Travel Trailer help

[HotWheelsBurban]

Even "big enough" brakes, can be overworked if you are hauling enough weight and/or going too fast.
Last April on our trip to Austin with a loaded 5x8 Uhaul trailer, and Rawhide pulling it while laden with the 3 of us and a bed full of tables and parts, we had a pucker inducing moment. The turnoff kinda snuck up on us (it's in the middle of a huge tollway interchange and we only go on this route once a year) and we'd been making time on 290. We were coming down a hill, and damn there's where we turn! The combination weight(prolly around 10K#) kinda slid us through the corner, but the long wheelbase and how well I'd loaded everything (heavier stuff in front of the axle, and bottom of the stacks) kept us from tipping over.
Definitely pays, to pay attention!

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Even "big enough" brakes, can be overworked if you are hauling enough weight and/or going too fast.
Last April on our trip to Austin with a loaded 5x8 Uhaul trailer, and Rawhide pulling it while laden with the 3 of us and a bed full of tables and parts, we had a pucker inducing moment. The turnoff kinda snuck up on us (it's in the middle of a huge tollway interchange and we only go on this route once a year) and we'd been making time on 290. We were coming down a hill, and damn there's where we turn! The combination weight(prolly around 10K#) kinda slid us through the corner, but the long wheelbase and how well I'd loaded everything (heavier stuff in front of the axle, and bottom of the stacks) kept us from tipping over.
Definitely pays, to pay attention!

An addendum to this: in most states, including Texas, trailer brakes are not required on single axle trailers. So the trailer has no brakes, so if it's heavy or improperly loaded, it WILL push you into an intersection if you don't plan your stops accordingly.
We were coming down a long graded slope, and got up a bit of speed doing so, and that intersection does sneak up on you. It was there way before the toll road and its interchange, and frankly TXDOT could've done a better job of integrating the two. But then this is a state agency that built another part of this tollway in a "dry" creekbed in Bastrop County, that often flooded when it rained....

 

[Caman96]

and 4 wheel disc brakes

What truck and was this an aftermarket disc brake kit?

 

[Supercharged111]

What truck and was this an aftermarket disc brake kit?

Don't act like you don't already know the answer.

 

[Caman96]

Don't act like you don't already know the answer.

Am I leading the witness?

 

[Striker1423]

I'll definitely check out the RV website. I also am looking at correcting the Chevy lean she has with a set of 4+1 leaf springs, possible RAS too.