fj12ryder wrote:
Personally I'd feel very unsafe passing, or being passed, by this particular setup. There is no way that conglomeration of vehicles could be controlled in any kind of panic situation or panic stop. That, to my mind, is what makes it unsafe. A guy pulling one trailer behind his 5th wheel may be illegal, but not necessarily unsafe. This combination of vehicles was unsafe and should have been pulled over. Control in anything other than straight and steady would be impossible.
OTOH people doing 10 mph over the limit in a controlled manner are not inherently unsafe. Contrary to popular postings, speed doesn't kill, unsafe drivers kill, whether they are speeding and driving erratically, or driving an obvious unsafe combination of vehicles.
The guy was running straight down the road. Have you ever driven a multi-trailer rig? How do you know how they handle? Perfect example right here. You think they look unsafe so they must be. Now, as far as that goes, half the people I see pulling a fifthwheel or driving a big motorhome have no business doing it. It's not illegal so it must be safe right?
Pulling a big fifth wheel is really no different than driving a day cab semi pulling a pup trailer and you have to have a special license for that. Why? It's so they know that you can handle the rig and that you know how to recognize possible problems and issues with the rig before getting out on the road and breaking down or even worse , having or causing an accident.
I personally think that everyone should go through the same things a commercial driver does as far as license go. I mean you have to have a license to ride a bike. Everyone rode bicycles when they are kids. What's that saying? You never forget how to ride a bike.
If speed doesn't kill then why do we have speed limits? We should just be able to run as fast as we want as long as it's safe right? They make these laws to keep us safe. Protect and serve but yet they pick and choose which laws get enforced and which ones don't.
