Needing some fast advise
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what to tow my car trailer with. It looks like the Class C is out because the trailer weighs around 7500 lb loaded.. I am looking at a 1999 Rexhall Vi...
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ferndaleflyer wrote:
427 must never have been in the mountains with a small class A (or anything else for that matter) and a large trailer---its a hand full when the brakes get hot on the trailer and the tow vehicles brakes aren't adequate to slow both. Ever rode up an escape ramp? I would want (and have) an exhaust brake and enough tow vehicle stopping power to get it stopped----up hill don't matter because lack of power generally won't get you killed but not enough brakes could. Can't tell you how many wrecks I have seen between NC and Charleston, WV on I-77 just because of not enough tow vehicle.....
Or was it poor or overloaded trailer brakes?????
The OP is involved with car racing. He probably knows more about brakes than you and I do. He probably knows something about driving also-----including gearing down before heading down a steep grade.
A MH with a 15,500 GVW and a 26,000 lb GCVW can PULL a big trailer with a properly rated hitch and frame reinforcements-----------and if the trailer brakes are properly sized, it can also stop. Not everybody can afford a large DP------------so we use our heads instead of our pocketbooks.
