Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[California]

I avoid CL as a rule. Don't like low ballers and tire kickers.

Well you need to have lots of patience, and a sense of humor helps.

Here's what I posted back finally to some old guy who kept sending lowball offers that I continually rejected.

After this he never responded .....

 

[goeduck]

I sold a car on CL earlier this year; I only had one inquiry and it was legit. I met the buyer with the car (after the test drive) at my bank and only signed the transfer paperwork after the teller ran his cash through the bill counter. That said, yes there are flakes on CL. I lucked out.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[kenmbz]

Bruce

The weird part is none of them seem to slow down once they start wagging, until way too late. Though I doubt slowing down would have helped all that much..

 

[ning]

Most of those tow vehicles weren't too light, and most of those trailers were under 30'.
They likely all had insufficient tongue weight and most of them were definitely driving too fast - especially that first one, which looked to be going 75+ passing a semi

The weird part is none of them seem to slow down once they start wagging, until way too late. Though I doubt slowing down would have helped all that much..

Hitting the trailer brakes would've probably helped some - particularly if used early enough, but not the truck's brakes

 

[Dftodd]

I offered a couple free things on Craigslist and one guy came out to pick up a pile of long cutoff hardwood strips from a cabinet shop. He was a college prof if it matters.

He was late so wasted my time there, left assorted zip ties in my yard along with some trash and never said than you.


I too have had people ask me to deliver things for them. I think they catch my drift when I chuckle out loud.

Once I did deliver something when the guy offered me $15 delivery on an overpriced $75 TV. He said he had no transportation since his wife recently left and "took everything" except a stool. Fat chance, I thought.
He sounded OK so I agreed and when I got to his trailer, it was 100% empty, including the drapes and all he had was the stool. He said he could watch TV that way.

I sold some stuff off from Facebook market place.

One item was a weigh distribution hitch. Guy asked if he could pick it up in a couple days. Said he would be driving through Little Rock on his way home. Said my address wasn't too far out of the way.

Told him that it wasn't a problem. Guy called that day and asked if I could meet him in Little Rock, he would pay me extra.

I said no problem, and listed a truck stop to meet him at that was on his route to where he was headed.

Guy paid me $30 extra to meet him in Little Rock. I didn't tell him the truck stop I listed was 3/4 of a mile up from where I worked.

 

[California]

Hitting the trailer brakes would've probably helped some - particularly if used early enough, but not the truck's brakes

Not a single brake light showing in any of those incidents.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not a single brake light showing in any of those incidents.

Do brake lights come on if you only apply the trailer brakes?

 

[BigBlue1]

Not a single brake light showing in any of those incidents.

Pretty sure applying vehicle brakes in a sway situation is not the solution. You either need to apply trailer brakes separately or give it gas. And I'm not sure most folks have the cajones to punch the gas in those situations.

 

[Peter 315]

Pretty sure applying vehicle brakes in a sway situation is not the solution. You either need to apply trailer brakes separately or give it gas. And I'm not sure most folks have the cajones to punch the gas in those situations.

Kinda of hard to reach the trailer brake controller when you have the two handed death grip on the steering wheel....

 

[dodge man]

I’m pretty sure my truck will light the brake lights if I squeeze the brake controller.

 

[California]

...not sure most folks have the cajones to punch the gas in those situations.

Can't claim unusual cajones but one time a sudden extreme crosswind nearly put my travel trailer next to my elbow, which dragged the AMC Eagle a little sideways. My instinctive, instantaneous reaction was full throttle. Even though it was a slight downgrade like in that video. Successful. Unforgettable.

 

[redman135]

Studies of these rollovers have found that most rollovers occur in 4!!! seconds, to quick for most people. Poor loading only makes things worse.

 

[goeduck]

Studies of these rollovers have found that most rollovers occur in 4!!! seconds, to quick for most people. Poor loading only makes things worse.

No doubt, that is probably correct. There would be telltale signs ahead of those 4 seconds, but detecting those telltale signs would require that the drivers have receptors in their brains.

 

[two_bit_score]

No hold my beer.......

 

[California]

There would be telltale signs ahead of those 4 seconds, but detecting those telltale signs would require that the drivers have receptors in their brains.

Yeah. The instance I described was when the road emerged from a deep cut in a hill, into the open, onto a fill that maintained the same grade downhill. This fill the road was built on, was higher than the desert floor so more affected by wind. Nevada desert south of where the Tesla factory is now, windy, nighttime, not realizing 65 was too fast for the windy conditions. Might have been here, that looks about right.

I should have expected the severe crosswind as I came out of that cut.

Google shows guardrails there now. Likely installed because wind tossed others off the road.

 

[BnRidge]

My instinctive, instantaneous reaction was full throttle.

not realizing 65 was too fast for the windy conditions

You either need to apply trailer brakes separately or give it gas.

?

 

[gstrom99]

Do brake lights come on if you only apply the trailer brakes?

no

 

[RobertEH]

So my towing situation is:
-32.5 foot long RV as measured from hitch to bumper
-6,700 lbs dry, with a gross weight of 9,900 - probably towing it at about 8000 to 8500 lbs loaded
-Last time I checked the tongue weight (tanks full, returning from a camping trip) it was about 800 lbs
-I tow with a 1 ton Super duty with 8 foot bed using a weight distributing hitch.

I am hopeful that I never end up in a wagging trailer situation like those videos... But in the event one starts, what is the recomended process to stop it?

Something like:
1. Apply trailer brakes
2. Foot off gas to slow down
3. Apply truck brakes as it comes under control?

 

[dodge man]

You’ve got plenty of truck, if something goes wrong it’s not because you have the wrong setup. A little more tongue weight would be ok though.

I think the way to correct is what you listed.