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Title: Message

- k s swigart wrote:

IF your problem was that you could feel the trailer pushing you when you braked harder, your problem was not that you didn't have enough truck to stop your trailer, it was that you didn't have enough BRAKES to stop your trailer, and you would have done better to get better trailer brakes rather than buy more truck.

 

I repeat, if you have adequate brakes for your vehicle, you don't need any more space to stop it no matter how big it is.

 

And if your trailer is pushing you around when you are braking, you don't have adequate brakes on your trailer.  Getting a bigger truck can compensate for not having enough trailer brake, but it doesn't change the fact that you don't have enough trailer brakes.

 

**Interesting (and lucky) that the place that maintained my trailer never suggested that. And they were adjusted, tested, repaired a couple/few times. I like the 2500 much better. It's never been pushed at all by my trailer, can't remember if I had the brakes replaced since I got the newer truck, I don't think so.

 

Kathy

Grass Valley, CA