Do a walk around at every stop!
Went to Talladega for the race and on the return trip my buddy was traveling in front with his newer TT when I had lost site of him in traffic north of Louisville. Suddenly in all the heavy northbound...
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I lost the nut off the ball including the lock washer. I was close to home so ignored the slight clinking noise which could have been anything but it was the ball and bolt tossing back in forth in the hole in the tongue. After cranking the TT up and watching the ball rise out of the tongue I had to sit down and count my blessings. I
had traveled several miles missing the nut and lock washer holding the ball to the tongue. It was a moment that to this day seems impossible to have happened but it did. Wisconsin interstates jar
tow vehicles and trailers like they are on trampolines, we have never experienced this in any other state. Something about how the sections of pavement are seamed together that causes this. The area
I have noticed the most is around Madison but their are other stretches. I also lost a UHaul trailer after it bounced up and down on Wisconsin interstates, yes it came off and flew into a dirt embankment. Could this pavement caused both situations, impossible to say but it must have contributed to it. The only remedy is to pull over when you suspect anything out of the ordinary and check your hitch, ball, safety chains and break away. I do at every gas station and rest stop. A few years ago there was also someone pulling hitch
pins on fifth wheel and semi trailers at rest stops.
had traveled several miles missing the nut and lock washer holding the ball to the tongue. It was a moment that to this day seems impossible to have happened but it did. Wisconsin interstates jar
tow vehicles and trailers like they are on trampolines, we have never experienced this in any other state. Something about how the sections of pavement are seamed together that causes this. The area
I have noticed the most is around Madison but their are other stretches. I also lost a UHaul trailer after it bounced up and down on Wisconsin interstates, yes it came off and flew into a dirt embankment. Could this pavement caused both situations, impossible to say but it must have contributed to it. The only remedy is to pull over when you suspect anything out of the ordinary and check your hitch, ball, safety chains and break away. I do at every gas station and rest stop. A few years ago there was also someone pulling hitch
pins on fifth wheel and semi trailers at rest stops.
