past other people That are camping trying to kick up the least amount of dirt possible like if I see people outside in their chairs Especially in a dusty area. I go really slow like so slow I'm like driving this daisy then I give them a little wave, right? I don't want any dust to get up in their iced tea, and I don't want any dust to go up into their windows Another thing is don't block somebody's exit or entrance or their camping site I got this pic from a follower on Facebook This was her actual campsite that she paid for and then one of her neighbors Had a guest or somebody that came at late at night and literally Parked in her spot now. They parked to the side so she could still get out But it still was a jerk move and finally I'll tell you guys this story if you didn't hear about it They came from the Tiffin campground last year Customers of Tiffin can have their work done in Alabama at their shop and right adjacent to that as a campground Last year apparently there was a big fight between a lady and her husband and the story varies on who did what when but in the end This drunk RVer in the Tiffin campground drove their giant class A Through a bay door of the shop Directly in to the grill of another brand-new Tiffin She was arrested for DUI. She was charged and that other Tiffin was completely destroyed It was totaled out Because their transmission dropped out onto the ground if you're a full-timer and any of these things are one of your peeves I know you're out there singing hallelujah, but if you're a week yonder or a new RVer I hope this helped you learn some of the rules of the road so you can enjoy your travels and avoid RV drama I hope you're all doing well out there, and I'll see you next Sunday until then Everybody have happy travels and be free