OT - Vette on a car hauler trailer (pic)

Royse · May 12, 2016

This Vette on a car hauler trailer was in front of me on my way
home from work today. See that huge tow vehicle?
Some sort of Compact Crossover.
They pulled away from me as they were running about 65 MPH.
In the rain.
Hope they didn't have to stop!

Kirk Grau · May 12, 2016

Yep, I pull a bumper pull horse trailer. Always amazed how many people show up at horse shows with something like a Ford Explorer pulling a horse trailer that might scale out at 5500-6000 lb fully loaded for a show. Daughter had an acquaintance with a rig like that and I would not allow them to load her horse one time. Doesn't really matter to me if it can get the whole thing started down the road, I want to be able to make a quick evasive maneuver and get it stopped under control. Our tow vehicle is a 3/4 ton Suburban.

Kirk

Brown Swiss · May 12, 2016

My brother had a 77 Vette, Chevette it was! LOL

Michael Price · May 12, 2016

The new dodge 3500 they advertise 30,000 lb towing capacity. Thats a lot of weight to stop with a one ton pickup.

Greg1959 · May 12, 2016

Royse- Looks like it worked for them.

BarnyardEngineering · May 13, 2016

What's the difference between that, and a farmer loading up a 30' gooseneck with round bales behind a Dodge Ram 2500?

DoubleR · May 13, 2016

Some people don't get it. They think because they got enough motor to pull they'll be fine. Then they drive just like the normally do with nothing hooked on. They don't think about how they are going to stop it. Allot of them types don't even have brakes for their trailer.

I see them all the time jacked knifed, in the ditch, flipped over on the road, or where they plowed into something.

sotxbill · May 13, 2016

upgraded from a 2002 dodge dually rated at 13000 to a ford 2013 dually rated to pull 27000. It does in fact stop way better than the 2002. The 2002 was actually unsafe with the gooseneck. the 2013 is in much better control on braking conditions. 2002 was my first and last dodge. It did however get me past the bad run of fords. Problem is the 2013 has way too much power and you really have to use cruise control to keep speed down. dodge was the other way around.. I could not keep speed pulling 30,000 lbs much less stop it. Full loaded on the new one (technically over loaded) I limit it to 65 mph... empty I will run the speed limit.

Grampy · May 13, 2016

Very true Michael, I have one of those - a '14, 3500 cab and chassis model, 6.4 gasser. Will it do 30k - yes - would I advise it NO !!! I have adequate power even with the gas engine. Problem with that much weight as most of us know is the tail waggin' the dog !! I have done close to that weight, My backhoe on a heavy gooseneck trailer. I didn't feel real comfy about it and kept the speed way down. Note, this was a close to home, all county road, slow speed event. If I hauled that hoe all the time, I'd have a bigger rig !!! The mfgr's are not only having a H.P. race, they are having a tow rating 'race' too. Everybody wants the baddest toy in the sandbox.

rrlund · May 13, 2016

He made it to my house safe with it. Wanna go for a ride? LOL

Bobl1958 · May 13, 2016

Probably the farmer has the experience and common sense to handle it.

Daryl in PA · May 13, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:37:56 05/13/16) Probably the farmer has the experience and common sense to handle it.

If he common sense, he wouldn't be farming!

RBoots · May 13, 2016

Whatever sort of little vehicle he is
hauling with most likely doesn't have
brakes for stopping anything more than the
vehicle itself. Let alone with a trailer
that, presumably doesn't have any sort of
trailer brakes. Yeah, you can haul way more
than pickup weighs on a trailer, but if it
is a 3/4 or 1 ton, it has MUCH bigger brakes
than it needs to stop iself, and if the
trailer can hold any sort of weight, it will
have brakes on it. Surge brakes or electric,
either is better than none.

Ross

ss55 · May 13, 2016

The U-Haul car hauler does have surge brakes, the trailer alone weighs 2000 to 2400 pounds. When you reserve one on the U-haul website you list your tow vehicle and it has to meet U-Hauls spec's, probably a 3/4 tow vehicle to haul a 3500 pound car.

Royse · May 13, 2016

"The U-Haul car hauler does have surge brakes, the trailer alone weighs 2000 to 2400 pounds. When you reserve one on the U-haul website you list your tow vehicle and it has to meet U-Hauls spec's, probably a 3/4 tow vehicle to haul a 3500 pound car."

This is all true but that trailer wasn't a U-haul. It was painted
black and had the license plate mounted sideways on the fender.

I can't say if it had trailer brakes or not. I certainly hope so.

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