arknoah

Welcome to our RVing "family."  My guess is a 3 hour course on how it works will be thorough, but here are some of my thoughts.  My major suggestion is that you take along your camcorder and videotape the entire walk through.  It had been over 20 years since I helped out with my parent's RV, so I wanted a videotape to fall back on once I left the dealership.  Also, the service manager took out the unit with me, and let me drive it a bit on the city streets, and also adjusted the brakes for me at that time so they had the right delay.  A good dealer will take you out for a spin with the unit so he or she can let you get the feel of towing something.  

Even though I am the "strong, silent type," when the dealer offered to take me out for practice, I knew it was definitely not the time to play it cool, and I really appreciated their advice on making turns and using the mirrors, etc.  

Finally, make sure they take you through everything, including how to use the refrigerator on AC, 12v and gas (the only one that requires any real intelligence is the gas), lighting the stove and oven, lighting the hot water heater on gas, and charging the toilet.  I would also strongly recommend them letting you completely open and close the unit with their supervision, and put up and adjust the awning as well.  I would also ask their advice on hitching up the unit, and adjusting the weight distributing parts to get the load proper on the tow vehicle.

Also, any questions I okay to ask when you’re new to RVing.  Even if the dealer is so crass enough to chuckle at something you ask, (they probably won’t be) don’t let that bother you -- you’re putting a lot of money into this unit, and the last thing you want to do is have any questions unanswered once you have picked up the unit.  You may also wish to ask them at the end “Is there anything I’ve forgotten to ask you that you think I should know about?”  

Having said all of this, operating and using a Trailmanor is not rocket science, and I have no doubt that with a thorough walk through and tape record of it, you’ll do fine.  

Let us know on the board how everything went, and good luck!