Lost control when towing?
Purpose of this post is for me to learn something, If you don't have first hand experience with a towing accident and you do respond please extend all the courtesies as if it were you that this happe...
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KD4UPL wrote:
The scariest situation I had was when the trailer started to sway wildly. I was using a flatbed to haul my pick-up that had broken down. I was going to borrow a friends dually but it wouldn't start so he loaned me his other truck, a 1500. I had to drive my broken down truck on the flatbed backwards because only reverse worked. This made for very little tongue weight.
So I had about 7,000 pounds behind a 1500 with low tongue weight. Sway went crazy at about 45 MPH. Slowing down and lots of steering kept it from flipping.
I had a similar situation pulling a minivan that I loaded backwards because it only had reverse. My Crew Cab F-250 didn't pull it any better than your 1500 series. I couldn't get much over 50 without the thing trying to go crazy. Made for a very long 170 mile trip.
