Sway caused accident on I-75
Just a reminder to be careful out there, especially with the longer trailers. Some folks in Michigan were traveling on I-75 when their 30' VLite started to sway, and they lost it in the ditch. The c...
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BarneyS wrote:EldIr wrote:
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I've been on black ice more than once where the trailer was perpendicular to the lane dragging the ass of the truck around. I knew what to do to control that and straightened it out in a couple seconds. Let's see some inexperienced driver do that.
How about letting us in on the secret! :R
Barney
There is no secret. It's experience. And you want to gain that experience long before you're towing tons of something. I grew up with rear wheel drive and long winters. And during the summers in high school, I took the old Jeep out on the back gravel and dirt roads and practiced and learned car control. If you've never had anything scare or spook you before and the first time it happens is pulling a big TT, you're probably going to be one of the accidents posted on forums like this.
My whole point is that if you want to drive a limo, semi, tanker, cube van, etc,. you're required to learn more than they taught you in driver's ed. Maybe it should be the same for trailers over a certain length and/or weight.
I started as a teenager with a single-wide snowmobile trailer and worked my way up thru double-wide snowmobile trailers, utility trailers, enclosed snowmobile trailers, cargo trailers, equipment trailers and a 24' pontoon boat on a trailer before I ever owned a TT.
