Safety Chains Andersen Hitch
I have ordered the Andersen Hitch after reading the responses to my earlier question posted here about the hitch. Now I am wondering how necessary are the safety chains that are now sold as an option...
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Whether law requires them or not, if you are involved in an accident in which the trailer ripped lose from your truck by enough force to rip any hitch loose from the bed of the truck, the fact that Andersen offers safety chains is like lawyer crack and they will use it to shift at least some of the blame to you. If it is also state law, they will use it to transfer all of the blame to you.
Whether chains would have prevented such an incident or not isn't important if their lawyer is able to convince a group of people who likely have never pulled any kind of fifth wheel or gooseneck that it would have.
No chains gives a lawyer an opening to cast blame on you whether justified or not. Failed chains or chain mounts points the blame toward Andersen, your gooseneck manufacturer or installer or the truck manufacturer.
Whether chains would have prevented such an incident or not isn't important if their lawyer is able to convince a group of people who likely have never pulled any kind of fifth wheel or gooseneck that it would have.
No chains gives a lawyer an opening to cast blame on you whether justified or not. Failed chains or chain mounts points the blame toward Andersen, your gooseneck manufacturer or installer or the truck manufacturer.
