Well, here's one I've never seen before!

jmtandem wrote:
I guess the moral of the video is that the Dodge Ram's really can tow almost anything---a fifth wheel, a trailer and another pickup all at the same time. Sweet. But, then, those of us that already own a Ram already knew that. We don't need a video to show us what we know.

You don't need to rub it in :)

F-TROUP wrote:
I can see no need for it if the trailer behind it is loaded properly, expensive over kill.

NOT TRUE...

There's no way that the frame of the RV can handle that much tongue weight from the transporter. Using the tow dolly takes the stress off of the 5er and reduces the porpoising of the rig.

Good looking double tow.
The dollys were popular back in the '50s and 60s when pickup trucks were pretty rare outside of work vehicles/farms and ranches. My uncle towed a TT and 16" glass fishin boat with a dolly behind his '72 F150 in the late '60s/early '70s.
Later pickups became more popular so the dolly became less popular.

We just came off a 2860 miles vacation in TX/NM/AZ/UT and the SW corner of CO. We saw lots of doubles (no dolly) in the Moab area on 191 just like the youtube.

K Charles wrote:
In MS last year I saw a car pulling a car with a tow bar and that car was pulling a dolly with a car on it. The back two cars were damaged in the front. The middle one had the hitch welded to the frame where the bumper was torn off. Two sets (six cars) 65 MPH down the road. No plates on the middle car.

That was probably a road train heading for the Mexican border, for import. It's common to see the front bumper removed, and replaced with a rigid tow bar. I would assume that the axles are also removed on FWDs. they stuff the vehicles with any marketable used goods that will fit. I recently saw a large flatbed pulling a road train of two minivans. The flatbed had eight foot of a class 8 truck frame with a full diesel drivetrain bolted to it, and everything from a garden tiller, to a child size, battery powered, ride on Jeep, piled high. I have seen them as far north as New England. They do follow the rules on doubles in states that don't allow it. Seeing a convoy of cars and vans, each pulling a similar sized vehicle, heading for Mexico, is pretty common up north.

Pitch is also known as Porpoising!

Gotcha, never had that problem.

F-TROUP wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I like the idea and was going to make one for my 56 sedan delivery to tow my race car and trailer. That is until I saw what a 56 Chevy frame look like!

One thing I liked about the idea is it gives you a stable ride and it cuts down on a ton of pitch problems double tow has.

I've been double towing since 2007 approximately 4,500 miles a year and I've never heard the term "pitch problems" what am I missing?

Maybe not much if you have a heavy duty truck with stiff suspension. A lot of people call it porpoising. Here is what pitch problems look like.

The dollies help in all situations but they really help where you have a vehicle with very soft suspension. That is why they were very popular back in the days when a lot of station wagons were pulling trailers.

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I like the idea and was going to make one for my 56 sedan delivery to tow my race car and trailer. That is until I saw what a 56 Chevy frame look like!

One thing I liked about the idea is it gives you a stable ride and it cuts down on a ton of pitch problems double tow has.

I've been double towing since 2007 approximately 4,500 miles a year and I've never heard the term "pitch problems" what am I missing?

This is a really good way to handle the stresses of double towing. Copied from the dollies commercial drivers use hooking up a set of doubles or in some states triples. Removes the tongue weight stress and places that weight on the dolly.

I have typically seen these used with stacker trailers that have huge tongue weight. Saw one a few weeks ago that had an air bag assisted hitch system. I have considered one for the MH and cargo trailer but I can't justify the price.

I like the idea and was going to make one for my 56 sedan delivery to tow my race car and trailer. That is until I saw what a 56 Chevy frame look like!

One thing I liked about the idea is it gives you a stable ride and it cuts down on a ton of pitch problems double tow has.