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 .

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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.

I COMPLETELY AGREE and if I were to do a WAG, I would say that in any aggressive braking event the TV will do 75% of the braking with the TT doing 25%. Now this might not apply to the ultra high end TTs/5ers with hydraulic over electric and disk brakes. There is just no way a completely 100% electric braking system with a sliding magnet applying the force for the shoes is that effective. Also, our TT braking systems are not even in the same ball park as the 18 wheeler trailers with the air brake systems.

People who hook up that TT weighing almost 1.5 x the GVWR of that light weight 1/2T or SUV and think they have a decent braking system are only fooling themselves and I just hope they never get into trouble and need to stop quickly.

Larry