Alternative towing hitch

carringb wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
Wonder if that would fall under the heading of a double tow?

No. Converter dollies don't count as a trailer. Otherwise you'd have to call double semi-trailers triple towing, and triple-trailer semis quintuple towing.

PS - I saw a Freightliner M2 4x4 pickup driving through downtown Portland with an Automated Safety hitch. The bedsides on that thing are about 6-feet high, so using one of those is the only way possible to tow a fifth wheel with one of those rigs.

There's a considerable pile of rules and regulations that apply to commercial rigs that don't apply to civil vehicles. I have read that if the truck didn't come with it from the factory, then it is a trailer. Just what I read at some point. But it varies from state to state.