Just checked my fuel mileage

thomasmnile wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:

While some folks have voiced an opinion about 70 being too fast, I would tend to disagree with that statement. Towing at 60 or even 65 on most interstates makes YOU A DANGEROUS TARGET.

Especially true on roads with 70 MPH limits posted, folks are often driving 75-80 MPH and may not notice in time a vehicle which is 10 MPH or more below the limit. Those would be the trailers with blown tires I catch up to driving 60 mph after they blew by me at 75 or 80. Unless the speed limit is 75-80 THEY are breaking the law!

Driving anything too far below the speed limit can get you fined since you become a safety hazard to other motorists trying to get around you or even not noticing you are going slower than the rest of the pack. Really? Where's that? Minimum speed on most Interstates I'm aware of is 45 mph. Florida passed a law this year that can get you fined if you're driving less than the speed limit in the left or center lane on an Interstate. That was enacted to move slower traffic to the right lane.

If you are scared to drive at 65-70 then perhaps you should choose a slower and more scenic route. Scared? The tires on my trailer are speed rated to 65 mph. Somebody smarter than me determined that so I think I'll abide by the manufacturer's recommendation. Like Dirty Harry once said, "A man's got to know his limitations". And from what I've seen on the road, there's a lot o' folks that don't. Some of them even pontificate on forums like this espousing hauling the mail with a multi-ton RV/truck combo that they may or may not be capable of handling in an emergency.....

Good post.... one op stated running 90 mph while towing!! I don't know of anywhere in the Continental US that the speed limit is 90, I don't want to be in or around that truck if a tire on the 5er blows, At that speed don't even know about making a sudden stop or emergency maneuver.

I was running around 62 mph on I 40, (speed limit 70) in TN several years back and was literally blown off the road by a Dually towing a 5er as big as mine (39'9"-16,950 GVW), and he left everyone, I'll figure he was running 75 mph or so...about 8 miles down the road, he setting on the side of the road with a blown tire on his 5er...may or may not happen, but it can cause some damage to the 5er, not counting time you'll set on the side of the road once it happens.