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Personally I wish I had the money to buy a $1200 light bar and $400 traffic advisor stick for every vehicle I have. I'd love to stick little strobe lights in every nook and cranny. The next truck I'm buying gets a $300 Amazon 48 inch light bar and a coat of Plastidip over the control box. I've had it with spending money on light bars to a) have them ignored, b) have them quit working right when I need them to during a snowstorm or with lots of salt dust and spray in the air, and c) not feel any safer having spent more money. There has to be a breakover point with this stuff. Amber and white, LED, covers the roof, gonna be good enough for me. If it dies I can afford to buy three more before I get to the price point of some fancy Whelen or Federal unit. I'll add some little strobes when I have time though. I want some ambers and some whites and some greens. I'm tempted to get some purple ones too now that they are getting popular, but I think those are for funeral services. They seem to use green around here. I guess it depends. A red color blind Trooper will think I'm running blue and I'll get an earful. But maybe they test for that at the academy.

GVWR of the Thor Siesta is 11030. 88 gallons water about 734 pounds. 26 gallons diesel about 182 pounds. Figure about 1600 pounds cargo/persons headroom. If the truck is empty, it SHOULD weigh about 8500 pounds. HOWEVER, a similar older model on a Sprinter chassis with the same GVWR claims in an RV forum... "2009 (2008 chassis) Winnebago View (for sale since purchase of a Citation Sprinter SR). GVWR is 11030: Limits are 4410 Front, 7720 Rear with a GCWR of 15,250 (max tongue weight of 500) the per the specs in the sales brochure." This person went on to claim he weighed the truck with just him in it, full fuel and LPG and water, and with just that ONE PERSON and ZERO cargo in the RV, it was 100 pounds over GVWR on a CAT scale at a Love's. So if the front axle load is 4410 and the person isn't in it, that's quite a load for that wheel lift.