When backing up, your concern is no longer with traffic approaching from the rear but with carefully guiding the rear of your coach into a site. Back up slowly. Tilt your mirrors down to see the lower rear corner of your coach.

Use both mirrors, your rear camera monitor, and someone to guide you. Have the guide stand at the rear, driver’s side of your coach and be visible in the driver’s side mirror. Never have the guide stand behind the coach. If they cannot see your mirrors, you cannot see them.

Make sure they look overhead for any tree limbs or obstacles that you cannot see in the mirrors. It is absolutely impossible to see everything around your coach when using only the mirrors and monitor.

Weekly RV tips provided by Ronald Jones and Robert Lowe from their book, "All the Stuff You Need to Know About RVing." Ron and Sandy Jones write RV articles and books and present RV-related seminars.
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