RV Crushes Truck
This guy dropped his 5th Wheel on the back of his truck on video. Not me BTW. What I can't figure out is how it happened. Go to about the 18 minute mark to see him checking everything, but it s...
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jerem0621 wrote:laknox wrote:
As far as the head separating from the base, B&W themselves said that this was as designed. It is to prevent the FW from rolling the truck, too. Better to sacrifice the trailer than endanger the people in the truck.
Lyle
Interesting Lyle, do you have a link to where B&W said that? I’ve searched the inter webs and can’t find that in their documentation. I could have easily overlooked it though.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
Think about it for just "ONE" second, designing their hitch to break away, thats ridiculous . How many factors do we have here. Just one that makes it near impossible is the weight of the fifth wheel. The lighter one the hitch hangs on ,and over goes the truck, the heavier one breaks away the truck stays upright.
Yes, Lyle ,we all would like to read that in the B&W literature. I am pretty sure we have went over this before.
