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Grit dog wrote:
As usual, the speculators are out in full force.
Regardless of the cause, it generally centers around something no setup right, primarily too little tongue weight, however grooossly heavy tongue weight canhave the same effect and then it can be exaggerate by “where” the weight is.
The takeaway that everyone should know IF it happens is get tension between the truck and trailer before it’s too late and it will straighten out. Typically manually applying trailer brakes, followed by t brakes and accelerating if that dont work. And in the event of no trailer brakes and it’s not coming back on it’s own, you have to floor it!
Another tip is DONT try to correct the sway all the way with steering unless you don’t have the room. You can buy some time and bring the trailer back if you can sort of “follow” the sway with the tow vehicle.
It happens fairly quickly but not too quick to recover if one know what to do in the event.
Yes I’ve had a few trailers get away. Comes from towing a lot at a very young age when this knowledge and the internet did not exist for me.

If it was uncontrolled trailer sway that caused the accident. (And this is a big if) you’re better off manually activating the trailer brakes via your brake controller than hitting the tow vehicle brakes or accelerating.