sh410 wrote:
mowermech wrote:
Check the LEGAL definition of a "trailer" in YOUR state! I know the definition here and towed motor vehicles do not meet the definition. (MCA 61-1-101(82))
Montana (and many other states) is a "Performance Law" state. If you can stop your "combination of vehicles" within 40 feet from 20 MPH on a fairly level, clean, hard, surface, you are legal (NCA 61-9-312).
Given the apparent current state of the desire for the government to control every aspect of our lives "for the common good", it seems to me if such braking or brake-away systems were necessary for "safety" they would be required by law by the FMVSS and in EVERY state!
I believe the number of toad breakaways is VERY low, and the number of injuries or deaths is even lower. I don't have the statistics at hand.
I wonder if such statistics are even tabulated?
While I agree with you that the number of toad breaakaways is probably low, but I would be devastated if my toad was involved the death of anyone.
So would I.
However, statistically the chances of that ever happening are so low that very few, if any, states seem to think that it needs to be covered by law. The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards don't seem to care, either!
That would seem to indicate that the problem is considered to be non-existent!
Could it be that the "problem" was CREATED by the manufacturers of such systems? Considering the misinformation disseminated by such manufacturers concerning the laws, it is within the realm of possibility!