Is 70 the age to stop towing
I think maybe if you drive a motorhome at 70 you are safe, but pulling anything behind it is not safe.
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mdcamping wrote:
Not trying to take this out of context, years ago remember reading on this forum a young camping family towing a 35'TT with a dodge Durango from canada to florida. Somewhere on the way down he tried passing someone in a rain storm, lost control, went head on into a tractor trailer. He, his wife and 3 of his 5 kids died. what I'm trying to say is tragic events like this have happened at every age group.
IMHO, that happened because:
1. Towing something too big with something too small.
2. Trying to pass something while towing something.
3. Trying to pass something in the rain.
4. Trying to pass something when something coming towards you was not far enough away.
Towing something is always not as safe as not towing something under any and all conditions. We never have towed an RV and never will. Even though our motorized RV is quite small, we hopefully would never try doing 3. or 4.
Doing 4. is a real mystery - aren't oncoming headlights visible way further away at night than even a tractor trailer is in the daytime?
