Forum Discussion
Yeah, I mean, we’ve seen a grand total of what? 3 or so of these types of failures with big TCs on trucks over the years on the internet. The famous one being the super doody with the big camper and the big cargo trailer on the back?
Yet I pass campers like this by the dozens daily sometimes flying back n forth across the state here. Including my own for several years.
Never seen this and probably no one in the large esteemed circle of RVers here has either.
BUT I’ve seen more than one light duty truck break the frame and or axle from being overloaded. Those failure modes were bent axle tubes and the frames would crack right over the rear axle (where the largest bending moment is on the back half (similar to the largest bending moment in this case “between” the F and R axles. However with the CG of most of every TC including this one being near the Rear axle, the moment isn’t huge at the back of the cab unless some other loads were present. (Like the super doody internet famous truck mentioned above.)
Yet I pass campers like this by the dozens daily sometimes flying back n forth across the state here. Including my own for several years.
Never seen this and probably no one in the large esteemed circle of RVers here has either.
BUT I’ve seen more than one light duty truck break the frame and or axle from being overloaded. Those failure modes were bent axle tubes and the frames would crack right over the rear axle (where the largest bending moment is on the back half (similar to the largest bending moment in this case “between” the F and R axles. However with the CG of most of every TC including this one being near the Rear axle, the moment isn’t huge at the back of the cab unless some other loads were present. (Like the super doody internet famous truck mentioned above.)
