Towing Speed - Am I Going Too Slow?!

the_happiestcamper wrote:

64thunderbolt wrote:
Wait till you have to make a evasive move to avoid something in the rd or another vehicle and see how that burb handles. I would say in the past 15 yrs about 95% or more I have seen wheels up are tongue pulls.

And this tongue pull had to make one of those evasive moves last year when a fiver about plowed me over. While I was mad at the idiot driver, I had no problems.

64thunderbolt wrote:
So I stand by my opinion that a burb with a 30' TT is not the best situation.

And a 3/4 ton SRW with a 20' trailer is not the best situation either - they would be better off with a 1 ton dually.

His Burb is a 3/4 ton vehicle made to tow. I have towed with 3/4 ton pickups and my Yukon, and the Yukon (which is just a Burb) handles just as well. As long as he is in the specs and has his WDH dialed in, he's good to go. He also says he doesn't want to go 65 (most states it is illegal to tow over 55 anyway). I bet most of those wheels up you see are going way to fast for conditions.

The_Happiestcamper,
You have some good and not so good points.
While a Burb may be designed as a TV, it will not have the same stability stock as 2500 PU, due being designed to also provide reasonable comfort to passengers. The springs and shocks with both be a bit softer. In regards to loading PU with a cap and Burb, can both be loaded rear heavy creating stability issues.

To your last statement, spot on!! TT or 5er, seen too many like that!!
Once headed to the Oregon Coast in February, snowing on pass and sticking There was a ODOT snow plow plowing the road with a guy in a lifted 4X4, pulling a TT TH, maybe two car length off the plows rear bumper and we were doing about 45+, I was about 20 car lengths back from the 4X4. Way too many drive never thinking about "What If"!