Help from people who use bumper pull trailers
Hello, I have a 5th wheel RV and do okay towing and backing that but I need an enclosed cargo trailer for a small business I am thinking of opening up. The trailers I am looking at are either 6 ...
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Grit dog wrote:Optimistic Paranoid wrote:
And AFAIK if you cross into another state, THEIR laws control, not the state your trailer is registered in. In NY, anything over 1,000 lbs needs brakes. Here's the different laws:
https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/trailer-brakes/
More bullsheet from O P. For the rest of us living in the real world, never seen a 3klb gvw trailer that came with brakes...ever and unless you are gettin the finger wave from a DOT cop (I mean the kind that requires a latex glove, not to be confused with the finger shake gesture, lol) noone will ever look at your little single axle trailer for brakes.
Why? Because they don't need them and they aren't required in 90% of states. Just like other obscure laws.
And to add back that often missing aire of practicality, an HD pickup has no need for trailer brakes on a small little trailer like that.
In MN brakes are not required on anything that weighs less then 2900 pounds. I don't believe that a trailer licensed here would be ticketed in another state because of a difference in laws. I will admit that I am not 100 percent sure of that though.
