07-02-2013, 03:59 PM
+1 on this.
While double towing can be done, I would highly recommend AGAINST it. Yes, I have done it myself, pulling a double axle 20' trailer with a 14' boat on single axle trailer behind that. My truck was a Ford F-350 crew cab long bed turbo diesel. It worked, and was relatively stable. But I only did it once, and elected to never do it again. I felt it was on the verge of disaster all the time. One small instinctive swerve to miss a road hazard or something like that may have set the whole thing off. I was a nervous wreck the entire time, with a death grip on the steering wheel, and it just wasn't worth it. Yes, bad things can happen with just a single trailer. But you have at least double the odds of it going bad with a double tow, and probably more. It isn't worth the risk.
The kicker is when I learned a good friend of mine lost his mother to a double tow rig that lost control in Woyming. She was just innocently driving the opposite way on the highway in a car, and was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I cringe every time I see a double tow rig now.
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While double towing can be done, I would highly recommend AGAINST it. Yes, I have done it myself, pulling a double axle 20' trailer with a 14' boat on single axle trailer behind that. My truck was a Ford F-350 crew cab long bed turbo diesel. It worked, and was relatively stable. But I only did it once, and elected to never do it again. I felt it was on the verge of disaster all the time. One small instinctive swerve to miss a road hazard or something like that may have set the whole thing off. I was a nervous wreck the entire time, with a death grip on the steering wheel, and it just wasn't worth it. Yes, bad things can happen with just a single trailer. But you have at least double the odds of it going bad with a double tow, and probably more. It isn't worth the risk.
The kicker is when I learned a good friend of mine lost his mother to a double tow rig that lost control in Woyming. She was just innocently driving the opposite way on the highway in a car, and was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I cringe every time I see a double tow rig now.
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