I towed my Bugeye to the Buttonwillow M*** British Extravaganza a few months
ago. It's a three hour ride from my home to Buttonwillow. Right at the top of
the hill in the Grapevine (Gorman) I got stopped by a cop that had "Killer Cop"
printed on his sunglasses. I knew I was in trouble when I read that. HE had
been following me and my son for a few miles trying to stop us, I was oblivious
to the red lights and siren. I had the radio up and was talking to my son.
When
I did notice and pulled over to the side of the road, the cop was seething. He
asked what that was that was hitting his windshield. I was eating sunflower
seeds and spitting the shells out the window! He was so pissed, he wrote me up
for towing a trailer in the wrong lane (fast lane out of 4 lanes) and speeding
with a trailer. I was doing 82 miles and hour! Your only supposed to do 55 MPH
on California highways with a trailer. The bail amount was $481. I learned
something about trailers that day. And "Killer Cops!"
Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
Charles Christ wrote:
> all this shared information is a good thing to be shared with the
> inexperienced. towing is a bit of a "black art" if you are to become
> familiar or comfortable with it. i see most tow vehicle drivers out there
> in one of two states! either nervous as heck and holding onto the steering
> wheel with a death grip, or very relaxed and comfortably motoring down the
> highway. hopefully some of these insights may assist someone some day when
> they get to tow something. frightened with a death grip is a neither
> comfortable or safe state to be in when navigating traffic. in spite of
> evrything try to as alert as possible to your mirrors and the road ahead.
> nervous and uncomfortable is going to deter from your ability to concentrate
> and react if any suprises creep up like the passing guy cutting you off
> slowing down to get off at the imediate next off ramp! (BTDT!)
>
> chuck.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bushwacker4@zoomtown.com <bushwacker4@zoomtown.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:56 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Re: Hypothetical Question]
>
> >chuck said "ok gang it's trailer 101 time!"
> >
> >I'll go with much of what he said but the geometry is the most important
> factor in the deal. I just towed my horrible fright 4' x 8' folding trailer
> to Birmingham, Alabama from Cincinnati, Ohio, and back! It is a short
> tongue, narrow trailer that pulls beautifully at speed if it is set up
> correctly... I had a Crapsman 20 hp lawn tractor on it coming back and we
> averaged 75 mph with short bursts to 85 and not the slightest wiggle out of
> it.
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