20,000 Teton 5er - Truck Needed (legally)

hone eagle wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

hone eagle wrote:
statements like "trailer brakes stop the trailer " make the hair on the back of my neck stand up .

:h :H :H

don't happen ever
take a truck any truck ,panic stop from any speed you want ,now do it with a trailer hooked on - same distance ? highly doubt it.
Trailer brakes are worse then useless if you believe and trust them to stop the trailer .
They are smaller then the brakes on a '60s econo box and are expected to stop trailers weighing 3 times more?
come on
now get them toasty like coming down a hill or stop and go freeway driving . and are they all perfectly adjusted?
When a mod blithely states 'trailer brakes stop the trailer' I get a chill.

Hmmmmmm, I guess I look at it another way.

Take your Volvo and put 55K on the tail and roll down the road at 60MPH without the trailer brakes hooked up. Go into a panic stop with your 80K lbs and see what 55k does to that 25k lb tractor. :E Now do the same thing with the trailer brakes hooked up. See what I'm talking about?

My trailer brakes can stop my whole rig. Every year I do this test to make sure my trailer brakes are up to snuff. It passes every year. :)
My trailer brakes can smoke my tires at 60mph if I yank on the controller stick. This tells me I'm getting 100% stopping effect out of my trailer brakes.

Now I admit my trailer only weighs 7K and my truck weighs somewhere around 8,200 lbs. But like I said, my trailer brakes alone can stop everything and my truck brakes alone can stop everything. I would not have it any other way.

I will also admit some trailer brakes are junk and not up to the task at hand.