Trailer Warning - Cross those Chains

[TS310C]

Originally Posted by Chris Williams

This is just crazy! Would you rather be liable for whatever small damage to your tow vehicle is as you slow the trailer down, or for whatever carnage your out-of-control trailer wandering all over the highway is to all the other vehicles? And which alternative do you suppose will result to the least damage to your trailer and your race car? Connected to you, in whatever way, is the only real chance of a safe result.

Not only is their advice insane, it's illegal.

I still feel like I want to be seperated from the trailer. The trailer and the contents can be replaced. If it causes my tow vehicle to crash and kills me or my passengers we cannot be replaced. Chances are its going to continue it's forward momentum and end up the ditch anyway. Besides that, did you realize that 95% of the balls that people use to tow the large stackers are not rated for the weight they are towing. I would think that is a bigger issue than the chains. Let's stop it from coming loose in the first place.

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by TS310C

Chances are its going to continue it's forward momentum

... and kill someone else along the way. As the previous poster noted.