How fast do you tow?
Today while driving home from work a truck towing about a 36 foot fifth wheel blew by me. I was already going 75 so I sped up and followed him for about three miles. I was pacing him at between 87-93 ...
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Sprink-Fitter wrote:Mile High wrote:wilber1 wrote:
Some folks understand reaction times and physics. Others don't want to know.
Oh I think we all understand it and we pick what we are comfortable with regarding risk. The only absolute in safe is to travel at 0, which is where some of the paranoids should probably stay.
That's what I think also, driving 5 mph under the limit to save gas, why not just stay home and save more, why even buy an rv?
There is risk to everything but that doesn't justify anything. The OP's post wasn't about driving 5 mph over the speed limit, it was about some moron doing 90 towing a 36ft 5th wheel. I could care less about idiot bikers because they are the ones most likely to get scraped up off the pavement. Aside from 18 wheelers, we RV'ers are the ones with the most potential to do damage an the least ability to avoid it.
People seen to think it is OK to tow the same way they drive with their other vehicles even though it will take at 4 times as much distance to stop and they have no hope of making an abrupt evasive maneuver. That's just selfish wilful ignorance.
