If this thread about oh sh!t moments isn't just about towing a camper and brakes, I have a few, or maybe a dozen lol.
Only a couple with the camper on.
1 was not horribly dramatic after the fact, but we got trapped/chased between tornados dropping in MN a few summers ago and it was pretty hairy for an hour or 2 dodging funnel clouds, 3 phones going with maps, live radar and some heavy metal music just to keep the pace up!
Thankfully the first almost accident was also uneventful. Last summer almost home from our week long summer vacation. Camper on the truck, boat in tow (bout 6000 lbs), come around the corner on our local county road, into a shady patch, couple cars up stopped abruptly, old beater Chester the molester van in front of us hammers the brakes, barely has brake lights (and hard to see coming out of the setting sun into the shade I'm sure), didn't see the cars braking in front of him, becasue, Van.
I wasn't going to totally stop in time, but the shoulder (with deep bar ditch beyond it) looked kinda wide enough.
I just whipped the wheel, jammed the camper past the van without touching it. Dropped a couple gears at the same time and dropped the throttle to yank the trailer straight as it hit gravel and was sliding towards the ditch. Was amazed we didn't at least trade paint!
