Trailer crash on mountain road.
Yet but another horrific lose of control of RV as seen from the dash cam of a semi-truck. VIDEO http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2017/8/29/Watch-The-Moment-A-Trailer-Trashes-A-Ford-Excursion-At-High-S...
Forum Discussion
rjxj wrote:
Cant fix stupid
Yeah ... and ya can't change the physics of towing no matter what your IQ is ... or no matter what you've gotten away with so far.
The TT in the video had stuff on the rear bumper - unloading it's hitch in the front even more on top of anything else that may be going on inside the coach weight-distribution-wise.
Also, that TT looks a bit long to be on only two axles. As a counter example, my BIL tows only a 21 foot TT - but it still has two axles - and hence is very stable on the open road due partially to it's length versus number of axles.
If I did tow, I'd do it in compliance with my own interpretation of good physics rules: The tow vehicle must be equal to - or higher than - the dead weight of what's being towed. IAW, the more that the weight of the tow vehicle exceeds the weight of what's it's towing ... the safer that towing setup is going to be. You want a large mass towing a small mass. (Of course big rigs violate that all the time ... but they are of a "5th wheel type design", which is a safer way to tow. However in addition too TTs, I also keep my distance from big rigs and 5th wheel RVs on the open road - just in case physics know something that I don't.)
Such considerations as those physics and examples like that video are exactly why we don't tow, and why our motorhome is a very small one ... and even then on a chassis that winds up making everything very stable due to the chassis being designed to handle the weight of a larger one.
