Re: [SilverStreak] Rear Hitch on trailer

["Keneth Wilson" <ke5dfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right on about the state that you are towing.  The state will accept your
drivers license from your home state, but you have to abide by the laws of the
state you are in as for road rules, speeds, towing and weights.

 Ken Wilson
KE5DFR@sbcglobal.net 
Cypress, Texas



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From:
"waymark1@juno.com" <waymark1@juno.com>
To: sslist@tompatterson.com
Sent:
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:24:40 AM
Subject: Re: [SilverStreak] Rear Hitch on
trailer

A long time ago I posted a news item to the list about a man and his
wife who were killed from towing a straight pull travel trailer with a boat
and trailer hitched to its rear. This occurred in Montana near Great Falls.
Sway threw their combination over into the ditch, where all 3 vehicles rolled.
Most RV 5th wheel trailers I have seen have considerable rear overhang behind
the trailer's rear axle. This is a lever arm for a 2d trailer to "whip" the
rear of the lead trailer side to side. Not as bad as if the lead trailer is a
straight pull but I feel it's pushing things.
Real sway control (not friction)
like Dual Cam or an Arrow is called for if one insists on this practice.
Oregon absolutely forbids 2 trailers behind light tow vehicles. The Highway
Patrol told me that it made no difference that such is legal in the RVer's
home state. That the HP would cite the driver and require one trailer to be
left behind to be picked up later.
Al

Ken wrote:
As noted....SOME states will
allow a double tow but only with the first hitch being a 5th wheel hitch, so a
bumper pull can not pull anything behind it.  I believe that Texas will allow
a second trailer if the first is a 5th wheel and nothing on a bumper pull.
Just this past weekend, we saw a 26' of so bumper pull with a 16 to 18' boat
in tow behind it.  The travel trailer did not have any W/D on the hitch.  He
was trucking along at close to 70 MPH.
No one has ever said that you have to
be smart to buy and RV...all you need is the cash or credit and you are an
RVer.
Ken Wilson 
KE5DFR@sbcglobal.net 
Cypress, Texas