Towing small trailer with Class C help.
I have a 31ft class c. I have been getting different views from people on what I'm wanting to do. I have a 5x8 flat bed trailer with drop down gate. These are the ones from lowes with mesh bottoms. I ...
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I have never heard of a trailer being too little for a tow vehicle.
You do of course need to keep an eye on it (as with any trailer), and a flat or some other problem may not be as immediately obvious as with a car. I'm not sure why the trailer would bounce up and down any more with a class C than with any other vehicle; the only possible explanation I can come up with would be the longer overhang at the back increasing any lever effect. It's not like you're likely to be towing at speed over washboards, I suspect.
I participated in a summer camp canoeing/camping program a couple of years when I was growing up which involved towing a canoe trailer behind the camp bus (originally a school bus) up from New Hampshire to a park in Quebec. I don't recall there being any problems towing that trailer, aside from one time (a year I wasn't on the trip) when the tow ball attachment nut worked loose...but that's not a fault of any trailer size mismatch.
You do of course need to keep an eye on it (as with any trailer), and a flat or some other problem may not be as immediately obvious as with a car. I'm not sure why the trailer would bounce up and down any more with a class C than with any other vehicle; the only possible explanation I can come up with would be the longer overhang at the back increasing any lever effect. It's not like you're likely to be towing at speed over washboards, I suspect.
I participated in a summer camp canoeing/camping program a couple of years when I was growing up which involved towing a canoe trailer behind the camp bus (originally a school bus) up from New Hampshire to a park in Quebec. I don't recall there being any problems towing that trailer, aside from one time (a year I wasn't on the trip) when the tow ball attachment nut worked loose...but that's not a fault of any trailer size mismatch.
