It happened at Parliament Coach, 4455 Ulmerton Road in the High Point area of Largo, officials said. The driver of the 38-foot Blue Bird motor home was traveling from Naples to New York when the coach started running rough north of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officials said. He took the motor home to the dealership at 3 p.m., where it started smoking, officials said.
Firefighters responded and were investigating the source of the smoke when flames erupted from the coach's exhaust, officials said. The vehicle was reportedly a total loss. No one was injured.