Travel Trailer Towing Safety Concerns
Let me start by saying I am not the tow weight police or the guy that goes to the CAT scales to set up my truck and trailer, I do know the towing capacity of my truck and what the proper setup should...
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Two main no-nos I see:
1. MAJOR overloading/overtaxing of the tow vehicle. A lot of this, unfortunately, I have to put on the dealers; I've lost count of the number of times I've heard a dealer tell a newbie prospective customer his TV could "handle it, no problem" so long as the DRY weight was under the vehicle's max towing capacity.
2. Speeding, especially with the relatively smaller trailers. I'm reasonably certain most folks don't have a clue the max speed rating for ST tires is 65mph.
1. MAJOR overloading/overtaxing of the tow vehicle. A lot of this, unfortunately, I have to put on the dealers; I've lost count of the number of times I've heard a dealer tell a newbie prospective customer his TV could "handle it, no problem" so long as the DRY weight was under the vehicle's max towing capacity.
2. Speeding, especially with the relatively smaller trailers. I'm reasonably certain most folks don't have a clue the max speed rating for ST tires is 65mph.
