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...
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Btw, everyone arm chairing this raise your hand if you've pulled trailers that got into uncontrollable or almost uncontrollable sway. If you haven't then you're speculating period.
Having also pulled many poorly loaded or very overloaded setups (many years ago, so current weight cops need not apply here, thanks) I've found there's really 2 or 3 main causes of this. And in most cases can be controlled or brought back in line from this.
1. The obvious one, not enough tongue weight/rear loaded behind the trailer axles very heavy. This just makes the trailer nasty because it is a pendulum affect with the @ss end of the trailer being the pendulum.
2. Super overloaded, trailer exceeding the tow vehicles weight or ability to handle the everyday wiggles or sways that come with driving a trailer. Trailer doesn't necessarily need to be overloaded, just the gross difference in weights between the 2, usually combined with some minor event that the tow vehicle should but can't overcome. This is what most of the weight cops on here will harp on and it's a real thing.....if you don't know what you're doing with a stupid big load and a too small vehicle.
3. Not really a cause of the sway, but a reason it can or does get worse in either situation above. Driver's inability to out drive the sway.
Having also pulled many poorly loaded or very overloaded setups (many years ago, so current weight cops need not apply here, thanks) I've found there's really 2 or 3 main causes of this. And in most cases can be controlled or brought back in line from this.
1. The obvious one, not enough tongue weight/rear loaded behind the trailer axles very heavy. This just makes the trailer nasty because it is a pendulum affect with the @ss end of the trailer being the pendulum.
2. Super overloaded, trailer exceeding the tow vehicles weight or ability to handle the everyday wiggles or sways that come with driving a trailer. Trailer doesn't necessarily need to be overloaded, just the gross difference in weights between the 2, usually combined with some minor event that the tow vehicle should but can't overcome. This is what most of the weight cops on here will harp on and it's a real thing.....if you don't know what you're doing with a stupid big load and a too small vehicle.
3. Not really a cause of the sway, but a reason it can or does get worse in either situation above. Driver's inability to out drive the sway.
