TomG2 wrote:
If you were around in the "old days", you would remember steaming radiators with the hood up half way up the hill, burned out clutches and brakes after half their normal life, tow vehicles with their front tires almost off the ground, and so on. That was with trailers which were mostly under twenty feet in length.
Sounds horrible. Must have had thousands of vehicular deaths every year as a result.
Other than the front wheels off the ground, everything else is MAINTENANCE related... not SAFETY related.