Breakfast at the Campground

[korbe]

While eating breakfast sitting at our FS campground picnic table this morning , I had the opportunity to watch a campground neighbor pack up and leave. There was a lot of enjoyable stuff going on like leaving his trailer steps extended, and the vents open, but what really capped my interest was the triple tow and what I saw when they left.

The truck was maybe a 1974 dodge dually, pulling a 1980's coachman 5th wheel. They spent a good half hour or more trying to hook up a patio boat trailer to the coachman trailer (having a tough time lining up the two). The guy had run a plug for the patio boat trailer under the coachman. When they finally had everything all hooked up and ready to go, the young couple with two kids that had been outside and helping with the hookup, jumped in the trailer and closed the door and the entire triple headed out of the campground and onto the narrow and windy paved county road with the patio boat umbilical cord dragging on the ground.

[Water-Bug]

It begs the question: "If the second trailer is plugged into the TV, where are the brakes for the first trailer plugged in? "

[magnusfide]

Jim Shoe wrote:
Well, I looked it up. Triple towing is allowed in 27 states and California is one of them. Riding in a trailer in motion is generally legal as long as passengers use seat belts, there's some way of communicating with the driver of the tow vehicle, like an intercom or cell phones, and the trailer has doors that open from the inside. Duh.
Apparently, common sense and an IQ above zero is optional.

Amazing.

[gbopp]

Just about the time you think you've seen it all, you realize you didn't. :E

[coolbreeze01]

Sounds like they were having a good time as well as you....:C

[K_Charles]

And he drove 300 yards and put the boat in the water for the day.

[Jim_Shoe]

Well, I looked it up. Triple towing is allowed in 27 states and California is one of them. Riding in a trailer in motion is generally legal as long as passengers use seat belts, there's some way of communicating with the driver of the tow vehicle, like an intercom or cell phones, and the trailer has doors that open from the inside. Duh.
Apparently, common sense and an IQ above zero is optional.

[sch911]

Two trailers is double towing by my count, and is legal in many states, as is riding in the trailer. It doesn't make it right but not illegal!

[tvman44]

Nothing says I love you like saying it is OK to ride in the trailer!