Andersen Hitch Failure

RCMAN46 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

ralphnjoann wrote:
...I can understand the fears some in the RV community may have when it comes to "sucker flipping" but unless B&W has come out with "...the new and amazing Break A Way hitch....", it fares no better than the Andersen when it comes to catastrophic failure.

Well, there is the little issue that the B&W was involved in a catastrophic rollover incident that left the truck heavily damaged and the trailer basically destroyed. With the Anderson hitch, there was no incident, no rollover, just a destroyed hitch. Kind of apples and oranges.

The truck involved did not roll over!!

The hitch failed during an evasive manuver that resulted in the trailer disconnecting due to the hitch failure and as it left the truck damaged the side of the bed of the truck and the trailer landed on its side.

If you read the article you would read the following statement: "So, while Mark and Doran came to a skidding stop in their truck, sitting upright in their seats, the trailer rolled over, detached and slid to a stop on its side."

The key here is "the trailer rolled over, detached and slid to a stop". Not the trailer detached, rolled over and slid to a stop on its side.

Also this:

"Fortunately, as the trailer went over on its side, the B&W hitch — which comes in two pieces: a base on the bottom and a coupler on the top — separated in two."

As is mentioned several times, the hitch separated as the trailer was rolling over, not before it rolled over.

As I said, a big difference between what happened to the Anderson hitch that was destroyed with no damage to trailer or truck.