hanko wrote:
You're forgiven Dennis. any Idea who in michigan installs the ready brake. I have been interested in 0ne for a while
Bigdog wrote:
I believe that the law here in Washington is that you need a braking system if your towed vehicle is over 3000# AND a break-away system is required. Only nine states don't require them, but do have some kind of requirement for being able to stop safely.
I still can't see how that could have happened if the base plates had been installed correctly. I do know that every time I park my MH anywhere and leave it, I recheck the tow set-up to make sure that it's ok. The reason for that is that one of the very first times we went out, we stopped in a parking lot to do some shopping and when we came out, the guy next to me said that there had been some older kids around our rigs when they came back and I'd better take a look at my tow bar. I checked it and they had pulled the pins and put a piece of wood in their place. They had also disconnected the safety cables and hung them to make it look as if they were still connected also. I did have an extra set of pins and went over to the nearby Home Depot and got keyed alike padlocks to put in place of the locking pins.
Yes, the other guy called 911. And yes, the police did catch them hanging around to see what happened and yes, one of them still had my pins in his jacket pocket. And no, it wasn't at a Wal-Mart.
hanko wrote:Executive wrote:
Please consider installation of a readybrake on your towed vehicle. THIS accident could and should have been prevented. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed....although the owner probably needs a new pair of undershorts......:).....Dennis
Motor Home driver loses toad
when the whole basepate comes off, how is a ready brake going to prevent that.
Executive wrote:hanko wrote:Executive wrote:
Please consider installation of a Ready STOP on your towed vehicle. THIS accident could and should have been prevented. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed....although the owner probably needs a new pair of undershorts......:).....Dennis
Motor Home driver loses toad
So i see you changed from what you originaly said.
Thanks for following this thread. Here's where I apologized for my error in my opening statement....DennisExecutive wrote:mike brez wrote:hanko wrote:et2 wrote:
I'm curious why the poster turned it into a promotion for ready brake?
I was wondering the same thing, if you read my previous post. Must be Mr ready brake
Stocks in Company.:B
No stock in the company, but.....
I made an error as I posted Ready BRAKE when in reality I was referring to the Ready STOP, which will work with any vehicle similar to the stops installed on many boat trailers. Sorry for the confusion and I've edited my original post....Dennis
your forgiven Dennis. any Idea who in miv=chigan installs the ready brake. I have been interested in 0ne for a while
msmith1199 wrote:rgatijnet1 wrote:DSDP Don wrote:
If you watch the video, the base plates are still securely attached to the front end. The front end is what separated from the car.
If you look at the picture that is with the video, it clearly shows the front end of the vehicle with the base plate that attaches to the tow bar. The video says that this was recovered TWO miles down the highway.
Something is just not adding up. If the front end was jerked off of the vehicle, it should have remained attached to the tow bar and not been free to bounce down the highway.
The car would be free but the front bumper and base plate would have stayed with the RV.
Another scenario is that if the tow bar pins came disconnected and the jerk on the safety chains yanked the front end off of the car. The base plate then came loose from the safety chains and was left on the highway.
It clearly didn't bounce down the highway for two miles. It remained attached to the motorhome as he drove two more miles down the highway. My guess is when the driver of the motorhome figured out that the car was missing, he pulled over to check and he probably removed the towbar from the front end and then went back to look for his car. You also notice in the photo the receivers are still there, but the towbar isn't. That means somebody had to have detached the towbar itself from the receivers. The media just didn't get the story right.
Edit: I went and looked again and I see the tow bar type he was using is one where the tow bar remains with the motorhome and attaches to the receivers on the baseplate with pins. So unless both pins failed after the frame member failed, then somebody removed the pins before that photo was taken and detached that part from the RV. And the fact that the two pieces are laying on the side of the road looking to be lined up appears to confirm that the RV driver took them off and left them there while he returned to look for his car.
rgatijnet1 wrote:DSDP Don wrote:
If you watch the video, the base plates are still securely attached to the front end. The front end is what separated from the car.
If you look at the picture that is with the video, it clearly shows the front end of the vehicle with the base plate that attaches to the tow bar. The video says that this was recovered TWO miles down the highway.
Something is just not adding up. If the front end was jerked off of the vehicle, it should have remained attached to the tow bar and not been free to bounce down the highway.
The car would be free but the front bumper and base plate would have stayed with the RV.
Another scenario is that if the tow bar pins came disconnected and the jerk on the safety chains yanked the front end off of the car. The base plate then came loose from the safety chains and was left on the highway.
hanko wrote:Executive wrote:
Please consider installation of a Ready STOP on your towed vehicle. THIS accident could and should have been prevented. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed....although the owner probably needs a new pair of undershorts......:).....Dennis
Motor Home driver loses toad
So i see you changed from what you originaly said.
Thanks for following this thread. Here's where I apologized for my error in my opening statement....DennisExecutive wrote:mike brez wrote:hanko wrote:et2 wrote:
I'm curious why the poster turned it into a promotion for ready brake?
I was wondering the same thing, if you read my previous post. Must be Mr ready brake
Stocks in Company.:B
No stock in the company, but.....
I made an error as I posted Ready BRAKE when in reality I was referring to the Ready STOP, which will work with any vehicle similar to the stops installed on many boat trailers. Sorry for the confusion and I've edited my original post....Dennis
