Towing Heavy 5er with SRW Truck
I personally don't as my unit is 11k dry. I see a lot of SRW diesel trucks (newer models which I know handle more than older ones) towing huge 5th wheels or toy haulers. Any of you have a setup ...
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j2catfish wrote:
One thing that always causes me pause is this idea that the truck has to be big enough to stop the 5er. That would be a good built-in safety factor but shouldn't the trailer brakes be good enough to stop the trailer? I know that might be a challenge for the electrical brakes commonly used but more and more rigs are using electric over hydraulic disk brakes and really have a greater stopping ability. Not to start the war over, but what do you think?
Catfish
Trailer brakes - my take
have a good look at em ,bout the size I had on a '72 pinto so half the size they should be.
ok if they are cold /cool , warm em up not much left, so after a bit of driving how warm are they? Some down hill stop and go not much left ,that why you want plenty of reserve in the truck.
Plus they are electric - enough said- only good thing about electric brakes is they don't have any fluid to boil because they are always toasty
when newbys say "truck stops the truck and trailer stopes the trailer" I sigh -sometimes -maybe-
if every thing is perfectly adjusted
