How do you estimate overall length?
Lets say a National Park limits the overall length of the TV + trailer to 40ft. For PU/FW combo, how do you determine this? Is it when it is hitched up (most amount of overlap) or do they measure the ...
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naturist wrote:
A lot of incompetent drivers over-estimate their skill level. Come to think of it, that's even most of us at least once in our lives.
Still, there is no excuse for taking a vehicle down a road that cannot accommodate that vehicle, especially after there's a sign saying so at the start.
In our town there is just such a road leading across the railroad tracks and up a hill, in the midst of which is another spur track that includes a curve and a grade change (aka hump) that is very sharp. Because of the hump and the curve, what can be driven in a car or pickup is quite impossible for an 18 wheeler. The center of the trailer scrapes and if the trailer is loaded, i.e. high center of gravity, it can roll over an embankment taking the tractor with it.
There are many gouge marks in the hump.
Doing anything like that is a Learning Experience. Nobody has ever towed a 5th Wheel until they did it. We have all been there at one Time or another. It seems like People forget that.
