We bounced down the guardrail, and I did as best I could keep the two vehicles straight. Mid-day on the freeway, the right dolly tire blew, dragging my pick-up into the guard rail, and the load. I had a half a day to go, screw-it, press on. I was given two new tires and rolled on.īy the time I reached Oregon, the tires were down to 25% tread and badly cupped. I asked for an inspection of the dolly and was told it was "good to go". By the time I made Tennessee, one of the tires had to be replaced, it was shredding the tread. Started in Alabama with decent, but worn tires on the dolly, and 56 Chevy sedan as the load. I rented a U-Haul tow-dolly, different than the trailer, but same limitations. I'm probably one of the few guys that had a blow-out with a U-Haul trailer on the freeway, and walked away. Remember: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should, speed that is. A blowout at 70 mph on a trailer is fun to watch if it happens to someone else. Can you get away with going faster-maybe.
Much higher, they will start to over heat because of the sidewall flexing. Most utility trailers have ST rated tires that max out at 65 MPH. So I'm sure you can get to speed.stopping may be another story.
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Both the driver and the passenger crawled out of the passenger door relatively unscathed but certainly shook up taking the lords name in vain repeatedly at the top of their lungs. It was an ass puckering moment for me as I was in the family truckster and pretty much blocked in where I couldn't get out of the way.įortunately (for me) they rolled down into the median and ended up beside us. I looked up in my rear view mirror as I was close to coming to a stop and saw his truck go sideways with the trailer and then both of them were doing a barrel roll down the highway taking up pretty much the width of the 2 lanes of I-75 coming toward me. We weren't going crazy but probably 70 - 75mphĪt one point I was ahead of him by several car lengths when we came over a hill and traffic was stopped. Coming back from the smokey mountains about 10 years ago I was side by side with a ford ranger pulling a U haul trailer.
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