Towing above 65

legolas wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

Whiskeyjack44 wrote:

PRodacy wrote:
In New Mexico and Colorado I don't believe I've ever seen anyone towing at less than 70. Usually the TTs stay with the rest of the traffic at 75.

Reading some of these posts I thought, "These guys have never towed the Southwest." Yup, ya either tow a little faster than you may be used to, or you hold up half the state behind you. Then when the oncoming traffic clears you better turn off your hearing aid and don't look to the left when they start streaming around you.

I've towed out west all along both I-10 and 40 including the northern I-80 route from Ca back to Wi and never found an issue towing at 60mph and as I've said before, I stay in the slow lane and could care less who, what and how fast folks "HAMMER DOWN" in the lanes to the left of me and whiz by. Not many, but some of the 60mph governed 18 wheelers also seem to do fine so all this hyperbole about towing less than IMO these excessive speed is just the proverbial "red herring".

What really concerns me is the misplaced logic used by those that think they have to "keep up with the JONES" and tow at 70, 75, 80 just because non RVers are going at those high speeds.

Larry

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Hey, as long as we keep up to a reasonable speed in the right lanes of the Interstates and multi-lane freeways, there's seldom a problem. The problem comes to a head with the two lane secondaries which I was refering to ("oncoming traffic"). Some of the legal speeds and traffic flow speeds on these are pretty fast, so if we can't/won't keep up on these roads, then the right lanes of the Interstates are where we belong. We have to weigh how fast is safe, how comfortable we are, and how much of a problem our speed, or lack of, will cause for ourselves and others in each situation.