Or buy a trailer with fenders. I have a MO Family Four Trailer and have co driven a MO Long Ranger enough times ( a dozen or so) from NJ to TX and LA twice a year to have learned some not so nice things about trailers.
Never ever enter a road unless you are sure you can either turn around or go around the block.. It took me some 90 minutes to turn around my truck and canoe trailer in South Carolina with ditches on both sides of the road at midnight with all the local hounds baying when I went down the wrong street. It was dead end and completely unlit.
You will plot your route to try and avoid left hand turns into gas stations or anywhere your tail could get stuck.. This includes some infamous ditches deliberately placed to funnel rainwater.
You will pick gas stations with pumps parallel to the store.. Perpendicular sometimes means less room to hang a turn without snagging a bollard. Some fast food areas you just have to bypass...
Thou wilt remember you have a trailer. Once I parked in a PA rest area as normal and went to pee. I had parked in the car area with angle parking. Needless to say the trailer was still in the travel lane.
It is truly terrifying to drive in the dark with left hand entering traffic.. Atlanta.. Its bad enough in a car.. add a trailer and you have pucker.
Never let your trailer wag your tow vehicle. Bob Foote and Karen Knight were towing a trailer with a van and hit the edge of the pavement with the trailer .. It pulled them into a total rollover destroying boats and van. Not sure why they drifted off; I wasn't there,
I still have my trailer but it is seldom used anymore as I need not take six boats at one time now.
Never ever enter a road unless you are sure you can either turn around or go around the block.. It took me some 90 minutes to turn around my truck and canoe trailer in South Carolina with ditches on both sides of the road at midnight with all the local hounds baying when I went down the wrong street. It was dead end and completely unlit.
You will plot your route to try and avoid left hand turns into gas stations or anywhere your tail could get stuck.. This includes some infamous ditches deliberately placed to funnel rainwater.
You will pick gas stations with pumps parallel to the store.. Perpendicular sometimes means less room to hang a turn without snagging a bollard. Some fast food areas you just have to bypass...
Thou wilt remember you have a trailer. Once I parked in a PA rest area as normal and went to pee. I had parked in the car area with angle parking. Needless to say the trailer was still in the travel lane.
It is truly terrifying to drive in the dark with left hand entering traffic.. Atlanta.. Its bad enough in a car.. add a trailer and you have pucker.
Never let your trailer wag your tow vehicle. Bob Foote and Karen Knight were towing a trailer with a van and hit the edge of the pavement with the trailer .. It pulled them into a total rollover destroying boats and van. Not sure why they drifted off; I wasn't there,
I still have my trailer but it is seldom used anymore as I need not take six boats at one time now.
