Please don't be this guy(pics inside)

[rickf]

OH MAN! You had to bring up that speedo picture! That pick up is right around the corner from my house, (ask EMD and Ferro) and that kind of rig does not surprise me around there. The local cops would not bother it, they don't want to get out of their cars. Staties on the other hand would have a field day. With that angle if he had to slam the brakes it would push the rear down and unload the front which is where 75% of your braking is, not to mention a small portion of your steering.
Wreckerman, you must be familiar with Dix, there are three scrappers within 2 miles. One, now closed, used to be right across the street.

Rick

 

[toomanytools]

I tow 10,000 gvw gensets in Maryland as part of my job. We take hitching and safety very serious. We have had MULTIPLE DEATHS recently due to knotheads not doing something as simple as a safety pin or chains ( three killed on Chesapeake Bay bridge because some dimwit in a Lincoln Navigator pulling a peice of junk with no pin, lost his trailer ON the bridge.) He's fine, and to the best of my knowledge, didn't even get a ticket. My partner confronts these folks when he sees this stupidity, and eveyone so far just shrugs him off. I keep my thouhgts to myself (self preservation).
But for those who poo-poo this nonsense, this stuff can kill. And it almost never hurts the idiot.

 

[neilhendrix]

I`ve soon worse. I hope SS members have more ,,well you know what I mean.

 

[OldSalt]

So... no pigtail, no brake lights, no turn signals, no problem?!?!? To make this better, trailer blocks the view of the vehicles lights.

 

[FM5332FF]

Its just job security for me

 

[boomer]

OK, now for a more neutral comment; (or point-counter point) What's the big deal? As other's have mentioned, they've seen worse. So Have I. Maybe he is just getting into the hobby, getting the cart, then the horse. Maybe his friend with the truck couldn't make it. Or after pay the fee's he couldn't afford to rent a truck. Who knows-who cares. ( obviously some of you guys do, getting a little bent out of shape). If it was a You Rentem' trailer, would there be a post? Just because it's military. It seems to work for him. Also, unless he was speeding (or weaving,etc.) more likely, he would not get stopped for the set up. In Il., Wi. or most other states.

 

[boomer]

Also, Before you start. NO, I don't know this person.

 

[197thhhc]

Sometimes you just gotta go for it. You cant be a p***y all your life.

Honestly fellas is this the PC section of the forum. Most MVers are far from politically correct.

 

[hre513]

After the fifth beer I couldn't even tell I was pullin a trailer....................

I'd post the pic of my stacked 105s (yes, 105s) behind my half ton pickup

I would like to see that.

 

[goldwing2000]

So... no pigtail, no brake lights, no turn signals, no problem?!?!? To make this better, trailer blocks the view of the vehicles lights.

Didn't somebody say he had magnetic lights?

Yep, you can se them in the first pic on top of the tailgate. Again, not ideal placement but he's making an effort...

 

[rat4spd]

At least he's towing it with a DOT approved vehicle, and not one of our many non DOT approved MV's, especially all of you guys with single circuit braked deuces with super singles that run 70 mph.

 

[DUG]

At least he's towing it with a DOT approved vehicle, and not one of our many non DOT approved MV's, especially all of you guys with single circuit braked deuces with super singles that run 70 mph.

 

[Derrickl112]

could be worse


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYq6fE4Ujw[/media]

 

[RealCavDog]

could be worse


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYq6fE4Ujw[/media]

I think you should also post that in the " Battlefield Engineering " thread ! LOL !

 

[hre513]

could be worse


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYq6fE4Ujw[/media]

 

[roscoe]

That small trailer at 70 MPH crossing the divider into some kids car would be a big deal.

I had a trailer cross the highway in front of me, from the other side, and come to rest against the guardrail. That guy was really lucky. It looked like he had the wrong size ball and no safety chains.

 

[boomer]

1

could be worse


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYq6fE4Ujw[/media]

That is so funny!

 

[GoinNutts]

Amazed again!!!!!!!!

 

[landfillman]

Isee it all the time here. Even saw a DOT officer with a pair of old pickup bed trailers hitched tandem going down the road with noting but dropped in hitch pins taking to the scrap yard. At the landfill i work at We try not to take from the public but the recent storms we are taking brush.

Had a man com in with a trailer like the one posted behind a Halfton truck and it had a 30 inch sollid oak tree trunk in it about 7 feet long. I told him notto come back. I dont see ow it made it up the hill to the working face.

 

[rcflyer70]

Now I've seen it all