Towing with a smaller truck

[Soundguy]

So you think blowing an overloaded tire at 35mph is no big deal with an overloaded rig? Well you did say that "people are mostly idiots."

yep.. and my bvet 'system operator' has never seen a interstate with semi trucks. guess that might blow his mind about fully loaded vehicles travveling at full highway speeds.

best to let him go back to the play world he apparently lives in.

 

[Soundguy]

So you think blowing an overloaded tire at 35mph is no big deal with an overloaded rig? Well you did say that "people are mostly idiots."

yep.. and my bet 'system operator' has never seen a interstate with semi trucks. guess that might blow his mind about fully loaded vehicles travveling at full highway speeds.

best to let him go back to the play world he apparently lives in.

 

[Soundguy]

But I do my best to never travel a road faster than I think I can have a wheel fly totally off and still maintain control enough to get it safely stopped. .

so.. you never drive over 10-20mph right?

what would loosing a front on the interstate be like? or do you avoid interstate and only drive dirt roads and such?

 

[Sysop]

Y'all get off on some tangents don't ya? Again, I don't remember him wanting to drive a semi-truck; not that even a semi fully loaded can maintain full speed on any of the highways here, the idiot semi-drivers around here do the Rolls-Canardly driving method. The safe semi-drivers don't make it over 55 locally (except a few nice stretches) and that's about only about 10% of them.

I do an average of 15k miles a year at a max of about 65 in my unloaded pickup truck given road and traffic conditions that will allow it. When loaded, bad roads, or bad traffic come about, sometimes yes, I only do 10-20MPH. There should never be any reason to "lose control" and a good driver should be prepared for anything. The best method to prevent losing control is always the same; slow down.

 

[Soundguy]

i can just see trucks ont he interstate doing 10-20 mph . just because they are loaded.

WV must have good stuff in the air and water...

 

[WilliamBos]

i can just see trucks ont he interstate doing 10-20 mph . just because they are loaded.

WV must have good stuff in the air and water...

Reminds me of something being passed along on Facebook about some states... Kentucky... 5,000,000 people , 15 last names. Maybe same for WV?

 

[Sysop]

No, generally interstate road conditions don't require that low of speed to maintain safety, even if you were to lose a tire. The times there IS a need to go that slow on the interstate it is due to water and similar stuff in the air and on the roads (snow, ice, fog, rain). Everything from the basic unloaded handling characteristics, to the load, to the road type and conditions needs taken into account. Rated speed limits are for the best of the best situations, everything from having a truck (which naturally doesn't handle as well as a car, physics prevent it) to load, to pavement condition, to vehicle maintenance and weather DO matter and reducing the speed to less than the speed limit a bit for each of the circumstances in a given situation is required to maintain high levels of safety and control.

 

[Sysop]

Reminds me of something being passed along on Facebook about some states... Kentucky... 5,000,000 people , 15 last names. Maybe same for WV?

Only in Canada eh!?

 

[Renze]

Naah, this is getting pointless.. Just buy the biggest Pete you can to tow your kubota just for a sense of security, if you have the money to do so, but not the skills or guts to do otherwise.

 

[cockeyedMFer]

Just saw an interesting accident on the freeway Saturday. Chevy Trailblazer facing backwards in the center lane, with a 20-something foot camper attached and laying on its side. Looked like the driver lost control and spun it without hitting anything else. Quite a feat!

Out of curiosity I looked up the trailer capacity for a trailblazer and its around 5500-6000lbs, a rough guess on a 20 foot travel trailer is about 4000lbs. Seems like it would be a pretty stable combination otherwise.