Felt so bad for older couple traveling today

easycamper wrote:
The thing is that on the Internet you rarely know all the facts.

This thread started out with an assumption. A person encountered a disabled travel trailer that had experienced several failures and then assumed, incorrectly, that travel trailers are somehow less safe than other types of RVs. The majority of posters are offering up an alternative hypothesis: that this particular RV was not well maintained.

Based on knowledge and experience we know that travel trailers are not unsafe compared to other RVs, and we also know that many trailers are not well maintained.

With all due respect I definitely made assumptions about TT safety but there is no assumptions on what happened. Initially I thought the darn thing was on fire but regardless something was seriously wrong with this nearly new trailer with white smoke billowing from the tire. I personally would never make an assumption on how they care for their truck and trailer. It all looked in tip top shape and well cared for. They were around my step dad's age and I guess that got to me that they are halfway across the country from their home, a long ways from their destination and all these things keep happening. It seems they are taking it in stride. For now I will be happy camping within a couple hours from home and vacationing without the TT like we did before we bought it. I am a chicken, what can I say. Doesn't help reading about the veteran couple that rolled their TT and TV while in Kansas and said no more TT's for them, because hanging upside down in their rolled truck changed their life. Maybe I should stay off this forum, haha.