Is this legal?

We were at a campground where there were also cabins to rent. A family came in with a trailer, had an old woman with them and 3 dogs. The middle age couple spent all there time with friends in a cabin while the old woman and dogs were on the campgsite. The dogs got away and we helped round them up and discovered the old woman was senile. When the family left --- guess who was riding in the trailer -- yep, the old woman and the dogs. They didn't even let the woman ride in the truck with them. We were stunned as well as other people on the campground. How could you do that to an old woman, or the dogs. NO - I would never subject people or dogs to the stuffy hot ride she must have endured.

Only person that I know that rode in the trailer while in tow was Lucy Ricardo, with Ricky Ricardo driving...

Joseph T wrote:
Here's what you do. You hop into the TT and let your wife drive you around the block a few times. I guarantee after that experience, you wouldn't even consider letting your pet gerbil ride back there.

When I first started with a Volunteer Ambulance service in the early 70's all the new recruits had to ride strapped to the stretcher while the driver put the rig through it's paces. :E We soon learned drive a little slower and more carefully with a patient in the back! And that was in an Olds 98 wagon!

robsouth wrote:
I won't even let my dogs ride in the camper much less a person. It might be legal in some places, but it is stupid in all places.

Nicely put.

It's people doing stuff like that who kept me gainfully employed in the Air Ambulance Service for 30 years.

I have a neighbor whose wife was driving while he slept in the camper. She was stopped to get fuel when he woke up and decided to take advantage of the stop to use the service station's washroom. When he got out of the washroom she was gone. I think she drove for hours before the police pulled her over to let her know she lost her passenger.

Martyn wrote:

Wishbone51 wrote:

wbwood wrote:
While I prefer to get info from official sites here is one and its info on nc appears to be correct.

Looks like I was right about OR.

Well, I wouldn't count on that site for accuracy - it says that Triple Towing is not allowed in Colorado, and it is!

Also, never understood why some folks call it triple towing - It is Double Towing if you are towing two trailers. Now we do see a lot of triples on I-70 here in Colorado - UPS, Fedex and numerous other OTR companies have their semis pulling three trailers. I see them every day.

While none of the sites showing towing laws should be accepted as 100% accurate, I have always found This One to be pretty good. To be 100% you should alwayd contact the DOT for the State in which you are going to travel.

I actually think the site you mentioned is wrong on nc. It says weight on brakes for trailers at 1000 lbs. it's more than that. More like 4000lbs. I believe the 1000 lbs is on house trailers. But trailers in general or anything else towed is 4000 lbs

And I see they call it triple towing too.

Martyn wrote:

Wishbone51 wrote:

wbwood wrote:
While I prefer to get info from official sites here is one and its info on nc appears to be correct.

Looks like I was right about OR.

Well, I wouldn't count on that site for accuracy - it says that Triple Towing is not allowed in Colorado, and it is!

Also, never understood why some folks call it triple towing - It is Double Towing if you are towing two trailers. Now we do see a lot of triples on I-70 here in Colorado - UPS, Fedex and numerous other OTR companies have their semis pulling three trailers. I see them every day.

While none of the sites showing towing laws should be accepted as 100% accurate, I have always found This One to be pretty good. To be 100% you should alwayd contact the DOT for the State in which you are going to travel.

I think commercial triple or double towing is much different from an RVer towing two TTs behind his s-10 PU.
bumpy

Martyn wrote:

Wishbone51 wrote:

wbwood wrote:
While I prefer to get info from official sites here is one and its info on nc appears to be correct.

Looks like I was right about OR.

Well, I wouldn't count on that site for accuracy - it says that Triple Towing is not allowed in Colorado, and it is!

Also, never understood why some folks call it triple towing - It is Double Towing if you are towing two trailers. Now we do see a lot of triples on I-70 here in Colorado - UPS, Fedex and numerous other OTR companies have their semis pulling three trailers. I see them every day.

While none of the sites showing towing laws should be accepted as 100% accurate, I have always found This One to be pretty good. To be 100% you should alwayd contact the DOT for the State in which you are going to travel.

Maybe they are right. Triple towing now allowed but double is. Lol

I just came across the site quickly and for nc it was right. But as I stated, you need to get the info from an official source.

Our old lady had no problems in riding in the camper. She didn't have a lot of room to maneuver which wasn't a problem for her and putting her in the cab required lifting 80 lbs of dead weight no to mention her flatulence. But she was a good dog.

Wishbone51 wrote:

wbwood wrote:
While I prefer to get info from official sites here is one and its info on nc appears to be correct.

Looks like I was right about OR.

Well, I wouldn't count on that site for accuracy - it says that Triple Towing is not allowed in Colorado, and it is!

Also, never understood why some folks call it triple towing - It is Double Towing if you are towing two trailers. Now we do see a lot of triples on I-70 here in Colorado - UPS, Fedex and numerous other OTR companies have their semis pulling three trailers. I see them every day.

While none of the sites showing towing laws should be accepted as 100% accurate, I have always found This One to be pretty good. To be 100% you should alwayd contact the DOT for the State in which you are going to travel.