Second Chance wrote:
If you're towing a toy hauler with a beefed-up 1/2 ton and Chinese-made ST tires rated at 65 MPH and going 75 MPH, please stay off the roads where my family and I travel. It's dangerous and irresponsible.
Rob
Saying this in milder language having attended corporate safety courses for corporate policy implementation.
My question, referring to semis hauling our products interstate and coast-to-coast, the safe speed for them. Indeed, some are covered here as to road layout and conditions.
But he says, California got in right with multiple speed limits on surface roads, highways and freeways (55 to 65mph which is my self-imposed speed limit too).
His final advice to us driving with our family is to avoid semis or trailer-towing vehicles going beyond 65 mph or not slowing down on adverse road conditions.
He added that these vehicles and trailers are attached by single pivot pin, have unsynchronized braking system... and the many things that could make the driver lose control and for everything to go wrong.
I don't consider myself easily scared, but I do let anyone going faster than me to pass and avoid being side by side with anyone pulling a trailer and won't fault somebody who do the same when I'm on the road.
