Towing double without a hassle

[Full Monte]

I couldn't believe this solution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFoWUbX322g&feature=more_related

Has anyone seen one of these before?

 

[Freightrain]

Wow........what ever happen to strappin the ol Johnboat to the roof of the family wagon and going fishing??

Found their website:
http://builtrite.net/doubledeck/index.html

Likely no worse then us drag racers having big rigs/trailer to take more junk to the track !!! I started with a 20 yr old 1/2ton pickup, 15ft trailer, plastic tool box and Igloo cooler..........and now............40 ft trailer and still not enough room !!

 

[The Warden]

That is COOL!!

I imagine that trailer's either horrifically expensive and/or isn't really built strongly enough to do the job...I like the idea, though.

A shame you can't pull doubles in CA without a Class A license; OTOH, if it were legal, I shudder to think of how dangerous the roads would be, given how many people are out there who have no business pulling one trailer, let alone two...

 

[FordGuy100]

Some states the legal limit is like 65' so I bet that's close or over. My parents pull a 21' boat with their 40' motor home and techanically it's to long for Oregon roads

 

[BleednBlue68]

Wow thats awesome! I dont know what the ks law is for towing but I had my 35ft class a motorhome towing my 21ft enclosed trailer. That was fun! haha Especially tryin to get gas!

 

[argve]

Seen one before rolling down the road... Looked pretty decent. I just did the double tow when we did it (E1 pulling 31ft TT with Waverunner or fishing boat hitched to back of TT). You would think that backing up would be out of the question but it's really not that hard. Just have to think backwards of a normal trailer.... And if you back the 2nd trailer into the wrong spot just act like that's right where you wanted it - the people in the campground don't know any different unless you tell them... Done that more than once....

 

[Russ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5yAomvKfA&feature=player_embedded

 

[BleednBlue68]

HAHA omg! Never seen that one before. Im impressed. We had a 93 vic and they haul butt. Dont know if I'd be towin with it like that though haha

 

[94turboidi]

I'd love to hook my fishing boat behind my 20' boat when I haul our stuff to South Dakota but I am thinking I will just grab it when I am down visiting or something because I don't want to stand out on the highway and get pulled over. I looked into it once and I think its legal in Iowa and South Dakota. I think Wyoming has something like a 85' total vehicle and trailer legal length! Now thats a road train. I would be whatever a crewcab shortbed is and a 20' bumper hitch trailer and a 16' fishing boat.

I am hoping the old truck doesn't get mad when I throw the ih 666 on the trailer and haul it 450 miles pretty soon.

 

[RLDSL]

sometimes I haul my 5x8 open utility trailer behind my 5th wheel ( like in the picture in my avitar )when I want to haul my mobility scooter and kids bikes and other junk and I know the places that I'm going, but with that combination there is NO backing up, the pup on th e tail is too short, it jacknifes instantly, but at least the pup is small enough to cut loose and push around if you have to if you get in a bind. I can't imagine running across country in a big rv like that with a monster trailer like that . It's way too easy to get into a bind that you can't get out of and something that size you can't just push around. Youd have to unload it to move it because the tow vehicle is prohibitively long to be able to manuver the trailer out of a tight spot. It's not like running a set of big truck doubles where you run a set route and know where you are going every day.

I wish I could have hauled my utility trailer on my recent cross country trip to have more room to haul back junk, but California won't let you double tow unless the last trailer is a boat ( maybe I shoulda slapped my old leaky aluminum boat in the thing to make it legal

 

[Full Monte]

I wish I could have hauled my utility trailer on my recent cross country trip to have more room to haul back junk, but California won't let you double tow unless the last trailer is a boat ( maybe I shoulda slapped my old leaky aluminum boat in the thing to make it legal

I hadn't heard that in California, the last trailer has to be a boat. Where did you hear that?

 

[RLDSL]

I hadn't heard that in California, the last trailer has to be a boat. Where did you hear that?

There were a few charts posted online in a few places that had state by state towing regs last year that showed it that I looked up before I took a trip out there. First tow had to be a 5er and back had to be a watercraft. I'm trying to find it again and am finding conflicting information now, some still have it and some folks on some lists are saying it's been dropped but you can only double tow in CA if you have a commercial licence with doubles endorcement and teh combination has to be under 65 ft but I hadn't found anything official looking backing that up

 

[Simp5782]

That motorhome got 6mpg empty. Now its probably going to get 3 gallons to the mile. Montana law states that Both trailers cannot exceed 66'. So your trailers can be 66' plus whatever your truck is. The optional permit for $75 a year allows you to go to 46,000lbs gross. 14'6" tall, 15' wide (over 10'6" has to have oversize load signs and a light, over 12ft you have to have a front ******, over 15' front and rear escorts) and 95' long on trailers plus whatever your vehicle may be. Both trailers must have brakes, chains, a controller and break away box for EACH trailer. I dont know about you guys but if both my trailers break away from the ball on the GN the LAST thing i want is that sucker to be following me as it flings around. I tend to not haul doubles unless they are empty during daylight hours. I will haul doubles with scrap iron at night like 11p to 5am ish so I dont have some old lady cutting me off and then pancaking her. People think that 100ft of vehicle can stop like a go cart.

Oh BTW Montana allows you to set your own GVWR when you register your truck. at $2 per ton of added weight over 16,000lbs. You basically you can make it whatever you want. MCS officers also said they do not care what your weight on your pickup is as long as you do not exceed 1.5x the weight restriction on the tires of what you are hauling it on. They dont care how much I weigh, but they weigh me everytime i get checked. weird eh?

 

[87crewdually]

http://www.towingworld.com/articles/TowingLaws.htm

 

[Matrix37495]

That motorhome got 6mpg empty. Now its probably going to get 3 gallons to the mile. Montana law states that Both trailers cannot exceed 66'. So your trailers can be 66' plus whatever your truck is. The optional permit for $75 a year allows you to go to 46,000lbs gross. 14'6" tall, 15' wide (over 10'6" has to have oversize load signs and a light, over 12ft you have to have a front ******, over 15' front and rear escorts) and 95' long on trailers plus whatever your vehicle may be. Both trailers must have brakes, chains, a controller and break away box for EACH trailer. I dont know about you guys but if both my trailers break away from the ball on the GN the LAST thing i want is that sucker to be following me as it flings around. I tend to not haul doubles unless they are empty during daylight hours. I will haul doubles with scrap iron at night like 11p to 5am ish so I dont have some old lady cutting me off and then pancaking her. People think that 100ft of vehicle can stop like a go cart.

Oh BTW Montana allows you to set your own GVWR when you register your truck. at $2 per ton of added weight over 16,000lbs. You basically you can make it whatever you want. MCS officers also said they do not care what your weight on your pickup is as long as you do not exceed 1.5x the weight restriction on the tires of what you are hauling it on. They dont care how much I weigh, but they weigh me everytime i get checked. weird eh?

You pictures was the only legal way to tow doubles i was aware of (first trailer has to be a GN/5er).