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Re: Hauling your truck
About a week ago my son learned a lesson about hauling a pickup on a trailer using a SWB pickup and not loading the other pickup far enough on the trailer. He has his own flatbed trailer.
He thought since his 70 Chey SWB pickup had a fresh 454 with some mods it would do the job ok. His truck is lowered somewhat and he had put air shocks and the optional overload springs on it. His truck had more than enough power but when he tried to get up to highway speeds he almost lost control of his truck and trailer. His trailer was tounge light because he had a tool box on the front of the trailer and had not pulled the hauled pickup all the way forward. Since the trailer was tounge light it started fish-tailing and this with the combination of the SWB truck the whole setup started jumping around. He said it took all he could do to bring the setup under control in two lanes of a 4 lane highway.
Sorry if this a little off subject, but just wanted to share with you all what can happen if a person is not careful.
Danny - Southeast Missouri
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