Buying an oversized truck to pull a small trailer doesn’t make you any safer than someone taking full advantage of a trucks capacity. There are far too many variables to make such an assessment.
And do you know what wisdom is? I can tell you what its not. It is not arbitrarily picking a tow vehicle based on one trailers gross weight rating assuming that’s that safest option.
Most put all these weight ratings together with safety, and while they sure can be related, there is no direct correlation that I have ever seen. If there is data stating otherwise, let’s see it.
You are so correct. Give a moron a Class 8 truck with an empty Berlin Flyer little red wagon behind it and there is no safety involved. Take a 1/2 ton truck over it's GVWR or GCWR by 1or 2% with a driver who knows what he is doing and it is much safer. Reading threads like this prove beyond a shadow of a doubt there are a number of morons driving vehicles that they have no business driving.
