Attention UShip Viewers wanting to haul 4-5 cars behind your 1-ton--- START HERE!!!!

This proves my contention that chains are better than straps for me at least. I have also driven both a 5500 and semi, that 1 ton is NOT able to stop faster than a semi. Hydraulic and electric brakes do not work as well as the air brakes.

 

It's not just a dually/wedge problem. Maybe that guy who slung a car off his wedge trailer with a semi will chime in. A professional driver will do things right in a dually or a semi.

 

Well, if you pay any attention, first it was 3 cars on a wedge behind a dually, then it was 4, now it's 5. As Adam said and I've been saying it for several years, people keep putting more and more behind a dually and one of these days, one loaded down too heavy isn't going to get stopped, cause a major accident and the DOT will come in and limit them down to 3 units on a trailer, that's it. Then all of those with bigger trailers are either going to have to get a smaller trailer or the proper truck they should of had on there in the first place.

 

Ok for the school bus remark, America's safety regulations for the most part are written in blood, not ink. Once one of these wannabe trucker's causes a horrific enough accident the rules will change, and these wannabe truckers will be forced to buy real trucks, it's just a matter of how many bodies it takes to get noticed. My guess is one day one of these guys will wreck into a school bus because its usually family and children fatalities that get the ratings on tv news, and that is when things change because we as a country are are reactive, not proactive. I've seen these guys run around DC, northern Va, and Maryland. They are running hard in vehicles that are just as long as a tractor trailer, with little to no training, and the reason they are doing it is because they don't have to invest in getting CDL's, regular inspections, and proper training. A car dealer would let a thirteen year old crackhead transport a car for them if it would save them ten dollars in transport fees. I See the posts in here all the time, I'm gonna buy a pickup, can I get a four, five , or six car trailer and pull it behind a pickup. Will I need dual rear wheels? I drove tow trucks before getting my CDL and becoming a legit real trucker. I drove a rollback and was not a cowboy wanna be in a pickemup truck, and for the life of me I can't figure why anybody would pull a four car trailer behind a pickup. If I were to specialize in the three to four car market I would buy a four car rollback or a five car built on a real truck chassis that uses heavy duty components, and air brakes as opposed to hydraulics. On the east coast, a two axle four car rollback would be cheaper then a pickemup truck pulling a three axle trailer in tolls also. I'm also going to guess when you put that four car trailer behind a pickemup truck their fuel economy is no better then a real truck. Safety should be our priority as professionals, and a bunch of unlicensed cowboys pulling heavy weight behind light duty trucks so they don't have to get a CDL is just not safe. One day one of these outlaws will spill enough blood on our roads that the DOT will be as far up their butts as they are up real truckers butts.

Adam

 

They'll have a dually/stinger option before the gov't limits specifically them. The gubermint could push the safety scores through the roof if they raised the fee to get ones Authority set up. Seems they would rather collect a little up front, write more entangling regulations with all sorts of fines attached to say "look what we saved the public at large from. This outlaw trucker!" The fines as we speak are higher for touching a cell phone in ANY COMMERCIAL vehicle vs the over loaded dually. It is getting pathetic.

Safety is never truly their goal, it is just the means...

For the guy/girl STILL reading this thinking "I can do it & will do a better job" than the avg driver. Maybe so, but from the people I am talking to, the avg co. driver operating proper equipment(stinger) is making much more than you will running 2/3/4/5/6/7 behind a pick up & much less stress! Guess that would not make a very good TV show though huh?

 

This statement pretty much nailed it right on the head. Its all about how to make the most $$$ out of the industry in the name of safety while winning the publics hearts over so they can feel all safer in there SUVs.

 

Needed and well said, thank you, Paul

 

If that used one ton and trailer have a combined GVWR of 26,001 and they're operating commerically they need just about everything anyother CMV needs, to include 1,000,000 lib ins, log book, CDL, MC, DOT, PUC, etc...I am just sharing what has been shared with me or I discovered on my own...