CarnationSailor wrote:
Calkidd wrote:
SDcampowneroperator wrote:
with Auto sliders your truck and rig must be straight aligned to connect/ disconnect. Too limiting in my opinion, you could not pay me to have one.
Simply not true.
Well, yes, it is true.
I have a Demco Hijacker Auto Slide and (as the owner's manual states) the centerlines of the 5th wheel and the tow vehicle must be within 5 degrees of each other. It is limiting, but only to the extent that many curved (arc'ed?) pull-thru sites won't work for us. We just avoid them.
May be true for Demco but that doesn't make his point wrong. I have had my Pullrite Superglide for over 4 years and many thousands of mies being retired. I have been way more than 5 degrees off center and had no problem hooking/unhooking. I have never had a problem with a curved pull thru. Can you unhook 45 degrees off center? no, but I've never had to do that. Your experience with the Demo differs greatly from my experience with the Superglide.
