I'm a worry wart these days I guess....

the bear II wrote:
If you take care of the routine maintenance items you are reducing the chance of being in a wreck. Based on what I have read in posts over the years, I'm guessing one of the most common causes of RV involved wrecks has to do with tires. Making sure you have proper tire pressures and sound tires helps to reduce the chances of a tire failure caused accident.

It's amazing once I finally got a truck that has way more towing capacity than I need plus an exhaust brake, I no longer get those butterflies in my stomach before a trip. Towing with this truck has eliminated a couple of the major things I worried about...being able to safely go down a steep grade and stop quickly if needed.

I also stay near the trailer speed limit and leave large gaps from the vehicles ahead of me as I go down the road.

I have plenty of truck....2500HD so that's covered. I don't have an exhaust brake exactly but I wrote one into the tune with efilive that uses the turbo to brake. I have a few maintenance items on the truck I want to get taken care of before we leave. I'm going to pull the rear wheels and inspect the brakes this week. The fronts were just done but I want to put an eyeball on the rears and see if they're getting close....if so I'll do pads/rotors back there. I also want to get the allison flushed. I could do it here but with all the hassle that comes with flushing it I'd rather just have a dealership do it unless they want an arm/leg to do it.