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

Cummins12V98 wrote:

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.

You need to take a ride with me and do a panic stop, you will be shocked as I was at how fast the truck and RV stopped.

I would only be shocked if the combined rig stopped in exactly the same distance as the truck alone .
We are kind of talking two different things here with Marty ,I agree with him the trailer alone will stop the combined rig or should (like a train...eventually ),my fear is that it will give a false impression to a beginner that it doesn't matter whats hooked together the stopping distance will remain the same .
I contend that its not likely.

Cummins have you seen a recent demo of a brake controller called 'direct link'?
the improvement over stock ?..........80 feet now thats shocking.
they changed to hyd disks and anti lock.
locking and skidding your trailer tires is NOT the goal like some here have proudly posted.