Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[MoKelly]

Personally, I wish everyone would take the hitch out of the receiver if not towing something. I ran into one in a dark parking lot a few years ago and damn near broke my leg. It was sticking out over a foot from the receiver. I could show you the scar it left. I've seen other people walk into them too.

Is it really that big of a deal to take a few seconds and pull it out and toss it into the back of the truck or trunk of the car? Just be a little considerate for other people.

I do that since, once, I did exactly what you describe on my own hitch!

Once is enough.

MoKelly

 

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Personally, I wish everyone would take the hitch out of the receiver if not towing something. I ran into one in a dark parking lot a few years ago and damn near broke my leg. It was sticking out over a foot from the receiver. I could show you the scar it left. I've seen other people walk into them too.

Is it really that big of a deal to take a few seconds and pull it out and toss it into the back of the truck or trunk of the car? Just be a little considerate for other people.

I sympathize, but I view it as that much more punishment for tailgaters, like one that hit-n-run me at a light when I didn't launch as quickly as he expected. Definitely punched a hole in his radiator with my hitch...

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[bcp]

Haven 't seen one of these yet, but I did see a dragon coming out of a receiver.

Bruce

 

[California]

Not quite the same as the AR but I laughed at a VW with a hitch/bike carrier that would hinge down and smash a VW-emblem dimple in the hood of anyone who rear-ended him in a parking space.

 

[Citydude]

Haven 't seen one of these yet, but I did see a dragon coming out of a receiver.



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Bruce

Now that's an attention getter...

 

[gtbensley]

Personally, I wish everyone would take the hitch out of the receiver if not towing something. I ran into one in a dark parking lot a few years ago and damn near broke my leg. It was sticking out over a foot from the receiver. I could show you the scar it left. I've seen other people walk into them too.

Is it really that big of a deal to take a few seconds and pull it out and toss it into the back of the truck or trunk of the car? Just be a little considerate for other people.

Safer to leave it in. Just tossing it in the back of a truck creates a 45lb missile in the event of an accident. If properly stowed it's one thing, but most just would put it in the truck bed.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Or you could just watch where you're going when you're out walking around? Or stop walking so close to someone else's truck?

Nanny State?

I normally leave mine in. I'm not out to "get" anyone with it. But it's mainly for my own convenience when I need to hook a trailer. Not my problem some folks don't watch where they're walking. What's next, you going to start insisting that I fold my tow mirrors in too? Just in case you're walking too close down the side of my truck and run into one of those?

I can't think of a time where I ran my shin into my or anyone else's trailer hitch, or side mirrors. But I look on trucks as being trucks. They're supposed to have hitches and things, which is why you buy them, and what you use them for. I EXPECT there to be a hitch back there, on anyone else's truck too.

 

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I use mine as a step to get into and out of the back of my truck, which usually has a shell on it with barn doors (no tailgate).

 

[BigBlue1]

I live in MN. You don't leave a hitch in the receiver full time unless you want it to rust in place (steel) or corrode all to heck (alum) due to our salt-filled winter roads. Plus, the lock on the locking hitch pin would die from corrosion too. I spent enough money on an adjustable alum WeighSafe hitch that I'm not leaving it to that fate. Plus, I've also ran my shin into my own hitch before.