RV Crushes Truck

cummins2014 wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

MikeRP wrote:
I’ve watched these 2 many times and I like them and feel sorry for them. I have the B&W companion slider and I have a suggestion that has helped me.

I cleaned off the pin and I put red electrical tape on the very bottom on the pin. Then when I’m hooked up I can clearly see the jaws are wrapped around the middle and it’s not high sided because you can see that tape easily below the jaws. I did high side this hitch once when my wife wasn’t with me and when I backed the truck up I was too far to the left. The jaws closed and the hitch pin was on top. I picked it up right away because that tape is so easy to see.

Even though I’m confident I always do a pull test.

Sorry for them that just hurts.

Peace

The tape idea is fine but the FACT is if a B&W is high hitched you will have a minimum of 1.5" of gap between the hitch head and the pin box bottom plate. Reason so much gap is the THICK 1" jaws.

I just can't imagine how anyone can high hitch, like you say there has to be enough gap that it would be hard to miss.

Same with my Reese, pretty close to a 1" thick jaw. A person would have to be totally unconscious to not see a high hitch.

Anyway back to what happened , it was obvious the handle was not completely closed , what is not obvious to me is how the handle released . Was that sliding bar just over far enough that the kingpin being round just slid past pushing the bar out of the way, that seems the only logical way . That handle is spring loaded going in ,not out.