Too Much Trailer for the TV???

Bobbo wrote:

Hannibal wrote:

Bobbo wrote:

Hannibal wrote:

gbopp wrote:
You don't hear people complain because they have too much truck.

I've seen the damage caused by too much truck on a Holiday Rambler 5th wheel and a small travel trailer. Something is going to give. If not suspension, it will be structure.

That is not because it is too much truck, that is because the idiot driving the truck drove inappropriately for that trailer. The trailer doesn't know if it is hooked to a Smart For Two car or a semi tractor. It only knows it is hooked to a trailer hitch ball. Everything else is how the driver abuses it.

65mph down a pounding weathered and truck beaten concrete interstate is going to be a lot harder on the trailer being towed by a semi tractor than a Smart For Two car regardless of who's driving it.

No, it isn't.

Hannibal wrote:
The tongue can only take so much before stress cracks appear leading to total failure.

Again, the tow vehicle has nothing to do with it. The problem is the speed and road surface. If the road surface is bad, slow down regardless of what you are towing with. All the TT sees is the ball it is hooked to.

On a buckboard conrete interstate, you seriously can't tell the difference in ride between an F550 and your F150? You can't understand that the harsh ride of the F550 gets transmitted to the tongue of the trailer? We can't always predict the road's surface nor can we creep down the interstate to ease over rough concrete expansion joints or dips in the road. If that ball that the travel trailer is hooked to is jerking up and down with the stiff suspension of the F550, the A frame is going to flex as it absorbs the shock and will eventually fail.