trailer brakes

[hillslider]

Bird,

Hope you enjoy your trip to WV. The trees are about peaked here....north of Charleston. You should have some great scenry to enjoy. If you ever find yourself going north through WV on I77 let me know......I will let you drive the L3130 around the fields. That is of course the best place to be during the fall to look at the colors and the hills of WV.

Rob

 

[ronjhall]

Here is a thread that will lead you to another using Equalizer Hitch . This is the same type of hitch that travel trailers use.

 

[Bird]

Rob, I've been through Charleston a few times, but haven't been north of Charleston in over 30 years. One of my wife's brothers just finished building a new home in Vienna this year. Don't know if or when we'll ever get up there. We might be a little late for the peak foliage, but I've no doubt it'll still look pretty good next week.

 

[Hambone]

<font color="red"> no law requiring trailer brakes </font>

State of Indiana requires trailer brakes on any tandem axle trailer. They don't recognize surge brakes either.

 

[rdln]

no surge brakes really? even on a boat trailer? Given how electicity and water dont mix.

 

[Hambone]

One of my vendors recieved a nice ticket. Maybe commercial, or weight limit thing.

 

[chucko]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( State of Indiana requires trailer brakes on any tandem axle trailer. They don't recognize surge brakes either.
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that is all u-haul and such have so how to they rent trailers up there?

 

[Hambone]

That is a good question Chucko. I never thought of that and you are right. Maybe I was mis-informed. I will do some checking if time, but, I am positive on the brakes on tandem trailer thing.

 

[chucko]

all of these are surge

 

[Bird]

Texas has some very lengthy, complex, and detailed statutes on trailer brakes, but the oversimplified version is that trailer brakes are required on trailers over 4,500 pounds and surge brakes are permitted up to 15,000 pounds. At one time, at least, there was a federal standard (recommendation, not a law) that trailer brakes should be required on any trailer that weighed as much as 40% of the weight of the towing vehicle.