Tow Speed excess!
I stopped at a nearby convenience store today, and in the parking lot an officer was issuing a traffic citation to an individual towing a brand new TT. I noted, based on temp tags, that the driver bei...
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hotpepperkid wrote:
California and its 55 is ridiculous. Your doing 55 and everyone else is doing 80 crazy. I drove what ever speed I wanted and in 35 years had never been stopped. Been passed doing 65+ by CHP and one time one honked as he went by and gave me the 55 with his hand and went on down the road. Their towing speed limit is the reason I never vacationed in California
Boy o boy ... it's that kind of short thinking and driving (ignoring the principals of physics and mechanics) that is REALLY making it scarier and scarier to drive on our highways.
All I can think of when a 60+/65+/70+/75+ towed RV combination passes me is:
1. What if the tow vehicle should have a front tire blowout at that speed?
2. What if the tow vehicle should have to suddenly break for a deer or an elk or a moose at that speed?
3. What it the towed RV should suddenly be hit by a freak sidewind gust at that speed?
4. What if the hitch ball joint of a TT combination should suddenly separate (for whatever reason) and only the safety chains were left to constrain the TT's jerking back and forth of the tow vehicle's rear end?
5. What if the coach spring mount on a TT or 5'er should suddenly fail?
6. What if the tow vehicle's timing belt should breakl?
7. Etc.?
8. Etc.?
Only a vanishingly small chance of any of that happening you say .... yeah that's right .... but if any of that or similar stuff happens, the loss of life and property of the both the towed combination and vehicles around it would be a tragedy that could have maybe been reduced drastically by a slower running speed of the tow combination.
The same old same old applies .... speed kills. California's 55 MPH towing law is right on and I'm glad to be part of it.
