Trailer sway control
Has anyone seen this yet? Pretty cool and I think it will help with some of the hard to balance trailers out there. Independent sway control
Forum Discussion
Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Here's a thought.
Buy a trailer that is properly built and loaded and you won't have to rely on bandaids that sucks tons of fuel to work.
While this on the surface makes sense and is factually correct, the statement fails to recognize other events that can cause sway to the extent that catastrophic loss of control occurs. Bursts of cross winds, especially when coasting down a grade where no power from the tow vehicle is required to maintain speed will cause a perfectly balanced trailer to sway often uncontrollably. Another example is a semi truck and trailer or bus, especially those double decker "Megabus", passing at a high rate of speed. Of course, many defensive maneuvers to avoid a hazard in the lane of travel will induce sway. None of these examples have a thing to do with a "properly built and loaded" trailer.
Also, the phrase "sucks tons of fuel to work" is basically false. While applying brakes to individual wheels to initiate drag will slow the vehicle minutely and fuel will be required to regain that fraction of a mile per hour lost by the braking event, measuring that minuscule amount of fuel would challenge even the most precise laboratory.
Therefore, I discount the posters statement as inherently false.
